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(Rome (Italy)) Matematica, fisica ed economia

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:10:25 +0100

(London (UK)) 15th ACAI Summer School, on Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:10:36 +0100

(Leeds (UK)) British Logic Colloquium 2013

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:08:45 +0100

(Padua (Italy)) Gaps, Gluts, and Truth

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:03:24 +0100

Cogito - Research Centre in Philosophy
Project: Philosophy of Mathematics and Philosophy of Logic

University of Padua - Doctoral School in Philosophy (curriculum
Theoretical Philosophy)

23 May 2013

FISPPA Department -- University of Padua
Sala delle Edicole
P.zza Capitaniato 3 Padua - Sala delle Edicole

Workshop "Gaps, Gluts, and Truth"

10.30 - 11.40

Pablo Cobreros
Universidad de Navarra (Navarra, Spain)

Title: Symmetry, Gaps and Gluts

Abstract: Vagueness and the Liar paradox lead to a symmetry related
situations that cannot be handled within classical semantics. In the
case of vagueness, borderline cases lead to a symmetry of dispositions
of competent speakers towards assertion and denial. In the case of the
Liar, there is a symmetry in truth-value between the Liar sentence and
its negation. Three-valued strong kleene semantics is a natural way to
liberalize classical semantics. But then a second symmetry arises:
should we read the intermediate value as a gap or as a glut?

11.45 - 12.55

Boris Rähme
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento, Italy)

Title: An explanatory use of the concept of truth

Abstract: A central claim of deflationary accounts of truth for
propositions is that truth talk has no explanatory role to play in
philosophical elucidations of our epistemic and discursive practices.
(An analogous claim is brought forward by disquotationalists, i.e. by
proponents of deflationary accounts of truth for sentences. I will
concentrate on deflationism about propositional truth.) In my talk I
scrutinize the no-explanatory-role claim with respect to the following
normative constraint on the speech act of assertion:

(N) It is correct to assert a proposition only if it is true.

Deflationists argue that the truth talk involved in (N) plays a purely
generalizing role and justify this claim by pointing out that the
content of particular instances of (N), say,

(T+) [It is correct to assert the proposition that some dogs are
vicious] only if the proposition that some dogs are vicious is true.

can be expressed equally well without appeal to truth:

(T-) [It is correct to assert that some dogs are vicious] only if some
dogs are vicious.

While conceding this last point to the deflationist, I argue that the
particular ‘true’-free instances of (N) themselves stand in need of
explanation and that the only candidate explanation in the offing is
in terms of truth. The main thesis of my talk is, then, that the
no-explanatory-role claim deprives deflationists about (propositional)
truth of the resources to answer the following simple question: Why
does (T-) hold good? After arguing that (T-) does indeed hold good, I
discuss and dismiss several rejoinders that deflationists might level
at my argument.

14.30 - 15.40

Martin Vacek
Slovak Academy of Sciences (Bratislava, Slovakia)

Title: Dialetheism and Metaphysics

Abstract: In the paper, I take logical laws to be entrenched in
reality itself rather than in human conventions. Secondly, I discuss
how such a robust realist conception of logical laws captures the
logical complexity of concrete (possible and impossible) worlds. It
will be shown that it is the structural properties of a world that
give us its logical laws. If so, the theory of concrete possible
worlds instantiating various metaphysical structures enables us to
non-modally differentiate between logically distinct worlds and, by
the same reasoning, determines which worlds are impossible.

15.45 - 16.55

Sebastiano Moruzzi
University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy)

Title: Vagueness and Omniscience

Abstract: The paper explores the consequences of the notion of
omniscience in relation to the problem of vagueness.
Omniscience is an idealised notion: it is the condition according to
which a thinker knows everything there is to know. 1 In the context of
the debate on vagueness, omniscience can appear to be a loosely
related topic. If we grant the logical possibility of a thinker who
knows everything there is to know, an epistemicist might grant that
vague boundaries would be known to such a thinker, while a theorist
who believes vague predicates are boundaryless would hold that this
latter knowledge is foreclosed even to an omniscient thinker. In this
paper I will deal with the latter position, i.e. with the idea that
vague predicates lack sharp boundaries.However, things are more
complicated than what they appear to at first glance. Before drawing
conclusions on this issue, the exact relation between indeterminacy,
knowledge and omniscience must be clarified.
I start introducing and motivating the relevance of omniscience to
vagueness in relation to the supervaluationist approach. Two basic
principles which relate vagueness to indeterminacy and knowledge are
stated, and three definitions of omniscience are considered. I raise
problems for all these definitions. Finally, I suggest that we are not
in a position to know that omniscience is possible; we too easily come
to accept the idea that omniscience is possible because of a
misapprehension of the phenomenology of vagueness.

Organization: Massimiliano Carrara (University of Padua -- Cogito -
Research Centre in Philosophy) massimiliano.carrara@unipd.it

(Milano (Italy)) Workshop: Tempo, Eternità e Conoscenza

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:46:18 +0100

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milano

Dipartimento di filosofia

__________

Workshop: Tempo, Eternità e Conoscenza

Venerdì 24 maggio

ore 11:00

Sala Esercitazioni Dipartimento di Filosofia

___________

Ciro De Florio - Aldo Frigerio (Università Cattolica)

La conoscenza divina in prospettiva eternista

Damiano Costa (Université de Geneve)

Persistenza: immanentismo vs. trascendentalismo

Giuliano Torrengo (Università degli Studi di Milano)

La fine dell'eternità

Alessandro Giordani (Università Cattolica)

Omne quod est necesse est esse quando est: logica temporale e necessità

Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare

Per informazioni,

ciro.deflorio@unicatt.it

(Bertinoro (Italy)) Methodological Issues in the Special Sciences

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:43:40 +0100

International Workshop

METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN THE SPECIAL SCIENCES

May 30-31, 2013
Bertinoro Conference Centre
(University of Bologna)

Thursday, May 30

9:15 - 9:30 Maria Carla Galavotti (University of Bologna)
Opening address
9:30 - 10:00 Donald Gillies (University College London)
A Critique of Evidence Based Medicine: the Case of Streptomycin
10:00 - 10:30 Julian Reiss (Durham University)
A Theory of Evidence for Causal Claims in Biomedical Research
10:30 - 11:10 Discussion
11:10 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00 Philip Dawid (University of Cambridge)
   From Statistical Evidence to Evidence of Causality
12:00 - 12:30 Rino Bellocco (University of Milan - Bicocca)
   Causal Mediation Analysis to Study the Relation between Physical Activity and Prostate Cancer Incidence. Results from the National March Cohort
12:30 - 13:10 Discussion

15:00 - 15:30 Bert Leuridan (University of Ghent)
   Dimensions of Evidence Amalgamation and the Principle of Total Evidence
15:30 - 16:00 Paolo Cherubini (University of Milan - Bicocca)
Psychological Factors in the Gathering and Evaluation of Information in Hypothesis Testing
16:00 - 16:40 Discussion
16:40 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 17:30 Ulrike Hahn (Birkbeck University of London)
On Mental Causes
17:30 - 18:00 Georgia Zara (University of Turin)
Moral Reasoning, Criminal Behaviour, and Assessment of Responsibility
18:00 - 18:40 Discussion

Friday, May 31
9:00 - 9:30 Giulio Ubertis (Catholic University of Milan)
   Truth, Evidence and Proof in Criminal Proceedings
9:30 - 10:00 Alberto Mura (University of Sassari)
   Causality and Explanation in Classical Statistical Mechanics
10:00 - 10:40 Discussion
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Andrea Cavanna (Aston University, Birmingham)
   Neuropsychiatry: between Neurology and Psychiatry
11:30 - 12:00 Matteo Cerri (University of Bologna)
   The Experimental Framework in Experimental Biology: Generalizing the Findings
12:00 -12:40 Discussion

