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Modal Metaphysics: Issues on the (Im)Possible IV

Conference (not only) on metaphysics

22. 9. 2016 | 1265 visits
In August 30-31 2016, the Institute of Philosophy of Slovak Academy of Sciences, metaphysics.sk research group and Slovak Philosophical Association hosted the fourth instalment of Modal Metaphysics: Issues on the (Im)Possible conference. As in the previous years, this year’s session brought together researchers and graduate students from all around the world to discuss contemporary moves in analytic metaphysics in general, modal logic, metaphysics and epistemology in particular. A specific feature of this conference is that accepted and presented papers were assigned commentators who read the papers in advance and provided critical comments on them. Invited speakers were Gideon Rosen (Princeton University) and Richard Woodward (University of Hamburg).
Importantly, the conference series keeps attracting researchers from all around the world. And although it has been a while since the Institute of Philosophy started organising the event, we still feel an optimism and resolution to continue it. It is partly due to the fact that problems of modality are not limited to a narrowly conceived analytic metaphysics. They occur also in other branches of philosophy. Partly, it is the very community which makes the conference both intellectually intensive, yet essentially relaxed.
All the information about the conference, including the book of abstracts, program, pictures and video of Gideon Rosen’s talk can be found here: http://www.metaphysics.sk/issuesontheimpossible