Pacific APA 2009 Events

GV-G. Society for the Metaphysics of Science, Session 1

6:00-9:00 p.m.

THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 9

Topic: New Waves in Metaphysics I

Chair: Allan Hazlett (Fordham University)

Speakers:

Thomas Hofweber (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)

“Against Esoteric Metaphysics”

Alyssa Ney (University of Rochester)

“Are There Fundamental Intrinsic Properties?”

Rae Langton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and

Chris Robichaud (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

“Intrinsicality and Ignorance”

Ross Cameron (University of Leeds)

“Quantification, Naturalness, and Ontology”

Douglas N. Kutach (Brown University)

“Real and Ordinary Language Metaphysics”

Carolina Sartorio (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

“The Prince of Wales Problem for Counterfactual Theories of Causation”

GX-J. Society for the Metaphysics of Science, Session 2

SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 11

6:00-9:00 p.m.

Topic: New Waves in Metaphysics II

Chair: Alyssa Ney (University of Rochester)

Speakers:

Joshua Glasgow (Victoria University of Wellington)

“Another Look at the Reality of Race, By Which I Mean Race(F)”

Neal Judisch (University of Oklahoma)

“Bringing Things About”

Uriah Kriegel (University of Arizona)

“Interpretivism: It’s Scope and Limits”

Mari Mikkola (University of Lancaster)

“Is Everything Relative? Anti-realism, Truth, and Feminism”

Allan Hazlett (Fordham University)

“Post-essentialism”

Sara Rachel Chant (University of Missouri)

“The Metaphysics of Collective Action”