Metaphysical Indeterminacy

Event description

Might reality itself be indeterminate? And if so, how can we coherently theorise about it? This conference seeks to bring together researchers interested in this emerging topic and be an occasion to widen and deepen the debate around it. To reflect the interdisciplinary interest in this topic, the conference will feature contributions from traditional metaphysics, social metaphysics, and science-informed metaphysics.

Conference program

Day 1

9.30-10 Welcome and registration 

10-10.30 Introductory remarks 

10.30-11.30 Maureen Donnelly: Distinguishing between vague and precise objects

11.45-12.45 Aaron Cotnoir: Close Enough to Touch: How to Approximate Boundaries for Ordinary Objects 

*lunch break*

14.15-15.15 King Fung Kelvin Chan: Metaphysical Indeterminacy, Social Construction, and Reasonable Pluralism 

15.30-16.30 Kevin Richardson: Fear of Social Indeterminacy

Day 2 

9.30-10.30 Alessandro Torza: Metaphysical indeterminacy and chance

10.45-11.45 Kamil Furman: Relational Metaphysical Indeterminacy: A New Account for Lowe’s Scenario Against Evans’ Proof

12-13 George Darby: ‘Quantum indeterminacy' and metaphysical methodology 

*lunch break*  

14.30-15.30 Will Moorfoot: Rich Combinatorics

15.45-16.45 Robert Williams: Inconceivable indeterminacy