Convenors:
Maria Carla Galavotti mariacarla.galavotti@unibo.it<mailto:mariacarla.galavotti@unibo.it>
Raffaella Campaner raffaella.campaner@unibo.it<mailto:raffaella.campaner@unibo.it>

Conference venue: www.ceub.it<http://www.ceub.it/>

(Edinburgh (UK)) Workshop on Law & Language

Sun, 12 May 2013 21:08:20 +0100

Workshop on Law & Language
29-30 May 2013
Moot Court Room, Old College
University of Edinburgh

Speakers:

Professor Andrei Marmor (USC)
Professor Timothy Endicott (Oxford)
Professor Scott Soames (USC)

Respondents:

Professor Neil Walker (Edinburgh)
Dr Claudio Michelon (Edinburgh)
Professor Stephen Tierney (Edinburgh)

The event is part of the annual Edinburgh Spring Legal Theory Festival, full details of which may be found at:

http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/legaltheory/springworkshops2013new.aspx

There is no charge for attending the workshop but, as space is limited, please email me (martin.kelly@ed.ac.uk<mailto:martin.kelly@ed.ac.uk>) if you would like to come.
Martin Kelly
PhD Candidate and Tutor
School of Law
University of Edinburgh
http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/research/students/251.aspx

(Salzburg (Austria)) Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy: SOPhiA 2013

Sun, 12 May 2013 20:59:46 +0100

(Rome (Italy)) New Perspectives on realism and antirealism (I)

Sun, 12 May 2013 20:57:20 +0100

Conference “New Perspectives on realism and antirealism (I)”

27 maggio

Ore 9:00 Saluti e introduzione

h. 9:10 Erin Kelly (Tufts), A Challenge to moral realism (chair: Mario De Caro)

h. 10:20 Andrea Bottani (Bergamo), The place of ontological description in a realist theory of what there is (chair: Michele Di Francesco)

h. 11:50 Diego Marconi (Torino), Moderately realistic hints concerning artifacts and artifactual words (chair: Rosaria Egidi)

h. 15:00 Annalisa Coliva (Modena) e Sebastiano Moruzzi (Bologna), Rational disputes, epistemic peers and lost disagreement (chair: Massimo Dell’Utri)

h. 16:10 Carola Barbero (Torino), Tbd (chair: Carlo Penco)

h. 17:40 Brian Epstein (Tufts), Two ways we create social reality (chair: Margherita Benzi)

28 maggio

h. 9:00 Alfredo Paternoster (Bergamo), Realism and Theories of Perception (chair: Roberto Pujia)

h. 10:10 Jody Azzouni (Tufts), Nonreferring terms and the truth of scientific theories (chair: Carlo Cellucci)

h. 11:50 Massimiliano Carrara, An argument against anti-realism on artifact kinds (chair: Juan José Sanguineti)

h. 15:00 Simone Gozzano (L'Aquila), On mental dispositions, abilities and free will (chair: Andrea Lavazza)

h. 16:10 General discussion

Sede del convegno: Aula Verra, Università Tre, via Ostiense 234, Roma (metro B, stop Marconi)

La partecipazione è libera. Info: decaro@uniroma3.it.

(Munich (Germany)) Reduction and Emergence in the Sciences

Sat, 11 May 2013 15:26:06 +0100

(Durham (UK)) Attention and Consciousness

Sat, 11 May 2013 15:24:20 +0100

`Attention and Consciousness' (13-14th June 2013)

Speakers: Ned Block (NYU), Bob Kentridge (Durham), Catherine Tallon -Baudry (UPMC), James Stazicker (Reading).

Whilst consciousness has seemed to many to be so utterly baffling that it was best left to philosophers to address, attention has until recently been studied almost exclusively by the empirical sciences and (with a few
exceptions) has not really been addressed by philosophers. Now this is changing, and an interesting and fruitful dialogue has recently opened up between philosophers and empirical scientists.

All of these researchers are turning their efforts toward understanding consciousness and attention together, rather than attempting to tackle them separately. It is this interdisciplinary dialogue that this conference hopes to contribute to.

This workshop takes place as part of a broader event entitled `Philosophy and Psychology: Integrating Research Across Domains, encompassing two workshops. Please see separate call for participation for the workshop
titled: Concept Acquisition and the Role of Language (27-28th May 2013).

To register to attend, please e-mail j.t.m.miller[at]durham.ac.uk, or j.h.taylor[at]durham.ac.uk. Places are limited, so please e-mail to reserve a place. There will be a workshop fee of £5 to cover provided refreshments (tea/coffee). We ask that attendees pay the fee on the day whilst registering (cheques payable to `Durham University').

Schedule for `Attention and Consciousness'

June 13th-14th 2013.

University of Durham.

Thursday 13th June

12.30-1.15-Registration
1.15-2.45-James Stazicker (Reading)
2.50-3.30- Kevin Reuter (Bochum)
3.45-4.25- Henry Taylor (Durham)
4.40-6.15-Ned Block (NYU)

Friday 14th June

9.00-9.15-Arrive
9.15-9.55- Emile Thalabard (Université Paris Sorbonne)
10.00-11.30-Catherine Tallon-Baudry (UPMC)
11.45-1.15-Robert Kentridge (Durham)
1.15-1.30-Discussion

(Urbino (Italy)) Metafora, analogia, ragionamento

Sat, 11 May 2013 15:22:09 +0100

(Copenhagen (Denmark)) The Second Person

Sat, 11 May 2013 08:29:53 +0100

CFS Workshop: The Second Person

May 21st, 2013 - 10-13 hs.

Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen

5th Floor, room 25.5.11, Njalsgade 140-2

2300 Copenhagen,Denmark.

Attendance is free. Registration is not required but recommended.
Information and registration: satne@hum.ku.dk

10:00-11:15 On Address - Adrian Haddock (University of Stirling)

Speech acts in which one speaks not (or not only) about another subject but to another subject appear to exemplify a distinct and neglected form of intentionality-a form of directedness which is not merely directedness at objects, but directedness towards one's fellow subjects. The aim of this talk is to begin to shed light on this neglected form by establishing: first, that this form intrinsically involves the application of the first person concept to a subject other than the one who employs this concept; second, that intentional actions cannot be the only exemplifications of this form; and third, that understanding this form requires understanding the sheer bodily presence of one subject to another as itself a cognitive act. The talk ends with some remarks about the significance of this form for understanding the basic concepts of "social philosophy"-testimony, community, social practice, and so on.

11.15 - 11.30 Coffee Break

11:30-12:45 Practical Contradiction - Matthias Haase (University of Leipzig)

The paper investigates the conditions of the possibility of a certain posture the mind can adopt towards the action of another. It is characteristically expressed by a specific use of what G.E.M. Anscombe calls "stopping modals" - namely, the one where the 'You can't do this; it's my...' signifies the necessity of what is traditionally called 'justice'. In a speech act of this form the speaker addresses the hearer as having a duty to her not to do the thing in question, because she has a right towards him that he doesn't. The aim of the paper is not to provide an account of the possibility of the posture of mind so expressed, but to articulate a condition of adequacy for such an account. It argues that a proper account will have to be one that vindicates a peculiar claim that Aristotle makes at the beginning of the Politics. Aristotle suggests that this form of speech defines the very idea of language and with it the very idea of a ration al animal: we
are told that the point of language is to express the just and the injust and that it therefore belongs to the nature of rational animals to live in a state. In contemporary literature, this thesis tends to be regarded as a metaphysical excess. Why should one make such a strong claim? The demand would be vindicated if it could be shown that to understand the necessity of justice one has to understand how the principle in the light of which actions are just or injust must at the same time explain the reality of the subjects so related. The aim of the paper is to argue that this is so.

