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This is the eidos wiki. Eidos is a group of philosophers based in Geneva and led by Kevin Mulligan and Fabrice Correia, working on metaphysics. Its coordinated by Philipp Keller and its other members are Akiko Frischhut, Amanda Garcia, Ghislain Guigon, Aviv Hoffmann, Vincent Lam, Jessica Leech, Stephan Leuenberger, Olivier Massin, Johannes Stern, Marcel Weber and Christian Wüthrich.

Eidos members can post here all infos concerning future meetings and deadlines of the group. They can also correct and complete the eidos manifesto.

Contents

Forthcoming meetings of eidos

Planning 2010

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  • AG uses 10000 CHF for the fiction workshop.
  • GG invites Hugh Mellor en mai: 600 CHF
  • GG organises the GVA-BCN meeting (2 people from BCN): 2000 CHF.
  • GG organises a colloquium for the Bonardi defense in autumn: 2000 CHF.
  • OM/CC organise a colloquium on seeing-through somewhen in August: 2000 CHF.
  • GP/CC organise a workshop on Perception and Prepositions, 5 or 6 of July: 3000 CHF.
  • AF organises a metaphysics of time workshop in August: 6000 CHF
  • KM organises a 2-day workshop on non-propositional intentionality on Nov

13-14, together with Gianfranco. 2 or 3 invited speakers, estimated budget 3000 CHF.

  • PK organises a workshop with Dancy first half of october: 6000 CHF
  • PK 24-26 Septembre. The aim of the workshop is to link up the current debate about metaphysical contingentism (about properties, composition, analyticity etc.) with the older debate on modal contingentism, denying the Brouwersche axiom or S4 for metaphysical modality.

Minimal set of invitees: Cameron, Sturgeon, Wilson, Leuenberger, Keller

Other possible invitees: Miller, Rosen, Salmon, Wedgwood

Costs: between 5400 CHF and 9400 CHF.

Questions and queries

1) PK Do you still agree with what we wrote a long time ago about the prop&rel project? Here it is:

"We now divide eidos and properties&relations activities into three types: discussions, meetings and workshops. Discussions are informal and can take place anywhen and anywhere - but they should be documented (announced + summarised) on the eidos wiki page. Every properties&relations or eidos member should have at least one discussion with at least one of the eidos PhD students per month (including September and October - this decision was taken beginning September!), and initiative for this should come from the most senior of the participants. Meetings are smaller gatherings, usually, but not always involving only eidos people. Properties&relations and eidos members are strongly encouraged, but not obliged to participate in all of them in their entirety. Workshops involve invited speakers - all properties&relations and eidos members are obliged to participate in all of them in their entirety."

2) PK What about the Sinergia money (probably we should not spend the whole amount for the year, as the project will last 4 instead of 3 years)?

3) PK It would be good, if there is extra money, so save some to invite the promising candidates for the Sinergia PhD position - I think it is very risky to hire a post-doc without having seen him/her first...

Publications and submissions of eidos members

(please complete, this could be very useful for next progress reports)

Kevin Mulligan


FORTHCOMING

  • 2008 “Truth and Truth.Making in 1921”, in Rami, Adolf and Lowe, E. J. (eds.) Truth and Truth-making, Chesham: Acumen.

http://www.acumenpublishing.co.uk/display.asp?K=e2008020112552008&sf1=editor&st1=E%20J%20Lowe%20and%20A%20Rami&sort=sort_title&m=1&dc=1

  • 2008 “Propriétés, Processus et Priorités”, to appear in Festschrift
  • 2008 “Value”, Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, eds. R. Poidevin & P. Simons
  • 2008 “Emotions and Values”, Oxford Companion to the Philosophy of Emotions, ed. P. Goldie
  • 2008 ed. with A. Westerhoff, Robert Musil – Ironie, Satire, falsche Gefühle, Paderborn: mentis Verlag
  • 2008 "Was sind und was sollen die unechten Gefühlen ?", Hgb. Ursula Amrein, Das Authentische. Zur Konstruktion von Wahrheit in der säkularen Welt, Zürich: Chronos Verlag Zürich (www.chronos-verlag.ch)
  • 2008 “Selbstliebe, Sympathie usw.”, Proceedings of the 2005 International Colloquium, Robert Musil – Ironie, Satire und falsche Gefühle, eds, K. Mulligan & A. Westerhoff,

