Program

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Tuesday December 3

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9:00 Welcome

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9:30-11:00 Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth College): Metaphysics is not (like) science

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Coffee break

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11:30-12:30 Daniel Dohrn (University of Milan): Modal metaphysics made easy, not shallow

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12:30-13:30 Pablo Rychter (University of Valencia): Fictionalism and easy ontology about the existence of facts

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Lunch 

15:00-16:00 Elizabeth Cantalamessa (University of Miami): Innovative art and aesthetic disagreement

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16:00-17:00 Nemesio García-Carril Puy (University of Granada): Triviality, inconsistency and solipsism: Three problems in the metaontology of art and a Goodmanian solution

 

Wednesday December 4

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9:30-11:00 Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth College): Understanding talk about metaphysical necessity

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Coffee break

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11:30-12:30 Juan Acero (University of Granada): Fictional characters and their names: An antirealist argument

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12:30-13:30 Irene Olivero (University of Padova): A pragmatic approach to (some) disputes in semantics

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Lunch 

15:00-16:00 Peter Faulconbridge (University College London): Deflationary social ontology isn't so easy

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16:00-17:00 Xavier de Donato-Rodríguez, and José L. Falguera (University of Santiago de Compostela): A deflationary artifactualist approach to the ontology of science

 

Thursday December 5

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9:30-10:30 Otávio Bueno (University of Miami): Easy mathematical ontology

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10:30-11:30 Theodore Locke (Concordia University): An easy way to talk about impossible worlds

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Coffee break

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12:00-13:00 Mirco Sambrotta (University of Granada): Ontology beyond Ramsey’s ladder

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Lunch 

15:00-16:30 Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth College): Metaphysics as conceptual engineering