Reading Group

We have a bi-weekly reading group that meets at Science Park. If not announced otherwise, this semester we will meet on Monday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. starting on 4.2.2019. The location is SP 107 room F2.02. Everybody is welcome to join us.

Upcoming Meeting

The next meeting will be on 6.5. at 1 p.m. in F2.02.

We will discuss

• Lee (2016). Motivating the Causal Modeling Semantics of Counterfactuals, or, Why We Should Favor the Causal Modeling Semantics over the Possible-Worlds Semantics. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48357-2_5

The schedule for the next two months

• meeting on 20.5. at 1pm with a presentation by Sander Beckers on his work! You can find the abstract of his talk here. We will meet in F1.15, Science Park 107.
  
  • Beckers & Vennekens (2018) A principled approach to defining actual causation. Synthese, 195: 835–862.
  • Beckers, S., and Vennekens, J. (2017). The Transitivity and Asymmetry of Actual Causation, Ergo, 4(1), 1-27.
• meeting on 3.6. at 1pm
  
  • Phillips & Knobe (2018). The psychological representation of modality (41 pages). https://people.fas.harvard.edu/~phillips01/papers/psychologyofModality.pdf

We will finish our first season with presentations of the PhD students affiliated with this research group.

• meeting on 17.6. at 1pm
  • Kaibo and Dean will present what they have been working on the past couple of months

• meeting on 1.7. at 1pm
  • Ivar will present what he has been working on the past couple of months

Archive of past meetings

 

Contact

Dean McHugh is keeping track of the reading group. So if you have any questions, please contact him.