Mind and Reality

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A course at the University of Warwick.

Week 09 Questions

Date given: Saturday 12th December 2020

This is the youtube page for Week 09 Questions. In case you prefer, I have also put a page with the videos on microsoft stream here. Or, if you prefer, you can see the slides with no audio or video here.

Recording of Whole-Class Live Question Session

The whole-class live online question session in is based on questions on the topic of this weeks’ lectures posed in advance in the teams channel. I apologise for the period of bad sound towards the end.

Reading (optional):

  • Nelson, Michael. ‘Existence’. In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta, Summer 2020. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, 2020. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2020/entries/existence/.
  • Efird, David. Is Timothy Williamson a Necessary Existent? Modality. Oxford University Press. Accessed 10 December 2020. https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199565818.001.0001/acprof-9780199565818-chapter-6.
  • Williamson, Timothy. ‘Necessary Existents’. In Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, edited by A. O’Hear, 269–87. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  • Crane, Tim. The Objects of Thought. Oxford University Press, 2013.