About the Conference

As the years have passed, within the study of metaphysics, the plurality of methodologies, assumptions and technicisms has extended to the degree that the dialogue between different approaches is tremendously hard. It’s so much like this that we don’t really know if these different approaches are trying to do the same thing—we don’t know if we are trying to answer the same questions anymore. The goal of the conference is to force this dialogue and try to set a platform to touch base, find common aims and develop an agenda that increases the inter-approaches communication. 

With this objective in mind, we also view the conference as a fresh opportunity to initiate communication about metaphysics and philosophy, particularly analytic philosophy, with individuals in other disciplines and the general public. By elucidating the subject matter and methodologies of metaphysics, the foundational branch of philosophy, our aim is to achieve not only a metaphilosophical goal of self-clarification but also to foster better understanding among those beyond the discipline.

The AIMS of Metaphysics will have 3 keynote speakers: representing traditional metaphysics (Naomi Thompson), social metaphysics (Esa Diaz-Leon) and science-informed metaphysics (Tuomas Tahko). We will also have between 4 and 6 selected abstracts from our Call for Abstracts, and a final panel of discussiong with the keynotes.

The conference will happen at the University of Bristol during the 22 and 23 of November 2024. For registration, please write to aims.philosophyconference@gmail.com.The venue has limited capacity, so we will allocate non-speaker attendees on a first-come, first-served basis. I

f you want to submit an abstract for this conference, please refer to our Call for Abstracts.