• Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Franz Berto

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58³Ô¹Ï, United Kingdom

    Title: Indicative Conditionals: Probabilities and Relevance Abstract: Adams’ Thesis claims that the acceptability of a simple indicative conditional equals the corresponding conditional probability. The Thesis is widely endorsed, but arguably false and…

  • Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Travis Manuel

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58³Ô¹Ï, United Kingdom

    Title: “Good News for the Subregion Theory of Parthood” Abstract: The Subregion Theory of Parthood is probably the most intuitive theory of parthood. It says that whatever is exactly located…

  • Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Sean Walsh (University of California, Los Angeles)

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58³Ô¹Ï, United Kingdom

    Title: Modeling contingently existing propositions (and other intensions). Abstract: The traditional Montagovian framework for the analysis of intensional language uses constant domain models. However, in other areas of philosophy which…

  • Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Fraser Macbride

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58³Ô¹Ï, United Kingdom

    Title: CONVERSE PREDICATES AND THE INTERPRETATION OF SECOND ORDER QUANTIFICATION   ABSTRACT: In this paper I argue that we cannot interpret second-order quantification as quantification over properties and relations. My argument…

  • Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Helen Beebee (University of Manchester)

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58³Ô¹Ï, United Kingdom

    Title: The Genesis of Lewis’s Counterfactual Analysis of Causation Abstract: Lewis presented a prototype counterfactual analysis of causation back in 1958 — aged just 16 or 17 — in the…

  • Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Fatema Amijee (University of British Columbia)

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58³Ô¹Ï, United Kingdom

    TITLE: Fundamentality Without Favouritism ABSTRACT: According to a widely endorsed conception of fundamentality, the fundamental is characterized in terms of a certain privileged relation or set of relations. On this…