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Metametaphysics: Do Ontological Questions have Determinate Answers?

 

The ANU Centre for Consciousness held a two-day workshop on "Metametaphysics: Do Ontological Questions have Determinate Answers?" on Thursday June 30 and Friday July 1, 2005. The focus was on the debate between broadly realist and broadly deflationary approaches to questions of existence: must there be a fact of the matter about whether numbers exist, say, or about whether mereological sums exist?

The program is below. There are also some photos.

 

  THURSDAY 30 JUNE

9.30am

Reception

10.00am

Opening Remarks

10.10am-12.10pm

Ted Sider (Rutgers)
"Ontological Realism"

1.30-3.30pm

Stephen Yablo (MIT)
"Must Existence Questions Have Answers?"

4.00-6.00pm

David Chalmers (ANU)
"Ontological Indeterminacy"

7.00pm

Conference dinner
Zen Yai Thai Restaurant

 

  FRIDAY 1 JULY

10.00am-12.00pm

Amie Thomasson (Miami)
"Answerable and Unanswerable Questions"

1.00-3.00pm

Karen Bennett (Princeton/ANU)
"Composition, Coincidence, and Metaontology"

3.30-5.30pm

Huw Price (Sydney)
"Quining Naturalism"

5.30-6.30pm

Wrap-up Discussion