eidos -- the Centre in Metaphysics of the University of Geneva
Eleventh eidos meeting, 6th to 7th December 2008, Geneva
eidos, the Genevan Centre for Metaphysics will have its eleventh meeting on Saturday 6th to Sunday 7th of December 2008.
Click here for a programme.
The topic is Bradley's regress. Participants:
- Arianna Betti
- Amanda Garcia
- Richard Gaskin
- Aleksandar Kellenberg
- Philipp Keller
- Nick Mantegani
- Anna-Sofia Maurin
- Bo Meinertsen
- Francesco Orilia
- Benjamin Schnieder
- Bill Vallicella
- Jan Willem Wieland
Please check the discussion going on here:
http://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/maverick_philosopher/2008/11/francesco-ori-1.html.
All papers are pre-read, to maximise time for discussion. Speakers will presuppose that all participants have read the relevant material (see below for the papers/abstracts/slides and relevant papers).
Go herefor some pictures of the workshop (thanks to Francesco Orilia!).
Location: L208, 2nd floor, 2 rue de Candolle (same building than the department of philosophy). Door code for Sunday: 1976.
Saturday, 6th of December
- 8.30-8.35 Philipp Keller: Welcome
- 8.35-9 Jan-Willem Wieland: "A Map of the Territory"
- 9-10 Bill Vallicella: "Trope Theory and Bradley's Regress" (click here for the paper)
- 10-11 Francesco Orilia: "Fact Infinitism and Ontological Dependence" (click here for the paper)
- 11-12 Aleksandar Kellenberg: "Bradley's Regress from a Radical Pragmatist Point of View" (click here for a draft of the paper)
- Lunch at "Emilios"
- 13.30-14.30 Bo Meinertsen: "Bradley's Regress and a Relation as the Unifier of States of Affairs" (click here for an abstract)
- 14.30-15.30 Anna-Sofia Maurin: "Why there are tropes" (click here for the paper)
- 16-17 Arianna Betti: "Bradley's Regress and Mereological Responsibility" (click here for the slides and here for the abstract)
- 17-18.30 Open Discussion
- Dinner at the "Escalade"
Sunday, 7th of December
- 10-11 Richard Gaskin:"Bradley's Regress and the Unity of the Proposition" (click here for the paper)
- 11-12 Benjamin Schnieder: "Remarks on the Unity of the Proposition"
- Lunch at the "Cafˇ du Rond Point"
- 13.30-14.30 Nick Mantegani: "Reassessing the "Standard" Realist Responses to the Bradley Regress" (click here for a draft of the paper)
- 14.30-15.30 Jan Willem Wieland, "Do the Same Thing in Similar Cases" (click here for an abstract and here for the slides)
- 16-17 Philipp Keller: "Why Bradley's Regress is harmless"
- 17-18.30 Open discussion
- Fondue at the "Bain des Pâquis"
Papers
- Eklund, M. 2008, Regress, Unity, Facts, and Propositions
- Gaskin, R. 1995, Bradley's Regress, The Copula and the Unity of the Proposition, Philosophcial Quarterly 45(179):161-180
- Gaskin, R. 1998, The Unity of the Declarative Sentence, Philosophy 73(298): 21--45
- Gaskin, R. 2008, The Unity of the Proposition, Oxford: OUP (click here for a sample of the book)
- Hochberg, H. ch. 4 in "Thought, Fact, and Reference"; sections 1.d. and 4.a. in Introducing Analytic Philosophy; ch. 4 in The Positivist and the Ontologist
- Maurin, A.-S. 2002. If Tropes. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
- Meinertsen, B. 2008. A Relation as the Unifier of States of Affairs, dialectica 62: 1-19.
- Orilia, F. 2007. Bradley's Regress: Meinong vs. Bergmann, in: Ontology and Analysis. Essays and Recollections about Gustav Bergmann, eds. L. Addis, G. Jesson & E. Tegtmeier, pp. 133-63. Frankfurt a.M.: Ontos (click here for the website)
- Orilia, F. 2006. States of affairs. Bradley vs. Meinong, Meinongian Issues in Contemporary Italian Philososophy, V. Raspa, ed., Meinong Studies, 2: 213-238 (click here for a sample)
- Orilia, F. unpublished. States of Affairs and Bradley's Regress: Armstrong Versus Fact Infinitism.
- Schnieder, B. 2004. Once More: Bradleyan Regresses, in: On Relations and Predicates, eds. H. Hochberg & K. Mulligan, pp. 219-56. Frankfurt a.M.: Ontos. (click here for the website)
- Vallicella, W. F. 2000. Three Conceptions of States of Affairs, Noûs 34: 237-59.
- Vallicella, W. F. 2002. Relations, Monism, and the Vindication of Bradley's Regress, dialectica 56: 3-35.
- Vallicella, W. F. 2004. Bradley's Regress and Relation-Instances, The Modern Schoolman 81: 159-83.
- Wieland, J. W. & A. Betti 2008. Relata-Specific Relations: A Response to Vallicella, dialectica 62(4), pp. 509-524.
Inquiries
If you want to participate, please contact the organiser, Philipp Keller.
Click here to send an email to all participants.