Program

18/05/2023 10:53

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