UPCOMING EVENTS

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Conference: Mind, Ethics and Metaphysics in Buddhism 

Dates: February 20-22, 2026

Location: Humanities Seminar Room (H232)
Principal organizers: Sean Smith (UH Manoa) and Alex Moran (Bilkent)
Hosted by: Bilkent University, Department of Philosophy


Speakers:

• Amber Carpenter — Einstein Forum/ KCL
• Bronwyn Finnigan — Australian National University
• Maria Heim — Amherst College
• Mark Johnston — Princeton University (via Zoom)
• James Kinkaid — Bilkent University
• Anandi Hattiangadi — Stockholm University
• Keya Maitra — University of Hawai’i Mānoa
• Alex Moran — Bilkent University
• Kranti Saran — Ashoka University
• Sean Smith — University of Hawai’i Mānoa
• Koji Tanaka — Australian National University
  

Conference: Reductionism in metaphysics, meta-ethics, and philosophy of mind

Organisers: Alex Moran & Ralf Bader
Location: Fribourg University
Dates: June 23rd - June 25th 2025.

To register please send me an email.
The conference is free to attend.
For further details see: https://philevents.org/event/show/133474

Click here to download the schedule.

Schedule:

Monday 23rd June

09:30 - 11:00 Selim Berker (Harvard): 'Grounds as Metaphysical Forces: A Critique'
11:30 - 13:00 Karen Bennett, Audrey Powers, Itamar Weinshtock Saadon (Rutgers): 'Laws as Partial Grounds'
14:30 - 16:00 Ralf Bader (Fribourg): 'Laws and Grounds'
16:30 - 18:00 Mark Johnston (Princeton): 'Ontological Reduction, Grounding, Superinternality, Ontological Trash, Emergence, and the Embodiment of Mind'

Tuesday 24 June

09:30 - 11:00 Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm) and Alex Moran (Fribourg): 'Moral Laws are Metaphysically Contingent'
11:30 - 13:00 Gideon Rosen (Princeton): 'Metaethical Non-Naturalism and Mind-Body Dualism: Analogies and Differences'
14:30 - 16:00 James Van Cleve (USC): 'Reduction vs Emergence in Metaphysics and Mind'
16:30 - 18:00 Tim Crane (CEU Vienna): 'Reduction as Explanation: Epistemological not Metaphysical'

Wednesday 25 June

09:30 - 11:00 Damien Aleksiev (Vienna): 'Inconceivability as a Guide to Ground'
11:30 - 13:00 Fatema Amijee (UBC): 'Spinoza's Fork: Why Non-Reductive Necessities Collapse into Neutral Monism'
14:30 - 16:00 Umrao Sethi (Brandeis): 'Mind-Dependence, Reduction and the Sensible Qualities'
16:30 - 18:00 Adam Pautz (Brown): 'Identification Physicalism and Acquaintance with Qualities'

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Workshop: Applications of Grounding II (2024)

Fribourg University
Organisers: Anandi Hattiangadi & Alex Moran
Location: Fribourg University
Dates: July 29th & July 30th (2024)

To register please send me an email.
The workshop is free to attend.

Speakers

Stephan Leuenberger (University of Glasgow)
Taylor Pincin (Columbia University)
Alex Moran (Université de Fribourg)
Henrik Rhydén (Uppsala University)
Ralf Bader (Université de Fribourg)
Francesca Poggiolesi (Université de Paris)
Zachary Blaesi (Austin Community College)
Audrey Powers (Rutgers University)
Carlo Rossi (Universidad de Santiago de Chile)

Please click here to see a schedule as well as abstracts for the talks.

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Workshop: Applications of Grounding I (2023)

Trinity College Dublin & Stockholm University
Organisers: Anandi Hattiangadi, Alex Moran
Location: Trinity College Dublin
Dates: July 13th & July 14th (2023)

To register please email: [email protected]

The workshop is free to attend.

Speakers:

Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm University)
Alex Moran (Trinity College Dublin)
Singa Behrens (Hamburg University)
Fatema Amijee (University of British Columbia)
Dominic Alford-Duguid (University of British Columbia)
Donnchadh O’Connaill (Fribourg University)
Damian Aleksiev (Central European University)
Samuel Lee (Linköping University)
Mohsen Moghri (Birmingham University)

Please click here to see a schedule as well as abstracts for the talks.