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Issues on the (Im)Possible XII

ISSUES ON THE (IM)POSSIBLE XII

May 20-22, 2026 (Bratislava, SLOVAKIA)

Keynote Speakers

Kathrin Koslicki (University of Neuchâtel)

Rules, Artworks, and Games

David Vander Laan (Westmont College)

Abstract Modal Fictionalism
 

VENUE: Klemensova 19, 811 09 Bratislava

ABSTRACTS

PROGRAM

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS (updated daily) 

  • Dani Alnashi (USI, Lugano; Lund University): What is Relevant to Exclude? On Necessitation in Truthmaking

  • Riccardo Baratella (University of Genoa; University of Cassino): Towards a Theory of being-apt-to

  • Christabel Cane (University College London): Modal Distributional Properties

  • Reginald Chua (University of Oxford): A Puzzle of Relative Identity

  • Michael De (Utrecht University): Against the Identity of Indiscernibles

  • Alexandru Dragomir (University of Bucharest): Imaginative Resistance and the Possibility of Moral Status

  •  Nikk Effingham (University of Birmingham & University of Johannesburg): An Exegenic Theory of Location

  • Ziad Eldanaf (Bilkent University): A Hylomorphic Critique of Pure Potentialism

  • Elżbieta Eysymont (University of Warsaw): Modal Status of Semantic Rules in Modal Normativism

  • Javier Ferrer (University of Valencia): Modal Transcendentalism without Transcendental Idealism?

  • Giacomo Ferrari (Universit`a della Svizzera Italiana) & Satbhav Voleti (Universit`a della Svizzera Italiana): A Riddle about the Middle

  • Florian Gatignon (University of Geneva): Flexible Counterparts  

  • David Harmom (University of St Andrew): Two Kinds of Necessitarianism

  • Daehwi Jeong (University of California, Santa Barbara): Impossible Worlds, Counterpossibles, and Impossible Object

  • Cameron. L. Johnson (CUNY Graduate Center): Generative Parsimony as Reverse Metaphysics 

  • Erman Kar (Cankiri Karatekin University): Between Independence and Inherence:  An Aristotelian–Neo-Aristotelian Inquiry into Substances and Modes

  • Ignacy Kłaput (University of Warsaw): Amodalism and Abstracta

  • Sebastian Kołodziejczyk & Agata Paszke (Jagiellonian University): No Easy Road to Truthmakers: Towards Substantive Metametaphysics of Truthmaking

  • Paulina Kraft (University of Barcelona): The Integration Requirement in Metaphysical Realism and Anti-Realism

  • Ka Ho LAM (University of Hong Kong): Can Essence Non-Vacuously Explain Counterpossibles?

  • Yucheng Li (University of Virginia): Structuralism and the Question of Existence

  •  Milenko Lasnibat (Adolfo Ibañez University): Assessing Essentialist Claims within an Essentialist Perspective on Metaphysical Modality

  • Kamil Lemanek (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University): Nonexistent Objects and Unspoken Words

  • Karol Lenart (University of Warsaw): Why Essentialism Does Not Require Plenitude

  • Giorgio Lenta (University of Pavia) & Stefano Pigliacelli (University of Bergen) & Davide Sutto (University of Oslo):  Are There More Ways Things Could not Be than Impossible Worlds?

  • Daniel Linford (Old Dominion University): Three Skeptical Challenges for the Kalam Cosmological Argument

  • Simon McGregor (University of Sussex): Beyond Propositional Belief: Embodied Hyperintension

  • Friederike Moltmann (Université Côte d‘Azur): A Positionalist Alternative to the Notion of a Variable Embodiment 

  • Robert Oliver (Freie Universität Berlin): Is There Grounding Indeterminacy? Yes 

  • Agata Paszke (Jagiellonian University):  Metaphysical Grounds of Kripkean Rigidity: The Case of Proper Names 

  • Carla Peri (University of Padua): Beyond Equivalence: Identity Criteria as Because-Claims

  • Stefano Pigliacelli (University of Bergen) & Giorgio Lenta (University of Pavia): Compositional Synonymies via Linguistic Ersatz Worlds.

  • Mihai Rusu  (University of Bucharest; Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca): On Counterfactual Conditions for Knowledge from Virtual Reality

  • Francisca Silva (University of St. Andrews): How is Truthmaker Semantics a Kind of Impossible Worlds Semantics

  • J. J. Snodgrass (University of Tennessee Southern): The Trope Co-extension Problem: the Identity-Affirming Response Revisited

  • Iulian D. Toader (University of Vienna): Could Logic be Empirical? Yes, but it's Impossible to Prove It 

  • Gabriele Turati (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): Logical and Metaphysical Impossibility in Genuine Impossible Worlds

  • Andrea Visintini (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa): Formal Semantics for Noneist Five-Dimensionalism

  • Nathan Wildman (Tilburg University): Modality, Sparsity, and Essence, Redux

  • Jitai Zhang (Free University of Berlin): Evaluative Disagreement: Intensional Content or Hyperintensional Difference?