19-20 Sep 2016
Hamburg, Germany
As part of the Emmy Noether Research Group "Ontology after Quine: Fictionalism and Fundamentality <http://carvingnature.net>", the University of Hamburg will host a two-day workshop on the philosophy of David Lewis that will take place on *Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th September*. The workshop is the third of a series of Lewis-related events and will cover a range of issues relating to Lewis's philosophical work, with a particular emphasis on methodological issues as they arise in Lewis's metaphysics. The tentative schedule can be found below: *Monday Sept 19* 11:00 ? 12:30 John Divers <http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/people/20048/philosophy/person/871/john_divers> (Leeds). Lewis on the Analysis of Modality. 14:30 ? 16:00 Daniel Deasy <http://danieldeasy.co.uk> (UCD). Advanced Temporalizing. 16:30 ? 18:00 Thomas Krödel <https://www.philosophie.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/idealismus/mitarbeiter1/kroedel> (HU-Berlin/Hamburg). A New Future Similarity Objection. *Tuesday Sept 20* 11:00 ? 12:30 Ralf Busse <https://www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb05philosophie/arbeitsbereiche/wissenschaftsphilosophie/rbusse/> (Mainz). Foundations for a Quasi-Lewisian Nominalism. 14:30 ? 16:00 Neil McDonnell <https://sites.google.com/site/neilmcdonnell/> (Glasgow). Causation?s Non-Occurence Problem. 16:30 ? 18:00 Maya Eddon <http://people.umass.edu/mayae/> (UMass). TBC Attendance is free, but it would be helpful if you could let Richard, richard.woodward@uni-hamburg.de, and Julia (julia.zakkou@uni-hamburg.de) know so we can keep track of numbers. For more details, please keep an eye on the our website: http://carvingnature.net --- Richard Woodward Gruppenleiter, Emmy Noether Forschungsgruppe: Ontologie nach Quine Philosophisches Seminar der Universität Hamburg http://carvingnature.net -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam