Thumos, the Genevan research team on emotions, values and norms & eidos, Centre for metaphysics (Prof. Kevin Mulligan), organize the following joint event, in collaboration with Episteme (Prof. Pascal Engel)

Conference on Organic Unities – Parts, Wholes and Values.

Geneva, May 26-27^th 2011.

Invited speakers Johan Brännmark, Erik Carlson, Kathrin Koslicki, Noah Lemos, Kris McDaniel, Wlodek Rabinowicz & Jan Woleński.

Venue University of Geneva. On Thursday, the conference will take place in the Uni Mail building, Bd du Pont-d'Arve 40, in room S030. The room is located on the lower ground floor. On Friday, the conference will continue in the Uni Dufour building, Rue du Général-Dufour 24, in room U408. The room is located on the roof. A comprehensive conference map is available below.

No fee Everyone is welcome to attend. Practical advice for accommodation may be found on this webpage and directions to guide you in Geneva here.

Organizer Alain Pé-Curto, member of the Thumos research team. Feel free to address any inquiries or ask for help regarding practical matters such as accommodation to Alain ().

Conference program with abstracts .pdf available for download.

Program of the Conference

The conference and the talks start at the times mentioned - no academic quarter.

Thursday 26^th, Room SO30 (Uni Mail [map])

13h00-13h15 Welcome

13h15-14h45 Noah Lemos, College of William and Mary, "Organic Unities and Summation"

15h15-16h45    Johan Brännmark, Lund, "Good-making and Organic Unity"

17h00-18h30    Kris McDaniel, Syracuse, "The Moorean View of the Value of Lives: a Partial Defense"

Conference dinner

Friday 27^th, Room U408 (Uni Dufour [map])

9h00-10h30 Wlodek Rabinowicz, Lund, "Value Relations — New Wine in Old Bottles"

11h00-12h30 Jan Woleński, Jagiellonian University, "Axiological Sentences"

Lunch

14h00-15h30 Erik Carlson, Uppsala, "Defining Goodness and Badness in Terms of Betterness without Negation"

16h00-17h30 Kathrin Koslicki, Boulder, "Independence Criteria for Substancehood"

Coffee break discussion & end of the conference

Events happening in Geneva right after the conference

Friday 27^th, Room B105 (Uni Bastions [map])

18h15-20h00 Stephan Torre, Oxford / Oriel College, "Against ‘Scientifically Motivated’Restrictions on Diachronic Composition"

Saturday-Sunday 28-29^th, Graduate School on Properties, Parts and Values. org. by Philipp Keller. For registration and further information, visit the school’s webpage

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Sponsors The conference is supported by eidos through the Fundamentality and Perspectivality SNFS Metaphysics Graduate School 2011, the Intentionality: the Mark of the Mental SNSF 2011, the Intentionality: the Mark of the Mental SNSF Sinergia project, the Marie Gretler Foundation in Zürich and the Thumos team based at the Geneva University Philosophy Department and the Swiss Center on Affective Sciences.

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Département de Philosophie

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Thumos, the Genevan research team on emotions, values and norms & eidos, Centre for metaphysics (Prof. Kevin Mulligan), organize the following joint event, in collaboration with Episteme (Prof. Pascal Engel)

Conference on Organic Unities – Parts, Wholes and Values.

Geneva, May 26-27^th 2011.

Département de Philosophie

Faculté des lettres, Université de Genève

Thumos, the Genevan research team on emotions, values and norms & eidos, Centre for metaphysics (Prof. Kevin Mulligan), organize the following joint event, in collaboration with Episteme (Prof. Pascal Engel)

Conference on Organic Unities – Parts, Wholes and Values.

Geneva, May 26-27th 2011.

Geneva, May 26-27^th 2011.