Sider, associate professor of philosophy at Syracuse University, will speak on “Vagueness and Hell” to open the Philosophy Department's Winter Colloquia on Friday, Jan. 18, at 4:15 p.m. in Humanities 213.
Sider describes his talk as “a kind of goofy but fun paper arguing against the traditional Christian doctrine of hell based on considerations of vagueness.”
His interests include metaphysics and philosophy of language. Sider is the author of Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001), which defends the thesis that the material world is composed of temporal as well as spatial parts.
The series continues with Ann Bumpus of Dartmouth College on Jan. 25, and Rachel Brown of McGill University on March 2.