http://www.unige.ch/lettres/philo/enseignants/km/doc/Selbstliebe2.pdf

  • 2008 “Max Scheler: Die Anatomie des Herzens oder was man alles fühlen kann”, Klassische Emotionstheorien von Platon bis Wittgenstein (Classic Theories of Emotions from Plato to Wittgenstein), eds. H. Landweer & U. Renz, Berlin: de Gruyter
  • 2008 „On Being Struck by Value“, Wohin mit den Gefühlen? Emotionen im Kontext, ed. Barbara Merkel, mentis-Verlag
  • 2008 “Moral Emotions”, in eds. Sander, D. & Scherer, K., The Oxford Companion to Affective Science, Oxford University Press.
  • 2008 “Gestalt”, in eds. Sander, D. & Scherer, K., The Oxford Companion to Affective Science, Oxford University Press.

REPRINTS

of 1984 with P. Simons, B. Smith "Truth-Makers”

  • Reprint: 2007 J-M. Monnoyer (ed.) Metaphysics and Truthmakers, Frankfurt: ontos,

9-50.

  • Reprint: 2008 Rami, Adolf and Lowe, E. J. (eds.) Truth and Truth-making, Chesham: Acumen, forthcoming

Aviv Hoffmann

Published:

  • 2005: ‘Modality, by Joseph Melia’. Philosophical Books, 46, pp. 163-165
  • 2003: ‘A Puzzle about Truth and Singular Propositions’. Mind, 112, pp. 635-651

Forthcoming:

  • ‘Defining ‘Intrinsic’: The Problem of Perfectly Natural Properties’. The Philosophical Quarterly
  • Modality: Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology. (Edited with Bob Hale) Oxford University Press

Submitted:

  • ‘Actualism: Kripke Models and Supermodels’
  • ‘Are Propositions Sets of Possible Worlds?’
  • ‘Bivalence and Modality: on Modal Realism and Modal Fictionalism’
  • ‘The Lonely World guide to Qualitative Propositions’

Philipp Keller

Published:

  • "A World of Truthmakers" in: M. Monnoyer (ed.) Metaphysics and Truthmakers, Frankfurt: ontos,

105-157.

Submitted:

  • Review of Armstrong 2004, "Truth and Truthmakers" (to Mind)

Draft status, to be submitted shortly:

  • "Truthmaking is Not Necessitation" (to Noûs)
  • "Contingent Essence" (to Phil Studies)
  • "How to Tell Universals From Particulars" (to Phil Quarterly)
  • "Disbelieving the sceptics without proving them wrong"

Stephan Leuenberger

Accepted / in print:

  • "Supervenience in Metaphysics" (Philosophy Compass).
  • "What is Global Supervenience?" (Synthese)
  • "Humility and Constraints on O-Language" (Philosophical Studies)

Published in first half of 2008, though accepted before start of project:

  • "Ceteris absentibus physicalism", Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, vol. 4, ed. Dean Zimmerman.

Written for the proceedings of a conference on emergence, which Cynthia and Graham MacDonald are planning to edit:

  • "Exclusion and Physicalism" (reply to another contribution, 3000 words only).

Christian Wüthrich

Forthcoming:

  • John Earman, Christopher Smeenk, and Christian Wüthrich, "Do the laws of physics forbid the operation of time machines?", Synthese, in print.
  • "Challenging the spacetime structuralist", Philosophy of Science, in print.

Submission planned in early 2009:

  • Christopher Smeenk and Christian Wüthrich, "Time travel and time machines" (working title), commissioned by Craig Callender for his _Oxford Handbook in the Philosophy of Time_, to be published by Oxford University Press.
  • "The problem of time in canonical quantum gravity" (working title), commissioned by Philosophy Compass.
  • "The many lives of presentism" (working title), for a collection edited by Vesselin Petkow and Dennis Dieks for Springer.
  • "Determinism in physics" (working title), commissioned by Claus Beisbart and Stephan Hartmann for their _Probabilities in Physics_, to be published by Oxford University Press.

