Tristram McPherson (U. Melbourne) "Reference Magnets on Normative Twin Earth"

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Alma Barner (ANU): TBA

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Philippe Mongin (CNRS): "Judgment Aggregation: Impossibilities, Solutions, Legal Examples"

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Daniel Nolan (ANU): Indeterminacy and Essence

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Iván Darío Gonzáles Cabrera (ANU): TBA

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Brian Garrett (ANU): A chat about fate

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In this talk I grapple with fate, discussing, en route, backwards causation, time travel and bringing about the past.  For prep, class should read D Lewis ‘The Paradoxes of Time Travel’ (especially his discussion of Tim the time traveler) and M Dummett ‘Bringing about the Past’ (especially the…

Daniel Stoljar (ANU): Is there a persuasive argument for a reflexive theory of consciousness?

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According to (what is sometimes called) a reflexive theory of consciousness, a subject S is in a conscious state C (to put it roughly) if and only if S is aware (in some sense) of S's being in C. In this paper, I collect together the main arguments for this theory, and argue that none of them is…