A conference on Metametaphysics: Do Ontological Questions have Determinate Answers? will be held at the ANU on June 30 and July 1 this year, organized by the Centre for Consciousness. The idea is to focus on the debate between broadly realist and broadly deflationary approaches to metaphysical questions of existence: is there always a fact of the matter about whether mereological sums exist, say, or about whether numbers exist? Lewis vs. Carnap, one might say. Speakers will include Karen Bennett, Huw Price, Ted Sider, Amie Thomasson, Steve Yablo, and me. It should be a lot of fun.
Note that the conference will be held just before the Australasian Association of Philosophy conference, which will be July 3-8 in Sydney. Later in July, there will be a conference on Philosophical Methodology at the ANU on July 20-22, organized by Daniel Stoljar, and featuring Martin Davies, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Sally Haslanger, Frank Jackson, Tim Williamson, and Steve Yablo. Tim Williamson is also giving the Jack Smart Lecture on July 26, on "Philosophy, Conceptual Analysis, and the World". It looks like it will be a busy winter of philosophy in Australia.
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