Time21 March 2019, Thursday
9:00 – 9:15Breakfast (Conference Venue)
9:15 – 9:30Welcome Speech by Prof. Joshua MOK Ka-ho, Vice President, Lingnan University
9:30 – 11:00Talk 1 (Keynote 1)

James Ladyman (University of Bristol, UK)

Natural Necessity is just the Stuff for Ontic Structural Realism

Moderator: Jiji Zhang (Lingnan University)

11:00 – 11:15Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:30Talk 2

Amanda Bryant (Trent University, Canada)

Naturalized Modal Metaphysics: How Science Speaks to Possibility and Necessity

Moderator: Andrea Sauchelli (Lingnan University)

12:30 – 13:30Lunch (Conference Venue)
13:30 – 14:45Talk 3

Iulian Toader (University of Salzburg, Austria/University of Bucharest, Romania)

Structuralism, Formal Semantics, and the Ghost of Modality

Moderator: Alistair Isaac (University of Edinburgh)

14:45 – 15:00Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:15Talk 4

Claudio Calosi (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

Indeterminacy and Modality in a Quantum World

Moderator: Jamin Asay (University of Hong Kong)

16:15 – 16:30Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:45Talk 5 (Skype)

Alastair Wilson (University of Birmingham, UK)

Four Grades of Naturalistic Involvement

Moderator: Simon Goldstein (Lingnan University)

18:30Leave for Dinner (Meeting at the University Main Gate)
19:00Dinner at Modern Shanghai in Yuen Long

 

Time22 March 2019, Friday
9:00 – 9:30Breakfast (Conference Venue)
9:30 – 11:00Talk 6 (Keynote 2)

Michael Esfeld (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

Super Humeanism: Ontic Structural Realism, Modality, and Natural Relations

Moderator: Rafael De Clercq (Lingnan University)

11:00 – 11:15Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:30Talk 7

Johanna Wolff (King’s College London, UK)

Dimensional Invariance as a Constraint on Laws of Nature

Moderator: Kaining Wang (Shanxi University)

12:30 – 13:30Lunch (Conference Venue)
13:30 – 14:45Talk 8

Dan Marshall (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)

Metaphysical Structuralism

Moderator: Daniel Waxman (Lingnan University)

14:45 – 15:00Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:15Talk 9

Vera Matarese (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia)

Super Humeanism: A Naturalized Metaphysical Theory?

Moderator: Micheál Lacey (Lingnan University)

17:30Leave for Dinner (Meeting at the University Main Gate)
18:30Dinner at Bombay Dreams in Central