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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