The Annual Joint UNC/Hebrew U. Philosophy Conference 2016
METAPHYSICS: HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
16-17.5.2016 Rabin Building, Room 2001
Monday 16.5:
9:00- 9:30 Coffee
Session 1
Chair: Karin Nisenbaum
9:30-11:00 Thomas Hofweber (UNC), “The form of thought and the structure of reality”
11:30-13:00 Michael Roubach (Hebrew U.) “Husserl's Notion of Formal Ontology and the Question of Being”
13:00-14:00 Lunch
Session 2
Chair: Sharon Krishek
14:00-15:30 Eli Pitcovski (Hebrew U.) “Ontologically Revealing”
16:00-17:30 Naly Thaler (Hebrew U.) “Forms and Fire Sticks: Ontology and Method in Plato’s Republic”
Tuesday 17.5
9:30-10:00 Coffee
Session 1
Chair: Arnon Levy
10:00-11:30 Aaron Segal (Hebrew U.) "Humean Metaphysics and Humean Epistemology"
12:00-13:30 Noa Shein (Ben-Gurion U.) "'Certainly the maker of all things will not be never or nowhere'; Newton contra Descartes in the General Scholium"
13:30- 14:30 Lunch
Session 2
Chair: Naly Thaler
14:30-16:00 Alan Nelson (UNC) "The Form of Extension in Cartesianism"