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Bled Philosophical Conferences
(Applied) Ethics
June 7 - June 11, 2010


 
Metaphysics - June 4-9, 2001, Kompas Hotel, Bled, Slovenia
 

Monday, June 4th

11:00           The organizers: Welcome

11:30-12:30  Igor Jerman ▪ Institute for Bioelectromagnetics and New Biology, Ljubljana Living Process Logic

2:30-3:30     Boran Berčić ▪ University of Rijeka

Moral Facts and Independent Access

3:45-4:45     Anthony Graybosch ▪ California State University, Chico

 American Beauty [A]

3:45-4:45     Christian Piller ▪ York University

Ways of Being Good [B]

5:00-6:00     Howard Robinson ▪ Central European University, Budapest

Plotinus, Locke and Hume on the unity of individual substances

 

Tuesday, June 5th

 9:00-10:00    Marian David ▪ University of Notre Dame

Some Remarks About Truth-Relativism [A]

9:00-10:00    Marta Ujvari ▪ Budapest University of Economics

Time, Tense and the 'Indexical Fallacy' in McTaggart's Argument [B]

10:15-11:15  Bojan Borstner ▪ University of Maribor

 A Problem of Universals: One over Many or Many over One? [A]

10:15-11:15  William Craig ▪ Talbot School of Theology

The Elimination of Absolute Time by the Special Theory of Relativity [B]

11:30-12:30  Barry Loewer ▪ Rutgers University

Natural Properties

2:30-3:30     John Tienson ▪ University of Memphis

Questions for Blobjectivism [A]

2:30-3:30     Mark Scala ▪ Syracuse University

Temporal Parts [B]

3:45-4:45     Terry Horgan ▪ University of Memphis and Matjaž Potrč ▪ University of Ljubljana

 Addressing Some Questions for Blobjectivism [A]

3:45-4:45     Miroslava Andjelković ▪ University of Belgrade

Non-entities as Truthmakers [B]

5:00-6:00     Peter van Inwagen ▪ University of Notre Dame

‘Carnap’ and ‘The Polish Logician’



Wednesday, June 6th

9:00-10:00    Arto Siitonen ▪ University of Helsinki

From ‘Overcoming of Metaphysics’ to Analytic Metaphysics [A]

9:00-10:00    Michael Felber ▪ Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Thoughts about the Metaphysical Ontology of Things [B]

10:15-11:15  Noa Latham ▪ Reed College

Can Psychophysical Property Identity Save Mental Causation? [A]

10:15-11:15  Marko Uršič ▪ University of Ljubljana

Some Epistemological and Metaphysical Aspects of the "Anthropic Principle" in Modern Cosmology [B]

11:30-12:30  David Sosa ▪ University of Texas at Austin

Free Mental Causation! [A]

11:30-12:30  Alessandra Tanesini ▪ Cardiff University

Knowing that One has a Mind: Putnam's Brains in Vats Revisited [B]

 2:30-3:30     Nenad Miščević ▪ University of Maribor

The Structure of Empirical Concepts [A]

2:30-3:30     Cian Dorr ▪ New York University

Composite Objects and Causal Efficacy [B]

3:45-4:45     Katalin Balog ▪ Yale University

Concepts with Qualities [A]

3:45-4:45     Kathrin Koslicki ▪ Tufts University

Constitution, Parthood and Dependence [B]

5:00-6:00     Richard Grandy ▪ Rice University

Objects before Words

 7:30             Group dinner at restaurant Zaka

  

Thursday, June 7th

 STUDENT SESSIONS

 10.00  Adolf Rami, University of Graz, Why Not Be a Solipsist?

Jan Bregant, University of Maribor, Supervenient Causation

Maja Malec, University of Ljubljana, Why did Lewis not explain laws of nature in terms of possible worlds?

Uroš Rošker, University of Ljubljana, Brentanian Space

Vojko Strahovnik, University of Ljubljana, Horgan’s Package

of Limited Metaphysical Realism, Contextual Semantics and Blobjectivism

Tea Logar, University of Maribor, Pornography

Friday, June 8th

10:15-11:15  Anthony Dardis ▪ Hofstra University

Higher Level Property Causal Relevance [A]

10:15-11:15  Ferenc Huoranszki ▪ Eötlös Lóránd University, Budapest

Fatalism [B]

11:30-12:30  Crawford Elder ▪ University of Connecticut

The Problem of Harmonizing Laws [A]

11:30-12:30  Danilo Šuster ▪ University of Maribor

Question-begging and Arguments for Incompatibilism [B]

2:30-3:30     John Hawthorne ▪ Rutgers University

Gunk [A]

2:30-3:30     Daniel Farrell ▪ Ohio State University

Kant's (Non-retributivist) Metaphysics of Punishment [B]

3:45-4:45     Takashi Yagisawa ▪ California State University, Northridge

Minimal Modal Realism

5:00-6:00     Mark Lance ▪ Georgetown University

Defeasibility and Necessity

  

Saturday, June 9th

9:00-10:00    Mylan Engel, Jr. ▪ Northern Illinois University

The Real Logical Problem Evil Poses for the Theist

 10:15-11:15  W.R. Carter ▪ North Carolina State University

Too Many Minds

 11:30-12:30  Eugene Mills ▪ Virginia Commonwealth University

Remedial Ontology