(Rome (Italy)) Heuristic Reasoning

Sat, 11 May 2013 08:27:21 +0100

(Rome (Italy)) Rome-Barcelona Workshop in the Philosophy of Science

Sat, 11 May 2013 08:22:19 +0100

Rome-Barcelona Workshop in the Philosophy of Science
16th -17th of May 2013
Università di Rome TRE
Via Ostiense 234, Rome

Program

Thursday 16th of May
Room 26, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Comunicazione e Spettacolo, second floor

Ore 9.45: Mauro Dorato (Università di Roma TRE), Welcome

LAWS, MECHANISMS, EXPLANATION

Chair: Emanuele Rossanese (Università di Roma TRE)

10:00: Giuliano Torrengo (PERSP, Università degli Studi, Milano):
“Chronometric Explanations”
10:45: Comments by Mauro Dorato (Università di Roma TRE)
11:00: Discussion
Chair: Albert Solé (PERSP, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

15:30: Angelo Cei (University of Leeds): “Getting away with Governance”
16:15: Comments by Jose Diez (PERSP, Universidad de Barcelona)
16:30: Discussion

16:55: cofee break

17:00: Laura Felline (PERSP, Institut Superieur de Philosophie Louvain):
“Mechanistic Explanation, Structural Explanation and Causality in
Fundamental Physics”
17:45: Comments by Simone Gozzano (Università dell'Aquila)
18.00: Discussion

Friday 17th of May
Aula Verra, Via Ostiense 234, ground floor

PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS FOR BOHMIAN MECHANICS

Chair: Angelo Cei (Leeds)

10:30: Albert Solè (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): “Surrealistic
Trajectories in Bohmian Mechanics. Technical Discussion and Philosophical
Remarks”
11:15: Comments by Matteo Morganti (Università di Roma TRE)
11:30: Discussion

11:55 coffee break

12:00: Emanuele Rossanese (Università di Roma TRE): “Bohmiam Mechanics and
Quantum Field Theory”
12:45: Comments by Carl Hoefer (PERSP, ICREA/ Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
13:00: Discussion

15:00: General discussion and round table - Chair: Mauro Dorato (Università
di Roma TRE)

16:00: End

info:
Laura Felline (fellinelaura@gmail.com)
Matteo Morganti (matteo.morganti@uniroma3.it)

(Siena (Italy)) VI Summer School inMind & Language

Sat, 11 May 2013 08:19:29 +0100

VI Summer School
in
Mind & Language
(Part Two)
Siena, June 18-20, 2013
Collegio Santa Chiara, via Valdimontone, 1 Aula Cantucci

The Sixth Summer School in Mind and Language (Part Two) will be devoted to

The semantics of propositional attitudes

Instructor:
Prof. Sandro Zucchi
(Università degli Studi di Milano)

The lectures will focus on linguistic and representationalist views of
attitude ascriptions.
Readings for the course will include:
· Davidson, D. ³On Saying That², Synthese 19 (19681969): 130146.
· Larson, R. and Ludlow, P. ³Interpreted Logical Forms², Synthese 95 (1993):
305356.
· Richard, M. Propositional Attitudes: An Essay on Thoughts and How We
Ascribe Them, Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1990 (selected
parts).
· Soames, S. Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and
Necessity, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002 (selected parts).

Schedule:
June 18: 10-13 and 15-17
June 19: 10-13 and 15-17
June 20: 10-13 and 15-17

Practical Information

Attendance is free of charge. The language of the school will be English if
non Italian speakers will attend, Italian otherwise.
If you want to attend the Summer School please send an e-mail to Prof.
Gabriele Usberti (gabriele.usberti@unisi.it).

Useful information and suggestions about cheap accomodation can be found on
these sites:
http://www.unisi.it/didattica/vivere-unisi/casa
http://www.dsu.toscana.it/it/alloggi/residenze_universitarie/index.html
http://www.dsu.toscana.it/it/alloggi/foresteria/tariffe_foresteria.html

(Dublin (Ireland)) APORO Epistemology Workshop with Stewart Cohen

Sat, 11 May 2013 08:16:18 +0100

APORO - The Irish Philosophical Research Network

Epistemology Workshop with Stewart Cohen
Thursday 16 May Trinity College Dublin

Programme:

11:00 - 12:00 Benjamin Jarvis, Queens University Belfast: ‘Belief without Credence’

12:00 - 13:30 Perceptual Knowledge session: Jim O’Shea, University College Dublin, Niall Connolly, Trinity College Dublin

14:00 - 15:00 Lilian O’Brien, University College Cork: ‘Deviance and the Basing Relation’

15:00 - 16:30 Stewart Cohen, University of Arizona: ‘Evidence and Rational Belief’

Venue: IIIS Seminar Room, Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin

All welcome.

(Bergamo (Italy)) Libertà: realtà o apparenza?

Sat, 11 May 2013 08:14:01 +0100

Università di Bergamo: Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia

Libertà: realtà o apparenza?
Una giornata di studio organizzata
dagli studenti del CdS in Filosofia

17 maggio 2013
aula 1, via Pignolo, 123, Bergamo

10,00 Introduzione ai lavori
Andrea Bottani (Direttore del Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia)

Presiede: Riccardo Carsana
10,15 La forza del destino e il cane di Crisippo
Jonathan Barnes (Oxford, Ginevra, Parigi)
discussant: Manuela Migliorati

11,30 pausa caffé

11,45 Responsabilità fra storia e teoria
   Luca Fonnesu (Pavia)
discussant: Sonia Cominassi

13,00 pausa pranzo

Presiede: Giulia Lorenzi
14,30 Libero arbitrio e l’araba fenice
   Mario De Caro (Roma Tre, Tufts)
   discussant: Alessandro Lanfranchi

Tutti gli interessati sono cordialmente invitati a partecipare

Per ulteriori informazioni: richard.davies@unibg.it o
maddalena.bonelli@unibg.it

(Milano (Italy)) Quantum Physics Meets the Philosophy of Mind

Sat, 11 May 2013 08:11:43 +0100

(Uppsala (Sweden)) LECTURES: Floridi at Uppsala

Mon, 06 May 2013 18:13:22 +0100

Luciano Floridi is Guest-professor at the Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University (Sweden)
May 13-17, 2013

The lecture series include:

Monday May 13th, 16-18
On the Foundation of the Philosophy of Information
Convenors: Patricia Mindus, Andreas Ã…kerlund, Frans Lundgren, Ulrika Kjellman
in collaboration with KUSKO & SALT
Location: Geijer-salen

Tuesday May 14th, 11-13
A Plea for Antinaturalism
Convenors: Lars-GÃ¶ran Johansson, Patricia Mindus
Location: Seminar room, Philosophy Department

Wednesday May 15th, 16-18
Norms as Agents in the Information Society
Convenors: Peter Walgren, Patricia Mindus, Mauro Zamboni
in collaboration with Law School Stockholm University &
IRI Institutet fÃ¶r rÃ¤ttsinformatik
Location: Fakultetsrummet, plan 8, hus C, Frescati

Thursday May 16th, 19-21
Smart Technologies and their Challenges in the Age of Hyperhistory
Convenors: Per Algander, Patricia Mindus
In collaboration with Filosofiska FÃ¶reningen
Location: Seminar room, Philosophy Department

Friday May 17th, 11-13
Infraethics â€“ What is it and why it matters
Convenor: Patricia Mindus
Location: Eng. 16-0043 Philosophy Department

