Quo Vadis, Metaphysics?
Warsaw, 26-29 September 2017
Conference Venue: Centrum Charytatywno-Edukacyjne Caritas,
Okopowa 55, 01-043 Warsaw
The format for each talk is as follows:
– 45 minutes for paper
– 10 minutes discussion
Tuesday (26.09.2017)
8.50 – 9.00 Welcome Address
9.00 – 9.55 Stewart Shapiro (Ohio State University, USA) – Potential Infinity: a Modal Account (joint work with Øystein Linnebo)
9.55 – 10.50 Øystein Linnebo (University of Oslo, Norway) – Generality Explained: a Truth-Maker Semantics
10.50 – 11.45 Carl Posy (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) – Inside the Metaphysical Workshop
11.45 – 12.15 Coffee Break
12.15 – 13.10 Hannes Leitgeb (University of Munich, Germany) – Metaphysics as Rational Reconstruction
13.10 – 14.05 Achille Varzi (Columbia University, USA) – De re and De dicto
14.15 – 15.45 Lunch
15.45 – 16.40 Gila Sher (University of California, San Diego, USA) – Metaphysics and Human Cognition: A New Approach to a Classical Question
16.40 – 17.35 Friederike Moltmann (French National Centre for Scientific Research, France; New York University, USA) – Natural Language Ontology
17.35 – 18.00 Coffee Break
18.00 – 18.55 Anna-Sofia Maurin (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) – Categorial Conundrums: the Trope
20.00 – Dinner
Wednesday (27.09.2017)
9.00 – 9.55 William Jaworski (Fordham University, USA) – The Closet Hylomorphist
9.55 – 10.50 Kevin Mulligan (University of Geneva, Switzerland) – “Modes of Being” and the Mind
10.50 – 11.45 Kris McDaniel (Syracuse University, USA) – Van Inwagen and Being
11.45 – 12.15 Coffee Break
12.15 – 13.10 Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (University of Oxford, UK) – Must the Probability of Nothing Existing Be 0?
13.10 – 14.05 Rafał Gruszczyński (Nicolas Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland) – An Argument for the Existence of Arbitrary Mereological Sums
14.15 – 15.45 Lunch
15.45 – 16.40 Takashi Yagisawa (California State University, Northridge, USA) – Imagining Fictional Characters
16.40 – 17.35 Alfredo Tomasetta (University of Bergamo, Italy) – The Vat Matters. A Defence of Animalism against the Remnant-Person Objection
19.00 – Gala dinner. Celebrating the 75th birthday of Peter van Inwagen
Thursday (28.09.2017)
9.00 – 9.55 Peter Simons (University of Dublin, Ireland) – The Concept of Organism and Degrees of Composition
9.55 – 10.50 Uwe Meixner (University of Augsburg, Germany) – Metaphysical Differences
10.50 – 11.45 Benjamin Schnieder (University of Hamburg, Germany) – The Relevance of Grounds
11.45 – 12.15 Coffee Break
12.15 – 13.10 Francesco Orilla (University of Macerata, Italy) – Van Inwagen’s Approach to Relations and the Theory of O-roles
13.10 – 14.05 Andrea Bottani (University of Bergamo, Italy) – Van Inwagen on Properties, Nominalism and Things That Can Be Said
14.15 – 15.45 Lunch
15.45 – 16.40 Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA) – Van Inwagen, Vagueness, and the Problem of No Best World
16.40 – 17.35 Joanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska (University of Warsaw, Poland) – The Problem of the Many and Ontic Vagueness
17.35 – 18.00 Coffee Break
18.00 – 18.55 Tomasz Bigaj (University of Warsaw, Poland) – Van Inwagen and the Polish Logician
20.00 – Dinner
Friday (29.09.2017)
9.00 – 9.55 Stephen Mumford (Durham University, UK) – In Defence of Free Will
9.55 – 10.50 Mario De Caro (Roma Tre University, Italy) – Free Will after Van Inwagen
10.50 – 11.45 Christian Kanzian (University of Innsbruck, Austria) – Paraphrase: A (More or Less) Van Inwagenian Way to (Moderate) Nominalism
11.45 – 12.15 Coffee Break
12.15 – 13.00 Zbigniew Król & Józef Lubacz (International Center for Formal Ontology, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) – Metaphysics of Existential Quantification. Is Analytical Philosophy the Future of Metaphysics?
13.10 – Conference Closing
14.30 – Lunch
19.00 – Dinner