Program
June 20 Monday
14.00-15.00:
Registration of speakers
15.00-15.15:
Massimiliano Carrara (Padova), Ciro De Florio (Milano Cattolica), Vittorio Morato (Padova), Lorenzo Azzano (Santiago de Compostela), Welcome and introduction
15.15-16.00:
Plenary talk (AULA MAGNA)
Jessica Wilson (Toronto), “Quantum and Buddhist Indeterminacy”
16.05-16.35:
Contributed talks:
AULA MAGNA: Giacomo Giannini (London School of Economics), “Dated Truths Without Dated manifestations”
AULA 0A: Pablo Rychter (Valencia), “Two Questions about Universals and Naturalness”
16.40-17.10:
Contributed talks:
AULA MAGNA: Mack Sullivan (Notre Dame), “Lawlessness”, Aula Magna
AULA 0A: Andrea Oliani (St. Andrews), “Steps Toward a Theory of Natural and Unnatural Objects”, Aula 0A
17.10-17.25, Coffee Break
17.25-17.55:
Contributed talks:
AULA MAGNA: Nathan Wildman (Tilburg), “A Potential Contradiction”
AULA 0A: Uroš Dučić (Belgrade), “Quantifiers: Naturalness and Restrictiveness”
18.00-18.30:
Contributed talks:
AULA MAGNA: Vassilios Livanios (University of Cyprus), “Can Laws of Nature be Categorical Properties?”
AULA 0A: Murali Ramachandran (Thapar), “A Causal Analysis of Causes”
18.35-19.20:
Plenary talk (AULA MAGNA)
Roberta Ferrario (LOA), “Social Ontology for the sake of Trustworthy AI”
June 21 Tuesday
8.45-9.30:
Plenary talk (AULA MAGNA) (on line)
Barbara Vetter (Freie), “Metaphysical Modality: Bottom Up”
9.35-10.05:
Contributed talks:
AULA MAGNA:Concha Martinez Vidal (Santiago de Compostela), “Quinean Lightweight Objects”
AULA 0A: Alessio Santelli (L’Aquila), “Branching time, Actuality and Assertion”
10.10-10.40:
Contributed talks:
AULA MAGNA: Andrea Guardo (Milano Statale), “Does Semantic Non-Factualism Lead to Subjective Idealism?”
AULA 0A: Aldo Frigerio (Milano Cattolica), “The Universalist Semantics of the Future and Scope Ambiguities with Negation”
10.45-11.15:
Contributed talks:
AULA MAGNA: Robert Schwartzkopff (Hamburg), “THE-NUMBER-OF terms as higher-order descriptions”
AULA 0A: Giacomo Andreoletti (Tyumen), “Branching Time and the Specter of Fatalism”
11.15-11.30, Coffee Break
11.30-12.00:
Contributed talks:
AULA MAGNA: John Horden (Wien) & Dan Lopez De Sa (ICREA & Barcelona), “People and Places”
AULA 0A: Ulrich Meyer (Colgate), “Conventionalism about Topology”
12.05-12.35:
Contributed talks:
AULA MAGNA: Valentina Luporini (SNS, Pisa), “Impure Sets as Abstract Objects modelled Using Zalta’s Individual Concepts”
AULA 0A: Jon Charry (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Equivalence without Indispensability?”
12.40-13.25:
Plenary talk (aula magna):
Kevin Mulligan (Svizzera Italiana), “Internal Relations – their Nature and Roles”
13.30-14.25 Buffet lunch
Workshop on J. Wilson, “Metaphysical Emergence”
Aula Magna
14.30-15.00 Jessica Wilson (Toronto), “Metaphysical Emergence: An Overview”
15.00-15.30 Erica Onnis (RWTH Aachen), “Questioning, Rather than Solving, the Problem of Higher-level Causation”
15.30-16.00 Michele Paolini Paoletti (Macerata), “Not So Weak Emergence”
16.00-16.30 Francesca Bellazzi (Bristol), “Functions and Unity in Biochemistry”
16.30-16.45, Coffee break
16.45-17.45 Q&A on J. Wilson, “Metaphysical Emergence”
17.50-18.35:
Plenary talk (AULA MAGNA)
Claudio Calosi (Genève), “Small Atomes of Themselves a World May Make”
18.35-19.20:
Plenary talk (AULA MAGNA)
Damiano Costa (Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano), "An argument against Aristotelian universals defended"
June 22 Wednesday
8.45-9.30:
Plenary talk (AULA MAGNA)
Nurbay Irmak (Bogazici), “The Mess We Make: On the Metaphysics of Artifact Kinds”
9.35-10.05:
Contributed talks:
AULA MAGNA: Andrea Raimondi (Thapar), “All or Nothing: Totality Facts Reconsidered”
AULA 0A: Adam Murray (Manitoba) & Chris Tillman (Manitoba), “Selection and Propositional Structure”
10.10-10.40:
Contributed talks:
