11– 12pm, every Monday @ University of Adelaide, Napier 618
23rd June 2025 - Ontic Structural Realism by Kerry McKenzie [Ontology, Metaphysics]
Completed:
16th June 2025 - How the Laws of Logic Lie by Gillian Russell [Logic, Phil of Science]
19th May 2025 - One True Logic? by Gillian Russell [Logic, Philosophy of Language]
12th May 2025 - Why Philosophy Needs a Concept of Progress by James Norton [Philosophy of Science, History of Philosophy]
18th April 2025 - The Metaphysics of the Calculus by Abraham Robinson [Philosophy of Mathematics, Metaphysics]
28th March 2025 - Accumulating Epistemic Power: A Problem with Epistemology by Kristie Dotson [Epistemology]
25th February 2025 - The Metaphysics of Identity: Is Identity Fundamental? by Erica Shumener [Metaphysics]
17th December 2024 - Logic will get you from A to B, imagination will take you anywhere by Francesco Berto [Logic, Counterfactuals]
10th December 2024 - A Counterexample to Modus Tollens by Seth Yalcin [Logic, Probability]
19th November 2024 - A Counterexample to Modus Ponens by Vann McGee [Logic, Counterfactuals]
12th November 2024 - Semantics: Mathematics or Psychology? by Barbara Partee [Philosophy of Language]
5th November 2024 - Varieties of Metaphysical Coherentism by Jan Swiderski [Metaphysics, Grounding]
29th October 2024 - Knowing Against the Odds by Cian Dorr [Epistemology, Metaphysics]
22nd October 2024 - Knowledge in the Face of Conspiracy Conditionals by Ben Holguín [Epistemology, Phil of Language]
15th October 2024 - Mental Causation for Standard Dualists by Bram Vassen [Phil of Mind, Metaphysics]
1st October 2024 - Half-Truths and the Liar - Paul Égré [Logic, Phil of Lang]
24th September 2024 - What Experience Teaches - David Lewis [Metaphysics, Phil of Mind]
17th September 2024 - The Myth of Full Belief - Jeremy Goodman [Epistemology, Phil of Mind]
10th August 2024 - Supervaluations - Timothy Williamson (Handout by Sam Carter) [Phil of Lang, Logic] - Read sec. 5.1-5.4 & 5.7
3rd September 2024 - AI Safety: A Climb To Armageddon? - Herman Cappelen, Josh Dever, John Hawthorne [Artificial Intelligence]
27th August 2024 - What is Justified Belief? - Alvin Goldman [Epistemology]
20th August 2024 - A Theory of Conditionals - Robert Stalnaker (Handout by Sam Carter) [Phil of Lang, Logic]
13th August 2024 - On What Grounds What, Jonathan Schaffer [Metaphysics]
6th August 2024 - Awareness By Degree - Paul Silva Jr & Robert Weston Siscoe [Epistemology, Phil of Mind]
30th July 2024 - Finkish Dispositions - David Lewis [Metaphysics]
23rd July 2024 - On Rules and Private Language - Saul Kripke [Phil of Mind/Language]
4th June 2024 - In Defence of Hume's Law - Gillian Russell [Logic]
28th May 2024 - Devious Stipulations - John Horden [Metaphysics]
21st May 2024 - Justification, Knowledge, and Normality - Clayton Littlejohn & Julien Dutant [Epistemology]
14 May 2024 - Epistemic Dependence - John Hardwig - 15 Pages [Epistemology]
7th May 2024 - Causation - David Lewis [Metaphysics]
30th April 2024 - Belief is Weak - John Hawthorne, Daniel Rothschild & Levi Spectre [Phil of Mind]
Reading Michael Titelbaum's `Fundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology: Volume 1'
Reading group has ended. Thank you to all that attended.
Completed:
Chapter 5: Further Rational Constraints
Chapter 4: Updating by Conditionalization
Chapter 3: Conditional Credences
Chapter 2: Probability Distributions
Chapter 1: Beliefs and Degrees of Belief
4 – 5pm, every second Monday @ University of Adelaide, Napier 823
30th June 2025 - A Study in Brown by Michael Newall [Colour Theory]
Completed:
16th June 2025 - "The Ambivalence of Imagining the “OUTSIDE”: On Nick Land’s Libidinal Materialism" by Mihai Țapu
26th May 2025 - Art as Insurrection by Nick Land
28th April 2025 - The Ion by Plato
14th April 2025 - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Chapter 5 by James Joyce
24th March 2025 - The Aesthetic Hypothesis (Part I) by Clive Bell
12th December 2024 - Aesthetic Rationality by Keren Gorodeisky and Eric Marcus
28th November 2024 - Patterns of the Lifeworld: Why Poetry is a Variety of Mathematical Experience by Peli Grietzer
14th November 2024 - Art as a Shelter from Science by C. Thi Nguyen
31st October 2024 - The Paradox of Horror by Berys Gaut
17th October 2024 - On Beauty and On the Intelligible Beauty by Plotinus
3rd October 2024 - Of The Standard Of Taste by David Hume
12th September 2024 - On the Concept of the Aesthetic by Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy