2024 UCSD Metaphysics Workshop

UC San Diego will host a metaphysics workshop on October 26th and 27th, 2024. The workshop is open to those would like to attend – but please register in advance by emailing Sam Elgin (elgin.samuel@gmail.com) so that we have sufficient catering.

Tentative Schedule:

Saturday, October 26th

9:30-10:00 Breakfast

10:00-10:10 Opening Remarks

10:10-11:30 Erica Shumener: Identity in Action

11:40-1:00 Sam Elgin: The Grounds of Nonground

1:00-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:20 Alexander Roberts: Possibility Plenitude

3:30-4:50 Verónica Gómez Sánchez: Why Define Theoretical Concepts? 

5:00-6:00 Reception

6:30-8:00 Conference Dinner (Speakers Only)

Sunday, October 27th

9:30-10:00 Breakfast

10:00-11:20 Isaac Wilhelm: Talk About Types

11:30-12:50 David Builes: From the Bundle Theory to Leibnizian Nominalism

1:00-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:20 Annina Loets: Fission is Division

3:30-4:50 Ezra Rubenstein: Conjunction as Identity

4:50-5:00 Closing Remarks

6:30-9:00 Metaphysics Barbecue

More information to follow