For information, contact Patricia Mindus: patricia.mindus@filosofi.uu.se

(Edinburgh (UK)) Kant and the Lawfulness of Nature

Mon, 06 May 2013 18:09:33 +0100

(Madrid (Spain)) 8th NOMOS Meeting

Thu, 02 May 2013 13:35:53 +0100

(Eindhoven (The Netherlands)) Neuroscience Meets Philosophy

Thu, 02 May 2013 13:32:18 +0100

(St Andrews (UK)) The Philosophy of the Philosophy of Art

Thu, 02 May 2013 13:31:00 +0100

(Lisbon (Portugal)) Values in context

Thu, 02 May 2013 13:29:04 +0100

(Cologne (Germany)) The 8th Cologne Summer School in Philosophy with Duncan Pritchard

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:43:08 +0100

(Cologne (Germany)) Emergence, Stability and Parthood in Biological and Physical Systems

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:41:43 +0100

(Zurich (Switzerland)) The Historical Turn in Philosophy of Science: Kuhn, Feyerabend, Wittgenstein

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:37:38 +0100

The Institute of Philosophy of the University of Zurich is pleased to
announce a masterclass:

The Historical Turn in Philosophy of Science: Kuhn, Feyerabend, Wittgenstein

with

Vasso Kindi (University of Athens) and John Preston (University of Reading)

10th - 11th May 2013, 9:30 - 19:00

The historical turn in philosophy of science which began in the late
1950s and early 60s rattled the way that philosophy of science was
hitherto practiced. New concepts, such as paradigm, incommensurability,
and theory-ladenness were introduced, and new problems were raised, such
as the rationality of scientific development, the integrity of
scientific practice, relativism and idealism in relation to science. The
effects were very disconcerting and quickly historical philosophy of
science was vehemently criticized and eventually marginalized as not
meeting the standards and expectations which this turn attempted to
question, for instance, an algorithmic and ahistorical understanding of
rationality, or the belief in unremitting scientific progress. The
reception that historical philosophy of science received obstructed the
full appreciation of several important aspects concerning its roots,
contentions and implications. Thus Wittgenstein was not on the agenda of
mainstream philosophy of science when historical philosophy was
discussed and his influence on the protagonists of this movement passed
largely unnoticed; the challenge that Kuhn and Feyerabend mounted to
Western rationalism was swiftly condemned rather than attended to; and
the concepts of paradigm and incommensurability were demonized rather
than carefully interpreted and judged.
In the seminar, we will put aside facile and worn-out categorizations
and assimilations. Instead, we will revisit the work of key figures of
historical philosophy of science, principally the work of Kuhn and
Feyerabend, to explore the dimensions and implications which were not
emphasized and generally recognized in the previous period. For
instance, instead of simply dismissing rationality, the emphasis on
practice shifts interest from an intellectualist understanding of
rationality to the concrete practical decisions scientists have to make;
and the historical dimension made prominent by historical philosophers
of science calls attention to the intricate relations between philosophy
and science in different historical periods and hence to the influence
exercised by scientists on philosophers, e.g., by Boltzmann on
Feyerabend and Wittgenstein. On this basis we hope to reach a more
judicious assessment of the historical turn, its achievements and its
shortcomings.

Bibliography available on request.

Venue: Philosophisches Seminar, Zürichbergstrasse 43, 8044 Zürich, Room:
ZUP-U-8
Registration: phd@philos.uzh.ch

(Norwich (UK)) Perspectives on Carnap

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:32:25 +0100

“Perspectives on Carnap” A one day workshop

The poster is available for downloading and sharing through the following link by clicking on the title of the workshop:
http://www.uea.ac.uk/philosophy/news-and-events/-/asset_publisher/FhhsBmutB3HZ/blog/10-06-13-%E2%80%9Cperspectives-on-carnap%E2%80%9D-a-one-day-workshop/10165?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uea.ac.uk%2Fphilosophy%2Fnews-and-events%3Fp_p_id%3D101_INSTANCE_FhhsBmutB3HZ%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D1

University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK)
10th June 2013 (10am-1pm / 2pm-3:30pm) - Room Arts 3.03

S P E A K E R S:

KAMMER QUENTIN (University of Bordeaux 3 – SPH)
Goodman’s Reading of the Aufbau

KUUSELA OSKARI (University of East Anglia)
Resolving the Dispute between Ideal and Ordinary Language Approaches

WAGNER HENRI (University of Bordeaux 3 – SPH)
Quine on Carnap’s Conception of Logic

Co-organized by the Universities of East Anglia and Bordeaux 3 - SPH:
Kuusela Oskari (UEA)
Uçan Timur (UEA – University of Bordeaux 3)

Registration free, please contact:
T. Uçan: timurcengizucan@gmail.com

THE “PERSPECTIVES ON CARNAP” A ONE DAY WORKSHOP WILL BE FOLLOWED ON JUNE 11th BY A ONE DAY WORKSHOP “WITTGENSTEIN/PHENOMENOLOGY” (SEE ON PHILOS-L).

(Tezpur (India)) Indian School on Logic and its Applications

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:27:39 +0100

(Locarno (Switzerland)) Gottlob Frege über Begriff, Funktion und Urteil

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:25:23 +0100

(Nottingham (U.K.)) Pragmatics and the Philosophy of Language

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:23:41 +0100

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham will host a
half-day workshop on Pragmatics and the Philosophy of Language on May 13th.
The event will be in A21, the Trent Building (central building with clock
tower, ground floor), starting at 1pm. Attendance is free.

Program

1.00-2.15 Steve Barker (Nottingham) A Middle Path between Semantics and
Pragmatics.

2.30-3.45 Michael Devitt (CUNY) Three Methodological Flaws of Linguistic
Pragmatism.

4..00-5.45 Stefano Predelli (Nottingham) Rearranged Derangements:
Malapropisms and Other Mistakes.

(Antwerp (Belgium)) Second Annual Jeannerod Lecture: Tyler Burge

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:21:12 +0100

Centre for Philosophical
Psychology, University of Antwerp
Second Annual Jeannerod
Lecture
Who: Tyler Burge (UCLA)
Where: Hof van Liere (Prinsstraat
14)
When: May 23
What time: 6.30pm
Title: Perception: Where Mind
Begins

Abstract:
Two marks of mind--consciousness and representation are discussed.
Representation is the focus, given that more is known about it. Two
concepts commonly expressed with the word 'representation' are
distinguished. One is very broad and signifies, roughly, functional
correlation. The other is distinctive psychological. Scientific
knowledge from perceptual psychology is brought to bear to show that
representation in the distinctively psychological sense has its primitive
evolutionary beginnings in certain arthropods. So mind, or at least
psychology, begins with certain
arthropods.

(Barcelona (Spain)) Belief, Experience and Mental Action

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:17:53 +0100

Second workshop on Belief, Experience and Mental Action. Barcelona, June 25th - Programme
SECOND WORKSHOP
BELIEF, EXPERIENCE AND MENTAL ACTION
Barcelona, June 25th, 2013

Place:                 Philosophy Seminar. Departament de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Filosofia, Montealegre, 6, fouth floor.

Programme:

10:00 – 11:30:    Susanna Siegel (Harvard):         “Wishful Belief”

Wishful belief is a paradigm of epistemically ill-founded belief. But prima facie, it is mysterious how desires (including preferences, needs, or goals) could have any impact at all on the formation of beliefs, or on their rational status. In explicit reasoning, it does not seem psychologically possible to treat a desire as rationally supporting a belief, in the same way that we can explicitly treat evidence as rationally supporting a belief -—even if we are wrong about the extent of that rational support. Is the influence of desires on belief always mediated by its influence on how we respond to the evidence we have? I focus on two other potential forms of influence on belief by desire, and argue that both can be ill-founding.

11:30– 12:00     Coffee break

12:00 – 13:30     Ernest Sosa (Rutgers):               “Epistemic Agency and Judgment”

This paper presents and discusses an epistemic category of distinctive importance to social beings, that of judgment and judgmental belief. Among the issues to be treated are epistemic voluntarism and agency, diachronic versus synchronic competence, and the place of reflection in human knowledge.

