Fundamentality

A conference on metaphysics
Hosted by Philosophy RSSS, Australian National University 
Organized by Jonathan Schaffer & Tobias Wilsch

Open to the public
June 30th to July 2nd, 2010
Location: Sparke Helmore 2

Wednesday June 30th

8:30 - 9:00 coffee
9:00 - 11:30 Daniel Nolan (Nottingham) “Fundamentality Relations between Categories”, comments by John Maier (ANU)
11:30 - 1:00 lunch
1:00 - 3:30 Tobias Wilsch (ANU) “The Best System Approach to the Laws of Grounding”, comments by Kristie Miller (Sydney) 
3:30 - 4:00 coffee
4:00 - 6:30 Karen Bennett (Cornell) “Flavors of Fundamentality”, comments by David Braddon-Mitchell (Sydney)

Thursday July 1st

8:30 - 9:00 coffee
9:00 - 11:30 Kit Fine (NYU) “Ground”, comments by Greg Restall (Melbourne)
11:30 - 1:00 lunch
1:00 - 3:30 Kris McDaniel (Syracuse) “Degrees of Being”, comments by Dana Goswick (Melbourne)
3:30 - 4:00 coffee 
4:00 - 6:30 Laurie Paul (UNC) “Building the World from Fundamental Constituents”, comments by Alex Skiles (Notre Dame)

Friday July 2nd

8:30 - 9:00 coffee
9:00 - 11:30 Raul Saucedo (Yale) “Fundamentality, Humeanism, and Contingent Grounds”, comments by Dan Marshall (ANU)
11:30 - 1:00 lunch
1:00 - 3:30 Benjamin Schnieder (Berlin) “On the Asymmetry of ‘Because’”, comments by Rachael Briggs (Sydney)
3:30 - 4:00 coffee 
4:00 - 6:30 Jessica Wilson (Toronto) “Fundamental Determinables”, comments by John Bigelow (Monash)