The Department of Philosophy of the University of Geneva and the Genevan centre of metaphysics eidos are organising a major metaphysics conference, which will take place from the 15th to the 18th of July 2008 in Geneva. This four-day conference will be devoted to covering a wide range of topics within the area of metaphysics. The conference will be broken down into four main themed sections over the four days:
Each section will be opened by an invited speaker and followed by an invited symposium. The afternoon is devoted to parallel paper sessions.
Object and Property: Crispin Wright (NYU, St.Andrews)
Time and Change: Robin LePoidevin (Leeds)
Modality and Essence: Kit Fine (NYU)
Meta-Metaphysics: Stephen Yablo (MIT)
Object and Property
Chair:
Peter Simons (Leeds)
Plus:
Joseph Melia (Leeds)
Benjamin Schnieder (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Ralf Busse (Regensburg)
Time and Change
Chair:
Ned Markosian (Western Washington University)
Plus:
Kathrin Koslicki (Boulder)
L. A. Paul (North Carolina)
Brad Skow (MIT)
Modality and Essence
Chair:
Daniel Nolan (Nottingham)
Plus:
John Divers (Leeds)
Meta-Metaphysics
Chair:
Amie Thomasson (Miami)
Plus:
Karen Bennett (Cornell)
John Hawthorne (Oxford)
Thomas Hofweber (North Carolina)
The conference is organised under the auspices of eidos by:
Fabrice Correia
Amanda Garcia
Jessica Leech
Johannes Stern
Please feel free to direct general inquiries concerning the conference to eidosmc[at]gmail.com.
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