Location:
P.zza Capitaniato, 3, Second Floor
Rooms:
All plenary lectures will be held in Sala delle Edicole. For the parallel sessions: the first talk will be held in Sala delle Edicole, the second talk in Sala Stefanini
June 27
8:30 - 9:10, Registration
9:10 - 9:20, Welcome and introduction
9:20 - 10:10, Kevin Mulligan (University of Geneva), "Normative necessitation and grounding"
10:15 - 10:55, Contributed talks:
Francesca Poggiolesi (CNRS, Paris), "Derivability and complexity as the two key ingredients of formal grounding"
Marta Campdelacreu (Universitat de Barcelona & LOGOS), "Constitutionalism and determinism"
11:00 - 11:40, Contributed talks:
Stefano Caputo (University of Sassari), "An argument against realism about grounding"
Jose Tomas Alvarado (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile), "Resemblance classes of tropes"
11:40 - 12:00, Coffee Break
12:00 - 12:40, Contributed talks:
Giuseppe Spolaore (Padova) & Giuliano Torrengo (Milan), "The moving spotlight(s)"
Alexandre Declos (University of Ottawa), "The new riddle of metaphysics"
12:45 - 13:25, Contributed talks:
Luca Zanetti (IUSS, Pavia), "Grounding and abstraction"
Bjørn Jespersen (LOGOS & University of Barcelona), "Towards a mereology of structured propositions"
13:25 - 14:30 LUNCH
14:30 - 15:20, Invited talks:
Andrea Bottani (University of Bergamo), "The third way between absolutism and comparativism about quantities"
David Braddon-Mitchell (University of Sydney), "Consciousness, duration and presentism: does experience depend on extended sequences of states?"
15:25 - 16:05, Contributed talks:
Martin Grajner (Technische Universität Dresden), "Toward a reductive theory of grounding"
Federico Perelda (Ca' Foscari University of Venice), "Presentism and nihilism"
16:10 - 16:50, Contributed talks:
Damian Melamedoff (University of Toronto), "Grounding generalizations"
Guido Bonino (University of Turin), "Three levels in Bradley’s regress argument"
17:00 - 17:40, Contributed talks:
Michele Lubrano (University of Turin), "The Emergence of ground: some limitative results" (CANCELLED)
Daniele Sgaravatti (University of Roma Tre), "On what there is in virtue of meaning"
17:45 - 18:25, Contributed talk:
M. Ramachandran (University of the Witwatersrand), "Surviving fission (a roundabut route to occasional identity)"
18: 25 - 18:45, Coffee Break
18: 45 - 19:35, Matteo Morganti (University of Roma Tre), "Metaphysical infinitism"
June 28
9:20 - 10:10, Kristie Miller (University of Sydney), "The unique groundability of time"
10:15 - 10:55, Contributed talks:
Contingentism Workshop: Peter Fritz (IFIKK, University of Oslo), "How to be a higher-order contingentist"
Sun Demirli (Bogazici University Istanbul), "Particularist vs. realist systems"
11:00 - 11:40, Contributed talks:
Contingentism Workshop: Naomi Shira Dershowitz (Syracuse University) "Parsimony, nihilism, and gunk"
Aldo Frigerio (Catholic University, Milan), "On the ontology of biological species"
11:40 - 12:00, Coffee Break
12:00 - 12:40, Contributed talks:
Contingentism Workshop: Cristina Nencha (University of Turin), "Was David Lewis a necessitist?"
Alexander Steinberg (UZH Institute of Philosophy), "Saving strict adequacy"
12:45 - 13:25, Contributed talks:
Contingentism Workshop: Nathan Wildman (University of Hamburg), "On shaky ground?"
Claudio Calosi (University of Neuchatel), "Composition, identity and emergence"
13:25 - 14:30 LUNCH
14:30 - 15:20, Invited talks:
Pablo Cobreros (University of Navarra), "Identity and the sorites paradox"
Maurizio Ferraris (University of Turin), "Ontology as emergence"
15:25 - 16:05, Contributed talks:
Contingentism Workshop: John Horden (UNAM Mexico City), "Metaphysical triviality and trivialist platonism"
Gregory Landini (University of Iowa), "Philosophical problems of illicit de re quantification"
16:10 - 16:50, Contributed talks:
Contingentism Workshop: Frances Farbairn (Sage Philosophy School at Cornell University), "Advanced modalizing"
Lorenzo Azzano (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), "Dispositional arrays: why so scared of possible worlds?"
17:00 - 17:40, Contributed talks:
Contingentism Workshop: Sungil Han (Seoul National University), "Necessitism, permanentism and coming-to-be"
Elisa Paganini (University of Milan), "Vague fictional objects"
17:45 - 18:25, Contributed talks:
Contingentism Workshop: Robert Michels (University of Geneva), "Rosen’s correct-conceivability-based argument for contingentism"
Andrea Strollo (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), "The mathematics and the metaphysics of truth reconciled"
18: 25 - 18:45, Coffee Break
18: 45 - 19:35, Daniel Korman (University of Illinois), "What do the folk think about composition and does it matter?"
June 29
9:20 - 10:10, Friederike Moltmann (IHPS, Paris & NYU), "Modal objects and the semantics of modals"
10:15 - 10:55, Contributed talks:
Mark Heller (Syracuse University), "Counterparts and conventional objects"
Nicola Piras (University of Sassari), "The metaphysically indivisible view of simples"
11:00 - 11:40, Contributed talks:
David Liggins (University of Manchester), "Non-nominal quantification and the ontology of attitudes"
Fabio Patrone (University of Genoa), "Pixelism: how to persist fictionally in five dimensions"
11:40 - 12:00, Coffee Break
12:00 - 12:40, Contributed talks:
Claudio Calosi (Neuchatel) & Ghislain Guigon (Geneve), "The many as modes of the wave"
Francesco Orilia (University of Macerata), "The brute fact approach to states of affairs"
12:45 - 13:25, Contributed talks:
Gonzalo G Nunez (University of Sheffield), "Surfaces as ontological parasites"
Matteo Plebani (University of Santiago de Compostela), "Fictionalism vs. deflationism"
13:25 - 14:30 LUNCH
14:30 - 15:20, Invited talks:
Carola Barbero (University of Turin), "Anatomy of the literary work"
Henry Laycock (Queen's University), "Concrete and universal: ontology of the substances of chemistry"
15:25 - 16:05, Contributed talks:
Guglielmo Feis (University of Milan), "Nothing over and above: composition as identity and metametaphysics"
Pierre Saint-Germiere (University of Geneva), "Quantifier variance, two-dimensional semantics and verbal disputes in ontology"
16:10 - 16:50, Contributed talks:
Jamie Taylor (University of Durham), "Priority monism and junk"
Katharina Felka (University of Zurich), "On easy arguments for the existence of numbers"
17:00 - 17:40, Contributed talks:
Vassili Livanios (University of Cyprus), "Platonic dispositional universals and the Meinongian objection"
Isaiah Lin (Syracuse University), "Counting against ontological pluralism"
17:45 - 18:25, Contributed talks:
Ilaria Canavotto (Munich) and Alessandro Giordani (Milan), "An extensional approach to structured wholes"
Siobhan F Moriarty (University of Sheffield), "Against Thomasson’s easy ontology"
18: 25 - 18:45, Coffee Break
18: 45 - 19:35 Thomas Sattig (University of Tübingen), "The moving spotlight in the world and in the mind"