AULA MAGNA: Vanessa Seifert (Athens), “Why Do Philosophers Disagree on How the Sciences Relate? A Meta-philosophical Analysis”
AULA 0A: Michael Nelson (California Riverside), “The Nature of a Singular Proposition”
10.45-11.15:
Contributed talks:
AULA MAGNA: Alejandro Gracia-Di Rienzo (Santiago de Compostela) & Violeta Conde (Santiago de Compostela), “'New Foundations' for Metaphysics”
AULA 0A: Maria Scarpati (Oxford), “Individual Essence and Modality”
11.15-11.30, Coffee break
11.30-12.00:
Contributed talks:
AULA MAGNA: Stephen Barker (Nottingham), “Einstein's Time Flow”
AULA 0A:
Jonas Raab (Manchester), “From Paraphrase to Tolerance”(cancelled)
12.05-12.35:
Contributed talks:
AULA MAGNA: David Builes (Princeton) & Michele Impagnatiello (MIT Boston), “An Empirical Argument for Presentism”
AULA 0A:
Luca Zanetti (Milano Politecnico), “Identity, Discernibility, and Potentiality”(cancelled)
12.40-13.25:
Plenary talk (on-line)
SIFA LECTURE
Maegan Fairchild (Michigan), “Fuzzy Plenitude”
13.30-14.25, Buffet Lunch
14.30-15.15:
plenary talk (AULA MAGNA):
Michele Paolini Paoletti (Macerata), “The Good and the Powers”
15.20-15.50:
Contributed talks:
AULA MAGNA: Daniele Sgaravatti (Bologna), “A Modal-Epistemic Account of Essence”
AULA 0A:
Matteo Baggio (IUSS Pavia), “Unfamiliarity in Logic”(cancelled)
15.55-16.25:
Contributed talks:
AULA MAGNA: Marco Marabello (Neuchãtel), “Essence and Realism”
AULA 0A: Xavier de Donato Rodriguez (Santiago de Compostela) & José Falguera (Santiago de Compostela), “Is Amie Thomasson’s Metaontology Truly Neo-Carnapian?”
16.30-17.00:
Contributed talks:
AULA MAGNA: Michele Lubrano (Torino) & Matteo Plebani (Torino), “Parts of Structures”
AULA 0A: Delia Belleri (Lisbon), “Ontological Disputes and Stalemates: Learning the Pluralist Lesson”
17.00-17.15, Coffee break
17.15-17.45:
Contributed talks:
AULA MAGNA: Jonathan Payton (Bilkent University), “Nihilism without a Hierarchy”
AULA 0A: Elisa Paganini (Milano Statale), “ Linguistic Vague Existence”
17.50-18.20:
Contributed talks:
AULA MAGNA: Hwan Ho (Soochow) & Hsuan Chin Lin (Soochow), “An Outline of a Mereology of Universals”
AULA 0A: Paolo Natali (Genève), “Being is not a Genus: Aristotle’s Arguments”
18.25-18.55:
Contributed talks:
AULA MAGNA: Giulio Sciacca (Genova), “Hylomorphic Forms, Dependence, and Substantiveness”
AULA 0A: Antonio Freiles (Università della Svizzera Italiana), “A Fine-grained Account of Ontological Dependence”
19.00-19.45:
Plenary talk (AULA MAGNA)
Darren Hudson Hick (Furman University, Greenville), “Ontology and Ownership”
June 23 Thursday
8.45-9.30:
Plenary talk (AULA MAGNA)
Andrea Bottani (Bergamo), “How to Get Numbers Out of Quantities (and not the Other Way around)”
9.35-10.05:
Contributed talks:
AULA MAGNA: Jan Borner (MCMP, LMU Munich), “Causation on Several Levels: Supervenience Relations in Causal Models”
AULA 0A: Giuseppe Spolaore (Padova) & Matteo Plebani (Torino), “Existence-entailing Subject Matters”
10.10-10.40:
Contributed talks:
AULA MAGNA: Erica Onnis (RWTH Aachen), “Weak and Strong Emergent Patterns in Virtual and Real Cellular Automata”
AULA 0A: Simone Picenni (Bristol), “Exact Truthmaking and Self-reference: a Model for Self-applicable Exact Truthmaking”
10.45-11.15:
Contributed talks:
AULA MAGNA: Bruno Cortesi (IUSS, Pavia), “Some Remarks on the Correct Interpretation of the Thesis of Revelation in the Philosophy of Mind”
AULA 0A: Emanuele Bottazzi (LOA, ISTC-CNR, Trento), “Fine on the Beach: Variable Embodiments and Locations”
11.15-11.30, Coffee break
11.35-12.05:
Contributed talks:
AULA MAGNA: Giorgio Mazzullo (Nottingham), “Monist Naive Realism and the Character Question”
AULA 0A: Francisca Silva (St. Andrews), “Sets as fusions of materially equivalent rigid embodiments”
12.10-12.55:
Plenary talk (AULA MAGNA)
Alberto Voltolini (Torino), “The Strange Case of Dr. Moloch and Mr. Snazzo (or the Parmenides’ Riddle Once Again)”