Phl 591 Ph.D. Readings in the Metaphysics of Modality

Fall 2006

Professor Edward Wierenga
Office: Rush Rhees Library 430
Hours: Monday, 1:00-2:00, or by appointment
Phone: x5-9370 (office), x5-5378 (department)
email: edward.wierenga@rochester.edu

Weekly Meetings on Tuesday, 2:00-3:30 in Rush Rhees Library 442.

Tentative Schedule:

Sept. 12:

Alexander R. Pruss, "The Actual and the Possible," in Richard M. Gale (ed.), Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics, (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001).

Sept. 19:

Karen Bennett, "Two Axes of Actualism,", The Philosophical Review 114 (2005).

Sept. 25: catch-up

Karen Bennett, "Proxy 'Actualism'," Philosophical Studies 129 (2006): 263-294.
further thoughts on Pruss
further discussion of "Two Axes"

Oct 3:

Timothy Williamson, "Necessary Existents," in A. O’Hear, ed., Logic, Thought and Language (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 233-251.

Oct. 10:

Jason Turner, "Universal Modality" (unpublished).

Oct. 17:

Kris McDaniel, "Modal Realism with Overlap," in Frank Jackson and Graham Priest (eds.), Lewisian Themes: The Philosophy of David Lewis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 140-155.

Oct. 24:

Kris McDaniel, "Modal Realisms" (forthcoming)

Oct. 31

Joshua Spencer, paper to be named

Nov. 7:

Nathan Salmon, "Modal Paradox: Parts and Counterparts, Points and Counterpoints," Midwest Studies in Philosophy, XI (1986): 75-120.

Nov. 14

John Divers and Joseph Melia, "The Analytic Limit of Genuine Modal Realism," Mind 111 (2002): 15 - 36.
Manuel Bremer, "Is there an Analytic Limit of Genuine Modal Realism?" Mind 112 (2003): 79-82.
John Divers and Joseph Melia, "Genuine Modal Realism Limited," Mind 112 (2003): 83-86.

Nov. 21: No Meeting

Nov. 28:

Janne Hiipakka, Markku Keinanen and Anssi Korhonen, "A Combinatorial Theory of Modality," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 77 (1999): 483-497.

Dec. 5:

Peter van Inwagen, "McGinn on Existence," The Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming)

Dec. 12:

Ted Sider, "Beyond the Humphrey Objection" (unpublished).