College of Humanities and Social Science  
The University of Edinburgh Humanities and Social Science

The Number of Substance

This is a two-day metaphysics conference at the University of Edinburgh on Friday 28th and Saturday 29th May 2004. Organizers are Anna Marmodoro and Dory Scaltsas. There is no charge, but if you intend coming please let Anna Marmodoro know.

 

Programme:

Friday 28th May

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee

11.00 - 12.30 Prof Marilyn McCord Adams (Oxford)
"What is Metaphysically Special about Supposits"

12.30 - 2.00 Lunch

2.00 - 3.30 Prof Massimo Mugnai (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa Italy)
"Leibniz on the Nature of Accidental Properties"

3.30 - 3.45 Coffee

3.45 - 5.15 Dr Stefano Di Bella (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa Italy)
"Leibniz on the Thisness/Suchness Problem"

5.15 - 5.30 Coffee

5.30 - 7.00 Prof Jonathan Lowe (Durham)
"Is Number a Property of Substances"

7.00 Drinks Reception, Norman Kemp Smith Room, 2nd Floor David Hume Tower

 

Saturday 29th May

10.00 - 11.30 Prof Dory Scaltsas (Edinburgh)
"Sharing a Property Instance"

11.30 - 11.45 Coffee

11.45 - 1.15 Prof Robert Adams (Oxford)
"Existence"

 

The workshop will take place in Room 6.11, on the Sixth Floor of the David Hume Tower, George Square, Edinburgh.

 

The organisers would like to thank for their financial support:
The Scots Philosophical Club
The Alumni Fund of the University of Edinburgh Development Trust
The Philosophy Department of the University of Edinburgh
The Archelogos Project