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Fictional Entities Revisited
December 3, 2021 13:15-15:00 Panu Raatikainen Tampere University, Finland https://aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/62430845260 Abstract Several philosophers including Kripke have contended that fictional entities do exist as abstract objects, and fictional names refer to such abstract entities. Kripke and Thomasson compare fictional entities to existing social entities. Kripke also reflects on fictions inside fictions to support this view. Many…
Previous webinars
What is directionless time?
November 26, 2021 13:00-15:00 (new time) Matt Farr Cambridge University https://aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/63634957826 Abstract Stuff happens. It’s hard to think of a more general description of reality. We picture the universe as some set of processes that start…
A Functionalist Account of Metaphysical Explanation
November 19, 2021 16:00-17:30 CET Anthony Fisher University of Washington, USA https://aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/65170482357 Abstract Metaphysical explanation has received a lot of attention in the literature recently. In this talk, I develop a functionalist account of metaphysical explanation…
Plants, Wants, and Agents
November 5, 2021 13:00-15:00 CET Helen Steward University of Leeds, UK Abstract Might plants be agents? This paper considers an attempt by Hans-Johann Glock (2019) to draw two important distinctions which might help us think about…
Carving Talk of Powers at Its Joints
Webinar October 1, 2021 Ruth Groff, Saint Louis University (USA) Time: 16:30 – 18:00 CEST https://aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/63412268251 Here is a paper relating to the talk
Panpsychism and Robust Value Realism
Webinar Nov. 27, 2020 Philip Goff, Durham University Panpsychism is the view that consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the physical world. Robust value realism is the view that there are irreducible facts about…
Laws Loosened: How to make Way for Freedom in a Law-Governed World
Webinar Nov. 20, 2020 Helen Stewart, University of Leeds In this paper, I shall consider a number of different ways in which philosophers in recent years have attempted to offer conceptions of natural law which in…
Flatworldism: a defense
Webinar Oct. 30, 2020 Anna-Sofia Maurin, University of Gothenborg Flatworldism is a view on the nature of reality according to which reality lacks structure. Prima facie what this means is that reality’s inhabitants are not sub-dividable…
Metaphysical approximation in Metaphysics of Science
Webinar Oct. 23, 2020 Rasmus Jaksland, Norwegian University of Science and Technology In science and particularly in physics, we have a developed notion of approximation. We possess, in many cases at least, quantitative means with which to…
Types of Dynamic Continuity in General Process Theory
Webinar Oct. 7, 2020 Johanna Seibt, Aarhus University GPT is a mono-categoreal process ontology, with non-transitive part-relation as the basic relationship among the basic entity called “general process”. General processes are concrete, yet indeterminate (general), dynamic…
Main Questions of Metaphysics
Webinar Oct. 2, 2020 Jani Hakkarainen, Tampere University
Nordic Network in metaphysics 