Confirmed speakers
Riccardo Baratella, University of Genova & University of Cassino
Stefano Borgo, Laboratorio della Ontologia Applicata (LOA), Trento
Massimiliano Carrarra, University of Padova
Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto
Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Twente, Enschede
Ludger Jansen, PTH Brixen College & University of Rostock
Christian Kanzian, University of Innsbruck
Oliver Kutz, Free University of Bolzano
Friederike Moltmann, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Nice
Jakub Szymanik, University of Trento
Accepted Contributions
Long Talks
Carla Peri - University of Padua: Beyond Equivalence: Identity Criteria as Because-Claims
Daniel Skibra – University of Konstanz: “Real” men are ideological
Filip Buekens – K U Leuven: What Frege Might Have Said About Accurate Representations – With Four Applications
Jan Sprenger & Plebani Matteo – University of Turin: Trivalent Conditionals and Truthmaker Semantics
Jobst Landgrebe – The State University of New York at Buffalo: Why adding ontologies to LLMs won’t yield machine intelligence
Kalle Müller – University of Tübingen: Event structure of deliberative thought
Peihong Xie - University of Vienna: How can the BFO etiological functions be internally grounded?
Poppy Mankowitz – University of Bristol and Ashley Shaw - Trinity College Dublin: Intentions and Infinitives
Stefan Rinner – University of Duisburg-Essen: A Sociolinguistic Theory of Slurs and other Pejoratives
Swithin Thomas – Central European University: The (Mis)use of Polysemy in Philosophy
Eliot Du Sordet – University of Neuchâtel: Neither World nor Text: On the Representational Targets of Preference-Tuned LLMs
Bjørn Jespersen – Technical University of Ostrava: Objectual identity without nonsense or triviality
James Kirkpatrick & Nicholas K. Jones – University of Oxford: Higher-order counterpart theory
Short Talks
Bartosz Maćkiewicz – University of Warsaw: Free Choice in Desire Ascriptions
Dilek Yargan – FIZ Karlsruhe, Jörg Waitelonis - FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, and Harald Sack - FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure: Challenges of Representing Academic Disciplines
Shamik Chakravarty – Alliance University: Discourse Referents are Ontological, not Linguistic
Fumiaki Toyoshima – University of Neuchâtel: States in Ontology: Continuants, Occurrents, Both, or Neither?
Gabriele Sacco – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Fondazione Bruno Kessler: Normally, Normal Philosophers are not Exceptional
Kamil Lemanek – Maria Curie-Skłodowska University: Maximalism and Other Approaches to Words
Marta Campa – University of Amsterdam and University of St Andrews: Existential variantism and truth
Miriam S. Schmidt – Georg-August University Göttingen: Skeletons are my type – A category theoretic epistemology of typehood
Olga Kozyreva – Independent Researcher: Nominalizing the Reflexive Pronoun ‘Self’
Wojciech Rostworowski – University of Warsaw and Katarzyna Kuś - University of Warsaw: Desire reports and default alternatives
Jacopo Berneri – University of Oslo: The Copernican Turn of Structured Properties and Propositions
Ontobrix talks
Anna De Re – University of Amsterdam and Nicolò Siviero - University of Amsterdam: An absolute taxonomy through constructional ontology
Emilio Maria Sanfilippo – CNR ISTC Laboratory for Applied Ontology: Ontologies for Computational Literary Criticism
Hosna Hooshyar – Free university of Bozen-Bolzano, Mattia Fumagalli - Free university of Bozen-Bolzano, Marco Montali - Free university of Bozen-Bolzano, and Giancarlo Guizzardi - University of Twente : Ontological Grounding for Object-Centric Event Data Conceptualization
Ingo Frank – University of Münster and Benjamin Weber - University of California, Davis: Representation of Place as Social Object for Digital History: Perspectives from Ontology and Linguistics
Mena Leemhuis – Johannes Kepler University Linz: Neuro is to Symbolic as Analogy is to Ontology
Philip P. Bernard – University of Bologna: Nothingness Without Contradiction: A Classical Neo‑Meinongian Ontology
Elisabetta Jezek – University of Pavia: Classifying verbs and events at the crossroad of linguistics and ontology
Posters
Hyeong Guk Seo – Jeonbuk National University: Enunciation of consciousness before linguistic conception: Some insights from Immediate-Surge-in-Mind Constructions of Korean
Ted Parent – Nazarbayev University: A New Quinean Reply to Kripke on Quantified Modal Logic
Suren Zolyan – Armenian-Russian University, Yerevan: Semiopoiesis: semiosis in action
Hermann Bense – GmbH, Ulrich Schade - University of Bonn: An Axiomatic Linguistic Model
Armin Heydari – Harvard University: Sheaf-Theoretic Semantics for Self-Referential and Vague Languages
Cameron Johnson – CUNY Graduate Center:Generative Parsimony as Reverse Metaphysics
To Be Defined
Provisional schedule:
Monday, June 8
9:00 Welcome
9:15 Keynote
Submitted contributions
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Continuation of programme
Social dinner
Tuesday, June 9
9:00 Keynote
Submitted contributions
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Continuation of programme
Social dinner