| Date | Paper | Leader | Notes |
| 25 Jan 2007 | Planning Meeting | | |
| 8 Feb 2007 | Lewis on Structural Universals | KatherineHawley | Work in Progress |
| 15 Feb 2007 | Gifford Lecture - No Meeting | | We will go to Joseph's Seminar Series |
| 22 Feb 2007 | Gifford Lecture - No meeting | | We will go to Joseph's Seminar Series |
| 1 Mar 2007 | Michael Rea: 'Presentism and Fatalism' | JosephDiekemper | AJP webpage CANCELLED TO BE RESCHEDULED |
| 8 Mar 2007 | 'Reductive Theories of Modality', Theodore Sider | IraKiourti | Sider's Webpage |
| 15 Mar 2007 | No seminar (Putnamfest) | | |
| 22 Mar 2007 | Jonathan Shaffer 'On What Grounds What' | KatherineHawley | By email - Unpublished early draft, not for general circulation |
| 29 Mar 2007 | Spring Break | | |
| 5 Apr 2007 | Spring Break | | |
| 12 Apr 2007 | No Seminar | | Cancelled due to Phil Club/absentees |
| 19 Apr 2007 | Michael Rea: 'Presentism and Fatalism' | JosephDiekemper | AJP webpage Postponed |
| 26 Apr 2007 | Michael Rea 'Presentism and Fatalism' | Joseph Diekemper | Rescheduled from last week! AJP webpage |
| 3 May 2007 | Supervenience and coincidence: four solutions to the grounding problem | Ralf Bader | (work in progress) |
| 10 May 2007 | Supervenience and coincidence: four solutions to the grounding problem | Ralf Bader | continuing the discussion from the last session |
| 17 May 2007 | Session Replaced by: Metaphysics Workshop 'The Metaphysics of Being Basic' | Jonathan Schaffer, Elizabeth Barnes, Ross Cameron, Robbie Williams | follow the link for programme |
| 24 May 2007 | 'Noneism or Allism' David Lewis | IraKiourti | 1990, Mind 99 JSTOR Link |
| 31 May 2007 | no session | | most members absent |
| 7 Jun 2007 | NO SESSION | | Arche Audit-Day |
| 14 Jun 2007 | The Supervenience Schema | Ralf Bader | (work in progress) |
| 3 Oct 2007 | Truth and Ontology: Introduction and Ch 1: Truthmaker and Making True | DavidLandsberg | Oxford Online |
| 11 Oct 2007 | T&O Chapter 2: Truthmakers | IraKiourti | Oxford Online |
| 18 Oct 2007 | T&O Chapter 3: Negative Existentials | Tobias Wilsch | Oxford Online |
| 25 Oct 2007 | T&O Chapter 4: Truth Supervenes on Being | BjörnBrodowski | Oxford Online |
| 1 Nov 2007 | T&O Chapter 5: Modality | KatherineHawley | Oxford Online |
| 8 Nov 2007 | T&O Chapter 6: Presentism | SimonProsser | Oxford Online |
| 15 Nov 2007 | Reading Week. No Session | | |
| 22 Nov 2007 | T&O Chapter 7: Subjunctive Conditionals | TBA | Oxford Online |
| 29 Nov 2007 | T&O Chapter 8: Theory of Truth | | Oxford Online |
| 6 Dec 2007 | Supervenience and indiscernability | RalfBader | own work |
| 13 Dec 2007 | No Session | | |
| 11 Feb 2008 | No Session | | |
| 25 Feb 2008 | 'Human Beings, Human Animals and Mentalistic Survival' by Denis Robinson | KatherineHawley | Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, vol.3, Zimmerman (ed.), OUP 2007 |
| 3 Mar 2008 | Mark Heller 'Worlds, Pluriverses and Minds' | IraKiourti | Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 3 |
| 10 Mar 2008 | Circular TIme, Untensed Temporal Logic and the B-Series | DavidLandsberg | work in progress |
| 17 Mar 2008 | 'Time Travel Coinciding Objects and Persistence', Cody Gilmore | KatherineHawley | OSM3, Link to Paper |
| 24 Mar 2008 | William Kilborn 'Contact and Continuity' | SimonProsser | OSM3 |
| 31 Mar 2008 | Spring Break No Meeting | | OSM3 |
| 7 Apr 2008 | Spring Break No Meeting | | OSM3 |
| 14 Apr 2008 | Michael Jubien 'Analysing Modality' | IraKiourti | Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, vol.3, Zimmerman (ed.), OUP 2007 |
| 21 Apr 2008 | No Session | | Undergrad Reading Party |
| 28 Apr 2008 | No Session | | Arche Reading Party |
| 5 May 2008 | 'Brutal Simples' Chris McDaniel | SimonProsser | Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, vol.3, Zimmerman (ed.), OUP 2007 |
| Date | Paper | Webpage (where appropriate) / Notes | Discussion Leader |
| 28 Sep | Jonathan Schaffer 'Contrastive Causation' | | KatherineHawley |
| 5 Oct | David Lewis 'Causation as Influence' (The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 97, No. 4, Special Issue: Causation. (Apr., 2000), pp. 182-197) | available from http://www.jstor.org/ with Athens Log on | DavidLandsberg |
| 12 Oct | Hawthorne & Nolan: 'What Would Teleological Causation Be?' Hawthorne, J. 2006. Metaphysical Essays. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 265-284 | Penultimate draft available from Daniel's webpage | IraKiourti |
| 19 Oct | 'Ramseyan Humility' David Lewis | | RalfBader |
