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Work in Progress Seminars 06-07

Meetings are held on Wednesdays, starting at 1.10 pm sharp (unless otherwise stated), until 2.30 pm, in the Common Room (except where marked *, in which case in Alexander Bird's room)

  • 25 April
    J. Grose
    Emotional displays: Transparency and deception

  • 2 May
    Chris Bertram
    Justice and immigration: coercion of foreigners, territory and compensation

  • 9 May
    Michael Rea, Notre Dame
    TBA

  • 16 May
    Oystein Linnebo
    The hidden costs of empiricist platonism

  • 23 May
    David Nicolas, Institut Jean Nicod (CNRS)

  • 30 May
    Michael Madary
    Towards an ontology of neurodynamic coupling

  • 6 June
    Nivedita Gangopadhyay
    Can attention be the key towards an understanding of visual consciousness?

  • 13 June
    James Ladyman
    Philosophy of Computation

  • 20 June
    Jimmy Doyle
    Socrates and Dialectic

  • 27 June
    Luigi Gobbi
    Verification as a basis for probability (and not vice versa)

Previous seminars

Autumn 2006

  • Wednesday 11 October
    Richard Pettigrew
    What mathematics is really about

  • Wednesday 18 October
    James Ladyman
    Structural Realism and the Special Sciences

  • Wednesday 25 October
    Hannes Leitgeb
    Carnap's Aufbau Revived

  • Wednesday 1 November
    Oystein Linnebo
    The Nature of Mathematical Objects

  • Wednesday 8 November
    Alan Chalmers
    Ancient Atomism and the Nature of Metaphysics

  • Wednesday 15 November
    Alexander Bird
    The Structure and Necessity of Natural Law

  • Wednesday 22 November
    Jimmy Doyle
    Anscombe on knowing what one is doing

  • Wednesday 29 November
    Anthony Everett
    Title to be announced

  • Wednesday 6 December
    John Mayberry
    Extensional Structuralism

  • Wednesday 13 December
    Mirsaeid Mousavi Karimi
    Title to be announced

    • Spring 2007

  • Wednesday 10 January
    Roly Perera
    How realism misconstrues science

  • 7 February
    OPEN DAY -- no WIP

  • 14 February
    Finn Spicer
    Are there any conceptual truths about knowledge?

  • 21 February
    Richard Pettigrew
    Weasels and Cicadas: Dispensing with the Indispensability argument

  • 28 February
    Anthony Everett
    Ethical properties and aesthetic value

  • 7 March
    OPEN DAY -- no WIP

  • 14 March
    OPEN DAY -- no WIP

  • 21 March
    Alex Neill
    TBA

  • 28 March
    Andrew Pyle
    Rationalism and the Senses: Descartes and Malebranche

2005-2006 Work in Progress Seminars

2004-2005 Work in Progress Seminars