Program

18/05/2023 10:53

June 7th

 

9:00-9:45

Registration

9:45-10:00

Coffee/opening

10:00-10:35

Room 1

Michael De (Utrecht University, Netherlands): Logic without Impossibilities

Room 2 

Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan): Particularism, Underdetermination of Reason, and Embeddedness (online)

10:35-10:40

Coffee

10:40-11:15

Room 1

Colin R. Caret (Utrecht University, Netherlands): Live Options and Logical Possibility

Room 2

Peter Marton (University of Massachusetts, Boston, The United States): She Lied. He Lied. They both Lied

11:15-11:25

Coffee

11:25-12:00

Room 1

Alessandro Rossi (Northeastern University London, The United Kingdom): Noneism, Possibilism and Actualism

Room 2

Cameron L. Johnson (CUNY Graduate Center, The United States): Every Possible World Exists, and Each is Necessarily a Loop

12:00-13:30

Lunch break

13:30-14:05

Room 1

Jarred Snodgrass (University of St Andrews, The United Kingdom): The Modal Separability Argument

Room 2

Yoshinari Hattori (University of Tokyo, Japan): Reconsidering the Intrinsic Maskability of Dispositions from Metaphilosophical Perspective: Conceptual Revision to Resolve Ambiguity

14:05-14:15

Coffee

14:15-14:50

Room 1

Daniela Vacek (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia): AI Responsibility and Control

Room 2

Emanuele Tullio (Central European University, Austria): The Disclosing Window: Shaping the Bones of a Novel Temporalist Theory of Time

14:50-15:00

Coffee

15:00-16:00

Room 1

Keynote: David Shoemaker (Cornell University, The United States): Games People Play: Blame Without Desert

16:00-16:20

Yet another coffee

16:20-16:55

Room 1

Tommaso Soriani (University of Reading, United Kingdom): Against Johnston’s Duplication Argument for the Personite Problem

Room 2

Barnabás Ágota (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary): Moderately Limited Omnipotence

16:55-17:10

Coffee

17:10-18:10

Room 1

Keynote: Graham Priest (The City University of New York)

Mission Impossible (online)

   

19:00

Conference dinner

 

June 8th

 

10:00-10:10

Coffee

10:10-10:45

Room 1

Maja Malec (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia): The Prehistory of Possible Worlds Semantics

Room 2

Riccardo Baratella (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy): Perdurance Truth-Conditions for Temporal Predications

10:45-10:50

Coffee

10:50-11:25

Room 1

Sam Dickson & Ed Willems (York University, United Kingdom) Differently Possible

Room 2

Andrea Salvador (University of Italian Switzerland – Lugano, Italy): How to have Concretism without Lewisian Worlds

11:25-11:30

Coffee

11:30-12:05

Room 1

Jonas Raab (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland): Ontological Commitment Exposed

Room 2

Dirk Franken (University of Mainz, Germany): Real Definitions, and Individual Essences

12:05-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-14:30

Room 1

Keynote: Sondra Bacharach (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Fearing Fearless Girl

14:30-14:40

Coffee

 

14:40-15:15

Room 1

David Mark Kovacs (Tel Aviv University, Israel): Necessitarianism about Composition: Substantive and Methodological

Room 2

Alexandru Dragomir (University of Bucharest, Romania): On the Relevance of Intellectual Character Traits for Modal Epistemology

15:15-15:20

Penultimate coffee

15:20-15:55

Room 1

Martin Vacek (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia): TBA

Room 2

Quentin Ruyant (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain): Induction Towards Necessity

16:00-16:35

Room 1

Martin Grajner (Technische Universität Dresden):  Existential Quantification and Ontological Commitment

16:35-17:35

The Last Coffee

16:45-17:45

 

Room 1

Keynote: John Divers (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland): On What There Is and On How Things Are: The Quinean Argument against Modal Realism