Locations
Ca’ Foscari, Sestiere Dorsoduro 3246, Calle Larga Foscari
– Aula Baratto
– Aula Berengo
Mancantón Marcorá, Dorsoduro 3484/D, Calle Contarini
– Aula Valent
– Aula Morelli
– Aula Mazzariol
Schedule
Day 1 – Tuesday, 1 September
08:50 – 09:20 — Registration
09:20 – 09:30 — Opening remarks
09:30 – 10:45 — Plenary Lecture (Aula Baratto). Achille Varzi (Columbia): Ontological Responsibilities. Chair: Claudio Calosi.
10:45 – 11:00 — Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:25 — Parallel Sessions
| Aula Valent | Aula Morelli | Aula Berengo | Aula Baratto | |
| Chair | Cris Mariani | Samuele Iaquinto | Massimiliano Carrara | Giuseppe Spolaore |
| 11:00 – 11:40 | Luca Moretti (UPO); Sandro Guli (Palermo): Internalism on the normativity of social roles: the Hegelian model | Elena Popa (Seville): Mechanisms and ontological foundations for biopsychosocial causation | Paolo Lattanzi (Siegen): Tense Logic in a Relativistic Universe: Modeling the Twin Paradox | David Liggins (Manchester): Higher-order metaphysics as an anti-realist project |
| 11:45 – 12:25 | Joaquim Giannotti (Mayor): Farewell to Viking Naturalism | Luca Stroppa (Turin): Lexical Units | Giovanni Codognato (USI): A Defence of the Parthood View of Constitution | Joshua Babic (USI): Bare Bundles |
12:25 – 13:45 — Lunch Break
13:45 – 15:00 — Plenary Lecture (Aula Baratto). Alyssa Ney (LMU Munich): Fundamentality of Physics without Completeness. Chair: Alessandro Torza.
15:00 – 15:15 — Coffee Break
15:15 – 15:55 — Parallel Sessions
| Aula Valent | Aula Morelli | Aula Berengo | Aula Baratto | |
| Chair | Nevia Dolcini | Cris Mariani | Emiliano Loria | Giuliano Torrengo |
| 15:15 – 15:55 | Vassilis Livanios (Cyprus): Conservation Laws: Still a “Bad Bug” for Pure Powers Monism | Soraya Pelvio (Genova): Rethinking Value-Freedom in Digital Research: The Role of Non-Epistemic Values. | Markel Kortabarria (Barcelona): A Case for Incompletable Grounding in Temporal Metaphysics | Jonathan Payton (Bilkent): Inclusion, Identity, and Modality |
Day 2 – Wednesday, 2 September
09:00 – 10:15 — Plenary Lecture (Aula Baratto). Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers): Settling the Question. Chair: Giuliano Torrengo.
10:15 – 10:30 — Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:40 — Parallel Sessions
| Aula Valent | Aula Morelli | Aula Baratto | |
| Chair | Massimiliano Carrara | Nevia Dolcini | Cris Mariani |
| 10:30 – 11:10 | Tommaso Zorzini (Milan): Le Poidevin’s argument and the recent defences of simultaneous causation | Zeynep Sina Ersan (Bilkent): Against Unrestricted Supersubstantivalism | Aldo Frigerio (Cattolica): In defence of branching time |
| 11:15 – 11:55 | Margarida Hermida (Salzburg): The Modal Structure of Biology | Andrea Visintini (SNS): The Five-Dimensional Ego | Davide Romano (Verona): A Quantum Origin for Time’s Arrow |
| 12:00 – 12:40 | Niccolò Nanni (Turin): What are the Objects of Multisensory Experience? | Luca Gasparinetti (Milan): The Temporal Foundations of Spacetime | Elena Padoan (USI): On the Possibility of Parity: Multi-dimensional Values as Vectors |
12:40 – 13:55 — Lunch Break
13:55 – 15:10 — Plenary Lecture (Aula Baratto). Kathrin Koslicki (Neuchâtel): A Capacity-Based Approach to Artifact-Classification (joint work with O. Massin). Chair: Samuele Iaquinto.
