There has recently been a growing interest in truthmaker semantics as an alternative to the standard possible-worlds approach in philosophical and formal semantics. Following a successful initial meeting in 2023, the second Advances in Truthmaker Semantics conference will take place in:

Munich, July 28–30, 2025, at Carl-Friedrich-von-Siemens Foundation, Südliches Schlossrondell 23, 80638 Munich, Germany

The aim of the conference is to share recent advances in truthmaker semantics and related approaches, as well as to strengthen the intellectual ties within the community.

Registration (free but required by July 15): https://forms.gle/hKQFMqRzQrGYHk7J7

While there is no fee for participation, those not presenting will be asked to pay for any conference dinners they wish to attend (estimated 35 Euro per day).

The conference is organized by Lucas Champollion, Erica Shumener, Martin Abreu Zavaleta, Mark Jago, Justin Bledin, and Kit Fine. The organizers gratefully acknowledge funding and organizational support by Kit Fine, Hannes Leitgeb, Ursula Danninger, the Siemens Foundation, the Humboldt Foundation, LMU Munich, New York University, Syracuse University, and Nottingham University.

Program and abstracts: https://tinyurl.com/2025-tms-conference

Monday, July 28, 2025

9:00 – 9:15 — Opening Address
9:15 – 10:30 — Invited Talk: “Truthmaker Semantics for Reason-For Ascriptions” — Hannes Leitgeb
10:30 – 10:45 — Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:00 — Invited Talk: “Questions, subject matters, and truthmakers” — Ivano Ciardelli
12:00 – 1:30 — Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 — Visit to Nymphenburg Castle
3:00 – 4:00 — Contributed Talk: “Towards a truthmaker semantics for modal logics” — Pietro Berardi Gili
4:00 – 4:30 — Coffee Break
4:30 – 5:30 — Contributed Talk: “Invariance conditions for truthmaker models” — Konstantinos Konstantinou
7:30 PM — Dinner at Königlicher Hirschgarten (Hirschgarten 1, 80639 München)

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

9:00 – 10:15 — Invited Talk: “Generic truthmaker semantics” — Kit Fine
10:15 – 10:30 — Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:45 — Invited Talk: “Knowing by Tracking Parts” — Mark Jago
11:45 – 1:15 — Lunch
1:15 – 2:15 — Contributed Talk: “Identicals by Logic” — Andrea Salvador
2:15 – 3:30 — Invited Talk: “Deontic logic in a reason-based semantics” — Vita Saitta
3:30 – 3:45 — Coffee Break
3:45 – 5:00 — Invited Talk: Title TBD — Dongwoo Kim
5:00 – 6:00 — Contributed Talk: “Programmatic truthmaker semantics” — Benjamin Brast-McKie and Miguel Buitrago
7:30 PM — Dinner at TBD

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

9:00 – 10:15 — Invited Talk: “A bilateral truthmaker semantics for a fragment of English” — Reinhard Muskens
10:15 – 10:30 — Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:45 — Invited Talk: “A variably strict truthmaker semantics for modals and conditionals” — Lucas Champollion
11:45 – 1:15 — Lunch
1:15 – 2:15 — Contributed Talk: Truthmaker semantics for justification logic: Subset approaches — Daniele Sansoni
2:15 – 3:30 — Invited Talk: Three Kinds of Metaphysical Indeterminacy — Lisa Vogt
3:30 – 3:45 — Coffee Break
3:45 – 5:00 — Invited Talk: “Bayes and Brentano” — Stephen Yablo
5:00 – 5:30 — Closing Remarks and Roundtable Discussion — Participants: TBD

https://tinyurl.com/2025-tms-conference