| 26 Oct | 'The End of Counterpart Theory' Trenton Merricks (2003) JP100: pp.521-49 | | KatherineHawley |
| 2 Nov | Zimmerman: 'God Inside Time and Before Creation' | Zimmerman's webpage | JosephDiekemper |
| 9 Nov | Reading Week - No Seminar | | |
| 16 Nov | Mark Heller (in reply to Merricks) 'Counterpart Theory: Alive and Kicking' | Note that this week the seminar will take place in Room G03 | Prof. Mark Heller (Syracuse) |
| 23 Nov | Thomas Wetzel: 'Possible States of Affairs' Phil Studies 91:43-60 (1998) | | PaulMcCallion |
| 30 Nov | Kit Fine, 'The Reality of Tense', Synthese 150.3 (2006), pp. 399-414. | Available from Synthese with Athens Log on or from Campus | SimonProsser |
| 7 Dec | John Foster "In Defence of Phenomenalistic Idealism" in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 54, No. 3 (1994), pp. 509-529 | available online from JStor | RalfBader |
| 14 Dec | A. Gallois "The Simplicity of Identity" Journal of Philosophy, 2005, Vol. 102, No. 6, pp. 273-302 | | RalfBader |
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| Date | Paper | Discussion Leader |
| 9 Feb | Walton 'Metaphor and Prop Oriented Belief' | KatherineHawley |
| 16 Feb | Yablo 'The Myth of the Seven' | DanLopezDeSa |
| 23 Feb | Lewis 'Quasi-Realism is Fictionalism' and Blackburn 'Quasi-Realism is not Fictionalsim' | CarrieJenkins |
| 2 March | Rosen 'Problems in the History of Fictionalism' | ElizabethBarnes |
| 9 March | Dorr 'What We Disagree About When We Disagree About Ontology' | JosephDiekemper |
| 16 March | Kim 'Modal Fictionalism and Analysis' | SimonProsser |
| 23 March | Kroon 'Belief about nothing in particular' | SteveRead |
| 30 March | Spring Break | NA |
| 6 April | Spring Break | NA |
| 13 April | Joyce 'Moral Fictionalism' | Andrew Jorgensen |
| 20 April | McDaniel 'Modal Realism with Overlap' | IraKiourti |
| 27 April | Lewis 'How Many Lives has Schroedinger's Cat?' | KatherineHawley |
| 4 May | Egan 'Second or Predication and the Metaphysics of Properties' | DanLopezDeSa |
| 11 May | John Heil 'Lowe on Universals' | John Heil |
| Date | Paper | Webpage (where appropriate) | Discussion Leader |
| 8 Feb | Uzquiano: The Supreme Court and the Supreme Court Justices: A Metaphysical Puzzle | Uzquiano | RossCameron |
| 15 Feb | No session due to Putnam seminar | | |
| 22 Feb | Michael P Lynch and Joshua M. Glasgow, 'The Impossibility of Superdupervenience', Philosophical Studies, 113 (2003), 201-221 , this session is in GO1, from 11-12.30. | PhilStudies | SimonProsser |
| 1 March | Levinson: What A Musical Work Is | | MichaelWeh |
| 8 March | van Inwagen: 'A Theory of Properties' | | JosephDiekemper |
| 15 March | Barnett: Some Stuffs are not sums of stuff | Attached at bottom of page | ElizabethBarnes |
| 22 March | Hershenov: Do dead bodies pose a problem for biological approaches to personal identity? | Hershenov | KatherineHawley |
| 12 April | Sider: All the World's a Stage | Sider | RobertWilliams |
| 19 April | Lewis: Tensing the Copula | Lewis | EliaZardini |
| 26 April | McDowell: De re Senses | McDowell | SujanRiyadh |
| 3 May | Sidelle: Is There a True Metaphysics of Material Objects? | Attached at bottom of page - Sidelle 2002 | DanLopezDeSa |
| 10 May | TBA | | |
| 17 May | Markosian Fest (Part 1) | | TBA |
| 24 May | Markosian Fest (Part 2) | | TBA |
| 31 May | No Session - Arche audit | | |
| 7 June | Markosian Presentaion | | Ned Markosian (tbc) |
| Date | Paper | Webpage (where appropriate) | Discussion Leader |
| 13 Sep | Hud Hudson: `Temporally incongruent counterparts' | | SimonProsser |
| 20 Sep | No session | |
| 27 Sep | Gideon Rosen and Cian Dorr: `Composition as a fiction' | Dorr | ElizabethBarnes |
| 4 Oct | Dean Zimmerman: `Material People' | | RossCameron |
| 11 Oct | Symposium on Ted Sider's `4 Dimensionalism' | Sider. Markosian | DanielNolan |
| 18 Oct | Cancelled due to mass illness | | |
| 25 Oct | Michael Dummett: `The Metaphysics of Time' | | JosephDiekemper |
| 1 Nov | No meeting - reading party | | |
| 8 Nov | No meeting - reading week | | |
| 15 Nov | Michael Burke: `Preserving the principle of one object to a place' | Burke | Sune Holm |
| 22 Nov | Yablo: Identity, Essence and Indiscernibility | Yablo | ElineBusck |
| 29 Nov | Rohrbaugh & deRosset: "A New Route to the Necessity of Origin" | Rohrbaugh & deRosset | SoniaRoca |
| 6 Dec | Lewis: Truthmaking and Difference Making | Lewis | DanLopezDeSa |
| 13 Dec | Lewis: Things Qua Truthmakers | | Chiara Tabet |
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