Olivier Massin

  • "Forces and causation", submitted Australasian Journal of Philosophy

Vincent Lam

accepted:

  • V. Lam. The singular nature of spacetime. Philosophy of Science 74, 2007 (in print).
  • V. Lam. Structural aspects of the singular feature of space-time. In D. Dieks, editor, Ontology of Spacetime. Philosophy and Foundations of Physics Series. Vol.2, pages 111Ð131. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2008 (in print).
  • M. Esfeld and V. Lam. Moderate structural realism about space-time. Synthese, 160:27Ð46, 2008.
  • M. Esfeld and V. Lam. Holism and Stuctural Realism. In Rob Vanderbeeken and Erik Weber, editors, Analytical Metaphysics. A Selection of Topics From a Methodological Perspective. Kluwer (forthcoming).
  • M. Esfeld and V. Lam. Structures as the objects of fundamental physics. Proceedings of the Max Planck Institute research colloquium “Epistemic objects” (forthcoming).

to be submitted in 2009:

  • V. Lam. Space-time and causation within general relativity.
  • V. Lam. Structural points and background independence.

Gian-Andri Töndury

submitted

  • "Epistemic responsibility and foundations" to Phil Studies
  • "Believing for a reason and taking something as one's reason and regress" to Synthese

Fabian Dorsch

Published or accepted:

  • 'Sentimentalism and the Intersubjectivity of Aesthetic Evaluations', special issue on Emotions and Rationality in Practical Philosophy, vol. 61, no. 3, dialectica, 2007. (Published.)
  • 'Intentionalism, Experiential and Phenomenal Error' (together with Gianfranco Soldati), in: Clotilde Calabi & Kevin Mulligan (eds.), The Crooked Oar: Perceptual Illusions, MIT Press, 2009. (Forthcoming.)
  • 'The Self-Presentational Error in Hallucinating', in: Fiona Macpherson (ed.), Hallucination, OUP, 2010. (Forthcoming.)

Soon to be submitted:

  • 'The Perceivability of Aesthetic Qualities'.
  • 'The Unity of Hallucinations'.

Talks of the eidos members

(please complete, this could be very useful for next progress reports)

Kevin Mulligan

2007

  • 2-4.01.07 "Husserl on Formal Concepts – an Evaluation", Phenomenology – Between Philosophy and the Sciences, Jerusalem
  • 5-7.01.07 "Wie verhalten sich Gefühle und Werte zueinander?", Emotionen und Gefühle Frankfurt
  • 28-29.03.07 „How (not) to become who you are”, Emotions, Ethics & Authenticity, Munich
  • 4.05.07 "Irony and (Ir)reverence", Journée ironique, Geneva
  • 18-19.05.07 "Facts, Facts & Facts", Bergmann Colloquium, Rome
  • 31.05-2.06.07 "Egoism and Personal Values", Egoism and Altruism, St. Gallen
  • 13-16.09.07 "Y a-t-il une sensibilité non-sensorielle?", "De la grandeur et de la misère de la philosophie française", Le Beau et l’art, Saint-Maurice, Switzerland.
  • 10-12.09.2007 "The Mind and its Formal Objects", SIFA Graduate conference, Padova.
  • 7.12.07 “Object Preference”, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Studies, London
  • 14-15.12.07 “The Mind and its Formal Objects”, Intentionality, Freiburg, Switzerland.

2008

  • 10.03.08 "Ethique et littérature", Le savoir de la littérature, Geneva
  • 19.03.08 "Description, Systèmes, Apories”, La philosophie peut-elle être systématique et doit-elle l’être ? Collège de France, Paris
  • 21-22.03.08 "Connaissance, Valeur, Comportement", Sorbonne, Paris
  • 3-6.04.08 "Kognitive Gefühle, kognitive Werte", Wissen und Wert, Dresden
  • 25.04.08 "Character vs Personality", Character and Emotion, CISA, Geneva
  • 15-17.05.08 "Processi, Proprietà e Priorità”, Ontology. Rise and Transformations from the 16th to the 20th Century, Bari
  • 23-25.05.08 “Foolishness & Relatives”, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Park
  • 18-20.06.08 "Make-Believe – Austrian vs Anglo-Saxon Analyses", Pictures, emotions and make-believe: the philosophy and psychology of pictorial perception, Gargnano
  • 3-6.07.08 "On Being Blinded by Value", Consciousness & Intentionality, Freiburg, Switzerland
  • 21-26.07.08 "Properties vs Processes”, ECAP 6, Cracow
  • 28-30.08.08 "A Century of Tropes", 200 Years of Analytical Philosophy, Riga
  • 5-6.09.08 “Analysis and because”, Concepts and their Analysis, Zürich
  • 8-11.09.08 “Cognitive Emotions”, Adam Smith & Edmund Husserl, Oslo
  • 12-13.09.08 "Persons and Selves as Wholes", Segelberg Colloquium, Gothenburg
  • 28.09-02.10.08 “Sentiments, Emotions and Top-Down Explanations”, animal emotionale – The Significance of Emotions in Human Experience, Judgment and Behaviour, ZiF, Bielefeld.

