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?)" Chair: Fabrice Correia

Lunch

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

19:30	Dinner at Colosseo

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

Lunch

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

19:30	Dinner at Indian Rasoi

Organizers: Fabrice Correia, Lisa Vogt, Pietro Berardi Gili

Funding: Université de Genève, SNSF