Monism, Pluralism, and Metaphysics

The Academy of Finland research project The Possibility of Metaphysics in Twentieth Century and Contemporary Philosophy organizes an international conference at the University of Tampere on

MONISM, PLURALISM, AND METAPHYSICS

25 – 27 August 2010

Program:
[updated 17.8.2010]

Wed 25 August [Pinni B1097]

10.00 - 10.15  Opening words, Leila Haaparanta

10.15 - 11.45  Dan Flage (James Madison University): On Lockean Ideas

11.45 - 13.00  Lunch

13.00 - 13.40  Tim De Mey (University of Ghent): About Nothing At All? Notes on the
Metaphysics of Fiction

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(at)kolumbus.fi)