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Title: The Genesis of Lewis’s Counterfactual Analysis of Causation Abstract: Lewis presented a prototype counterfactual analysis of causation back in 1958 — aged just 16 or 17 — in the…

TITLE: Fundamentality Without Favouritism ABSTRACT: According to a widely endorsed conception of fundamentality, the fundamental is characterized in terms of a certain privileged relation or set of relations. On this…

TITLE: Against Conservative Ontology ABSTRACT: In his recent book Objects: Nothing Out of the Ordinary (2015), Dan Z. Korman argues in favour of conservatism in metaphysics, that is, very roughly, that what we ordinarily take…

TITLE: Artifacts and the Limits of Human Creative Intentions ABSTRACT: According to Amie Thomasson’s author-intention-based account of artifacts, an artifact of kind K is essentially a product of a largely…

Title: Truthmaker semantics for containment and nonsense Abstract: Conceptivism is the doctrine according to which a proposition cannot entail another proposition if the latter contains a concept which is not…

Title: On American and Australian plans for negation Abstract: Francesco Berto, later joined by Greg Restall, defends a modal account of negation, or the Australian plan for negation. The aim…

Title: Something Must Go Abstract: In this talk, we identify a tension between the intensional criterion of property identity and Leibniz’s Law. In particular, we argue that these two widely accepted…

Title: Fundamentality and Humean Laws of Ground Abstract: What grounds facts of ground? Some metaphysicians invoke fundamental grounding laws to answer this question. These are general principles that link grounded facts…

Title: Partial identity and mereotopology Abstract: How should we think about the ways in which identity and parthood interact? One important line of thought comes from the joint influence of…