CFP: Cambridge Metaontology Workshop

Nearly 70 years ago Quine equated ontological questions with questions about what there is according to our best first-order theories. Recently, many philosophers have either questioned or reinterpreted what it has become the standard Quinean picture, resulting in the relatively new field of Metaontology. This workshop is dedicated to explore contemporary metaontological issues, broadly construed. Examples may include the Quine-Carnap dispute, ontological deflationism, quantifier variance, ontological pluralism, and the relation between grounding and ontology, amongst others.

Invited Speakers

Huw Price (University of Cambridge)

Amie Thomasson (University of Miami)

Tim Crane (University of Cambridge)

Elizabeth Barnes (University of Leeds)

Tim Button (University of Cambridge)

In addition to our invited speakers, we are also opening up the Workshop to two graduate speakers external to Cambridge. We invite submissions of abstracts of 750-1000 words for a talk of no more than 40 minutes to [email protected]. Accommodation costs will be covered for graduate speakers.

Workshop Organizers

Carlo Rossi ([email protected])

Kyle Mitchell ([email protected])