Vincent Conitzer Head of Technical AI Engagement at the Institute for Ethics in AI | Professor of Computer Science and Philosophy, Duke University
Alexander Paseau Professor of Mathematical Philosophy Stuart Hampshire Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Wadham College
James Studd Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Mathematics Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Lady Margaret Hall
Jan Westerhoff Associate Professor (Professor of Buddhist Philosophy) Faculty of Theology and Religion
Timothy Williamson Senior Research and Teaching Fellow in Philosophy and Wykeham Professor of Logic Emeritus Professorial Fellow, New College
11 Jan The View from Above: Structure, Emergence, and Causation MBI Auditorium, Corpus Christi College
7 Feb 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 Seminar (Monday - Week 1, HT21) Philip Goff | Durham | Panpsychism and Robust Value Realism Online
26 Apr 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 Seminar (Monday - Week 2, HT21) Jonathan Schaffer | Rutgers University | Naturalistic Dualism and the Problem of the Physical Correlate Online
1 Feb Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 3, HT21) Angela Mendelovici | Western Ontario | Radical Internalism Online
8 Feb Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 4, HT21) Ralf Bader | Fribourg | Grounding, Reduction, and Consciousness Online
17 May Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 4, TT21) Katalin Farkas | Central European University Online
15 Feb Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 5, HT21) Barbara Montero | New York | Goodbye Supervenience Online
24 May Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 5, TT21) Michelle Montague | Texas | Rethinking the attitudes Online
22 Feb Metaphysics of Consciousness Seminar (Monday - Week 6, HT21) Tim Crane | Vienna | The Zombie Hypothesis as a Sceptical Hypothesis Online
31 May 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 Seminar (Monday - Week 7, HT21) Amy Kind | Claremont McKenna College | The Significance of Non-Empirical Questions Online
7 Jun 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 Seminar (Monday - Week 8, HT21) Adam Pautz | Brown | The Significance Argument for the Irreducibility of Consciousness Online
14 Jun 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 Seminar (Monday - Week 9, HT21) Mark Johnston | Princeton | Are Qualia Mental Properties? Online
26 May 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 (Tuesday - Week 2, HT21) Barbara Vetter | Berlin | Dispositionalism and the problem of necessary masks Online
20 Oct Metaphysics Work-in-Progress Group (Tuesday - Week 2, MT20) Mahrad Almotahari | Edinburgh | The Reformation of Realism Online
19 Oct 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 (Tuesday - Week 2, TT21) Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt | MIT | Thing Causation | 3-5pm Online
3 May 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 (Tuesday - Week 4, HT21) Oliver Pooley | Oxford | B-Theoretic Accounts of Passage Online
3 Nov 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 (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 (Tuesday - Week 4, TT21) Alex Moran | Oxford | Some Thoughts on (Not Surviving) Fission Online
17 May 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 (Tuesday - Week 6, HT21) Annina Loets | Berlin | Aspects and the Indiscernibility of Identicals Online
17 Nov 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 (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 (Tuesday - Week 6, TT21) Verónica Gómez Sánchez | ACU | Naturalness by Law Online
1 Dec 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 (Tuesday - Week 8, MT21) Jessica Leech | KCL | Persistence and Relative Criterialism Online
15 Jun 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 (Tuesday - Week 8, TT22) Lara Scheibli | 'Ásta, 'Categorical Injustice'' Ryle Room, Radcliffe Humanities