15:10 – 15:25 — Coffee Break
15:25 – 16:50 — Parallel Sessions
| Aula Valent | Aula Morelli | Aula Baratto | |
| Chair | Ludovica Conti | Emiliano Loria | Nevia Dolcini |
| 15:25 – 16:05 | Paulina Kraft (Barcelona): Any Work for Epistemology of Time? | Giacomo Ferrari (USI): On The Location of Sets | Robert Oliver Mesa (FU Berlin): Indeterminacy and the Unity of Grounding and Causation (SIFA Young Scholar Prize) |
| 16:10 – 16:50 | Emanuele Tullio (CEU): On the Relativistic B-Theory | Giovanni Rizzotto (USI): Monist substantivalism and location: the place of objects in spacetime | Giulia Schirripa (St Andrews/Stirling): A carving-based account of metaphysical indeterminacy |
Day 3 – Thursday, 3 September
09:00 – 11:10 — Parallel Sessions
| Aula Mazzariol | Aula Valent | Aula Morelli | |
| Chair | Samuele Iaquinto | Alessandro Torza | Claudio Calosi |
| 09:00 – 09:40 | Pietro Berardi Gili (Geneva): Tense Realism and Propositionally Quantified Tense Logic | Fabio Patrone (Padova): Make it (Potentially) Whole. A Counter-Mereological Paraphrase for Nihilism | Bin Zhao (Peking): Metaphysics of Risk and Anti-Risk Epistemology |
| 09:45 – 10:25 | Rachele Cavarsaschi (Cagliari): Trope and bundle theory: a unified perspective | Pietro Lampronti (LMU Munich): How Fundamentality Refutes Quantifier Variance | Valentino Pellegrino (Ca’ Foscari): Bridging the Gap? Against the Normative Neutrality of Being |
| 10:30 – 11:10 | Carla Peri (Padua): Individuation: a Re-Fashioned Account | Ludovica Conti (Vienna); Leon Horsten (Konstanz): Abstract or Arbitrary Objects | Sofia Vannucci (École normale supérieure): The Problem of Counterpossibles |
11:10 – 11:25 — Coffee Break
11:25 – 12:50 — Parallel Sessions
| Aula Mazzariol | Aula Valent | Aula Morelli | |
| Chair | Massimiliano Carrara | Emiliano Loria | Ludovica Conti |
| 11:25 – 12:05 | Silviu Federovici (Iași): Objectivity without Realism: Brouwer on the Intuitionistic Continuum | Andreas Ditter (University College London) Non-Naturalism, Supervenience, and Essentialism about Modality | Maciej Sendłak (Warsaw): From Laws of Nature to Laws of Concepts |
| 12:10 – 12:50 | Marta Campdelacreu (Barcelona): The Asymmetry of Constitution and Evnine’s Proposal | Fabio Dal Conti Lampert (Vienna): Incompatibilism: a new defense | Andrea Salvador (USI): Identities as Grounds for Universal Truths |
12:50 – 14:10 — Lunch Break
14:10 – 15:35 — Parallel Sessions
| Aula Mazzariol | Aula Valent | Aula Morelli | |
| Chair | Giuseppe Spolaore | Claudio Calosi | Samuele Iaquinto |
| 14:10 – 14:50 | Erica Onnis (Cusano): Emergence Reconsidered. On Qualitative and Causal Novelty, and Their Co-Dependence | Elisabetta Sassarini (Geneva): On Perspicuity and Reductive Metaphysical Explanation (SIFA Young Scholar Prize) | Malte Koot (Geneva): On What Becomes What |
| 14:55 – 15:35 | Finlay Thwaite (King’s College): Physical Emergence as Metaphysical Naturalness | Federica Melis (Bologna); Vito Alberto Lippolis (Bologna): Truth-properties and how to preserve them: Does logical pluralism collapse into logical nihilism? | Lorenzo Lorenzetti (USI); Nicola Bamonti (SNS): A Relational General Relativistic A-theory |
15:35 – 15:50 — Coffee Break
15:50 – 17:15 — Parallel Sessions
| Aula Mazzariol | Aula Valent | Aula Morelli | |
| Chair | Giuseppe Spolaore | Alessandro Torza | Giuliano Torrengo |
| 15:50 – 16:30 | Lorenzo Azzano (Cattolica); Giacomo Giannini (HHU Düsseldorf): Potentiality and Tense | Jacopo Berneri (Oslo): The Copernican Turn of Structured Properties and Propositions | Florian Gatignon (Geneva): Exdurantism and Experience |
Organizing Committee: Claudio Calosi (chair), Daniele Bondioli, Sofia Bonicalzi, Ludovica Conti, Samuele Iaquinto, Emiliano Loria, Priscilla Pallante, Sofia Sgarbi, Giuliano Torrengo, Alessandro Torza
Steering Committee: Valia Allori, Cristina Amoretti, Sofia Bonicalzi, Claudio Calosi, Laura Caponetto, Massimiliano Carrara, Ludovica Conti, Ciro De Florio, Massimo Dell’Utri, Filippo Ferrari, Giacomo Floris, Francesco Genco, Samuele Iaquinto, Elisabetta Lalumera, Giorgio Lando, Emiliano Loria, Filippo Mancini, Vera Matarese, Vittorio Morato, Elisa Paganini, Giuliano Torrengo, Alessandro Torza, Michele Ubertone, Giorgio Volpe, Alberto Voltolini