The New England Workshops on Metaphysics started in 2017. The workshops are organised by Matt Duncan, and generously funded by the Department of Philosophy and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, at Rhode Island College in Providence, RI.
Past Workshops:
2024 Consciousness & Agency
Speakers: Sharon Casu, Matt Duncan, Ned Markosian, Patrick McKee, L.A. Paul, Adam Pautz, Tamar Schapiro, Declan Smithies, & Jack Spencer
Commentators: Nicole An, Greg Carroll, Selina Guter, Michele Odisseas Impagnatiello, Chaeyoung Paek, Eliška Wichterlová, & Asa Zabarsky.
2023 Reasons & Reasoning
Speakers: David Builes, Elisabeth Camp, Zoe Jenkin, & Hilary Kornblith
Commentators: Katrina Elliott, Christopher Hill, Justin Khoo, & John Kulvicki
2022 Mental Things
Speakers: Uriah Kriegel, Joseph Levine, Umrao Sethi, & Elanor Taylor
Commentators: David Builes, E. J. Green, Alison Peterman, & Anna Tsvetkov
2021 The Toolkit of Metaphysics
Speakers: Michaela McSweeney, Ted Sider, & Amie Thomasson
Commentators: Christopher Meacham, Jonathan Schaffer, & Elanor Taylor
2019 Experience & The Physical World
Speakers: Nina Emery, Alyssa Ney, Adam Pautz, & Jonathan Schaffer
Commentators: Paul Audi, Daniel Greco, Ned Hall, & Elizabeth Miller
2018 Identity & Persistence
Speakers: Marcello Oreste Fiocco, Trenton Merricks, L. A. Paul, & Jack Spencer
Commentators: Nina Emery, Dave Ingram, Ned Markosian, Michaela McSweeney, & Erica Shumener
2017 Philosophy of Time
Speakers: Heather Demarest, Dave Ingram, & Ned Markosian
Commentators: Matt Duncan, Nina Emery, Carla Merino-Rajme, Brad Skow, & Jack Spencer