Topological Philosophy
Warsaw, Poland
February 8-9, 2016
Monday, February 8
9.00 Opening Address
Chair: Peter Simons
9.15 – 10.00 Thomas Mormann (University of the Basque Country) – (De)constructing Points: From Topology to Mereology and Back
10.00 – 10.45 Ian Pratt-Hartmann (University of Manchester, UK) – A Skeptical Look at Region-Based Theories of Space
10.45 – 11.30 Rafał Gruszczyński (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland) – Half-Planes, Ovals and Spheres. Point-Free Systems of Affine and Euclidean Geometry
11.30 –12.00 Coffee
Chair: Achille Varzi
12.00 – 12.45 Peter Simons (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) – Connectedness and Ontological Unity
12.45 – 13.30 Janusz Kaczmarek (University of Łódź, Poland) – Mathematical Tools in Ontology of Ideas, Concepts and Individuals
13.30 –15.00 Lunch
Chair: Tomasz Bigaj
15.00 – 15.30 Laurenz Hudetz (University of Salzburg, Austria) – Representing Points as Classes of Mereotopologically Structured Basic Entities
15.30 – 16.00 Bartłomiej Skowron (International Center for Formal Ontology, Warsaw University of Technology; Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków, Poland) – Perzanowski’s Combination Ontologic in Hilbert’s Cube
16.00 –16.30 Coffee
Chair: Samuel Fletcher
16.30 – 17.00 Romain Dufêtre (Université Paris I Panthéon – Sorbonne, France) – Holism, Porosity and Topological Philosophy. A Set-Theoretical Introduction
17.30 – 18.00 Nasim Mahoozi (University of Barcelona, Spain) – Can Topology Justify “Vague Existence”?
18.00 – 18.30 Benjamin Feintzeig (University of California, USA) – Topological Considerations in the Construction of Quantum Theories
19.30 Gala Dinner
Tuesday, February 9
Chair: Thomas Mormann
9.00 – 9.45 Achille Varzi (Columbia University, USA) – The Boundaries of Things: Where Topology Meets Metaphysics
9.45 – 10.30 Tomasz Placek (Jagiellonian University, Poland) – Bifurcating Universes Without Bifurcating Paths
10.30 – 11.15 Tomasz Bigaj (University of Warsaw, Poland; University of Bristol, UK) & John Dougherty (University of California, USA) – On the Topological Approach to the Metaphysical Problem of Indistinguishable Quantum Particles
11.15 – 11.45 Coffee
Chair: Alexander Zuevsky
11.45 – 12.30 Marek Kuś (Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) – What Topology Can Offer Physics. Topological Constraints and Predictions in Classical and Quantum Worlds.
12.30 – 13.15 Samuel Fletcher (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Germany & University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA) – Topological Structure on Scientific Theories
13.30 –15.00 Lunch
Chair: Janusz Kaczmarek
15.00 – 15.45 Nikolay Milkov (University of Paderborn, Germany) – Wittgenstein’s Ways
15.45 – 16.30 Andrzej Leder (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) – In What Kind of Space Husserl’s Lectures on the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time Take Place?
16.30 – 17.15 Stefano Papa (University of Vienna, Austria) – Time Granularity and the Formal Ontology of Time-Awareness. A Husserlian Argument for a Topology of Temporal Information
17.15 – 17.30 Closing Address