Jonathan Lowe and Ontology
Częstochowa, ul. Zbierskiego 2/4
Edward Jonathan Lowe (1950–2014) was one of the most influential analytical philosophers of the twentieth and early twenty-first century. He published eleven books, more than 300 articles, and was the co-editor of four volumes. The topics covered in his works concern philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophical logic, philosophy of religion and history of modern philosophy, but his real centre of interest was metaphysics and ontology: “The Possibility of Metaphysics” and the inevitability of ontological questions. Taking this into account, our conference will focus on Lowe’s important contributions to ontology and to related topics in other areas of philosophy. In this way, we hope to highlight the lasting importance of this great philosopher and the relevance of his work for contemporary philosophy.
P R O G R A M
of the International Conference
Jonathan Lowe and Ontology
Warsaw, May 21-23, 2019
Location: the assembly hall of the Institute of Philosophy at the University
of Warsaw, 00-927 Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 3
The format for each talk is as follows: – 45 minutes for paper
– 10 minutes discussion
Tuesday (21.05.2019)
8.50 – 9.00 Welcome Address
Chair: Uwe Meixner
9.00 – 9.55 Peter van Inwagen (Notre Dame University, USA) - Lowe on Predication
9.55 – 10.50 John Heil (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) - Lowe’s Progress
Chair: Ludger Jansen
11.05 – 12.00 Kevin Mulligan (University of Italian Switzerland, Lugano; University of Geneva, Switzerland) - Internal Relations
12.00 – 12.30 Coffee Break
Chair: Markku Keinänen
12.30 – 13.25 Christopher Daly (University of Manchester, UK) - The Plausibility of Lowe's Metaphilosophy
13.25 – 14.20 Christian Kanzian (University of Innsbruck, Austria) - The Possibility of Metaphysics
Chair: Eric Olsen
16.30 – 17.25 Peter Simons (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; and University ofSalzburg, Austria) - Persons and Physicalism
17.25 – 18.20 Ludger Jansen (University of Bochum/Rostock, Germany) and Sandstad P. (University of Rostock, Germany) - Kinds and Explanations
Wednesday (22.05.2019)
Chair: Christian Kanzian
9.00 – 9.55 Rögnvaldur Ingthorsson (University of Lund, Sweden) - A Causal Theory of Persistence
9.55 – 10.50 Michał Głowala (University of Wrocław, Poland) – Causal and Non-Causal Aspects of Agency in Lowe's Ontology of Action
Chair: Peter Simons
11.05 – 12.00 Eric Olsen (University of Sheffield, UK) - Lowe’s Non-Cartesian Dualism
12.00 – 12.30 Coffee Break
Chair: John Heil
12.30 – 13.25 Max Kistler (University of Paris, France) – Lowe's Argument for Dualism from Mental Causation
13.25 – 14.20 Tuomas Tahko (University of Bristol, UK) - Sparse Essentialism
Chair: Christopher Daly
16.30 – 17.25 Jani Hakkarainen (University of Tampere, Finland) – Fundamentality of Categories - Elaborating on Lowe’s Account
17.25 – 18.20 Markku Keinänen (University of Tampere, Finland) - Lowe's Eliminativism of Relations versus the Reductive Analysis of Relating
Thursday (23.05.2019)
Chair: Ludger Jansen
9.00 – 9.55 Uwe Meixner (University of Augsburg, Germany) - Powers Are Not Enough
9.55 – 10.50 Christof Rapp (University of Munich, Germany) - Primary substances in Aristotle and Jonathan Lowe
Chair: Max Kistler
11.05 – 12.00 Janusz Kaczmarek (University of Łódź, Poland) - The Four-Category Ontology modulo Topological Ontology
12.05 – Conference Closing