13:30 – 15:00:    Lunch

15:00 – 16:30:    Conor McHugh (Southampton):       “Fitting Belief”

Belief has a standard of correctness. What is the normative significance of this standard? Philosophers have proposed various answers to this question. Some have argued that it should be understood as a prescriptive norm, others that it should be understood as a value, yet others that it is an aim pursued by believers. An alternative view is that correctness for belief is not reducible to any of these things. This view receives support from a picture of normativity according to which correctness, or fittingness, is a primitive normative property. In my talk I will explore this view and its implications for epistemic normativity.

16:30 – 16:45     Coffee break

16:45 – 18:15:    Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA):              “The Intuitive Problem of Freedom and Responsibility”

My goal here is to identify the various ways that we come to worry about whether we are free or whether we are responsible and to consider whether the worries can be calmed. After examining some of the standard ways in which the worries arise—starting with the case of the victim-criminal, moving to cases of direct manipulation, and finally considering enlightenment science—I will suggest that the appeal to determinism, or even causation, is a red herring. The fact that actions must be explicable is enough to raise an intuitive worry about freedom. I then turn to consider why this might be. I reject the usual “two-standpoints” account and replace it with what I think is a much more modest, but still satisfying, story about why we must act "under the idea of freedom." I then consider whether, having set aside causation and having explained the difficulty with explanation, we can rest easy. The answer will be, no.
There is a remaining, rather simple problem, one that arises from what I call the ordinary notion of control. I end by suggesting that we can address this problem by giving ourselves an alternative notion of control, one that will be adequate for a certain sort of responsibility.

Organized by Josefa (Pepa) Toribio. Registration is free, but if you plan to attend, please let me know by sending a message to the following address: jtoribio at icrea dot cat

(Edinburgh (UK)) Pragmatist Perspectives on Truth and Knowledge

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:44:03 +0100

(Milano (Italy)) Filosofia e scienze cognitive - mini-workshop

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:42:31 +0100

Facoltà di Filosofia

Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele

Filosofia e Scienze Cognitive
mini-workshop

24 aprile 2013

Programma:

14.15-15.45
Pietro Perconti (Università di Messina)
Scienza cognitiva e senso comune. Una tensione componibile

16.00-17.30
Simone Gozzano (Università dell'Aquila)
Il luogo del dolore

Aula Avicenna

(Cesena (Italy)) XVI Scuola Estiva di Filosofia della Fisica - Prevedere il Futuro

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:40:05 +0100

(Stirling (UK)) Frege's Epistemology of Basic Logical Laws

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:35:18 +0100

(Stuttgart (Germany)) Varieties of Evans

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:31:50 +0100

Conference:
Varieties of Evans
University of Stuttgart, May 15-17, 2013

Organizers:
Prof. Dr. Catrin Misselhorn, JunProf. Dr. Ulrike Pompe, Dr. Ulrike Ramming, Angela Matthies

Speakers.
Prof. Dr. Quassim Cassam (Warwick)
Prof. Dr. Catrin Misselhorn (Stuttgart)
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Pafel (Stuttgart)
Prof. Dr. Gianfranco Soldati (Fribourg)
Prof. Dr. Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer (Leipzig)
JunProf. Dr. Philipp Hübl (Stuttgart)
JunProf. Dr. Ulrike Pompe (Stuttgart)
Dr. Jens Kertscher (Darmstadt)
Dr. Christoph Michel (Stuttgart)
Dr. Jan Müller (Darmstadt)
Dr. Ulrike Ramming (Stuttgart)
Dr. Thomas Szanto (Dublin)
Rico Hauswald (Berlin)

Information
and free registration:catrin.misselhorn@philo.uni-stuttgart.de

(Edinburgh (UK)) Embodied Music Cognition Conference (EMuCog): An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:29:57 +0100

(Birmingham (UK)) Lewis Carroll’s Mathematics

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:49:12 +0100

(Tübingen (Germany)) The Metaphysics of Kit Fine

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:15:02 +0100

Tübingen Masterclass in Theoretical Philosophy 2013:

The Metaphysics of Kit Fine

16-17 October, 2013, University of Tübingen

Call for Papers

Kit Fine, Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at New York University, will give a Masterclass in metaphysics at Tübingen’s Department of Philosophy, which will provide graduate students the opportunity to discuss their work with one of the leading metaphysicians working today. We invite graduate students to submit papers on any aspect of Kit Fine’s metaphysics, including Finean themes concerning mereology, modality, time, essence, grounding and postulation. Please submit papers by 30 June 2013 to Prof. Dr. Thomas B. Sattig (thomas.sattig@uni-tuebingen.de). Papers should not exceed 4000 words. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by the end of July.

(London (UK)) Go Figure 2013

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:13:46 +0100

(Barcelona (Spain)) Fourth PERSP Metaphysics Workshop

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:30:14 +0100

PMW4 -- Fourth PERSP Metaphysics Workshop

Barcelona 16-17 May 2013

Organized by Dan López de Sa (UB) & Bryan Pickel (UB), sponsored by PERSP B1 "Issues in Metaphysics"

This is the fourth of a series of workshops on the topics of PERSP Workpackage on Issues in Metaphysics — truthmaking, indeterminacy, grounding, and the meta-metaphysical and logical aspects of the discussions on these notions.

Provisional Program

Thursday 16

11:00-13:00 Cian Dorr (Oxford): “The A-theory, the B-theory, Propositional Temporalism and Propositional Eternalism”, comments by Stephan Torre (Aberdeen)

13:00-15:00 Lunch

15:00-17:00 Jessica Leech (Sheffield): “Essence and Mere Necessity”, comments by Richard Woodward (UB)

17:00-17:30 Coffee Break

17:30-19:30 Rachel Briggs (ANU): “Fictionalism About Chance”, comments by Sven Rosenkranz (ICREA-UB)

Friday 17

11:00-13:00 Janice Dowell (Nebraska): “Flexible Contextualism about Priority Modals”, comments by Moritz Schulz (UB)

13:00-15:00 Lunch

15:00-17:00 Mari Mikkola (Humboldt): “Doing Ontology and Doing Justice: Meta-metaphysical Lessons from Feminist Philosophy”, comments by Esa Diaz-Leon (Manitoba)

17:00-17:30 Coffee Break

17:30-19:30 Alan Sidelle (Wisconsin): “How Much do Coincident Entities Differ, and Why?”, comments by Marta Campdelacreu (UB)

Registration: 8 May 2013
Venue: Residència d'Investigadors (c. Hospital 64, Barcelona)
Further info: www.ub.edu/persp, persp.management@gmail.com

(Edinburgh (UK)) Metaphysics of Mind and Science Workshop

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:25:28 +0100

(Stockholm (Sweden)) Seventh Workshop in Decisions, Games & Logic

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:21:37 +0100

(Neuchâtel (Switzerland)) Explanation in Metaphysics

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:17:53 +0100

(Padova (Italy)) Neuroetica: nascita di una disciplina

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:11:04 +0100

(Birmingham (UK)) Workshop on the Metaphysics of Time

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:07:49 +0100

ANNOUNCEMENT: Birmingham-Nottingham Workshop on the Metaphysics of Time

On Wednesday 1st May 2013, the Philosophy Department at the University of Birmingham will host a workshop on the metaphysics of time. Talks will be held in the ERI Building, room 149. ( Map: http://goo.gl/PIis1 )

Schedule:
10.00 - 10.30 Tea/coffee
10.30 - 11.45 Martin Pickup (Oxford) - 'A Theory of Persistence'
11.45 - 12.00 Break
12.00 - 13.15 Meghan Sullivan (Notre Dame) - 'An A-Theory Without Tense Operators'
13.15 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 15.45 Jeff Russell (Oxford) - 'Temporary Safety Hazards'
15.45 - 16.00 Break
16.00 - 17.15 Ross Cameron (Leeds) - 'How Can You Know You're Present?'
17.15 - 17.30 Close
17.30 - 21.00 Drinks & dinner

Attendance is free and no registration is required; if you would like to come to dinner, please contact a.j.wilson@bham.ac.uk .