Philipp Keller

Talks 2008

  • Comments on Sanna Hirvonnen, “Unger’s hypothesis of semantic relativit”, 5th eidos/logos meet-

ing, Barcelona, 4th of June. [invited]

  • Towards a Metaphysics of Knowledge, Keith Hossack symposium, Berne, 31th of May.
  • Reducing Relations Again, 13th sequitur conference, Berne, 29th of May.
  • Contingent Essence, Leeds CMM research seminar, 25th of April. [invited]
  • Semantic Relationism and the Metaphysics of Words, Geneva, 14th of February.

Talks 2007

  • Self-explanatory explanations, Geneva, 21th of December.
  • Vers une m ́etaphysique de la connaissance, Geneva, 13th of December.
  • Contingent Essence, Frankfurt, 6th of November. [invited]
  • Essence and Modality (again), thesis defense, 19th of October.
  • Racial Epiteths, David Kaplan conference Berne, 24th of September.
  • In Defense of Metaphysical Vagueness, SEFA Barcelona, 7th of September.
  • Resisting Counterevaluatives, ESPP Geneva, 12th of July.
  • Comments on Mark Heller, “The Donkey Problem”, Ovronnaz, 3rd of July.
  • Metaphysical Vagueness, Ovronnaz, 3rd of July.
  • The Reducibility of Relations, SPS Geneva, 30th of March.
  • Getting a Grip: Ontological Commitment and Truthmaking, IHPST Paris, 23rd of March. [invited]
  • Intrinsicness and Spacetime, Scienze e Ontologia research group, Rome Tre, 12th of March. [in-

vited]

Stephan Leuenberger

  • “Generalizing Metaphysical Contingentism”, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, 15 January 2009.
  • “The Contingency of Metaphysics”, University Philosophy Society, University of Birmingham, 27 October 2008.
  • “The Contingency of Modal Metaphysics”, eidos Metaphysics Conference, Geneva, 15 July 2008.
  • “Ramsification,” University of Geneva, 7 March 2008.
  • “What is Global Supervenience?”, University of Geneva, 6 March 2008.
  • “Belief Updating and Centered Possible Worlds,” Centre for Metaphysics and Mind, University of Leeds, 15 February 2008.
  • “Counterparts of Tropes,” London Logic and Metaphysics Forum, 8 January 2008. [invited]
  • “Counterparts and Duplication,” AAP(NZ) conference, Auckland, 4 December 2007.
  • “Counterparts of Vectors,” University of Geneva, 21 October 2007.
  • “Two Concepts of Intrinsicality,” Centre for Metaphysics and Mind, University of Leeds, 5 October 2007.
  • “Metaphysical Probability,” launch conference of the Eidos Centre for Metaphysics, Geneva, 14 September 2007.
  • “Best Systems for Laws of Nature and Chance,” AAP conference, Armidale, 5 July 2007.

Christian Wüthrich

  • "A philosopher looks at science", Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of California, San Diego, 4 June 2009.
  • Title TBA, Department of Philosophy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 24 April 2009.
  • Comment on E J Lowe's "Experience of change and change of experience", 12th eidos meeting, University of Geneva, 17-19 December 2008.
  • "How properties and relations are had in a Lorentz-covariant way", University of Fribourg, "Properties and Relations" meeting, 15 December 2008.
  • "Challenging the spacetime structuralist", Philosophy of Science Association meeting in Pittsburgh, 6-9 November 2008.
  • "Who wants to take a ride on a time machine?", Science Studies colloquium, University of California, San Diego, 6 October 2008.
  • "Conceivability and possibility", 8th eidos workshop, University of Geneva, 2-4 September 2008.
  • "Demarcating a position: is presentism really distinct from eternalism?", 7th eidos workshop, University of Geneva, 18-20 August 2008.
  • "Einstein's nemesis conquered at last?", Geneva Summer School in the Philosophy of Physics, Arolla (Switzerland), 1 August 2008.
  • "Let's take a ride on a time machine", Geneva Summer School in the Philosophy of Physics, Arolla (Switzerland), 31 July 2008.
  • "The many lives of presentism", eidos Metaphysics Conference, Geneva, 15 July 2008.
  • "No presentism in quantum gravity", Third International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime, Montreal, 14 June 2008.
  • Comment on Bradford Skow's "Local and global relativity principles", Pacific APA, Pasadena, 21 March 2008.
  • "Challenging the spacetime structuralist", 3rd eidos workshop, University of Geneva, 21 December 2007.
  • "The end of time", 2nd eidos workshop, University of Geneva, 12 September 2007.
  • "Loop quantum big bang", Southern California Group in the Philosophy of Physics, University of California, Irvine, 28 January 2007.

