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SUMMARY:Fifth Italian Conference on Analytic Ontology (including a Workshop on Contingentism)
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LOCATION:Piazza Capitaniato\, 3\, Padova\, Italy
DESCRIPTION:<p>CALL FOR PAPERS</p>\n<p>Fifth Italian Conference on Analytic Ontology (including a Workshop on</p>\n<p>Contingentism)</p>\n<p>Padova\, June 27th-28th 2016</p>\n<p>DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: March 30th 2016</p>\n<p>The Fifth Italian Conference on Analytic Ontology will be held in Padova</p>\n<p>on June 27th-28th 2016. Previous Italian Conferences on Analytic</p>\n<p>Ontology have been held\, since 2003\, in Padova\, Pisa\, Bergamo and Torino</p>\n<p>and their organizers were Andrea Bottani\, Maurizio Ferraris\, Massimo</p>\n<p>Mugnai.</p>\n<p>The Conference is an occasion for discussing innovative research in</p>\n<p>analytic ontology and metaphysics. We invite submissions on the</p>\n<p>following broad research areas:</p>\n<p>1) Methodology of Ontology and Metaphysics (Metaontology\;</p>\n<p>Metametaphysics\; Descriptive vs Revisionary Ontology\; Grounding\;</p>\n<p>Metaphysical Explanation)\;</p>\n<p>2) Time and Change (Theories of Persistence\; Ontology and Metaphysics of</p>\n<p>Time\; Philosophy of Time-Travel\; Metaphysical Relevance of Relativity</p>\n<p>Theory)\;</p>\n<p>3) Abstract and Fictional Entities (Nominalism vs Realism\;</p>\n<p>Indispensability Arguments\; Fictionalism\; Ontology of Mathematics\;</p>\n<p>Abstract-Concrete Distinction)\;</p>\n<p>4) Substance and Properties (Metaphysics of Substance\; Properties and</p>\n<p>Relations\; Universals vs Tropes\; Instantiation)\;</p>\n<p>5) Mereology and Constitution (Mereological Essentialism\; Classical</p>\n<p>Mereology vs. Hylomorphism\; Ordinary Objects\; Composition and 5)</p>\n<p>Vagueness\; Monism vs Dualism about Material Constitution)\;</p>\n<p>6) History of Metaphysics (Aristotle and Neo-Aristotelian Approaches in</p>\n<p>Metaphysics\; Leibniz and Analytic Metaphysics\, History of Early Analytic</p>\n<p>Metaphysics\; The Metaphysical Turn in Analytic Philosophy\; History of</p>\n<p>Mereology)\;</p>\n<p>7) Metaphysics and Semantics (Propositions\, Facts\, Events\, States of</p>\n<p>Affairs\; Truthmaking\; Ontological Commitment\; Quantifier Variance\; Mass</p>\n<p>Terms and Stuff Ontology)\;</p>\n<p>8) Modal Metaphysics (Possible Worlds and Possibilia\; Dispositions and</p>\n<p>Powers\; Counterpart Theory)\;</p>\n<p>9) Social ontology (collective intentionality\, group agency\,</p>\n<p>documentality\, metaphysics of persons\, ontology of law and money).</p>\n<p>INVITED SPEAKERS</p>\n<p>Carola Barbero (University of Torino)</p>\n<p>David Braddon-Mitchell (University of Sydney)</p>\n<p>Daniel Korman (University of Illinois)</p>\n<p>Matteo Morganti (University of Roma 3)</p>\n<p>Kevin Mulligan (University of Gen&egrave\;ve)</p>\n<p>Thomas Sattig (University of T&uuml\;bingen)</p>\n<p>Friederike Moltmann (CNRS Paris / New York University)</p>\n<p>WORKSHOP ON CONTINGENTISM</p>\n<p>In the recent literature\, the word &ldquo\;contingentism&rdquo\; is used in two</p>\n<p>seemingly disparate ways. On the one hand\, metaphysical contingentism</p>\n<p>(K. Miller\, &ldquo\;Defending Contingentism in Metaphysics&rdquo\;\, Dialectica 63\,</p>\n<p>2009) is the view that at least some metaphysical truths (e.g.: that</p>\n<p>properties are universal\, that composition is identity\, that objects</p>\n<p>persist through time) are contingently true if true.</p>\n<p>On the other hand\, according to T. Williamson (Modal Logic as</p>\n<p>Metaphysics\, OUP &nbsp\;2013)\, contingentism and necessitism are modal theses</p>\n<p>about what there is. Namely\, according to necessitism\, necessarily</p>\n<p>everything is necessarily something. Contingentism is the negation of</p>\n<p>necessitism\, and is the view that it is possible that something is</p>\n<p>possibly nothing.</p>\n<p>The aim of this workshop is to explore the possible connections between</p>\n<p>these two kinds of contingentism (and the corresponding kinds of</p>\n<p>necessitism) and to investigate more specific issues\, such as:</p>\n<p>a. contingentism and mathematical objects\;</p>\n<p>b. contingentism and set-theory\;</p>\n<p>c. contingentism and the metaphysics of properties\;</p>\n<p>d. contingentism\, necessitism and grounding\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>e. contingent identity\;</p>\n<p>f. contingentism and a priori/a posteriori knowledge\;</p>\n<p>g. expressive limitations of contingentism.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>INVITED SPEAKER: Kristie Miller (University of Sydney)</p>\n<p>DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: March 30th 2016</p>\n<p>SUBMISSIONS</p>\n<p>Contributors will have 40 minutes\, ideally divided into 30 minutes of</p>\n<p>exposition and 10 minutes of discussion. The language of the conference</p>\n<p>will be English.</p>\n<p>Those wishing to deliver a talk should submit an abstract of maximum 700</p>\n<p>words. The abstract should be prepared for double-blind review and sent</p>\n<p>to the following email address as a PDF attachment:</p>\n<p>italianontology@gmail.com. The outcome of the refereeing process will be</p>\n<p>notified by April 30th 2016. Please indicate in the headline of your</p>\n<p>submission if you intend to submit your abstract for the general</p>\n<p>conference or for the workshop on contingentism.</p>\n<p>SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE</p>\n<p>- Massimiliano Carrara (massimiliano.carrara@unipd.it)</p>\n<p>- Ciro De Florio (ciro.deflorio@unicatt.it)</p>\n<p>- Giorgio Lando (giorgio.lando@sns.it)</p>\n<p>- Vittorio Morato (vittorio.morato@unipd.it)</p>\n<p>IMPORTANT DATES</p>\n<p>- Deadline for submissions: March 30th 2016.</p>\n<p>- Notifications of acceptance: April 30th 2016.</p>\n<p>- Conference dates: June 27th-28th 2016.</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Massimiliano Carrara;CN=Ciro De Florio;CN=Giorgio Lando;CN=Vittorio Morato:
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