This event is supported by the Birmingham-Nottingham Strategic Collaboration Fund and organized by MIMOSA. - http://mimosa.org.uk

(London (UK)) Mathematical values / values in mathematics

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:06:44 +0100

(Trento (Italy)) Context-dependent consumer decision-making: An interdisciplinary inquiry

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:04:27 +0100

"Context-dependent consumer decision-making: An interdisciplinary inquiry"

Announcement of the Workshop and call for papers and posters "Context-dependent consumer decision-making: An interdisciplinary inquiry" to be held at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Trento (Italy), June 17, 2013.

http://events.unitn.it/aisc2013/workshop-context-dependent

The workshop aims to promote an interdisciplinary approach to the study of consumer decision-making with perspectives from psychology, (neuro)-marketing, behavioral economics, behavioral law and sociology. To that end, we convey invited speakers to discuss the theoretical, experimental and applied implications of the behavioral science of normal and abnormal consumer decision-making.

Keynote speakers:

John Payne, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, USA
Carolyn Yoon, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, USA
Barbara Fasolo, Department of Management, London School of Economics, UK

Call for paper/posters:

Participation of researchers and the submission of poster abstracts also at early stage of work are encouraged. All accepted abstracts will appear on the proceedings of the Conference with ISBN code (abstract about 500 words).

Deadline submission: 20 May 2013
Notification of acceptance: 30 May 2013

This is a special plenary workshop out of other initiatives (round tables, workshops, talks/posters, exhibits) for the 10-year Celebration Conference of the Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences (AISC). The Celebration Conference (in Italian) will also be held at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Trento (Italy), from 17 to 19 June, 2013.

http://events.unitn.it/aisc2013

Abstract submission : To submit an abstract please send an email to:
Dr. Marco Cruciani: cruciani@disi.unitn.it â€“ (Conference chairman)

Registration: To register please send an email to:
Dr. Federico Cecconi: federico.cecconi@istc.cnr.it (AISC Treasurer)
Conference Fee (which includes attendance to the Workshop and all activities of the Conference): â‚¬30 for EADM members / â‚¬40 otherwise

We look forward to seeing you in Trento.

The scientific and organization committee of the Workshop:

Prof. Dr. Nicolao Bonini (Chairman), nicolao.bonini@unitn.it
Prof. Dr. Luigi Mittone, luigi.mittone@unitn.it
Dr. Marco Cruciani, marco.cruciani@unitn.it, AISC representative
Prof. Dr. Umberto Martini, umberto.martini@unitn.it

We thank the European Association of Decision Making and the Department of Economics and Management for their financial support.

(Dublin (Ireland)) John McDowell at UCD School of Philosophy

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:32:08 +0100

2013 Agnes Cuming Lectures and Seminar by
Professor John McDowell

Hosted by
School of Philosophy
University College Dublin

April 23-25, 2013

Topic

"Two Questions about Perception”

Lecture 1
"Can
cognitive science determine epistemology?"
Tuesday
April 23
Newman
Theatre 1, Newman Building, UCD, Belfield Dublin 4
6.00-8.00
pm

Lecture 2
"Are the senses silent?"
Wednesday
April 24
Newman
Theatre 1, Newman Building, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4
6.00-8.00
pm

Agnes
Cuming Seminar
Thursday April 25
Iveagh Room, Newman House, 86 St Stephen’s
Green, Dublin 2
3.00-5.00 pm
Followed by the conferral of an Honourary Degree of Doctor of Letters on Professor
McDowelll by University College Dublin
Wine Reception

All Welcome

Professor Maria Bagrhramian, MRIA
Head ofSchool of Philosophy, UCD
Chief Editor: International Journal of Philosophical Studies
Co-director: Postgraduate Programme in Cognitive Science, UCD

(Geneva (Switzerland)) The Ontology of Evidence

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:31:13 +0100

(Nancy (France)) Epistemology of Atheism

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:29:15 +0100

(Lisbon (Portugal)) Reasons and Deliberation in Real-World Contexts

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:50:29 +0100

“Reasons and Deliberation in Real-World Contexts”

DATES: JUNE 17TH-18TH 2013

The Instituto de Filosofia da Linguagem (Institute for the Philosophy of Language) at FCSH-
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (New University of Lisbon) is proud to announce its second Graduate
Student Conference, to be held on the 17th and 18th of June, 2013, as part of the “Argumentation,
Communication, and Context” project.

Keynote speakers:

Dr. Hugo Mercier (CNRS Research Scientist, Laboratoire Langage, Cerveau et Cognition, Lyon, France)

And

Dr. Catherine Moury (Assistant Professor, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)

Following the title of the conference, we are inviting graduate students from a variety of disciplines
to deliver a 30-minute presentation discussing their current research pertaining to reason-giving and
deliberation. The aim is to discuss the application of theoretical observations to empirical, or real-
world, scenarios and thus highlight the importance of context to the processes of reason-giving and
deliberation.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 APRIL 2013

Submission guidelines: Submissions should consist of a 350-500 word abstract and be suitable for BLIND
review. Abstracts and author information should be e-mailed as attachments to Michael Baumtrog at
iflgraduateconference@gmail.com . Please place the blind abstract in one file and the author(s) contact
information in a separate file (.doc(x) or .pdf).

Due to the international origins of the presenters and audience members, presenters are encouraged to
submit papers in English, although Portuguese submissions will be given equal consideration.

(Munich (Germany)) Reduction and Emergence in Physics

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:47:37 +0100

(Munich (Germany)) Truth and Paradox

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:45:38 +0100

(Antwerp (Belgium)) Shared Agency

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:43:58 +0100

International Masterclass

“Shared Agency”

with Professor Michael Bratman

24th & 25th August 2013

University of Antwerp

INVITED SPEAKER : Professor Michael Bratman (Stanford University)

Starting with his groundbreaking ‘Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason’ (1987), Michael Bratman has made highly influential contributions to topics such as agency, planning, intention and moral responsibility. His work has been influential in various areas of scientific research ranging from artificial intelligence to the social sciences. Bratman is also a pioneer in the investigation of collective intentionality. In his new book ‘Shared Agency’, he outlines how his planning theory of individual agency can be used to provide the basis for an account of shared agency:

Bratman's book "seeks a framework for understanding these basic forms of sociality: What concepts do we need? In what do these forms of sociality consist? How are they related to relevant forms of individual agency? What norms are central to such sociality? How are these social norms related to norms that apply in the first instance to individual agency? These are questions about the conceptual, metaphysical and normative foundations of our sociality. And a conjecture of this book is that a rich account of individual planning agency facilitates the step to these forms of sociality. There is independent reason – grounded in the diachronic organization of our temporally extended agency – to see planning structures as basic to our individual agency. And once these planning structures are on board we can expect them to play central roles in our sociality. The planning theory of individual agency highlights distinctive roles and norms of intentions, understood as plan states. And the conjecture is that appeal to these planning structures enables us to provide adequate resources – conceptual, metaphysical and normative – for an account of sufficient conditions for these basic forms of sociality. Shared agency emerges, both functionally and rationally, from structures of interconnected planning agency. This is a deep continuity between individual and social agency. And this is an aspect of the fecundity of planning structures, the idea that planning structures ground a range of practical capacities that are central to our lives."

(Bratman, M., forthcoming, Shared Agency, Oxford University Press)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Postgraduates in philosophy or other related disciplines, are invited to apply. Contributions addressing issues related, but not limited, to the topic of the Masterclass are encouraged. A limited number of high-quality papers will be selected for presentation at the Masterclass.

