Syracuse Workshop
in
Metaphysics

Conference Schedule

Friday August 15th: all events at Faculty Center
5:00 - 6:00 Drinks
6:00 - 8:00 Dinner
8:00 - 9:30 Frank Arntzenius, Rutgers University
'Lewis on Locality'
Commentator: Cian Dorr, University of Pittsburgh

Saturday August 16th: all events at Faculty Center

9:30 - 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 - 11:30 Jonathan Schaffer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
'Contrastive Causation'
Commentator: Eric Hiddleston, Syracuse University
11:45 - 1:15 Roy Sorensen, Dartmouth College
'Future Law'
Commentator: Brian Weatherson, Brown University
1:15 - 2:15 Lunch
2:15 - 3:45 Amie Thomasson, University of Miami
'Metaphysical Arguments Against Ordinary Objects'
Commentator: Trenton Merricks, University of Virginia
4:00 - 5:30 Harold Noonan, University of Birmingham
'The Concept Horse'
Commentator: Ishani Maitra, Syracuse University
5:30 - 6:30 Drinks
6:30 - 8:00 Dinner
8:00 - 10:00 John Hawthorne, Rutgers University
(topic: semantic properties)

Sunday August 17th: events at Genesee Inn unless otherwise noted

10:00 - 10:30
Breakfast
10:30 - 12:00 Carolina Sartorio, University of Wisconsin-Madison
'How to be Responsible for Something Without Causing It'
Commentator: Randy Clarke, University of Georgia
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 Ted Sider, Rutgers University
'Quantifiers and Temporal Ontology'
Commentator: André Gallois, Syracuse University
5:00 - ... Post-Conference Party (at Stewart Thau's house; directions are included in the conference packet)