CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
2022 Symposium on Artifacts
July 18-21, 2022, organized by Kathrin Koslicki and Marco Marabello (Université de Neuchâtel) at SoPhA 2022, the ninth congress of the French speaking society for analytic philosophy.
Speaker: Asya Passinsky (CEU), “Artifacts and Social Objects”.
Speaker: Michael Raven (University of Victoria), “The Dynamics of Artifacts”.
Speaker: Enrico Terrone (University of Genoa), “Goodbye Art, Goodbye Aesthetics?”.
SE2020: Re-Evaluating Social Essences Workshop (4th Annual MC Meeting)
April 30-May 2, 2021, organized by Micheal Raven (University of Victoria), held online due to COVID travel restrictions.
Speakers: Heather Alexander and Jonathan Simon (Université de Montréal), “Statelessness and the Social Ontology of State Membership”; Commentator: Frank Hindriks (University of Groningen)
Speaker: Jude Buckner (Duke University), “Know Thyself: Epistemology and Identity Politics”; Commentator: Elise Woodard (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Speaker: Rachel K. Cooper (University of California, Irvine), “Social Kinds* and Social Groups”; Commentator: Aaron Griffith (College of William and Mary)
Speaker: Rebecca Mason (University of San Francisco), “Social Kinds are Essentially Mind-Dependent”; Commentator: Irem Kurtsal (Allegheny College)
Speaker: James Miller (Durham University), “Words, Species, and Kinds”; Commentator: Simone Evnine (University of Miami)
Speaker: Asya Passinsky (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), “Social Essentialism”; Commentator: Kate Ritchie (City College of New York)
Speaker: Angela Zhao (University of British Columbia), “Women as Victims of ‘Misogyny’: Re-centering Marginalization”; Commentator: Charlotte Witt (University of New Hampshire)
Keynote Speaker: Ásta (San Francisco State University), “What is Sex and What Do We Want it to Be?”
Keynote Speaker: Brian Epstein (Tufts University), “Anchoring, Essence, and Real Definition”
Keynote Speaker: Muhammad Ali Khalidi (City University of New York), “Language and Social Ontology”
Inaugural Alumni Speaker: Kit Fine (New York University), “The Concept of Gender Identity”
2019 Conference on Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism (3rd Annual MC Meeting)
September 26-29, 2019, Banff Centre, organized by Kathrin Koslicki (Université de Neuchâtel). More info here.
2018 Conference on Language and Essence (2nd Annual MC Meeting)
October 5-7, 2018 , Victoria, British Columbia, organized by Margaret Cameron (The University of Melbourne) and Michael Raven (University of Victoria). Keynotes:
Charlotte Witt (University of New Hampshire), “A Tale of Two Essentialisms”
Gideon Rosen (Princeton): “Knowledge of Essence”
Calvin Normore (UCLA): “The What, the Which, and the Who: Essence Now and Then”.
More info here.
2017 Hylomorphism Conference (1st Annual MC Meeting)
May 11-14, 2017, Banff Centre, organized by Kathrin Koslicki (Université de Neuchâtel). More info here.
Invited Symposium: Metaphysics of Artifacts
March 31, 2016, Pacific Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, organized by Michael Raven (University of Victoria)
Chair: Raul Saucedo (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Speaker: Philip Corkum (University of Alberta) “Explaining Artifacts”
Commentator: Simon Evnine (University of Miami)
Speaker: Jessica Wilson (University of Toronto) “The Emergence of Artifacts”
Commentator: Asya Passinsky (New York University)
Speaker: Margaret Cameron (The University of Melbourne) “The Moving Cause of Artifacts: The Role of Technē in Metaphysical Explanation”
Commentator: Adam Crager (University of California, Los Angeles)
2015 Metaphysics Workshop, "Artifacts and Metaphysical Explanation"
May 17-20, 2015, Banff Centre, organized by Kathrin Koslicki (Université de Neuchâtel). More info here.
Speaker Series
2016/2017 "Current Research in Metaphysics & Epistemology" Speaker Series
University of Alberta, organized by Kathrin Koslicki (Université de Neuchâtel).
September 13, 2016: Allen Hazen (University of Alberta), "Some philosophical choices in modal logic"
October 4, 2016: David Liebesman (University of Calgary), "Neo-Fregean Category Theory"
October 18, 2016: Bernard Linsky (University of Alberta), "On the Contingently Non-Concrete and the Simplest Quantified Modal Logic"
2015/2016 "Current Research in Metaphysics & Epistemology" Speaker Series
University of Alberta, organized by Kathrin Koslicki (Université de Neuchâtel). More info here.
September 15, 2015: Travis Dumsday, Concordia University of Edmonton, "Kinds, Substances and the Unity Problem: Two Dispositionalist Solutions"
October 27, 2015: Rebecca Mason, University of San Francisco, "Social Facts: Essence and Dependence"
March 14, 2016: Laurie Paul, Yale University, "Preference Capture"
2014 "Current Research in Metaphysics" Speaker Series
University of Alberta, Fall 2014, organized by Kathrin Koslicki. More info here.
September 16, 2014: Michael Raven, University of Victoria: "Expressing the Truth, Describing the World"
September 30, 2014: Chris Tillman, University of Manitoba: "The Matter of Serial Fiction"
October 14, 2014: Jessica Wilson, University of Toronto: "The Metaphysics of Ordinary Objects"
October 28, 2014: Carrie Jenkins, University of British Columbia: "What Is Romantic Love? An Incomplete List of Metaphysical Theories"
November 4, 2014: Ori Simchen, University of British Columbia: "Semantic Endowment"
November 25, 2014: Margaret Cameron, The University of Melbourne: "Is Ground Said-in-many-ways?"