Please send an abstract (maximum 500 words) prepared for blind-review. The reviewing process will be managed through the EasyChair Conference System: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ia2013

DEADLINE for submissions: 15th April 2013.

NOTIFICATION of acceptance: 30th April 2013.

Limited funds may be available to cover the travel expenses of successful candidates.

REGISTRATION

Attendance to the Masterclass is free, but registration in advance is compulsory. In order to confrm your participation, please send an email to: InAction@ua.ac.be

The project is funded by the Antwerp Doctoral School Grant for Young Researchers.

More information at : https://sites.google.com/site/angelicakaufmann/other-activities

Angelica Kaufmann, BA, MSc, PhD Student

Centre for Philosophical Psychology

University of Antwerp

Stadscampus

S.S. 208

Lange Sint Annastraat 7

2000 Antwerpen

Belgium

Email: Angelica.Kaufmann@ua.ac.be or A.Kaufmann@ed-alumni.net

Webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/angelicakaufmann/home

(Munich (Germany)) Putnam's Model-Theoretic Arguments

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:39:44 +0100

(Irvine, CA (USA)) Workshop on Category-Theoretic Foundations of Mathematics

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:38:30 +0100

(Bern (Switzerland)) From false models to truth?

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:36:06 +0100

(Bochum (Germany)) Investigating Semantics: Empirical and Philosophical Approaches

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:33:27 +0100

(Dublin (Ireland)) Annual Dublin Wittgenstein Conference

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:29:14 +0100

Annual Ludwig Wittgenstein
Conference
>Dublin, Ireland
>
>
> April 26 and 27, 2013
>
>Preliminary Notice of the Programme
>
>
>
>Friday April 26

Venue: The Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin 2
>
>9.30-10.00 Registration
>

10.00 Maeve Cooke
>University College Dublin
>"Wittgenstein
and the Question of Normativity in Political Philosophy"
>
>11.15 Coffee Break
>
>11.30 James Conant
>University of Chicago
>"Perspicuous
Representation"
>
>12.45 Lunch
>
>2.00 Julia Tanney
>University of Kent
>“From
Psychological Predicates to Mental States”
>
>3.15 Jim Levine
>Trinity College Dublin
>"Wittgenstein
and Metaphysical Quietism, Early, Middle, and Late"
>
>4.30 Coffee Break
>
>5 .00 Martin Kusch
>University of Vienna
>"Wittgenstein on
the anthropology of colour”
>
>6.30 Drinks and Dinner
>
>Saturday April 27
>Venue Kilpatrick House, County Wicklow
>
>The
Wittgenstein Project: I Won’t Say I Will See You Tomorrow
>Walking tour and introduction to Wittgenstein. Sound
installation presented by artist Karl Burke. Tea will be served in Kilpatrick
House, where Wittgenstein lived for a
number of months in 1947, followed by music by the Trinity Quartet. Please bring
walking shoes.
>http://www.mermaidartscentre.ie/events/details/the-wittgenstein-projecti-wont-say-i-will-see-you-tomorrow.
Information regarding travel to Kilpatrick House will be available soon.
>
>
>
>
>Professor Maria Bagrhramian, MRIA
>Head ofSchool of Philosophy, UCD
>Chief Editor: International Journal of Philosophical Studies
>Co-director: Postgraduate Programme in Cognitive Science, UCD

(Oxford (UK)) Ancient philosophy and analytic philosophy

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:27:26 +0100

Ancient philosophy and analytic philosophy

Conference organised by Catherine Rowett, Tom Sorell and Alberto Vanzo, to be held in St Anne's College, Oxford, on 25-27 October 2013

For the past forty years, most research on ancient philosophy in the English-speaking world has been shaped by the methods and style of analytic philosophy. This has sharpened our understanding of key doctrines, highlighted their philosophical relevance, and made it possible for ancient views to bear on current debates. This alliance of analytic philosophy and ancient philosophy also raises pressing methodological questions. To what extent are we allowed to supplement the claims of ancient philosophers with premises and concepts that the authors involved would not recognize? How can our understanding of the arguments of ancient philosophers profit from the study of non-argumentative aspects of their texts, like the use of myths or the dialogic form? How should we deal with texts whose standards of argument that are markedly different from our own, or which seek to promote specific forms of life, rather than establishing a specific body of truths?

Invited speakers: Lesley Brown (Oxford), Walter Cavini (Bologna), Gail Fine (Cornell/Oxford), Terence Irwin (Oxford), Kathryn Morgan (UCLA), Vasilis Politis (Dublin), Christopher Rowe (Durham).

Two slots are available for presentations of 45 minutes from early-career scholars, followed by 30 minutes of discussion. We aim to cover some of the travel and accommodation costs.

Please submit full papers (max. 15,000 words) to Alberto Vanzo (alberto.vanzo@email.it) by Monday 3 June 2013.

(Göttingen (Germany)) Wittgenstein in Relation to Philosophical Traditions

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:25:42 +0100

Wittgenstein in Relation to Philosophical Traditions
- International Conference on the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and
related themes

20-22 May 2013

Lichtenberg-Kolleg, University of Göttingen (GER)

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Please register by 1st May.

To register, please write to w.conf.goettingen@gmail.com, and specify
whether you want to attend the conference dinner, or not. The respective
fees due for attendance are as follows:

a) no dinner: 25€ -- 3 days, incl. snacks and drinks during breaks in the
morning and in the afternoon

b) dinner: 40€ -- a) + dinner on 21st May, at restaurant PLANEA BASICS
(excl. drinks)

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Monday, 20 May

10.15-11.45 Felix Mühlhölzer (University of Göttingen) ?
?Wittgenstein?s Philosophy of Mathematics beyond Logicism, Intuitionism and
Formalism?

12.15-13.45 Joachim Schulte (University of Zürich) ? ?Kantian Themes
in Wittgenstein??

15.30-17.00 Avner Baz (Tufts University) ? ?Wittgenstein and the
Crisis of Method in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy?

17.30-19.00 Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen (University of Southern
Denmark) ? ??For Better, For Worse.? Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard on
Philosophy, Love and Marriage?

Tuesday, 21 May

10.15-11.45 Alois Pichler (University of Bergen) ? ??The spirit of
this civilization is a spirit that is alien and uncongenial to the author
...? (CV, 1998, 8e)?

12.15-13.45 Thomas Wallgren (University of Helsinki) ? ?The Third Way:
Wittgenstein and the Tradition of Socratic Scepticism?

15.30-17.00 Silver Bronzo (University of Chicago) ? ?Symbols, Signs,
and Figures in Frege and Wittgenstein?

17.30-19.00 Hans Sluga (University of California, Berkeley) ?
?Diagnostic Philosophizing: Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Foucault?

Wednesday, 22 May

10.15-11.45 Martin Gustafsson (Åbo Akademi University) ? ?Wittgenstein
and the Revisionist Strand in Analytic Philosophy (Carnap, Quine, Rorty)?

12.15-13.45 James Conant (University of Chicago) ? ?Early Wittgenstein
on Perspicuous Representation?

