“What is really possible” is a research group in philosophy funded by a NWO VIDI grant of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. The project is led by Thomas Müller and is hosted by the ZENO Research Institute and the Department of Philosophy of Utrecht University.
Philosophical explorations in branching-history based real modality.
Conference: Historical Counterfactuals Bristol
On August 14th the University of Bristol will host a conference on historical counterfactuals at which Thomas Müller will give a talk.
For more details on this event please click here
Metaphysics and Real Possibility
Our group’s enjoyable weekly morning breakfasts always prompts some very interesting discussion. Last week we discussed the broad question “What is metaphysics?” An age-old question, to be sure, but still one worthy of continuously readdressing. Since the project is about real possibility, we also discussed how research into real possibility is a metaphysical enterprise. Some of that discussion (and its further developments) may be found below.
Michael De on “What is Metaphysics?”
Niels van Miltenburg on “What is Metaphysics?”
Jesse Mulder on “What is Metaphysics?”
Kickoff Workshop slides online.
The slides from our Kickoff Workshop (8 and 9 April 2011) have been made available, see here. There is also a list of topics from our round table discussion. Thanks to all our speakers and guests for a very nice workshop!
NY Times article on free will
In this article in the NY Times, John Tierney discusses experimental data concerning free will.