Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation ("The Metaphysics of Representation", 101115-141421), eidos, the Centre for Metaphysics at the University of Geneva, organises a graduate course consisting of five workshops. The aim of the workshops is to give Swiss philosophers, in particular PhD students, the opportunity to discuss some issues of recent controversy with some of the best international philosophers in the field.

The workshops take place at the University of Geneva and are free. Advance Registration is required, as the SNSF asks for a list of participating PhD students. To faciliate discussion, participants should commit to participating in the whole of the workshop.

Programme (click here for a print-out):

Geneva, April 28 and 29. The conference starts on the morning of Saturday, the 28th of April, and ends on the evening of Sunday, the 29th of April.

Speakers: Herbert Hochberg, Fraser MacBride, James Levine.

Participants: Fraser MacBride, Herbert Hochberg, James Levine, Kevin Mulligan, Philipp Keller, Fabrice Correia, Sébastian Richard, Peter O'Connor, Gilles Kévorkian, Ghislain Guigon, Sebastian Gandon, Damiano Costa, Graham Peebles, Christine von Allmen, Natalja Deng, Yann Michelutti, Etemad Nouchine, Akiko Frischhut.

• Friday dinner: we are meeting at 20h00 at the Café L'Ivresse (adress below) and go from there to dinner.
• Saturday (L208; 2, rue de Candolle; 2nd floor:
  • 10.30-12: Fraser MacBride,"The Most Platonic of Systems"
  • lunch
  • 13.30-15: Herbert Hochberg, "Revisiting Moore's Metaphysics"
  • 15.15-16.45: Fraser MacBride, "Hochberg's Micro-Metaphysical Relations: Order all the Way Down"
  • 17-18: Philipp Keller, "Lessons from Russell"
  • dinner
• Sunday (L208; 2, rue de Candolle; 2nd floor:
  • 10.30-12: Fraser MacBride, "But a Sleep and a Forgetting: The Birth of the Particular-Universal Distinction"
  • lunch
  • 13.30-15: James Levine, "Russell, Particularized Relations, and Bradley's Dilemma"
  • 15.15-16.45: Fraser MacBride, "The Moore-Stout Dispute"
  • 17-18: round table and wrap-up discussion
  • dinner

Readings (suggested):

• G.E. Moore, The Nature of Judgment
• G.E. Moore, Identity
• David Bell, The Revolution of Moore and Russell: A Very British Coup?

Readings (additional):

• Herbert Hochberg, Moore and Russell on Particulars, Relations, and Identity
• John O. Nelson, Mr. Hochberg on Moore: Some Corrections
• Herbert Hochberg, Some Reflections of Mr. Nelson's Corrections, in: Klemke, ed., Studies in the Philosophy of G.E. Moore, Chicago: University of Illinois Press
• alternatively: Herbert Hochberg, Thought, Fact and Reference, pp. 53-106
• Fraser MacBride, "The Cambridge Revolt Against Idealism: Was There Ever An Eden?"
• Fraser MacBride, "The Transcendental Metaphysic of G.F. Stout: His Defence and Articulation of Trope Theory"
• James Levine, "Analysis and Decomposition in Frege and Russell"