In just a week’s time I’m heading to Tampere to a Metametaphysics workshop organized by Jani Hakkarainen. I’m afraid that it’s in Finnish, so the announcement below will only be informative if you know the language, but let me summarize the topics: Jani will first introduce the topic, then I’ll give a talk on ‘Quantification and Ontological Realism’ (this is closely related to the abstract I posted recently, namely ‘Why Quantification Cannot Carve at the Joints‘). Heikki J. Koskinen will continue with a talk ‘On Ontological Judgements (and their Justification)’, with Markku Keinänen following on ‘The Problem of Universals as an Ontological Problem’. Finally, Arto Repo will give a talk entitled ‘Is Composition a Metaphysical Problem?’.

This all sounds quite interesting and I’m looking forward to the workshop. My own talk will probably be quite sketchy as I’ve got too much going on at the moment and I haven’t had much time to think about this, but this should be a good opportunity to organize my thoughts! Incidentally, I think that this may be the first professional talk ever that I’ve given in Finnish…

Online announcement: http://filosofia.fi/node/6009

Metametafysiikka
Työpaja
ke 14.12.2011
Pinni B2077
Tampereen yliopisto

10.15-11.00 Jani Hakkarainen: Avaus – mistä on kysymys?
11.00-12.00 Tuomas Tahko (Helsinki): Kvantifikaatio ja ontologinen realismi
12.00-13.15 lounas
13.15-14.15 Heikki J. Koskinen (Tampere): Ontologisista arvostelmista (ja niiden oikeutuksesta)
14.15-14.30 tauko
14.30-15.30 Markku Keinänen (Turku): Universaalien ongelma ontologisena ongelmana
15.30-16.00 kahvitauko
16.00-17.00 Arto Repo (Turku): Onko kompositio metafyysinen ongelma?
17.00-19.00 viinivastaanotto (kahvihuone)

Tervetuloa!

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Lisätietoja: FT Jani Hakkarainen, 040 190 4125, jani.hakkarainen[at]uta.fi