Call for Registration: Cambridge Metaontology Workshop, Trinity College (Cambridge), May 21st and 22nd, 2014
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. Workshop Program May 21st: 10:30 Naomi Thompson (Birmingham) - ‘Grounding, Metaontology, and Metametaontology' 11:45 Tim Button (Cambridge) - ‘On Verbal Disputes: Rules For Use, Robot Cats, and Pencil Organisms' 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Tim Crane (Cambridge) - “‘The Central Question of Metaontology’” 15:10 Coffee 15:40 Elizabeth Barnes (Leeds) - ‘Going Beyond the Fundamental: Feminism in Contemporary Metaphysics’ May 22nd: 10:30 Olla Solomyak (NYU) - ‘Perspectives on the Question of Ontology: A Realist Metaontological Approach’ 11:45 Huw Price (Cambridge) - ‘What There is For Expressivists’ 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Amie Thomasson (Miami) - ‘Abandoning Hard Ontology’ To register, please send an email to [email protected]. Registration fee is £20, although a reduced fee of £10 will be charged to graduate students. If you wish to attend to the dinner on the 21st of May, please let us know by the 14th of May. The deadline for registration is on Tuesday the 13th of May. We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Analysis Trust, the Aristotelian Society, the Mind Association, and the School of Art and Humanities, University of Cambridge. _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
