Junior Metaphysics Workshop

The Junior Metaphysics Workshop is an annual conference focusing on the work of junior scholars working in metaphysics, broadly construed. Our goal is to highlight strong work being done by up-and-coming metaphysicians while fostering a community of junior scholars. The conference is free and open to any who would like to attend; if you plan to attend, RSVP to k.mccormick[at]tcu.edu.


Participants
David Blanks (The Ohio State University), "Dispositions, Bases, and Reduction"
Commentator: Ricki Bliss (Lehigh University)

Tyler Hildebrand (Western Washington University), "An Explanatory Shortcoming of Dispositionalism"
Commentator: Jennifer Wang (Stanford University)

James Miller (Trinity College Dublin), "The Metaphysics of Words: What Are They?"
Commentator: Kate Ritchie (The City College of New York)

Michelle Panchuk (University of South Carolina), "The Simplicity of Divine Ideas"
Commentator: Wesley D. Cray (Grand Valley State University)

Anne Peterson (University of Utah), "A Methodological Mess: Formulating the Universal/Particular Distinction"
Commentator: Bradley Rettler (Baylor University)

Manuscript Session
Sam Cowling (Denison University), Abstract Entities
Commentators: James Davies (University of Toronto), Dan Giberman (University of Texas at Arlington)

The conference will be read-ahead; please indicate in your RSVP if you would like to have copies of the papers sent to you.

The Junior Metaphysics Workshop is generously sponsored by Professor Richard Galvin (Better Wright Chair of Applied Ethics, TCU), the Texas Christian University Philosophy Department, and the Grand Valley State University Philosophy Department.