The 2025 LanCog Summer Metaphysics Workshop

June 23, 2025

 

The 2025 LanCog Summer Metaphysics Workshop will be an intensive, three day workshop on metaphysics, very broadly construed, and will feature leading scholars from around the world. Attendance is open to all who are interested, but anyone who is planning to attend should register for the workshop through the link below, so that the organizers can make sure there is enough coffee.

 

The 2025 LSMW will be an in-person event. There will, unfortunately, be no way to attend remotely.

 

Schedule:

 

June 23rd

9:30-10:00  Coffee, tea, snacks

10:00-11:30  Sharon Casu, “On The Necessity of Awareness for Intentional Actions” (Giada Fratantonio, commentator; Ned Markosian, chair)

11:45-13:15  Daniel Deasy, “The Contingency of Times” (Ricardo Santos, commentator; Heather Demarest, chair)

14:45-16:15  Matt Duncan, “The Irreplaceable Value of the Awareness Relation” (Margarida Hermida, commentator; Kevin Richardson, chair)

16:30-18:00  Michaela McSweeney, “Grasping by Depicting” (Omobola Badejo, commentator; Ricardo Santos, chair)

 

June 24th

9:30-10:00  Coffee, tea, snacks

10:00-11:30  Marta Campdelacreu, “The Property-Inheritance Problem” (Youssef Aguisoul, commentator; Daniel Deasy, chair)

11:45-13:15  Kevin Richardson, “Relatively Inescapable Concepts” (Marta Paneiro, commentator; Margarida Hermida, chair)

14:45-16:15  Magdalene Dimitriadou, “Russellian Monism Without Pan(proto)psychism?” (David Yates, commentator; Michaela McSweeney, chair)

16:30-18:00  Ned Markosian, “What Is Time?” (Brigitte Everett, commentator; Giada Fratantonio, chair)

 

June 25th

9:30-10:00  Coffee, tea, snacks

10:00-11:30  Eliška Wichterlová, “In Defense of Fragmentalism: Phenomenological Considerations” (Fabio Patrone, commentator; Marta Campdelacreu, chair)

11:45-13:15  Chaeyoung Paek, “The Ownership View of Autonomy: a New Relational Approach to Local Autonomy” (Aderonke Ajiboro, commentator; David Yates, chair)

14:45-16:15  Sayid Bnefsi, “The Concurrence Doctrine” (Justin Caouette, commentator; Jun Kim, chair)

16:30-18:00  Heather Demarest, “Resisting the Second Law of Thermodynamics” (Gabrielle Kerbel, commentator; Matt Duncan, chair)

 

Abstracts

 

Register for the 2025 LanCog Summer Metaphysics Workshop

 

Co-Organizers: Ned Markosian (UMass Amherst, LanCog)

                             Hugo Luzio (LanCog, CFUL)

For any information or further queries about the workshop, please contact the organizers at the following email addresses: markosian@umass.edu or hugo.luzio@.edu.ulisboa.pt.