Metaphysics and Epistemology Group
The Metaphysics and Epistemology Group is an informal forum for discussion of metaphysics and epistemology broadly construed, as well as related areas such as the philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. The Group meets regularly during Oxford term for a series of visiting speakers, work-in-progress talks, and discussion of recent work.
If you have a suggestion for a meeting or would like to give a talk, please email one of the convenors (Nicholas Jones, Bernhard Salow and Alex Kaiserman). Suggestions and talks from graduate students and early career faculty are especially welcome.
The Group sends out regular updates via a mailing list; email any of the convenors if you would like to be added to this list.
Trinity Term 2025 - Term Card
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| Week 1 (29th April) | Cian Dorr (NYU) | In defence of the contingency of distinctness |
| Week 2 (6th May) | Bahram Assadian (Leeds) | Indeterminacy of reference and aboutness |
| Week 3 (13th May) | Kit Fine (NYU) | There is no Rational Response to a Sorites Series |
| Week 4 (20th May) | Sam Fletcher (Oxford) | The Similar Role of Values in Legal Epistemology and Statistical Testing (joint work with Corey Dethier) |
| Week 1 (21st Jan) | Claudio Calosi (Ca' Foscari, Venice) | Presence and Delegation |
| Week 2 (28th Jan) | Elise Woodard (KCL) | Belief Change as Evidence |
| Week 3 (4th Feb) | Bernhard Salow (Oxford) | Iterated Knowledge isn't Better Knowledge |
| Week 6 (25th Feb) | Mattias Gunnemyr (Gothenburg) | Estimating Degrees of Causation |
| Week 3 (29th Oct) | Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (Oxford) | Against Zero-Grounding |
| Week 6 (19th Nov) | David Storrs-Fox (Oxford) | Deep Fallibility and the Normative Theory of Risk |
| Week 7 (26th Nov) | Matthias Rolffs (University of Bern) | Moral Responsibility for Outcomes |
| Week 8 (3rd Dec) | Nick Hughes (University of Oslo) | How Does 'Ought' Imply 'Can' in Epistemology? |
| Week 1 (23rd April) | Nicholas K Jones (Oxford) | Fundamentality and Opacity |
| Week 2 (30th April) | Alyssa Ney (LMU Munich) | The Metaphysics of Branching: Local or Global? |
| Week 3 (7th May) | Tena Thau (Oxford) | The A Priori Case for Pacifism |
| Week 5 (21st May) | Daniel Altshuler (Oxford) & Susanna Melkonian-Altshuler | Political Bald-Faced Lies are Commands |
| Week 2 (23rd Jan) | Ella Whiteley (Sheffield) | Objectifying by Attending |
| Week 4 (6th Feb) | Sophia Dandelet (Cambridge) | Self-Deception and Believing for Reasons |
| Week 5 (13th Feb) | David Boylan (Texas Tech and Glasgow) | Persistence is Trivial |
| Week 6 (20th Feb) | Amit Karmon (Oxford) | Learning From Examples and the Paradox of the Ravens |
| Week 2 (17th Oct) | David Builes (Princeton) | The Metaphysics of Transworld Identity and the Epistemology of Self-Locating Belief |
| Week 3 (24th Oct) | Christopher Fruge (Oxford) | Offloading Value |
| Week 4 (31st Oct) | Katherine Hong (Oxford) | The intended interpretation of higher-order languages |
| Week 6 (14th Nov) | Alexander Geddes (Oxford) | Identity and Mental Preservation |
| Week 7 (21st Nov) | Joe Gough (Oxford) | Kinds of Eliminativism |
| Week 2 (2nd May) | Daniel Hoek (Virginia Tech) | The Reality of Rainbows: Loose Talk and Ontology |
| Week 3 (9th May) | Elizabeth Fricker (Oxford) | Real and Fake Testimony |
| Week 4 (16th May) | Ofra Magidor (Oxford) | Infinite Jesters: Deflationary Reflections on New Zeno |
| Week 5 (23rd May) | James Ravi Kirkpatrick (Oxford) | Counterpart theory as a foundation for natural language semantics |
| Week 6 (30th May) | Carlos Nunez (Oxford) | Are there norms of rationality relating intention to acceptance? |
| Week 7 (6th June) | Katie Steele (ANU) | Evidential Luck and (Un)Fair Treatment |
| Week 8 (13th June) | Annina Loets (Humboldt) | Inexact Ability |
| Week 2 (24th Jan) | Alexander Roberts (Oxford) | De Re Modality without Counterparts |
| Week 3 (31st Jan) | Kurt Sylvan (Southampton) | Inference, Epistemic Priority, and the Presentational Account of Knowing |
| Week 4 (7th Feb) | Alison Fernandes (Trinity) | Naturalism, Functionalism and the Metaphysics of Science |
| Week 5 (14th Feb) | Elizabeth Fricker (Oxford) | Are there Second-Personal Reasons for Belief? McMyler on Testimonial Warrant |
| Week 6 (21st Feb) | Daniel Deasy (Dublin) | World and Times as Propositions |
| Week 7 (28th Feb) | Henry Ian Schiller (Sheffield) | Informational Chauvinism |
| Week 8 (7th March) | Nick Hughes (Oxford) | Non-Ideal Epistemic Rationality |
| Week 1 (11th Oct) | Rachel Fraser (Oxford) | Practical Assurance |
| Week 2 (18th Oct) | Daniel Kodsi (Oxford) | On Byrne's Making Metaphysics |
| Week 3 (25th Oct) | Andreas Ditter (Oxford) | Essence and Grain |
| Week 4 (1st Nov) | Nick Hughes (Oxford) | Non-Ideal Epistemic Rationality |
| Week 5 (8th Nov) | Vincent Grandjean (Oxford) | The bare past |
| Week 6 (15th Nov) | Teru Thomas (Oxford) | Chance, Self-Location, and Anthropic Reasoning |
| Week 7 (22nd Nov) | Sam Carter (Dianoia Institute ACU) | Inquiry and Dogmatism |
| Week 8 (29th Nov) | Alexander Bird (Cambridge) | Special Composition for Objects and Properties: Information and Inference |
