Letter of the month, February 2018
In this letter to Wellesley philosopher Mary Kate McGowan, Lewis discusses causation, explanation, and conceptual analysis in connection with dispositions. Classification, dispositions, and conceptual analysis Lewis tells McGowan that he thinks to have a concept of x...Virtual Conferences: Skype Presentations
Our project has an environmental impact agenda. We aim to promote a culture shift among philosophers towards sustainability. We want to encourage them to move away from flying and towards taking public transport and using virtual conference methods. One such method is...Letter of the month, January 2018
In this letter to Quine Lewis discusses Quine’s contribution to the appendix of Lewis’s set theory book, Parts of Classes. Summary of Letter Lewis argued, in Parts of Classes, for the equation: set theory = mereology + plural quantification + the singleton...Virtual Conferences: Gotowebinar
A guest post by Prof Helen Beebee reporting on her use of GoToWebinar for a virtual conference. Since one of our aims in this project is to reduce the carbon footprint associated with research events, we took the opportunity of hosting another, unrelated conference to...
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