Monism, pluralism, and metaphysics

Programme:

MONISM, PLURALISM, AND METAPHYSICS

Wed 25 August [Pinni B1097]

10.00 - 10.15    Opening words, Leila Haaparanta
10.15 - 11.45    Dan Flage (James Madison University): On Locke's Relations
11.45 - 13.40    Lunch
13.40 - 14.20    Mirja Hartimo (University of Helsinki): Husserlian phenomenology and contemporary trends in philosophy of mathematics
14.20 - 15.00    Leila Haaparanta (University of Tampere): Judging, Judgment and Being: A Constructivist Point of View
15.00 - 16.00    Coffee
16.00 - 16.40    Valtteri Viljanen (University of Turku): Activity and Passivity in Spinoza's Substance Monism and in Leibniz's Substance Pluralism
16.40 - 17.20    Omri Boehm (LMU Munich / New School for Social Research): Kant's Regulative Monism
17.20 - 18.00    Jani Hakkarainen (University of Tampere): Hume's Argument for the Ontological Independence of Properties

Thu 26 August [Paavo Koli Hall]

10.15 - 11.45    Michael Della Rocca (Yale University): Playing with Fire: Hume, Rationalism, and a Little Bit of Spinoza
11.45 - 13.00    Lunch
13.00 - 13.40    Susanna Lindberg (University of Helsinki): The Remains of Romantic Philosophy of Nature: Being as Life or the Plurality of Living Beings
13.40 - 14.20    Sami Pihlström (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies): William James’s Pluralism
14.20 - 15.00    Anssi Korhonen (University of Helsinki): "The comfortable pluralism now so often taken for granted"
15.00 - 16.00    Coffee
16.00 - 16.40    Markku Keinänen (University of Turku): Against Determinable Universals
16.40 - 17.20    Antti Keskinen (University of Tampere): Quine's Critique of Modal Logic and his Conception of Objects
17.20 - 18.00    Jenni Tyynelä (University of Tampere): Fictional Metaphysics: On the De Re Modalities of Fictional Characters

Fri 27 August [Paavo Koli Hall]

10.15 - 11.45    Stephen Mumford (University of Nottingham): The Interrelatedness of Powers
11.45 - 13.00    Lunch
13.00 - 14.30    Rani Lill Anjum (University of Oslo & University of Nottingham): Causation, Dispositions and Modality
14.30 - 15.30    Coffee
15.30 - 16.10    Heikki J. Koskinen (University of Tampere): Notes on Persons as Primitive Substances
16.10 - 16.50    Hanne Appelqvist (University of Helsinki): Apocalypse Now. Wittgenstein's Early Remarks on Immortality
16.50 - 17.00    Closing

For further information concerning the event, contact Heikki J. Koskinen, Department of History and Philosophy, 33014 University of Tampere, Finland (e-mail: heikki.j.koskinen@kolumbus.fi).