The group meets alternate weeks at 2:30 on Wednesdays in the grad lounge of Seminary 1 and at 4:30 on the 6th floor of NYU's philosophy building at 5 Washington Place, NYC.  

 

 

Fall 2012	October 3	Michael Strevens, Depth, chapter 2
	September 23 (NY)	Hartry Field, "Theory Chance and the Indeterminacy of Reference"
	September 19	Michael Strevens, Depth, Introduction & chapter 1
	September 14	Simon Saunders: "Chance in the Everett Interpretation" & David Wallace, "A Formal Proof of the Born Rule from Decision Theoretic Premises"
Spring 2012
	April 30	Derek Parfit: "Why Anything? Why This?" & Adolf Grunbaum: "The Poverty of Theistic Cosmology"
	April 23	Rachael Briggs: "Why Lewisians Should Love Deterministic Chance"
	March 26	Jill North: "Structure in Classical Mechanics"
	March 19	Jeffrey Mikkelson: "Dissolving the Wine/Water Paradox" & Paul Bartha and Richard Johns: "Probability and Symmetry"
	March 5	Alan Hajek and Ned Hall: "Induction and Probability"
	February 27	Richard Pettigrew: "Accuracy, Chance, and the Principal Principle
	February 20	Alison Fernandes: "Why (It Seems) We Cannot Influence the Past"
	February 13	Carl Hoefer: Chance in the World, chapter 5 & Ned Hall: "Two Mistakes about Credence and Chance"
	February 6	Carl Hoefer: Chance in the World, chapter 4, & Michael Strevens: "Objective Probability as a Guide to the World"
	January 30	Carl Hoefer: Chance in the World, chapters 3-4
	January 23	Carl Hoefer: Chance in the World, chapters 2-3
Fall 2011
	December 2	Carl Hoefer: Chance in the World, chapter 2 & Alan Hajek: "15 Arguments Against Hypothetical Frequentism"
	November 18	Carl Hoefer: Chance in the World, chapter 1
	November 11	Paul Humphreys: "Why Propensities Cannot be Probabilities"
	November 4	Jenann Ismael: "Probabilities and Deterministic Physics" & "A Modest Proposal About Chance"
	October 27	Jenann Ismael: "Decision and the Open Future" & Bertrand Russell: "On the Notion of Cause"
	October 20	Nancy Cartwright: The Dappled World, chapters 8-9
	October 13	Nancy Cartwright: The Dappled World, chapters 4-5
	October 6	Nancy Cartwright: The Dappled World, chapters 2-3
	September 29	Nancy Cartwright: The Dappled World, introduction & chapter 1
	September 23	Robert Batterman: "Multiple Realizability and Universality"
	September 16	Jessica Wilson: "From Constitutional to Causal Necessity"
Spring 2011
	April 15	Doug Kutach, Causation and its Basis in Fundamental Physics, chapters 4-5
	April 8	Doug Kutach, Causation and its Basis in Fundamental Physics, chapter 3
	April 1	Doug Kutach, Causation and its Basis in Fundamental Physics, chapters 1-2
	March 25	Barry Loewer: "Humean Supervenience"
	February 25	Barry Loewer: "Two Accounts of Laws and Time" (special guests Barry and Tim)
	February 11	Susan Schneider: "What is the Significance of the Intuition that Laws Govern?" and Helen Beebee: "The Non-Governing Conception of Laws of Nature"
	February 4	Bas van Fraassen: Laws and Symmetry, chapter 12-13
	January 28	Bas van Fraassen: Laws and Symmetry, chapters 10-11
Fall 2010
	December 17	Jonathan Weisberg: "Locating IBE in a Bayesian Framework" & David Nelson: "Confirmation, Explanation, and Logical Strength"
	December 10	Bas van Fraassen, Laws and Symmetry, chapters 6-7
	December 3	Bas van Fraassen, Laws and Symmetry, chapters 5-6
	November 12	Bas van Fraassen, Laws and Symmetry, chapters 3-4
	October 29	Bas van Fraassen, Laws and Symmetry, chapters 1-2
	October 22	Philip Kitcher, "1953 and all that. A Tale of Two Sciences."
	October 8	Responses and a Rejoinder to Laws and Lawmakers
	October 1	Marc Lange, Laws and Lawmakers, chapter 4
	September 24	Marc Lange, Laws and Lawmakers, chapter 3
	September 17	Marc Lange, Laws and Lawmakers, chapter 2
	September 10	Marc Lange, Laws and Lawmakers, chapter 1

Other things we've read in years past:

• Michael Strevens: Depth
• James Ladyman: Every Thing Must Go
• Tim Maudlin: The Metaphysics within Physics
• Roger Penrose: The Road to Reality
  

Some ideas for upcoming readings:

•         Tim Maudlin, Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity
•         Papers on the Big Bad Bug of Humean Supervenience
•         Papers on the Past Hypothesis and the Special Sciences
•         Papers on Functional Kinds
•         Robert Batterman, Devil in the Details