MIT philosophy: reading groups:
M.A.T.T.I.

Please note our new meeting time and place! In Spring '08, MATTI meetings will be on Tuesdays at 4:00pm in 32-D831.

schedule for spring '08

February 12David Etlin Modus Ponens Revisited
February 26Lauren Ashwell Constructing a Functionalist Theory of Mind Without Ignoring Desire
March 4Leah Henderson Bayesianism and Explanation
March 20 Paolo Santorio Epistemic Modality, Shifty Indexicals, and the De Se
April 1 Adam Hosein Egalitarian Justice and Its Limits
April 15 Alejandro Perez-Carballo Pluralism and Intelligibility
April 29 Susanna Rinard Has the Skeptic Made a Methodological Mistake?
May 6 Andrew Graham A Defense of Ontological Realism

schedule for fall '07

October 1Rachael Briggs Distorted Reflection
October 22 Chris Robichaud Moral Monsters
November 5 Tom Dougherty How Do the Numbers Count?
November 19 Katia Vavova On Bootstrapping
November 26 Heather Logue On Our Introspective Ignorance of Some (Alleged) Phenomenal Facts
December 10 Kenny Walden On Mathematical Entities

Papers are in the pdf format, viewable in Adobe Acrobat Reader. To access papers you must be on the philos-grad or philos-vis mailing list and have an MIT certificate.

For more information about M.A.T.T.I., contact Sarah Moss.


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updated: 11 September 07