Sunday, February 12, 2012

Podcasts: Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies Project

I think that Anna Marmodoro's Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies project is one of the most interesting metaphysics projects around at the moment. And it got even more interesting now that they have added to their website links to a series of podcasts, which include:


Jon Jacobs: "Is Causation a Relation?"
Peter Van Inwagen: "Relational vs. Constituent Ontologies"

I look forward to listening to all of them!

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Metaphysical Mayhem 2012!!!

This makes me wish I was still a grad student :-)
Metaphysical Mayhem is back!!! Rutgers University will be hosting a 5-day summer school for graduate students May 14-18, 2012. John Hawthorne, Katherine Hawley, Ted Sider, Jonathan Schaffer, and Dean Zimmerman will lead the seminars on a variety of topics in metaphysics, including: natural properties, composition as identity, grounding, metaphysical explanation, and stuff like that...

For more information, see:
http://fas-philosophy.rutgers.edu/mbenton/mayhem.html