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