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Selected problems of contemporary metaphysics


Monday 16:00 - 17:30, Room 221
(The lectures will  be given in English. The exam can be taken in English or Hungarian.)

Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82739701542?pwd=TngybHVmakQ1dzR3MmtacnN0UnZkdz09

Codes:

BMI-LOTD17-208E.02
BMA-LOTD17-208.04
BBN-FIL-401.19
BMA-FILD-401.26


Topics:
  • Metaphysics and the knowledge of the world
  • Time
  • Modality, determinism--indeterminism, probability
  • Free will
  • Causation
  • Properties
  • Identity, similarity, persistence
  • Laws of nature
Records and the slides of the lectures will be available.

List of suggested readings
  • John W. Carroll, Ned Markosian: An Introduction to Metaphysics, CUP 2010.
  • E. J. Lowe: A Survey of Metaphysics, OUP 2002
  • J. Heil:. From an Ontological Point of View. Oxford: Clarendon Press  2003.
  • Norman Swartz: Beyond Experience – Metaphysical Theories and Philosophical Constraints (Second Edition). Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2001.
  • L. E. Szabó: Meaning, Truth, and Physics, In G. Hofer-Szabó, L. Wroński  (eds.),   Making it Formally Explicit, European Studies in Philosophy of Science 6. (Springer International Publishing, 2017) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-55486-0_9. (Preprint: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/14769/)
  • L. E. Szabó: Mathematical facts in a physicalist ontology, Parallel Processing Letters, 22 (2012) 1240009 (12 pages), DOI: 10.1142/S0129626412400099 [preprint]
  • L. E. Szabó: Formal Systems as Physical Objects: A Physicalist Account of Mathematical Truth, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 17 (2003) pp. 117 – 125 (preprint: PDF)
  • L. E. Szabó: What remains of probability?, in D. Dieks, W. Gonzalez, S. Hartmann, M. Weber, F. Stadler and T. Uebel (eds.), The Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science, Springer, forthcoming. [PDF]
  • L. E. Szabó: Objective probability-like things with and without  objective indeterminism, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 38 (2007) 626–634 [Prepirnt (PDF)
  • L. E. Szabó:The Einstein--Podolsky--Rosen Argument and the Bell Inequalities, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2008)
  • L.E. Szabó: Intrinsic, extrinsic, and the constitutive a priori, Foundations of Physics  50, 555–567 (2020).  DOI: 10.1007/s10701-019-00281-z  (Open Access: https://rdcu.be/bKxdO)
  • L.E. Szabó: Physicalism without the idols of mathematics. [Preprint], (2021), http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/18901

Credit requirements:
  • oral exam from the material of the lectures
  • PhD students, in addition, must write a 5-10 page critical essay (in English) in connection with the main theses I am proposing in the lecture course
2021-04-16
  

Records and slides


 Exam:

Oral exam by Zoom.

Dates: Dec 16, Jan 5, 12, 19, 26
(Wed) 2PM

Zoom link:
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