1st Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics

May 15, 2024 - May 17, 2024
Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Industries (DUSIC), University of Parma

Aula C, Aula E (central cloister)
Via Massimo D’Azeglio, 85
Parma 43125
Italy

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Speakers:

University College London
Università degli Studi di Milano
Uppsala University
University of Geneva
Universidade de Lisboa
New York University, Shanghai
University of Birmingham
University of Oxford

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University of Parma

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May 15: Aula C

14.20 - 14.30 Introduction

14.30 - 15.50 Martin Pickup (Birmingham): Metaphysical Indeterminacy and the Problem of the Many

15.50 - 16.00 Break

16.00 - 17.20 Elisabetta Sassarini (Oxford): Purely Factual Definitional Disputes

May 16: Aula C

10.00 - 11.20 Zee Perry (Birmingham): Does Dynamics Explain the Quantitative? Prospects for a Nomological Theory of Quantity

11.20 - 11.30 Break

11.30 - 12.50 Robert Michels (Lisbon): Graded Properties (with Claudio Calosi)

12.50 - 14.30 Lunch

14.30 - 15.50 Andreas Ditter (UCL): Essence and Grain

15.50 - 16.00 Break

16.00 - 17.20 Daniel Dohrn (Milan): Essence does not entail necessity

May 17: Aula E

9.30 - 10.50 Baptiste Le Bihan (Geneva): No Growing Block in Causal Set Theory (with Sam Baron)

11.00 - 11.10 Break

11.10 - 12.30 Matti Eklund (Uppsala): Motivating the Search for Alien Structure

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