eidos -- the Centre in Metaphysics of the University of Geneva

First PETAF workshop, 8-10 December 2010, Geneva

Location: Room 408, Uni Dufour. (map)

Programme

Wednesday, 8th of December

14:15-14:30 Welcome
14:30-16:00 Kit Fine (NYU): What is Metaphysics?
16:30-17:30 Patrick Greenough (St. Andrews): Facts and Metaphysical Indeterminacy

18:00 Dialectica meeting

Thursday, 9th of December

09:00-10:00 Giovanni Merlo (UB): Subjective Facts and the Metaphysics of Phenomenal Consciousness
10:15-11:15 Katherine Hawley (St. Andrews): What are Natural Kinds?
11:30-12:30 Ferenc Huoranszki (CEU): The Necessity of Kinds and Causes

14:00-15:00 Mike Griffin (CEU): Leibniz on Necessity
15:15-16:15 Philipp Keller (Geneva): Contingent Essence
16:30-17:30 Hanoch Ben-Yami (CEU): Why Rigidity?

18:00 PETAF meeting

20:00 Conference dinner at Café Gallay, 42 Bd St-Georges, 022 321 00 35 (map)

Friday, 10th of December

09:00-10:00 Ivan Kasa (Stockholm): What Form Should an Argument Against Platonism Take? A Benacerrafean Answer
10:30-11:30 Elia Zardini (UNAM/NIP): Black Boxes: The Semantics and Logic of Obliterative Modalities

Organization: Fabrice Correia.

This workshop is part of the FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network "Perspectival Thoughts and Facts" (PETAF), coordinated by the University of Barcelona.


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