quinta-feira, 12 de abril de 2012

PMW2: Second PERSP Metaphysics Workshop


Barcelona, 17-18 May 2012




Organized by Dan López de Sa (ICREA-UB) & Moritz Schulz (UB), sponsored by PERSP B1.

This is the second 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.

Program


Thursday 17 May
10:30 Welcoming Coffee
11.00 - 13.00 Benjamin Schnieder (Hamburg): "On Ground and Consequence", comments by TBA.
15.00 - 17.00 Irem Kurtsal Steen (Boğaziçi): "The Argument from Anthropocentrism and Endurantism", comments by TBA.
17.30 - 19.30 Sònia Roca (Stirling): "Rethinking Origin Essentialism", comments by Stpehan Torre (UB).

Friday 18 May
10:30 Welcoming Coffee
11.00 - 13.00 Matti Eklund (Cornell): "The Ontologese Quantifier", comments by Bryan Pickel (UB).
15.00 - 17.00 Alex Steinberg (Hamburg): "Non-Fundamental Objects", comments by Giuliano Torrengo (UB).
17.30 - 19.30 Thomas Hofweber (North Carolina): "Are There Completely Ineffable Aspects of Reality?", comments by Sven Rosenkranz (ICREA-UB).
Workshop Venue: Seminari de Filosofia, 4th floor, faculty of Philosophy. C/Montalegre 6-8, 08001 Barcelona.

For further information, please visit http://www.ub.edu/persp/?q=content/pmw2-second-persp-metaphysics-workshop-barcelona-17-18-may-2012

No registration fee, but if interested in attending please contact persp.management@gmail.com