Durham Metaphysics Graduate Conference

Annina J. Loets (Oxford University), null, Adrian Kreutz, Giacomo Andreoletti (School of Advanced Studies, University of Tyumen), Mark Jago (Nottingham University), null, Federico Viglione (University of Turin), Andreas De De De De Jong (University of Manchester), Joaquim Giannotti (University of Glasgow), Alison Sutton Fernandes (University of Pittsburgh, University of Warwick)

Conference Program:

Friday 3 May

9.00 Opening 

9.30 Giacomo Adreoletti (Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Tyumen): Mutable Futurism 

10.30 Yang Guo (Durham): TBC 

11.45 William Knowles (Manchester): Explaining Necessities 

14.00 Luca Dondoni (IUSS Pavia): Towards a Panpsychist Reading of Plato's Later Works 

15.00 Maciej Głowacki and Maciej Tarnowski (Warsaw): The Metaphysics of Linguistic Entities 

16.30 Mark Jago (Nottingham) Keynote address

Saturday 4 May 

9.30 Federico Viglione (Barcelona): The Meaning of 'Time Before the Big Bang) 

10.30 Annina Loets (Oxford): Qua-Objects and their Limits 

11.45 Andreas De Jong (Manchester): Now Imagine an Actually Existent Unicorn 

14.00 Alison Fernandes (TCB): Keynote Address 

15.00 Joaquim Giannotti (Glasgow): Mutually Grounded Turtles All the Way Down 

16.30 Adrian Kreutz (Birmingham): Form as Meaning. Towards a Neo-Heideggerian Mereology