Thursday (30/08/2018)
| 9:30‑9:45 | Registration & Welcome |
| 9:45‑11:00 | How to choose between competing metaphysical theories? What are the correct meta-theoretical criteria for evaluating them? Dr. Jiri Benovsky (Fribourg) Invited Talk |
| 11:00‑11:15 | ☕️ Coffee Break |
| 11:15‑12:00 | Is our concept of existence inconsistent? Sofia Bokos (Cologne) |
| 12:00‑12:45 | Carnap’s Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology And its Ramifications Jonas Raab (Manchester) |
| 12:45‑14:00 | 🍱 Lunch Break |
| 14:00‑14:45 | Substantivity and Merely Verbal Dispute Viktoria Knoll (Hamburg) |
| 14:45‑15:30 | Metaphysics as (Assessment-Relative) Explanation John M. Bunke (Toronto) |
| 15:30‑15:45 | ☕️ Coffee Break |
| 15:45‑17:00 | The World Doesn’t Care Dr. Richard Woodward (Hamburg) Invited Talk |
| 17:00‑17:15 | ☕️ Coffee Break |
| 17:15‑18:00 | Towards a metametaphysical constitution? Three turns in global philosophy and a proposal for five directives Otávio Marciel (Brasília) |
| 18:00‑18:45 | Suctural vs. Non-Structural Explanations in Metaphysics Dr. Thomas Raleigh (Bochum) |
| 19:30 | 🍲 Conference Dinner Bistro Zicke Bäckerstraße 51, 40213 Düsseldorf |
Friday (31/08/2018)
| 9:30‑10:45 | Can Structuralism solve the Plurality Problem? What is metaphysical realism to do about functionally equivalent theories? Dr. Sophie R. Allen (Keele) Invited Talk |
| 10:45‑11:00 | ☕️ Coffee Break |
| 11:00‑11:45 | Concept Formation in Mathematics: A case for Quasi-Empirical Metaphysical Research Deniz Sarikaya (Hamburg) |
| 11:45‑12:30 | Undeniable Metaphysical Claims, Subtle Violence and Personhood Felipe G. A. Moreira (Miami) |
| 12:30‑12:45 | ☕️ Coffee Break |
| 12:45‑13:30 | Category-mistakes in contemporary metaphysics Rouyu Zhang (Durham) |
| 13:30 | 🍕Pizza |
A downloadable version is available here.
Registration
The workshop takes place at HHU’s Haus der Universität, lunch will be provided. If you want to participate, please register by sending a short mail to Paul Hasselkuß indicating your name, affiliation and dietary preferences.