Program
June 7th
9:00-9:45 |
Registration |
9:45-10:00 |
Coffee/opening |
10:00-10:35 |
Michael De (Utrecht University, Netherlands): Logic without Impossibilities
Alexandru Dragomir (University of Bucharest, Romania): On the Relevance of Intellectual Character Traits for Modal Epistemology |
10:35-10:40 |
Coffee |
10:40-11:15 |
Colin R. Caret (Utrecht University, Netherlands): Live Options and Logical Possibility
Peter Marton (University of Massachusetts, Boston, The United States): She Lied. He Lied. They both Lied |
11:15-11:20 |
Coffee |
11:20-12:20 |
Keynote: Graham Priest (The City University of New York, The United States): Mission Impossible |
12:20-13:40 |
Lunch |
13:40-14:15 |
Alessandro Rossi (Northeastern University London, The United Kingdom): Noneism, Possibilism and Actualism
Cameron L. Johnson (CUNY Graduate Center, The United States): Every Possible World Exists, and Each is Necessarily a Loop |
14:15-14:20 |
Coffee |
14:20-14:55 |
Jarred Snodgrass (University of St Andrews, The United Kingdom): The Modal Separability Argument
Yoshinari Hattori (University of Tokyo, Japan): Reconsidering the Intrinsic Maskability of Dispositions from Metaphilosophical Perspective: Conceptual Revision to Resolve Ambiguity |
14:55-15:00 |
Coffee |
15:00-16:00 |
Keynote: David Shoemaker (Cornell University, The United States): Games People Play: Blame Without Desert |
16:00-16:05 |
Coffee |
16:05-16:40 |
Daniela Vacek (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia): AI Responsibility and Control
Emanuele Tullio Tullio (Central European University, Austria): The Disclosing Window: Shaping the Bones of a Novel Temporalist Theory of Time |
16:40-16:45 |
Yet another coffee |
16:45-17:20 |
Tommaso Soriani (University of Reading, United Kingdom): Against Johnston’s Duplication Argument for the Personite Problem
Barnabás Ágota (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary): Moderately Limited Omnipotence |
17:20-17:30 |
Coffee |
17:30-18:05 |
David Mark Kovacs (Tel Aviv University, Israel): Necessitarianism about Composition: Substantive and Methodological
TBA (online) |
19:00 |
Conference dinner |
June 8th
10:00-10:10 |
Coffee |
10:10-10:45 |
Maja Malec (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia): The Prehistory of Possible Worlds Semantics
Riccardo Baratella (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy): Perdurance Truth-Conditions for Temporal Predications |
10:45-10:50 |
Coffee |
10:50-11:25 |
Sam Dickson & Ed Willems (York University, United Kingdom) TBA
Andrea Salvador (University of Italian Switzerland – Lugano, Italy): How to have Concretism without Lewisian Worlds |
11:25-11:30 |
Coffee |
11:30-12:30 |
Keynote: Marie Duží (Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic): Where are impossible individuals? |
12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00-15:00 |
Keynote: Sondra Bacharach (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Fearing Fearless Girl |
15:00-15:05 |
Coffee |
15:05-15:40 |
Jonas Raab (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland): Ontological Commitment Exposed
Dirk Franken (University of Mainz, Germany): Real Definitions, and Individual Essences |
15:40-15:45 |
Penultimate coffee |
15:45-16:20 |
Martin Vacek (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia): TBA
Quentin Ruyant (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain): Induction Towards Necessity |
16:20-16:30 |
The last coffee |
16:30-17:30 |
Keynote: John Divers (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland): On What There Is and On How Things Are: The Quinean Argument against Modal Realism |