eidos -- the Centre in Metaphysics of the University of Geneva
Fifteenth eidos workshop, 9-10 April 2009
eidos, the Genevan Centre for Metaphysics will have its fifteenth workshop on 30-31 May 2009.
Invited participants: Cian Dorr, Frédéric Nef, Fraser MacBride, Keith Hossack, Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
Location: SO 019, rue St. Ours 5 [map]
Programme
Click here for a printable version of the programme.
Saturday, 30th of May:
- 10h00 Cian Dorr: The notion of definition and its connection to primitiveness/fundamentality
- 11h45 coffee break
- 12h00 Jess Leech: Kant and modal judgment (click here for the abstract, and here for some Kant reading )
- 13h00 lunch at the Emilios, 7 rue Leschot
- 14h15 Aviv Hoffmann: Defining "Intrinsic": The Problem of Perfectly Natural Properties (paper distributed by email)
- 15h15 coffee break
- 15h30 Philipp Keller: Explanation by Things, and: why everything is positive
- 16h30 coffee break
- 16h45 Keith Hossack: "And" (click here for the paper)
- 20 dinner at the Vieux Martin, rue Prévost-Martin 31
Sunday, 31st of May:
- 10h00 Fraser MacBride: The Unity of the Proposition
- 11h45 coffee break
- 12h00 Olivier Massin: Impenetrability (click here for the paper)
- 13h00 lunch at the Rond Point
- 14h15 Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra: Resemblance Nominalism, conjunction and truthmakers
- 16h00 coffee break
- 16h15 Ghislain Guigon: Bringing about and conjunction: a reply to Bigelow on omnificence (click here for the paper)
- 17h15 coffee break
- 17.30 eidos organisational meeting
- 20 dinner at the Pignata, avenue du Mail, 3
Inquiries
If you want to participate, please contact the organiser, Philipp Keller. Everyone welcome.