Advances in Higher-Order Metaphysics

University of Geneva

11-12 June 2026

Unimail, M2170

PROGRAMME
Thursday 11 June
11:00–11:15	Welcome
11:15–12:30	Robert Trueman (York) Is Higher-Order Metaphysics Higher-Order? (Or: Is Higher-Order Metaphysics Metaphysics?)

Lunch

14:15–15:30	Salvatore Florio (Oslo) Lifting the Veil of Type Distinctions: For and Against
15:30–16:00	Coffee Break
16:00–17:15	Alice van’t Hoff (Vienna) Against Higher-Order Absolutism

Friday 12 June
9:30–10:45	Nick Jones (Oxford) Counterparts of Properties and Propositions
10:45–11:15	Coffee Break
11:15–12:30	Bruno Jacinto (Lisbon) Ordinals, Cardinals and Higher-Order Logic

Lunch

14:15–15:30	Andreas Ditter (UCL) Non-Naturalism, Supervenience, and Essentialism about Modality
15:30–16:00	Coffee Break
16:00–17:15	Lukas Skiba (Bergen) Vertical Ontological Pluralism

Organizers: Fabrice Correia, Lisa Vogt, Pietro Berardi Gili

Funding: Université de Genève, SNSF