Friday, 19 October 9-12 thesis defense of Philipp Keller, „Truthmaking and Exemplification as Types of Determination“ room B111 (“Bastions“, first floor) jury: Pascal Engel, Kevin Mulligan, Fraser MacBride, John Bigelow, Daniel Nolan 3-6 thesis defense of Luc Schneider, „Kinds of Instances“ room B111 (“Bastions“, first floor) jury: Pascal Engel, Kevin Mulligan, Barry Smith, Fraser MacBride, Peter Simons, Fabrice Correia 6.15 Dean Zimmerman, „From Property Dualism to Substance Dualism“ room B105 (“Bastions“, first floor) 8 dîner at the Datcha (18, bvd d‘Yvoy) 9 apéro at the Datcha 10 fête du Département de Philosophie at the Datcha

Saturday, 20 October 9-12 thesis defense of Pierre Grenon, „On Relations“ room A206 ( „Aile Jura“, second floor) jury: Pascal Engel, Kevin Mulligan, Barry Smith, Peter Simons, Ingvar Johansson, John Bigelow the metaphysics of vectors University of Geneva, 20-21 October organised by eidos (www.philosophie.ch/eidos/) and financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation organised by Stephan Leuenberger, Kevin Mulligan, Gianfranco Soldati, Philipp Keller

Location: room L208 (department building, 2, rue de Candolle, 2nd floor) Participants: John Bigelow, Ralf Busse, Ingvar Johansson, Stephan Leuenberger, Fraser MacBride, Daniel Nolan, Peter Simons, Barry Smith, Dean Zimmerman Saturday, 20 October 3-4.30 Peter Simons, Vectors and Beyond: Geometric Algebra and its Significance 5-6.30 Daniel Nolan, Finite Quantities (and vectors) 8 dîner and thesis defenses celebration Sunday, 21 October 9.30-11 Barry Smith, How the Philosophy of Science can Help Biomedical Research 11.30-1 John Bigelow, Vectors and the Passage of Time 3-4.30 Stephan Leuenberger, Counterparts of Vectors 5-6.30 Ralf Busse, The Humean‘s Fundamental Vector Fields 8 dîner

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