The 2017 Hylomorphism Conference\, which will be held at the Banff Centre from May 11\, 2017 to May 14\, 2017\, is devoted to an in-depth examination of the doctrine of hylomorphism and its significance for a wide range of sub-disciplines of philosophy\, from both a historical and a non-historical point of view. \; The Aristotelian doctrine of hylomorphism holds that those entities which fall under it are compounds of matter (hyle) and form (morphe). \; This event also coincides with the first annual meeting of the Canadian Metaphysics Collaborative (http://kathrin-koslicki-ytpt.squarespace.com/)\, an organization founded in 2015 whose aim is to facilitate collaboration among Canadian and Canadian-affiliated metaphysicians.
\nKeynote Speakers:
Kit Fine (New York University)\, &ldquo\;The Problem of Plenitude&rdquo\;
Sandra Lapointe (McMaster University)\, &ldquo\;Form and Matter in Kantian and post-Kantian Logic&rdquo\;
Michail Peramatzis (University of Oxford)\, "Aristotle's Hylomorphism: the Causal-Explanatory Model"
Main Program:
Speaker: Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi (University of Geneva)\, &ldquo\;Enmattered Virtues&rdquo\;\; Commentator: Charlotte Witt (University of New Hampshire)
\nSpeaker: Dana Goswick (University of Melbourne)\, &ldquo\;Hylomorphism Without Primitive Modality&rdquo\;\; Commentator: Michael Raven (University of Victoria)
\nSpeaker: William Jaworski (Fordham University)\, &ldquo\;Hylomorphism and Mind-Body Problems&rdquo\;\; Commentator: Christopher Frey (University of South Carolina)
\nSpeaker: Robert C. Koons (University of Texas at Austin)\, &ldquo\;Forms are not Structures&rdquo\;\; Commentator: Marcello Fiocco (University of California\, Irvine)
\nSpeaker: Marko Malink (New York University)\, &ldquo\;Aristotle on Principles as Elements&rdquo\;\; Commentator: Margaret Cameron (University of Victoria)
\nSpeaker: Asya Passinsky (New York University)\, &ldquo\;A Hylomorphic Theory of Social Objects&rdquo\;\; Commentator: Simon Evnine (University of Miami)
Speaker: Nathanael Stein (Florida State University)\, &ldquo\;Definition and the Epistemology of Natural Kinds in Aristotle&rdquo\;\; Commentator: Riin Sirkel (University of Vermont)
Posters:
Cruz A. Davis (Virgiania Tech)\, &ldquo\;Complexities and Degrees of Unity&rdquo\;
Joshua Johnson (Saint Louis University)\, &ldquo\;Strong Emergence and Hylomorphism&rdquo\;
\nAnne Siebels Peterson (University of Utah)\, &ldquo\;Unity and Plurality in Hylomorphic Composition&rdquo\;
\nBryan C. Reece (University of Toronto)\, &ldquo\;A Hylomorphic Account of Action&rdquo\;
\nGraham Renz (University of Missouri)\, &ldquo\;Form as Structure: It&rsquo\;s Not So Simple&rdquo\;
\nLiva Rotkale (University of Latvia)\, &ldquo\;Aristotle&rsquo\;s Hylomorphism in a Mereological Framework&rdquo\;
\nShane Maxwell Wilkins (Fordham University)\, &ldquo\;How Unicity Theorists Can Recover the Elements from Material Substances&rdquo\;
Other Participants:
Josh Blander (The King&rsquo\;s College\, NY)
Jeffrey Brower (Purdue University)
Philip Corkum (University of Alberta)
Christopher Hauser (Rutgers)
Ka Ho Lam (University of Alberta)
Wolfgang Mann (Columbia University)
Jeremy W. Skrzypek (Saint Louis University)