
The Metaphysical Society of America
Founded in 1950
Constituent of the American Council of Learned Societies
Habits of Being and the Being of Habits
Gonzaga University
John J. Hemmingson Center
Spokane, Washington
March 25-27, 2027
Keynote Speaker
Mark SinclairPresidential Address
Transcendental Empiricism and Habit-Ontology: Ravaisson contra Kant
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