Venue: Palazzo del Rettorato (Sala Conferenze), Via Duomo 6, Vercelli

Wednesday, 18 December

9:15 – 9:30Introduction
9:30 – 11:00Jessica Wilson (Toronto),
The Fundamentality First Approach to Metaphysical Structure
11:00 – 11:15Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00Nuno Maia (Salzburg) & Matteo Nizzardo (St. Andrews),
Grounding and circular sets
12:00 – 12:45Francisca Silva (St. Andrews),
Sets as fusions of materially equivalent rigid embodiments
12:45 – 14:30Lunch
14:30 – 15:15Andrea Lupo (USI),
Against higher-order Aristotelianism
15:15 – 16:00Åke Gafvelin (Uppsala),
Meta-expressivism
16:00 – 16:15Coffee Break
16:15 – 17:45Matteo Morganti (Roma Tre),
Realism about Metaphysics and Philosophical Naturalism

Thursday, 19 December

9:30 – 11:00Elisa Paganini (Milan),
Linguistic Indeterminate Existence
11:00 – 11:15Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00Martina Botti (Columbia),
Is parthood a relation? No. From a relational to a quantificational account of parthood
12:00 – 12:45Antonio Maria Cleani (USC),
The logic of quantificationalism
12:45 – 14:30Lunch
14:30 – 15:15Samuel Elgin (UC San Diego),
The grounds of nonground
15:15 – 15:30Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00Kit Fine (NYU),
There is no Rational Response to a Sorites Series
17:00Concluding Remarks

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