Thursday, 9 July 2026, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, M114
4:00-4:30: Conference registration opens
4:30-5:00: Introductions and Award Ceremony
5:00-6:30: Keynote lecture by Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers/CAS LMU) “Settling the Question” (Chair: Alyssa Ney, LMU Munich)
6:30-7:15: Welcome Reception
Friday, 10 July 2026, Seidlvilla
9:00-10:30: Keynote lecture by Esa Díaz-León (University of Barcelona) “The Metaphysics of Sexual Orientations” (Chair: Max Kistler, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Contributed talks
Location TBA (Chair: Mario Hubert, LMU Munich)
11:00-11:40 Matija Rajter (Rijeka University) "Conceptual Engineering and Concept Functions: A Forward-Looking Account"
11:45-12:25: Nicola Bamonti (University of Pisa) and Lorenzo Lorenzetti (Università Svizzera Italiana) "A Relational General Relativistic A-theory"
Location TBA (Chair: Jani Hakkarainen, Tampere University)
11:00-11:40: Sanna Mattila (Tampere University) "All Realists are Neo-Aristotelian Essentialists"
11:45-12:25: Dani Alnashi (Università Svizzera Italiana) "What is relevant to exclude? On necessitation in truthmaking"
Location TBA (Chair: Boris Demarest, LMU Munich)
11:00-11:40: Chen Zhibin (LMU Munich) "Counter Indispensabilist Platonism"
11:45-12:25: Bogdan Micic (University of Vienna) "Universals are not Forms: Grounds and Grounding in Plato's Phaedo"
Lunch break
2:00-3:30 Contributed talks
Location TBA (Chair: Jonathan Schaffer, Rutgers University/CAS LMU)
2:00-2:40: Robert Oliver (FU Berlin) "Worldly Indeterminacy in Grounding"
2:45-3:25: Mara Zschommler (University of Bern) "Grounding Metaphysical Indeterminacy"
Location TBA (Chair: TBA)
2:00-2:40: Giovanni Codognato (Università Svizzera Italiana) "A Defense of the Parthood View of Constitution"
2:45-3:25: Michael Raven (University of Victoria) "Essence and Modalities"
Location TBA (Chair: Alyssa Ney, LMU Munich)
2:00-2:40: Luka Skiba (University of Bergen) "Vertical Ontological Pluralism"
2:45-3:25: Itamar Saadon (Rutgers University) "How to Ground Supervenience: General and Specific"
Coffee break
4:00-5:30 Contributed talks
Location TBA (Chair: David Widerker, Bar-Ilan University)
4:00-4:40: Christian Loew (University of Umeå) "Do the laws of nature depend on us?"
4:45-5:25: Uros Ducic (University of Belgrade) "Metaphysics as Conceptual Engineering and the Problem of Rivalry with the Sciences"
Location TBA (Chair: Asya Passinsky, Central European University)
4:00-4:40: Andrea Salvador (Università Svizzera Italiana) "Identities as Generic Grounds"
4:45-5:25: Paulina Kraft (University of Barcelona) "Reconciling Metaphysics and Epistemology: The Integration Challenge Across Realism and Anti-Realism"
Location TBA (Chair: Dustin Stokes, LMU Munich)
4:00-4:40: Ignacy Klaput (University of Warsaw) "Set-Based Theory of Location"
4:45-5:25: Fabio Patrone and Giorgio Lando (University of Padua) "Referential Electromagnetism and the Metaphysics of the Extended Mind"
Saturday, 11 July 2026, Seidlvilla
9:00-10:30: Dialectica-sponsored keynote lecture by Barbara Vetter (Freie Universität Berlin) “Why Modalize?" (Chair: Claudio Calosi, University of Venice)
Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Contributed talks
Location TBA (Chair: Paula Reichert, LMU Munich)
11:00-11:40: Simone Salzano and Marco Sanchioni (LMU Munich) "Graded Qualities and Generalized Measurements in Quantum Mechanics"
11:45-12:25: Gerhard Schurz (University of Dusseldorf) "Inductive Metaphysics and its Abductive Methodology"
Location TBA (Chair: Alison Peterman, University of Rochester)
11:00-11:40: Annica Vieser (University of Geneva) "Scattered Persistence"
11:45-12:25: Jonas Amar (École Normale Supérieure) "Interaction without Relations? Core Dispositionalism and the Problem of Fit"
Location TBA (Chair: Rene van Woudenberg, VU Amsterdam)
11:00-11:40: Paris Obdan (University of Barcelona) "Animalism is False: Real Subjects and the Failure of the Organism View"
11:45-12:25: Josephine Lovejoy (University of Wisconsin, Madison) "The Naturalness View of Social Kinds"
Lunch break
2:00-3:30 Contributed talks
Location TBA (Chair: Giacomo Andreoletti, LMU Munich)
2:00-2:40: Runner-up for the European Congress for Metaphysics Essay Prize: Andrew Lee (University of Toronto) "Dimensions as Quotients"
2:45-3:25: Bobby Johnson (University of California, Davis) "A New Case Against Timelessness"
Location TBA (Chair: Esa Díaz-León, University of Barcelona)
2:00-2:40: Gregoire Rene (McGill University) "Easy Ontology, Ideology Critique, and Feminist Metaphysics"
2:45-3:25: Kenneth Silver (Trinity College Dublin) "What Depends on the Corporate Mind?"
Location TBA (Chair: Patrick Zoll, Hochschule für Philosophie)
2:00-2:40: Miguel Zambrano (University of Seville) "Presence as a Transcendental Property"
2:45-3:25: Vanessa Masur (Humboldt Universität Berlin) "How to build too many metaphysical bridges"
Coffee break
4:00-5:00: European Congress for Metaphysics Essay Prize Lecture by Antonella Mallozzi (Providence College) "Potentiality, Essence, and the Priority Problem" (Chair: Anna-Sofia Maurin, University of Gothenburg)