[PHILOS-L] Call for Participation: 2nd Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics

[Alessandro TORZA]

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You are all kindly invited to the following in-person event:

2nd Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics

Registration not required. 

Dates:

December 15-16, 2025

Location:

University of Parma

Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Industries 

Via Massimo D’Azeglio, 85 - 43125 Parma, Italy

Schedule:

December 15

Polo Didattico di via Kennedy, Aula K11

9.50 - 10.00 Introduction

10.00 - 11.20 Claudio Calosi (Ca’ Foscari Venezia): Presence and Absence

11.20 - 11.30 Break

11.30 - 12.50 Cristian Mariani (USI) & Jessica Wilson (Toronto): Does Spacetime Emerge?

12.50 - 14.30 Lunch

14.30 - 15.50 Lorenzo Lorenzetti (USI): An Effective Approach to Naturalistic Metaphysics

15.50 - 16.00 Break

16.00 - 17.20 Catharine Diehl (Leiden): Arguments for Ontological Nihilism

December 16

Plesso di via D'Azeglio, Aula Ferrari

10.00 - 11.20 Cole Tucci (CUNY): Typicality and the Best Systems Account

11.20 - 11.30 Break

11.30 - 12.50 Jens Jäger (UT Austin): Haecceitism and the Gibbs Paradox

12.50 - 14.30 Lunch

14.30 - 15.50 Joshua Babic (USI): Saving Functionalism from Inconsistency

15.50 - 16.00 Break

16.00 - 17.20 Carl Hoefer (Barcelona): Natural kinds, laws, and modalities: lessons from post-Twin-Earth science and philosophy

Book of abstracts

The 2nd Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics is organized under the auspices of the Association for Analytic Metaphysics in the Italian-Speaking World (Associazione di Metafisica Analitica nel Mondo Italofono), https://www.amami-philo.com/

Info: alessand...@unipr.it 

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Alessandro Torza Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Industries | University of Parma alessand...@unipr.it https://philpeople.org/profiles/alessandro-torza Strada Massimo D’Azeglio 85, 43125 Parma PR, Italy

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