Olivier Massin

  • "The possibility of contact", Aix-en-Provence, 19 June.

Vincent Lam

  • ‘Métaphysique des objets et interprétation de la relativité générale : le cas des points de l’espace-temps dans le cadre du réalisme structurel’, Congrès de la Société de Philosophie des Sciences, Genève, March 2007.
  • ‘Relational properties in space-time physics’, First eidos meeting, Geneva, July 2007.
  • ‘Structural realism and causation’, Causation in biomedical sciences (with M.Dorato), Sonloup, Les Avants (CH), March 2008.
  • ‘Spacetime structuralism’, Geneva Summer School in the Philosophy of Physics, Arolla (CH), August 2008.
  • ‘Spacetime singularities’, Geneva Summer School in the Philosophy of Physics, Arolla (CH), August 2008.
  • ‘Some remarks about global properties of spactime’, 7th eidos meeting, Geneva, August 2008.
  • ‘Structural realism and causation’, Métaphysique de la science, Grenoble, December 2008.
  • 'Spacetime as a physical structure', Philosophy of Science Conference, Dubrovnik, April 2009.

Gian-Andri Töndury

Talks 2008

  • "Some epistemic value-properties and pragmatic value", properties and relations meeting, Fribourg, 15 December 2008
  • "Epistemic responsibility and foundations", seminar "éthique et épistémologie", Geneva, 30 October 2008
  • "Epistemic responsibility and foundations", conference "The Place of Epistemic Agents", Madrid, 2 October 2008
  • "A regressive account of inferring", seventh eidos meeting, Geneva, 20 August 2008
  • "Reflective conceptions of inference", conference on inferential internalism, Fribourg, 17 June 2008
  • "Is epistemic standing at bottom pragmatic?", arche basic knowledge seminar, St Andrews, 8 April 2008
  • "Is epistemic standing at bottom pragmatic?", fifth eidos meeting, Geneva, 6 March 2008

Talks 2007 (from June onwards)

  • "Inferential Internalism", third eidos meeting, Geneva, 20 December 2007
  • "Inferential Internalism", thesis-defence, Fribourg, 17 December 2007
  • "Pragmatic accounts of the good epistemic standing of basic belief-formation", eidos launch conference, 10 September, 2007

Fabian Dorsch

  • 03.03.09: 'Self-Knowledge and the Experience of Rational Unity', University of Neuchatel
  • 26.09.: 'Wittgenstein über Farben', Tag der Philosophie zum Thema Wahrnehmung, Kollegium Brig [invited]
  • 11.-14.09.: 'The Phenomenal Error in Hallucinating', Hallucination on Crete conference, Universities of Glasgow and Crete [invited]
  • 15.07.: 'Novel Sounds: The Individuality of Repeatable Artworks', eidos metaphysics conference, University of Geneva
  • 11.07.: 'Phenomenal Error', Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, University of Aberdeen
  • 03.07.: 'Self-Knowledge and the Experience of Rational Unity', Intentionality and Phenomenology conference, University of Fribourg [invited]
  • 19.06.: 'The Recognition of Aesthetic Qualities', former research student conference, University College London [invited]
  • 13.06.: Commentary on Crispin Wright, TBA, metaphysics workshop on vagueness of the Ecole Doctorale Romande en Philosophie, Charmey [invited]

eidos manifesto (ideas that eidos members tend to share)

Essence and Modality

eidos disputes

Essence and modality

  • Essence is more fundamental than modality VS. essence and modality are two independent phenomena (Philipp) (Arguments)
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