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

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