Abstract
Throughout the greater part of the twentieth century, both in the analytic and continental traditions, metaphysics was deemed to be passé. The last few decades, however, have witnessed a remarkable growth of interest among analytic philosophers in various traditional metaphysical topics, which resulted in the emergence of various forms of analytic metaphysics.
The new forms of metaphysics differ from its traditional forms mostly in their methodology and in the range of proposed solutions to particular problems. Besides these and other differences, however, there are also many similarities and there are even some who intentionally develop traditional metaphysical themes using the contemporary analytical methods.
All these developments called for detailed exploration, which was the general goal of the conference. The specific focus of the conference was a re-examination of Aristotelian-Scholastic metaphysics in contemporary setting.