Keynote Speakers
Massimiliano Carrarra – University of Padova: Compatibilism in ontology: expanding the landscape
Michael Gruninger – University of Toronto: Semantic Parsing for Ontology Validation
Giancarlo Guizzardi – University of Twente, Enschede: Explanation, Semantics and Ontology
Friederike Moltmann – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Nice: The Priority of the Whole in Ontology and Semantics
Jakub Szymanik – University of Trento: The Cognitive Ontology of Logic: How Learnability Shapes the Universal Lexicon of Quantifiers
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
Riccardo Baratella – University of Genova & University of Cassino: Towards a Theory of Being Apt
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
Ludger Jansen & Girogio Ubbiali – PTH Brixen College & University of Rostock: ClimOO: An Ontology for Plastic Pollution and Climate Change
Jobst Landgrebe – The State University of New York at Buffalo: Why adding ontologies to LLMs won’t yield machine intelligence
Stefano Borgo – Laboratorio della Ontologia Applicata (LOA), Trento: The usefulness of heterogeneous, unclear and vague concepts: The case of terrain vague
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
Christian Kanzian – University of Innsbruck: Analogy in Contemporary Metaontology
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