Modals and Metaphysics 2023

Programme

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Tuesday  13/09/16
15:00 Welcome Meeting
17:00 Keynote: Graham Priest
Wednesday 14/09/16
10:00 – 10:45 Sara Ayhan  – Vagueness as the route to semantic dialetheism
11:00 – 11:45 Melisa Vivanco – Numbers as properties, dissolving the epistemic-metaphysical tension
12:00 – 12:45 Carlo Rossi – Advice for Saints
12:45 – 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:15 Martin Vacek – Ersatz Pluriverses
15:30 – 16:15 Cristina Nencha – Was David Lewis a Necessitist?
16:30 – 18:00 Keynote: Sophie Allen
 
Thursday 15/09/16
10:00 – 10:45 Isaiah Lin  – Meinongianism and Ontological Pluralism
11:00 – 11:45 Siobhan Moriarty – Fine’s Modal Puzzle
12:00 – 12:45 Matthew Baxendale & Garrett Mindt – Causation and Integrated Information Theory: bridging a gap between science and metaphysics
12:45 – 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:15 Jamie Taylor – Priority Monism and Junk
15:30 – 16:15 Martina Botti – A Meta-Ontology for Parts and Whole
17:00 Waismann Conference: Opening Address & Opening Lecture