Barcelona 29-30 September 2011
Organized by Dan López de Sa (ICREA-UB) & Richard Woodward (UB), sponsored by PERSP. This is the first of a series of workshops on the topics of PERSP Workpackage on Issues in Metaphysics — truthmaking, indeterminacy, grounding, and the meta-metaphysical and logical aspects of the discussions on these notions.
Programme:
Thursday 29th11.00 - 12.30 Joseph Melia (Oxford): "Points and Worlds: Metaphysics vs Philosophy of Physics"
15.00 - 16.30 Adam Caulton (LSE): "Finding out what's fundamental"
17.00 - 18.30 Pablo Rychter (València): "Truthmaker Theory Without Truthmakers"
Friday 30th
11.00 - 12.30 Laura Porro (St Andrews): "Metaphysics and Metametaphysics"
15.00 - 16.30 Maya Eddon (UMass): "Fundamental Properties of Fundamental Properties"
17.00 - 18.30 Kris McDaniel (Syracuse): "What Are Ontological Categories?"
For further information please visit http://www.ub.edu/persp/?q=content/ipmw-first-persp-metaphysics-workshop No registration fee, but if interested in attending please contact persp.management@gmail.com
