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Theories 'n Things: October 2007
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007. London Logic and Metaphysics Forum (x-posted from MV). If you're in London on a Tuesday evening, what better to do than to take in a talk by a young philosopher on logic or metaphysics? Spotting this gap in the tourist offerings, the clever folks in the capital have set up the London Logic and Metaphysics forum. Looks an exciting programme, though I have my doubts about the joker on the 11th Dec. Tues 30 Oct: David Liggins (Manchester). Tues 27 Nov: Ofra Magidor (Oxford).
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Theories 'n Things: Aristotelian indeterminacy and partial beliefs
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Thursday, February 14, 2008. Aristotelian indeterminacy and partial beliefs. I’ve just finished a first draft of the second paper of my research leave. Title the same as this post. There’s a few different ways to think about this material, but since I hadn't posted for a while I thought I'd write up something about how it connects with/arises from some earlier concerns of mine. So let's start there. Now I’ve argued previously. To think that global supervaluational consequence is in this sense revisionary...
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Theories 'n Things: March 2008
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Friday, March 28, 2008. Theories n things moves to wordpress. I've decided to follow the recent lead of others. And migrate this blog to a new wordpress site. The big appeal for me of this is added functionality- -in particular I'll be able to typeset logical notation using latex commands. Should make things prettier and easier. Hope to see people over at the new site! Links to this post. Monday, March 17, 2008. Paracompleteness and credences in contradictions. P(A) p( A)=p(Av A). And now, whenever we fa...
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Theories 'n Things: Arche talks
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Saturday, March 15, 2008. In a few weeks time (31st March-5th April) I'm going to be visiting the Arche research centre in St Andrews, and giving a series of talks. I studied at Arche for my PhD, so it'll be really good to go back and see what's going on. The talks I'm giving relate to the material on indeterminacy and probability (in particular, evidential probability or partial belief). The titles are as follows:. Indeterminacy and partial belief I: The open future and future-directed belief. But if we...
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Theories 'n Things: Metaphysics Conference
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Saturday, February 23, 2008. Announcing: Perspectives on Ontology. A major international conference on metaphysics to be held at the University of Leeds, Sep 5th-7th 2008. This will be a great conference: so keep your diaries free, and spread the word! Update: The conference website. Is now up.]. Try as I might, I cannot find any information about this conference on your departmental website. Am I missing something? Wednesday, 26 March 2008 at 12:55:00 GMT. There's a conference website up here:.
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Thoughts Arguments and Rants » 2013 » March
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Skip to main content. Thoughts Arguments and Rants. Online Papers in Philosophy. People with Online Papers in Philosophy. Australasian Journal of Logic. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. The Boundaries of Language. Philosophy Hurts Your Head. John Holbo and Belle Waring. 14 March, 2013. I don’t normally post announcements for conferences, but I’ll be speaking at this one and I got a special request to post a link here on TAR. So, just as an exception:. Moore’...
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Theories 'n Things: August 2007
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Friday, August 17, 2007. Emergence, Supervenience, and Indeterminacy. While Ross Cameron, Elizabeth Barnes and I were up in St Andrews a while back, Jonathan Schaffer presented one of his papers arguing for Monism. The view that the whole is prior to the parts, and the world is the one "fundamental" object. The sort of case that supports this is when, for example, a quantum system featuring two particles determinately has zero total spin. The issues is that there also exist systems that duplicate the...
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Theories 'n Things: Phlox
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Friday, February 22, 2008. I just found about about Phlox. A (relatively) new weblog in philosophy of logic, language and metaphysics. It's attached to a project at Humboldt University in Berlin. As well as following the tradition of philosophy centres with Greek. This one means "flame", apparently) "Phlox" is a cunning acronym for the group's research interests. There's several really interesting posts to check out already. Worth heading over! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Theories 'n Things: November 2007
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007. Nihilism, maximality, problem of the many. Does nihilism about ordinary things help us out with puzzles surrounding maximal properties and the problem of the many? It's hard to see how. Are there some other objects, including many but not all of the As and the B's that *are* arranged cloudwise? Again, the puzzle translates straight through: originally we had to talk about the relation between the many cloud-candidates and the single cloud; now we talk about the many pluralitie...
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Theories 'n Things: Regimentation (x-post).
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Monday, March 17, 2008. Here's something you frequently hear said about ontological commitment. First, that to determine the ontological commitments of some sentence S, one must look not at S, but at a regimentation or paraphrase of S, S*. Second (very roughly), you determine the ontological commitments of S by looking at what existential claims follow from S*. I think from this perspective the regimentation steps in the Quinean characterization of ontological commitment have an obvious place. Suppos...