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13.1 | METAPHYSICS

Duration
05 Jun 2017 - 09 Jun 2017
Language
English
Conference directors :
Boran Berčić , University of Rijeka, Croatia
Michael Watkins , Auburn University, United States
Conference description:

We will work on the central issues in the contemporary metaphysics: the nature of existence; general realism and antirealism, problems of diacronic and syncronic identity, persistence through time: endurantism and perdurantism, realism and nominalism about the universals, the nature of substance, the nature of the abstract entities, presentism and eternalism, actualism and possibilism, A-Theory and B-Theory of time, the nature of causation, compatibilism and incompatibilism about the free will, reductionism and antireductionism, eliminativism, constitution, secondary properties, dispositionalism, etc.

Conference lecturers:
Mark Balaguer , California State University, Los Angeles, United States
Boran Berčić , University of Rijeka, Croatia
Marin Biondić , University of Rijeka, Croatia
Andrea Bottani , University of Bergamo, Italy
Filip Čeč , University of Rijeka, Croatia
Sam Coleman , University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Ciro Del Florio , Catholic University of Milan, Italy
Duško Dožudić , University of Zagreb, Croatia
Aldo Frigerio , Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy
Elisa Paganini , University of Milan, Italy
Davor Pećnjak , Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia
David Pitt , California State University, Los Angeles, United States
Marta Ujvari , Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Michael Watkins , Auburn University, United States
Sara Worley , Bowling Green State University, United States
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