[PHILOS-L] The AIMS of Metaphysics Conference - Programme, Abstracts and Zoom-link

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The AIMS of Metaphysics

Bristol, 22-23/11/2024

Programme, abstracts and Zoom-Link

Friday 22nd of November - (UK Time)

10.10–11.40 Keynote: Naomi Thompson: Metaphysical Explanation and Social Explanation

12–12.50 Fabio Ceravolo: Latitude in the ‘toolbox’ view of metaphysics

14.30–15.20 Katie Morrow: An underdetermination problem for inference to the best explanation in the metaphysics of science

15.20–16.10 Margarida Hermida: Must naturalised metaphysics contribute to science?

16.30–18.00 Keynote: Tuomas Tahko: The Modal Basis of Moderately Naturalistic Metaphysics

Saturday 23rd November - (UK Time)

10.10–11.40 Keynote: Esa Díaz-León: TBA

12–12.50 James Fraser: Effective metaphysics

14.30–15.20 King Fung Kelvin Chan: A brief sketch of Siderian feminist metaphysics

15.20–16.10 Giulia Schirripa: On getting the ‘realist stamp’: social construction and metaphysical indeterminacy

16.30–18.00 Final Discussion Panel

You can access to the Abstract Booklet of the Conference, where you can find information about the exact venues, schedule, talks, and Zoom link through our webpage (https://sites.google.com/view/aims-metaphysics). You can also enter the Abstract Booklet directly from the following link (the Zoom link is on page 2): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WqQ2DJYjNdNylapffDn8xzEVuUDJMvXf/view

Information about event

As the years have passed, within the study of metaphysics, the plurality of methodologies, assumptions and technicisms has extended to the degree that the dialogue between different approaches is tremendously hard. It’s so much like this that we don’t really know if these different approaches are trying to do the same thing—we don’t know if we are trying to answer the same questions anymore. The goal of the conference is to force this dialogue and try to set a platform to touch base, find common aims and develop an agenda that increases inter-approaches communication. With this objective in mind, we also view the conference as a fresh opportunity to initiate communication about metaphysics and philosophy, particularly analytic philosophy, with individuals in other disciplines and the general public. By elucidating the subject matter and methodologies of metaphysics, the foundational branch of philosophy, our aim is to achieve not only a metaphilosophical goal of self-clarification but also to foster better understanding among those beyond the discipline.

The AIMS of Metaphysics will have 3 keynote speakers: representing traditional metaphysics (Naomi Thompson - Bristol), social metaphysics (Esa Diaz-Leon - Barcelona) and science-informed metaphysics (Tuomas Tahko - Bristol). We will also have 6 selected abstracts from our Call for Abstracts, and a final panel of discussion with the keynotes. You can find the programme of The AIMS of Metaphysics in the following link: https://sites.google.com/view/aims-metaphysics/programme. For enquiries, please write Aims.philosophyconference (at) gmail.com

This event is organised by Tommaso Soriani (University of Reading), Pyro Suarez (University of Bristol), and Lorenzo Lorenzetti (University of Bristol).
This event has been funded by the SWW Doctoral Training Partnership, the Faculty of Arts of the University of Bristol, the British Postgraduate Philosophy Association (BPPA), and the Aristotelian Society

Pyro Suarez

PhD researcher at the University of Bristol and the University of Southampton
Funded by the South, West & Wales Doctoral Training Partnership (SWWDTP)

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