Following up on the conference "Themes from Baxter" (May 26 - May 28 2012) and funded by the CRUS (École Doctorale de Philosophie Contemporaine) and the Swiss National Science Foundation ("Lesser Entities", 101112-147361), eidos, the Centre for Metaphysics at the University of Geneva, organises a conference on the themes from the philosophy of Don Baxter.

The conference will take place at the "Aarbergerhus" on the lake of Bienne. Everyone's welcome, but advance registration is required.

Possible topics include:

• identity;
• aspects, respects;
• composition and identity;
• objectivity, existence, counting;
• perspectival facts, first-person perspective;
• ways and degrees of being

Particularly welcome are moderated discussion sessions, around a theme and including short inputs by the participants.

Programme

Click here for a pdf version of the programme.

Monday, 21st of October: Arrival day.

• before 17.00: arrival
• dinner
• 19-21 key note lecture: Don Baxter, Social Complexes, Aspects, and Many-One Identity

Tuesday, 22nd of October: Aspects and Respects

• 9-10.15 Philipp Blum, Intrinsic, but relational
• coffee break
• 10.30-11.45 Joshua Spencer, Counting on Strong Composition as Identity to Provide an Answer to the Special Composition Question
• 11.50-12.30 open discussion
• lunch
• 14.15-15.45 Allan Bäck, Aspects and Asymmetry (also see: "Identity and Object", "Qua-lification" and "The Role of Qualification")
• coffee break
• 16-17.15 Boris Hennig, Instance is the Converse of Aspect
• coffee break
• 17.30-18.30 wrap up-discussion
• dinner

Wednesday, 23rd of October: Perspectivality

• 9-10.15 Philipp Blum, Baxterian Aspects and Qua-Objectsl
• coffee break
• 10.30-11.45 Martin Lipman, Many-One Identity in a Fragmented World
• 11.50-12.50 wrap-up discussion
• lunch
• free afternoon: walk / excursion to Bienne
• dinner

Thursday, 24th of October: Existence and Being

• 9-10.15 Kris McDaniel, Fundamental People
• coffee break
• 10.30-11.45 Don Baxter, Against Rejections of Nominal Qualifiers
• 11.50-12.30 open discussion
• lunch
• 14-15.15 Aaron Cotnoir, Neo-Fregean Composition as Identity
• coffee break
• 15.30-16.45 Scott Brown, Reconsidering Instantiation as Identity
• coffee break
• 17-18.15 Giovanni Merlo, Vague Objects and Multiple Reference
• coffee break
• 18.20-19 wrap up-discussion
• dinner

Friday, 25th of October: Time and Identity

• 9-10.15 Don Baxter, Aspects and Alteration of Temporal Simples
• coffee break
• 10.30-11.45 Emiliano Boccardi, If it Ain't Moving it shall not be Moved
• 11.50-12.50 wrap-up discussion
• lunch
• departure

Conference Organization

Invited participants will receive:

• a lump sum towards their travel costs
• accommodation in a simple single room at the "Louis Haus" (shower on the corridor)
• simple breakfast, lunch and dinner (this is not served, but has to be got in the kitchen)

Coffees and other beverages, as well as nighttime amusement are at the participants costs.

Registered Swiss PhD students in shared rooms get their accommodation and food costs subsidised (103 CHF / night).

For any questions, please contact the conference organiser Philipp Blum.

Readings

Boris Hennig has a very bibliography on "insofar as".

• Donald Baxter, "A Defense of Hume on Identity through Time"
• Donald Baxter, "Hume on Infinite Divisibility"
• Donald Baxter, "Identity in the Loose and Popular Sense"
• Donald Baxter, Many-One Identity
• Donald Baxter, "Identity through Time and the Discernibility of Identicals"
• Donald Baxter, "Berkeley, Perception, and Identity"
• Donald Baxter, "Corporeal Substances and True Unities"
• Donald Baxter, "Abstraction, Inseparability, and Identity"
• Donald Baxter, "Hume's Labyrinth Concerning the Idea of Personal Identity"
• Donald Baxter, "The Discernibility of Identicals"
• Donald Baxter, "Hume's Puzzle about Identity"
• Donald Baxter, A Humean Temporal Logic
• Donald Baxter, "Instantiation as Partial Identity"
• Donald Baxter, "Loose Identity and Becoming Something Else"
• Donald Baxter, "Hume on Steadfast Objects and Time"
• Donald Baxter, "Hume's Difficulty. Time and Identity in the Treatise"
• Donald Baxter et al, book symposium on "Hume's Difficulty. Time and Identity in the Treatise"
• Donald Baxter, "Hume, Distinctions of Reason, and Differential Resemblance"
• Donald Baxter, "Identity, Discernibility, and Composition"
• Donald Baxter, "Differential Resemblance and Aspects"
• Donald Baxter, "Instantiation as Partial Identity: Replies to Critics"
• Friederike Moltmann, Existence Predicates and Modes of Being