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:



16.40-17.10:

Contributed talks:

  • AULA MAGNA: Mack Sullivan (Notre Dame), “Lawlessness”, Aula Magna



17.10-17.25, Coffee Break



17.25-17.55:

Contributed talks:



18.00-18.30:

Contributed talks:



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:




10.10-10.40:

Contributed talks:



10.45-11.15:

Contributed talks:



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



12.05-12.35:

Contributed talks:



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:



10.10-10.40:

Contributed talks:



10.45-11.15:

Contributed talks:



11.15-11.30, Coffee break


11.30-12.00:

Contributed talks:



12.05-12.35:

Contributed talks:


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 0A: Matteo Baggio (IUSS Pavia), “Unfamiliarity in Logic” (cancelled)



15.55-16.25:

Contributed talks:



16.30-17.00:

Contributed talks:



17.00-17.15, Coffee break



17.15-17.45:

Contributed talks:



17.50-18.20:

Contributed talks:



18.25-18.55:

Contributed talks:



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:



10.10-10.40:

Contributed talks:



10.45-11.15:

Contributed talks:



11.15-11.30, Coffee break



11.35-12.05:

Contributed talks:



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)