The Taiwan Metaphysics Colloquium 2026 (TMC 2026): Naturalistic Philosophy and Grounding

The Taiwan Metaphysics Colloquium 2026 (TMC 2026)

Naturalistic Philosophy and Grounding

Dates: 30 Apr – 3 May 2026

Location: National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Event page: https://philevents.org/event/show/145134

Call for abstracts: https://philevents.org/event/show/145138

Contact:

National Taiwan University’s Center for Traditional and Scientific Metaphysics (TSM Center): [email protected]

Keynote speakers:

Jessica Wilson (University of Toronto) [Wendy Huang Lecture];
Alyssa Ney (LMU Munich) [Tony Cheng Lecture];
Otávio Bueno (University of Miami)

Featured Speakers:

John Bigelow (Monash University);
David Braddon-Mitchell (University of Sydney);
Ruey-Lin Chen (National Chung Cheng University)

Invited Speakers:

David Builes (Princeton University);
Benj Hellie (University of Toronto);
Jeremiah Joven Joaquin (De La Salle University);
Kevin Morris (Tulane University);
Kelly Trogdon (Virginia Tech)

About the conference series and the 2026 conference

Supported by the generous donation of the Frontward Foundation, the Taiwan Metaphysics Colloquium series (TMCs) is one of the most renowned international philosophy conference series in Taiwan. Held biennially, it aims to provide a platform for dialogue among researchers working on a wide range of contemporary metaphysical issues. In previous years, the conferences under the series have invited many renowned local and international scholars, including David Charles, Max J. Cresswell, Dorothy Edgington, Pascal Engel, Hartry Field, Robert Goldblatt, Alan Hayek, Jennifer Hornsby, Christian List, Hiroakira Ono, David Papineau, and Daniel Stoljar. Following the conference series, multiple international anthologies have been published, including a Logic in Asia (LIAA) book series (Springer) and a special issue of Synthese.

This year’s conference is themed “Naturalistic Philosophy and Grounding” and welcomes contributions related to naturalistic philosophy, grounding, or both. The idea of doing philosophy naturalistically in a natural world has dominated a significant portion of twentieth-century philosophy. Nonetheless, this idea has recently often been treated as an implicit background framework, while (arguably) non-naturalistic approaches and perspectives – such as anti-realism, panpsychism, idealism, phenomenology, and others – have experienced a renaissance. This conference aims to provide an opportunity to reinvestigate philosophical naturalism and naturalistic philosophy, especially (though not exclusively) issues related to physicalism, scientism, naturalizing philosophical approaches, natural entities, the grounding structures of our world, and even new conceptual expansions of the naturalistic worldview, such as artificial intelligence.

We welcome submissions in standard metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of religion, metaethics, metaphilosophy, and related areas, provided that the topic has a metaphysical dimension, broadly construed. We are also open to contributions from emerging and cutting-edge areas, such as the philosophy of artificial intelligence.

No particular methodology is required: we welcome submissions from analytic, continental, and non-Western traditions, provided that the topic is relevant to the conference themes and the paper’s argumentative style can engage substantively with the conference’s discussions.

Hosts:

·       Taiwan Association for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (LMPST Taiwan): https://www.lmpsttw.org/en/home

·       National Taiwan University’s Center for Traditional and Scientific Metaphysics (TSM Center): https://tsmntu.org/

·       National Taiwan University’s Center for Asian Philosophy and Analytic Philosophy

Supported by:

·       Frontward Foundation

·       College of Liberal Arts, National Taiwan University