Programme
Venue: Palazzo del Rettorato (Sala Conferenze), Via Duomo 6, Vercelli
Wednesday, 18 December
9:15 – 9:30 | Introduction |
9:30 – 11:00 | Jessica Wilson (Toronto), The Fundamentality First Approach to Metaphysical Structure |
11:00 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
11:15 – 12:00 | Nuno Maia (Salzburg) & Matteo Nizzardo (St. Andrews), Grounding and circular sets |
12:00 – 12:45 | Francisca Silva (St. Andrews), Sets as fusions of materially equivalent rigid embodiments |
12:45 – 14:30 | Lunch |
14:30 – 15:15 | Andrea Lupo (USI), Against higher-order Aristotelianism |
15:15 – 16:00 | Åke Gafvelin (Uppsala), Meta-expressivism |
16:00 – 16:15 | Coffee Break |
16:15 – 17:45 | Matteo Morganti (Roma Tre), Realism about Metaphysics and Philosophical Naturalism |
Thursday, 19 December
9:30 – 11:00 | Elisa Paganini (Milan), Linguistic Indeterminate Existence |
11:00 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
11:15 – 12:00 | Martina Botti (Columbia), Is parthood a relation? No. From a relational to a quantificational account of parthood |
12:00 – 12:45 | Antonio Maria Cleani (USC), The logic of quantificationalism |
12:45 – 14:30 | Lunch |
14:30 – 15:15 | Samuel Elgin (UC San Diego), The grounds of nonground |
15:15 – 15:30 | Coffee Break |
15:30 – 17:00 | Kit Fine (NYU), There is no Rational Response to a Sorites Series |
17:00 | Concluding Remarks |








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