On-going Reading Group

Fall 2024

• 08.10.2024 - Hans Halvorson (2019) The logic in philosophy of science, CUP, selection from chapter 4

• 22.10.2024 - Hans Halvorson (2019). The logic in philosophy of science, CUP, selection from chapter 5

• 29.10.2024 - T. W. Barrett and H,Halvorson (2017). From Geometry to Conceptual Relativity. Erkenntnis 82, 1043-1063

• 19.11.2024 - Joshua Babic, Morita equivalence and persistence, MS

• 03.12.2024 - George Bealer (1978). An inconsistency in functionalism. Synthese 38, 333-372 + Halvorson 2019, p. 195-6, 250 (facultative: George S. Boolos, John P. Burgess and Richard Jeffrey (2007). Computability and Logic (Fifth Edition), chapter 20, pp. 260-268)

Spring 2025

• 18.02.2025 - Ted Sider, The tools of metaphysics and the metaphysics of science, OUP, chapter 5 "Equivalence"

• 04.03.2025 - Michaela McSweeney, An epistemic account of metaphysical equivalence, Philosophical Perspectives, 30, Metaphysics, 2016

• 18.03.2025 - Kristie Miller, A hyperintensional account of metaphysical equivalence, The Philosophical Quarterly 67 (269), 2017 

• 01.04.2025 - Jacinto and Belastegui, Quineanism, Noneism and Metaphysical Equivalence, Part 1

• 29.04.2025 - Jacinto and Belastegui, Quineanism, Noneism and Metaphysical Equivalence, Part 2

• 13.05.2025 - Kristie Miller, What is Metaphysical Equivalence?

• 28.05.2025 - Trevor Teitel, What Theoretical Equivalence Could Not Be

Fall 2025

• 01.10.2025 - Robert Goldblatt's Topoi: The Categorial Analysis of Logic (chapter 1) + SEP entry on category theory

• 15.10.2025 - Harold Simmons' An Introduction to Category Theory (chapter 1)

• 29.10.2025 - Harold Simmons' An Introduction to Category Theory (chapter 2)

• 12.11.2025 - Harold Simmons' An Introduction to Category Theory (chapter 3)

• 03.12.2025 - Harold Simmons' An Introduction to Category Theory (chapter 4)

• 17.12.2025 - Harold Simmons' An Introduction to Category Theory (chapter 5)

Spring 2026

• 25.02.2026 - Eli Hirsch & Jared Warren's "Quantifier Variance" + Eli Hirsch's Quantifier Variance and Realism (Introduction)

• 11.03.2026 - Hans Halvorson's "Quantifier Variance without Collapse" + Matti Eklund's "Collapse and the Varieties of Quantifier Variance"

• 25.03.2026 - Matti Eklund's "Metaontology" (pp. 320–327) + "The Picture of Reality as an Amorphous Lump"

• 15.04.2026 - Alessandro Torza's "Structural Pluralism"

• 29.04.2026 - Olla Solomyak's "How to Be a Perspectival Pluralist" + "Temporal Ontology and the Metaphysics of Perspectives"

• 13.05.2026 - Mark Balaguer's Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion (chapter 2)

• 27.05.2026 - Eli Hirsch's "Ontology by Stipulation" + "On Ontology by Stipulation" + Matti Eklund's "Replies to Festschrift Contributors" (pp. 4–10)