🔷 Program Committee SMS 2026.
Chair: C. Calosi.
Members: E. Adlam, S. Baron, E. Casetta, S. Dulani, S. Fletcher, F. Guala, S. Leonelli, L. Letrêtre, L. Lorenzetti, C. Mariani, R. Michels, M. Miller, U. Meyer, M. Nathan, A. Ney, V. Seifert, A. Torza, J. Wilson.
See you in Toronto! 🚀
Not open access, alas, but if you need a copy you know the drill.
If you too are worried about the unsettled future of Greenland, I have a new paper for you.
Ubi faciunt solitudinem, pacem appellant.
Although my time with him has been limited, I was struck by his generosity and intellectual depth. It is totally on-brand for him, after a career on the bench spent fighting corruption both within and outside government, to be standing up now to the convicted-felon-cum-kleptocrat-in-chief.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
I have known Judge Mark Wolff through my wife, to whom he has long been a friend and mentor. He is also the guy who kindly agreed to officiate our wedding in 2012—just the three of us in his office overlooking Boston Harbor.
LMU Munich Metaphysics Colloquium
David Papineau (Kings College London)
'Causal Inference and the Metaphysics of Causation'
22.10.2025, 16:00 to 18:00, in Ludwigstraße 31, Room 021
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2nd Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics
December 15-16, 2025
Program & abstracts now available at the link below.
Save the date!
philevents.org/event/show/1...
** Deadline: September 15 **👇
Coming up: 8th Parma Workshop on Semantics and Pragmatics.
Last Call for Abstracts
2nd Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics
Submission deadline: 15th September
Info: philevents.org/event/show/1...
Is the Principle of Sufficient Reason just a useful heuristic? (Grounding intensifies.)
American society in the 21st century is a dystopia. But why is it so? ...
A radical reform of education could be the answer, but what shape and form it would have is anyone’s guess. 3/3
@harveylederman.bsky.social
Education is by many seen instrumentally as a ticket to the job market, and if there is no job market, there might be just not enough motivation at the individual level to undertake college or even graduate school. 2/3
My 2 cent: humans might end up looking for meaning in some of the old places. Religion, which has been gradually pushed to the margins of our post-Enlightment society, might make a comeback—not only because it is comforting, but also because it is typically set aside as a result of education. 1/3
📌Framed Moments
Workshop: Quantum Indeterminacy
3-5 July, 2025
The impossibility of grieving publicly in the face of a secret can be a harrowing experience. These are the premises, which I thought were interesting and introduced in a most compelling way.
Full review: letterboxd.com/torschau/fil...
After a workshop on essence, nothing like a FINE coffee.
Trump vanishing Musk
Or come back to Europe?
CFA: 2nd Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics
December 15-16, 2025
University of Parma (Italy)
Invited Speakers:
Claudio Calosi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Catharine Diehl (Leiden University)
Carl Hoefer (University of Barcelona)
Submission guidelines 👇
Coming up:
In or around Lisbon over the next couple of days? Come say hi!
Updated schedule: sites.google.com/view/indeter...
A Frankenstein of old (analog) and new (digital) footage, narratively too thin to not be tedious, and with too much show-don't-tell for non-Chinese viewers to pick up on the trail of cultural references, other than a few obvious ones.
Read more: boxd.it/9JtXu5
