| 24 Jan | Paul Horwich (NYU) | Reading Assignment: Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity, pp. 15-20, pp. 97-105, and pp. 112-164, Kit Fine's "Varieties of Necessity" |
| 31 Jan | Gideon Rosen (Princeton) | "Normative Necessity" |
| 7 Feb | Hartry Field (NYU) | "Validity: model-theoretic, proof-theoretic and genuine" |
| 14 Feb | Ted Sider (Cornell) | Writing the Book of the World, Ch. 12: "Modality" (primary reading), Writing the Book of the World, Ch. 1: "Structure" (background reading) |
| 21 Feb | Stephen Yablo (MIT) | "Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda" (primary reading), "Beyond Rigidification: The Importance of Being Really Actual" (secondary reading),"No Fool's Cold: Notes on Illusions of Possibility" (supplementary reading) |
| 28 Feb | John Divers (Leeds) | "Belief in Absolute Necessity" (with Jose Edgar Gonzalez) |
| 6 March | Ian Rumfitt (Birkbeck London) | "Possibilities" |
| 13 March | Spring break |
| 20 March | Kit Fine (NYU) | "Counterfactuals Without Possible Worlds", "A Difficulty for the Possible Worlds Analysis of Counterfactuals" (supplementary reading) |
| 27 March | Tim Williamson (Oxford) | "Consequences of Necessitism". The primary reading is section 4 of this book chapter: "Contingency, Change, and Difference". The bibliography to the book can be found here. |
| 3 April | Dave Chalmers (ANU & NYU) | Primary reading: "The Nature of Epistemic Space", especially sections 1-8. Secondary reading: section 10 on Modal Rationalism of "The Two-Dimensional Argument Against Materialism". Sections 2, 6, and 7 provide relevant background. |
| 10 April | Gillian Russell (Washington) | Primary reading: "Metaphysical Analyticity and Knowledge of Logic". Secondary reading: "Lessons from the Logic of Demonstratives". |
| 17 April | Bob Hale (Sheffield) | "What is absolute necessity?" |
| 24 April | Carrie Jenkins (British Columbia & Aberdeen) | "Concepts, Experience and Modal Knowledge" |
| 1 May | Crispin Wright (NYU) | "Basic A Priori Knowledge of Necessity: the case of Arithmetic". Section VII. |
