[SydPhil] Metaphysics Workshop: Tuesday June 18 at the Centre for Time

[Kristie Miller]

This coming Tuesday the Centre for Time is running a one day metaphysics workshop.

All are welcome.

Details are below. 


Metaphysics Workshop
 
Tuesday July 18, 2023
 
N 494, Main Quad, University of Sydney
 
 
 
9..00-10.00
 
David Builes, Princeton
 
Center Indifference and Skepticism
 
 
Abstract: Many philosophers have been attracted to a restricted version of the principle of indifference in the case of self-locating belief. My first goal is to defend a more precise version of this principle. After responding to several existing criticisms of such a principle, I argue that existing formulations of the principle are crucially ambiguous, and I go on to defend a particular disambiguation of the principle. According to the disambiguation I defend, how one should apply this restricted principle of indifference sensitively depends on one's background metaphysical views about time and modality. My second goal is to apply this disambiguated principle to classical skeptical problems in epistemology. In particular, I will argue that Eternalism threatens to lead us to external world skepticism, and Modal Realism threatens to lead us to inductive skepticism.
 
 
10.00-11.00 Brian Epstein, Tufts
 
The Architecture of Legal Determination
 
 
BREAK: 1100-1.00
 
 
1.00-2.00 Jonathan Tallant, Nottingham
 
Being and Doing.
 
 
2.00-3.00 Emily Thomas, Durham
 
>From Unreal Time to Static-Dynamic Time: British Metaphysics 1880s-1920s
 
3.00-3.30 BREAK
 
3.30-4.30 Helen Beebee, Leeds,
 
Title TBA
 
4.30-5.30 Dave Ingram, York
 
How to Build a Dynamical Theory of Time



Professor Kristie Miller
Chair of Philosophy
Joint Director, the Centre for Time
School of Humanities
The Centre for Time
The University of Sydney
Sydney Australia
Room S213, A 14 Main Quad

kristie.miller at sydney.edu.au
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