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May 18, 2004
Summer Philosophy Activities
We have two summer philosophy groups going on this summer, all of which should be of interest to the SU grads, and one of which might be of interest to others in the nearby area. Ishani Maitra is running a work in progress seminar which will meet every two weeks starting this Friday, where Eric Hiddleston will present his paper in progress on physical causation, which you can find here On either the 11th or 25th of June, Irem Kurtsal Steen, my favorite philosopher, will be presenting on either Russell and sense data, or on a work in progress on persistence. Somewhere a bit later I'll be presenting the third, and hopefully much shorter and tidied-up version of my 'How to be a Stuff-Process Ontologist.' I'll announce more presentations when they come up. Secondly, the meeting time for the modal logic reading/work group has been set. We'll be meeting on Thursdays at 4pm in the Dietl Room. The purpose of the modal logic group is for us grads to get more familiar with the various more popular systems of modal logic, as well as get a grasp on certain applications of same (we'll be somewhat ignoring completeness/soundness issues, which were well covered in Brown's course not too long ago). Our reading materials so far include: -Rod Girle's Modal Logics and Philosophy -The Chellas volume (sorry, forgot the title) -Mark Brown's modal logic manuscript -The Hughes and Cresswell -Varzi's online notes [any suggestions or critiques of materials welcome] Philosophy students who can commute here and would like to join us for the modal logic group are welcome. Our first readings are Girle, pp1-28, and the first chapter of the Chellas book. The first meeting is May 27th, where we'll also be formulating a syllabus of sorts for the rest of summer. If you're interested in joining, email me at marksteen@gmail.com .
Posted by MarkSteen at May 18, 2004 12:01 PM
Comments
Are we sure that Ishani's working paper group is identical with the one Andre announced? That wasn't obvious to me, and there were several factors that made me think these were distinct groups.
Posted by: Brendan at May 19, 2004 4:25 PM
Hmmm...I thought they were. I'll find dthat out stat.
Posted by: marksteen at May 19, 2004 4:38 PM
And, hey, when the hell you gonna post, dude?
Posted by: marksteen at May 19, 2004 4:38 PM