sUBSTANCE AND ATTRIBUTE
An International Philosophical Symposium organized by the research project “The Possibility of Metaphysics in Twentieth Century and Contemporary Philosophy” at the Department of History and Philosophy, University of Tampere, May 19 – 20, 2008
Monday, May 19
Paavo Koli Hall
10.15 Opening: Leila Haaparanta
10.20 Neil Williams (University at Buffalo): Could Relations Individuate?
11.50 Lunch
13.15 Markku Keinänen (University of Turku): Tropes and Ontic Predication
14.15 Jani Hakkarainen (University of Tampere): Hume as a Trope Nominalist?
15.00 Coffee
15.30 Petri Ylikoski (University of Tampere): Constitution and Counterfactual Dependence
16.15 Ilmari Kortelainen (University of Tampere): Interpretive Analysis and Interpretation Theory
Tuesday, May 20
Paavo Koli Hall
10.15 Hidé Ishiguro (Keio University): Reflections on the Notion of Substance in Philosophy
11.45 Lunch
13.00 Heikki J. Koskinen (University of Helsinki): Quine, Predication, and the Categories of Being
14.00 Break
14.15 Antti Keskinen (University of Tampere): Quine and the Intelligibility of Essentialism
15.00 Leila Haaparanta (University of Tampere): On Defining Oneself
15.45 Closing
The project is funded by the Academy of Finland.
Welcome!
Information:
Leila Haaparanta
leila.haaparanta[at]uta.fi