Area of Specialisation > Metaphysics

Academics

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Umut Baysan

Departmental Lecturer in Philosophy
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Alexander Bird

Honorary Fellow, St John's
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Vincent Conitzer

Head of Technical AI Engagement
Institute for Ethics in AI
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Emma Curran

Departmental Lecturer in Ethics
Hertford College
Dorothy Edgington

Dorothy Edgington FBA

Emeritus Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy
Chris Fruge

Christopher Frugé

Junior Research Fellow
St John’s College
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Alexander Geddes

Stipendiary Lecturer
Oriel College and St Hilda's College
Janine Gühler

Janine Gühler

Stipendiary Lecturer
Worcester College
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Nicholas K Jones

Associate Professor
Official Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, St John's College
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Alex Kaiserman

Associate Professor
Fairfax Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Balliol College
Brian Leftow

Brian Leftow

Emeritus Fellow, Oriel
Ofra Magidor

Ofra Magidor

Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy
Professorial Fellow, Magdalen College
Adrian Moore

Adrian Moore FBA

Professor of Philosophy
Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, St Hugh's College
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Beau Madison Mount

Associate Professor
Sir Peter Strawson Fellow in Philosophy, University College
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Ben Page

Stipendiary Lecturer in Philosophy
Pembroke College and Oriel College
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Alexander Paseau

Professor of Mathematical Philosophy
Stuart Hampshire Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Wadham College
Michail Peramatzis

Michail Peramatzis

Associate Professor
Hinton Clarendon Fellow, Worcester College
Oliver Pooley

Oliver Pooley

Associate Professor
Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Oriel College
Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Professor of Metaphysics
Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Oriel College
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Bradford Saad

Senior Research Fellow, Global Priorities Institute
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David Storrs-Fox

Early Career Research Fellow, Jesus
James Studd

James Studd

Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Mathematics
Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Lady Margaret Hall
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Roger Teichmann

Stipendiary Lecturer in Philosophy
St Hilda's College
Cecilia Trifogli

Cecilia Trifogli

Professor of Medieval Philosophy
Fellow, All Souls College
Ralph Walker

Ralph Walker

Emeritus Fellow, Magdalen
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George Webster

Stipendiary Lecturer, Keble
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Jan Westerhoff

Associate Professor (Professor of Buddhist Philosophy)
Faculty of Theology and Religion
James Wilk

James Wilk

Associate Lecturer in Philosophy
St Edmund Hall
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Stephen Williams

Emeritus Fellow, Worcester
Timothy Williamson

Timothy Williamson

Senior Research and Teaching Fellow | Emeritus Wykeham Professor of Logic
Professorial Fellow, New College

Conferences

11 Jan
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The View from Above: Structure, Emergence, and Causation

MBI Auditorium, Corpus Christi College

Events

7 Jun
Metaphysics of Entanglement

Metaphysics of Entanglement Week 7 TT17

Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College
14 Jun
Metaphysics of Entanglement

Metaphysics of Entanglement Week 8 TT17

Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College

Seminars

7 Feb
epistemology reading group

Metaphysics and Epistemology Group (Tuesday - Week 4, HT23)

Alison Fernandes (Trinity College Dublin): 'Naturalism, Functionalism and the Metaphysics of Science'
Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities
18 Jan
metaphysics of consciousness

Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 1, HT21)

Philip Goff | Durham | Panpsychism and Robust Value Realism
Online
26 Apr
metaphysics of consciousness

Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 1, TT21)

David Papineau | King's College | Why Sensory Consciousness Can’t be Essentially Representational
Online
25 Jan
metaphysics of consciousness

Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 2, HT21)

Jonathan Schaffer | Rutgers University | Naturalistic Dualism and the Problem of the Physical Correlate
Online
3 May
metaphysics of consciousness

Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 2, TT21)

Jessica Wilson | Toronto
Online
1 Feb
metaphysics of consciousness

Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 3, HT21)

Angela Mendelovici | Western Ontario | Radical Internalism
Online
10 May
metaphysics of consciousness

Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 3, TT21)

Benj Hellie | Toronto
Online
8 Feb
metaphysics of consciousness

Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 4, HT21)

Ralf Bader | Fribourg | Grounding, Reduction, and Consciousness
Online
17 May
metaphysics of consciousness

Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 4, TT21)

Katalin Farkas | Central European University
Online
15 Feb
metaphysics of consciousness

Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 5, HT21)

Barbara Montero | New York | Goodbye Supervenience
Online
24 May
metaphysics of consciousness

Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 5, TT21)

Michelle Montague | Texas | Rethinking the attitudes
Online
22 Feb
metaphysics of consciousness

Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 6, HT21)

Tim Crane | Vienna | The Zombie Hypothesis as a Sceptical Hypothesis
Online
31 May
metaphysics of consciousness

Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 6, TT21)

Alex Moran | Oxford | On why grounding physicalists need contingent grounding laws
Online
1 Mar
metaphysics of consciousness

Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 7, HT21)

Amy Kind | Claremont McKenna College | The Significance of Non-Empirical Questions
Online
7 Jun
metaphysics of consciousness

Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 7, TT21)

Brian Cutter | Notre Dame | The Value of Consciousness: An Axiological Argument against Reductive Materialism
Online
8 Mar
metaphysics of consciousness

Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 8, HT21)

Adam Pautz | Brown | The Significance Argument for the Irreducibility of Consciousness
Online
14 Jun
metaphysics of consciousness

Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 8, TT21)

Ned Block | New York | How science can show that perception is non-conceptual and non-propositional
Online
15 Mar
metaphysics of consciousness

Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 9, HT21)

Mark Johnston | Princeton | Are Qualia Mental Properties?
Online
26 May
metaphysics work in progress group

Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Thursday - Week 5, TT22)

Stephen Yablo | 'Grue and True'
Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities
26 Jan
metaphysics work in progress group

Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 2, HT21)

Barbara Vetter | Berlin | Dispositionalism and the problem of necessary masks
Online
20 Oct
metaphysics work in progress group

Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 2, MT20)

Mahrad Almotahari | Edinburgh | The Reformation of Realism
Online
19 Oct
metaphysics work in progress group

Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 2, MT21)

Elselijn Kingma | Oh no, Tibbles is Pregnant! Nesting and a Modal Account of Maximality
Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities
4 May
metaphysics work in progress group

Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 2, TT21)

Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt | MIT | Thing Causation | 3-5pm
Online
3 May
metaphysics work in progress group

Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 2, TT22)

Umut Baysan | 'Emergent Social Kinds: Weak and Strong'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
9 Feb
metaphysics work in progress group

Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 4, HT21)

Oliver Pooley | Oxford | B-Theoretic Accounts of Passage
Online
3 Nov
metaphysics work in progress group

Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 4, MT20)

Mike Hicks and Al Wilson | Chance and Explanation
Online
2 Nov
metaphysics work in progress group

Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 4, MT21)

Alex Kaiserman | Oxford | Daniel Kodsi | Oxford | Causal Contextualism and the Proportionality Puzzle
Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities
18 May
metaphysics work in progress group

Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 4, TT21)

Alex Moran | Oxford | Some Thoughts on (Not Surviving) Fission
Online
17 May
metaphysics work in progress group

Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 4, TT22)

Kabir Bakshi | 'Eddy Chen's Fundamental Nomic Vagueness'
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
23 Feb
metaphysics work in progress group

Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 6, HT21)

Annina Loets | Berlin | Aspects and the Indiscernibility of Identicals
Online
17 Nov
metaphysics work in progress group

Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 6, MT20)

Fatema Amijee | UBC | Why Inquiry Commits Us to the Principle of Sufficient Reason
Online
16 Nov
metaphysics work in progress group

Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 6, MT21)

Nadine Elzein | Warwick | Time Travel and Failed Assassinations: From Baby Suzy to Fidel Castro
Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities
1 Jun
metaphysics work in progress group

Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 6, TT21)

Verónica Gómez Sánchez | ACU | Naturalness by Law
Online
9 Mar
metaphysics work in progress group

Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 8, HT21)

Alex Roberts | Oxford
Online
1 Dec
metaphysics work in progress group

Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 8, MT20)

Paul Audi | Rochester | Persistence and Experience: A Plea for Temporally Extended Endurers
Online
30 Nov
metaphysics work in progress group

Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 8, MT21)

Jessica Leech | KCL | Persistence and Relative Criterialism
Online
15 Jun
metaphysics work in progress group

Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 8, TT21)

Salvatore Florio | Birmingham | Nicholas K Jones | Oxford | Two Conceptions of Absolute Generality
Online
14 Jun
metaphysics work in progress group

Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 8, TT22)

Lara Scheibli | 'Ásta, 'Categorical Injustice''
Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities
10 Nov
Tate Jowett Beerbohm

The Jowett Society Week 5 MT17

Lecture Room Radcliffe Humanities

Publications

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Language, World, and Limits: Essays in the Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics

A W Moore

Williamson on Modality

Timothy Williamson