The Third Hong Kong Metaphysics Conference 2025

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Organisers: Dan Marshall, Tien-Chun Lo and Wai-Sing Fook

Organising University: Lingnan University

Venue: Lingnan University, Leung Kau Kui Building, Room LKK 201  

Saturday 16 August 2025

9.30am: Morning coffee

Session 1

Chair: Tien-Chun Lo (CUHK)

10 am: “Symmetry arguments against Newtonian substantivalism”, Dan Marshall (Lingnan)

11 am:   “Intuitionism and Possibility”, Zach Goodsell (NUS)

12 pm: Lunch (Lingnan Chinese Restaurant)

Session 2

Chair: Peter Hawke (Lingnan)

1.30pm: “Rantorr”, Isaac Wilhelm (NUS)

2.30pm: “Emergent distributional properties?”, Nicholas Rimell (CUHK)

3.30pm: Afternoon tea

Session 3

Chair: Rafael De Clercq (Lingnan)

4pm: “Formality without semantics”, Lavinia Picollo (NUS)

5pm: “Comparative resemblance”, Ben Blumson (NUS)

Dinner in Tuen Mun or Yuen Long

Sunday 17 August 2025

9.30am: Morning coffee

Session 4

Chair: Dan Marshall (Lingnan)

10 am: “Symmetry lost” Tien-chun Lo (CUHK)

11 am: “Towards an inferentialist account of essentialist explanation”, Taylor-Grey Miller (Brigham Young)

12 pm: Lunch (Lingnan Chinese Restaurant)

Session 5

Chair: Jenny Hung (HKUST)

1.30 pm: “Continuity theories and definitions of personhood”, Ho Yeung Frank Lee (Oxford)

2.30 pm: “Don’t say farewell to the modal theory of luck”, Jesse Hill (Lingnan)

3.30pm: Afternoon tea

Session 6

Chair: Adam Bradley (Lingnan)

4 pm: “How to make sense of imprecise quantification”, Daniel Waxman (NUS)

5 pm: “Monism and the Interrelatedness of All Things”, Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers)

Dinner in Kowloon or Hong Kong Island