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Organisers: James Conant (University of Chicago), Sebastian Greve (Birkbeck,
University of London)

Contact: w.conf.goettingen@gmail.com

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(sponsored by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung)

(Paris (France)) Inductive logic and confirmation in science

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:56:00 +0100

(Swarthmore, PA (USA)) Conference: Thinking about Knowledge. ...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:22:59 +0100

(London (UK)) The Emergence of Consciousness

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:12:23 +0100

(London (UK)) 7th Annual Postgraduate Bioethics Conference

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:10:33 +0100

7thAnnual UK Postgraduate Bioethics Conference
King’s College London
22-24 May 2013

Final Call for Abstracts: Bioethics in Law and Public Policy

The convenors of the 7thannual Postgraduate Bioethics Conferenceinvite postgraduate students working in any area of bioethics to submit abstracts for this year’s conference, which will take place on 22-24 May 2013 atKing’s College London. In accordance with the theme of this year’s conference, we would particularly welcome papers that explore the law and/or policy dimensions of bioethics scholarship. We hope that the papers presented at PGBC 2013 will relate not only to the ethical implications of a particular issue, but also to the additional problems raised by the responses to ethical issues fashioned by laws and policies.

Please submit your abstracts to postgrad.bioethics@outlook.com.Abstracts should be in English, no more than 300 words, and in Word or preferably PDF format. Please note that you must be a registered MPhil/PhD student or taught postgraduate student in a relevant discipline, and we will only accept abstracts sent from a valid institutional email address.

The deadline for abstract submissions is 31 March 2013. Successful applicants will be notified by email by 10 April 2013.There will be an opportunity for unsuccessful applicants and those not wishing to give a paper to register as attendees (for free!) from 22 April 2013. The link to registration is: pgbc2013.eventbrite.co.uk.

Confirmed speakers include: Jonathan Glover (KCL), Rosamund Scott (KCL), Stephen Wilkinson (Lancaster), John Coggon (Southampton), James Wilson (UCL), Mark Sheehan (Oxford), andTom Douglas (Oxford).

More information on PGBC 2013 is available at postgradbioethics.org. We are also on twitter (@pgbc2013) and facebook (facebook.com/postgradbioethics). Please contact us via social media or email (postgrad.bioethics@outlook.com) with any questions.

PGBC 2013 gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Society for Applied Philosophy, and the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London.

(Barcelona (Spain)) Logicality, Lexical Meaning and Semantic Invariance

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:08:44 +0100

(St Lucia Campus, Queensland (Australia)) The 2013 Australasian Association of Philosophy ...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:05:46 +0100

(Trondheim (Norway)) Perceptual Intentionality: Phenomenology, Representation and Knowledge

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:02:46 +0100

(Buolder, CO (USA)) 29th Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:59:26 +0100

(London (UK)) Workshop on the Nature of Fiction

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:56:58 +0100

London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy)
Wednesday, 1 May 2013 | 10am to 5.30pm
Senate Room, Senate House | Malet Street London, WC1E 7HU

Workshop on the Nature of Fiction
Gregory Currie · David Davies · Stacie Friend · Kathleen Stock

The aim of this one-day workshop is to bring together four philosophers who have been engaged in a significant debate over the nature of fiction over the last several years. The most popular theory of fiction today, both within aesthetics and in other philosophical domains, is the ‘fictive utterance’ account (inspired by Walton's account of fiction/representational art in terms of prescriptions of imagine). According to the 'fictive utterance' theory, first articulated in detail by Gregory Currie in The Nature of Fiction (1990), fictionality turns essentially on the author’s intention to invite imagining. In publications in 1996 and 2001, David Davies developed a distinctive version of the same view, and in a 2008 paper Stacie Friend criticized both Currie and Davies, arguing that the invitation to imagine provides neither necessary nor sufficient conditions for fictionality. Kathleen Stock then defended a version of the fictive utterance theory
designed to avoid Friend’s objections, to which Friend replied, in a Joint Session plenary symposium (2011). Since then Friend has proposed an alternative approach to fiction (2012); Stock and Davies have written papers (as yet unpublished) responding to Friend’s criticisms; and Currie has reconsidered the relationship between fiction and imagining (also unpublished).

This event is free and open to all but registration is required. Please register via the London Aesthetics Forum website

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Programme

10.00-11.00.
Stacie Friend (Heythrop College, University of London) – ‘Defining
fiction without imagination’

11.00-11.30. Coffee/tea (provided)

11.30-12.30.
David Davies (McGill University) – ‘Fictive utterance, fictional
works, and fictional narratives’

12.30-2.00. Lunch (own arrangements)

2.00-3.00.
Kathleen Stock (University of Sussex) – ‘The nature of fiction:
Why be generic when you can be imaginative?’

3.00-3.30. Coffee/tea (provided)

3.30-4.30.
Gregory Currie (University of Nottingham) – TBA

4.30-5.30 - Panel Discussion

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The London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy) is
generously supported by the British Society of Aesthetics

(Munich (Germany)) Reduction and Emergence in the Sciences

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:10:33 +0100

(Cagliari (Italy)) 3rd SIFA Graduate Conference: “Language, Logic and Mind”

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:17:50 +0100

Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA) www.sifa.unige.it

3rd SIFA Graduate Conference: “Language, Logic and Mind”

University of Cagliari
Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy
Cagliari, 16th-18th September 2013

The third Italian graduate conference in analytic philosophy, promoted by the SIFA Steering Committee, aims at improving the interaction among young scholars and researchers in philosophy, both from Italy and elsewhere, to discuss the new trends in the following areas: Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics, Logic and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind and Epistemology. The keynote speakers in these three general areas are:

Language: Emma Borg (University of Reading)
Logic: Greg Restall (University of Melbourne)
Mind: Sarah Sawyer (University of Sussex)

With the aim of including as many contributions as possible, the conference will be structured around plenary sessions with keynote speakers and the contributed papers selected by double blind review. The contributed papers should last around 45 minutes (presentation + discussion). The language of the conference is English.
Abstracts of about 6,000 characters (roughly 1000 words) are invited on any topic in the broad areas indicated. The abstracts, prepared for blind refereeing, should be submitted electronically using the EasyChair submission page at:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sifagc2013

Deadline: May 20th, 2013

Acceptances will be notified by June 20th, 2013. Accepted abstracts will be available at the conference in booklet form and also available online before the conference. Selected full papers of the conference may be published in the proceedings.

Scientific Committee:
Cristina Amoretti
Carla Bagnoli
Massimiliano Carrara
Mario De Caro
Massimo Dell’Utri
Michele Di Francesco
Francesca Ervas
Marco Giunti
Roberto Giuntini
Elisabetta Gola
Simone Gozzano
Alison Hall
Guy Longworth
Josep Macià
Cristina Meini
Francesco Paoli
Adriana Silva Graça
Isidora Stojanovic
Pietro Storari
Chiara Testino
Jesus Vega Encabo

Organising Committee:
Cristina Amoretti
Francesca Ervas
Valentina Favrin
José Gil Férez
Antonio Ledda
Maria Grazia Rossi
Giuseppe Sergioli
Giuliano Vivanet

Further Information:
In addition to the SIFA, the conference is supported by the Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy, the Doctoral Program in History, Philosophy and Didactics of Science, the research groups “Linguisticamente” and “ALoPHiS” of the University of Cagliari.

The organisers hope to be able to provide selected speakers with support for meals or accommodation in Cagliari, but encourage participants to apply for travel bursaries etc. from their home institutions, and will be happy to provide accreditation to the conference in support of such applications.
For further information, please contact ervas@unica.it or visit the website at http://people.unica.it/sifa2013gradconf

(Poznan (Poland)) European Conference on Theory of Action

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:16:06 +0100

(Aberdeen (UK)) NIP Early Career Conference

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:57:08 +0100

THE NORTHERN INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY EARLY CAREER CONFERENCE
University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
27-29 June 2013

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Professor Jennifer Saul (Sheffield)
Professor Brian Weatherson (Michigan)

CONFERENCE AIMS
Our ultimate aim is to showcase outstanding research by early career researchers. While there are a number of opportunities for graduate students and more senior philosophers to present and discuss their research, there are relatively few for researchers who have recently finished their PhDs and are building a career in philosophy. This series has been established as a step towards addressing this imbalance.

THOUGHT: A Journal of Philosophy EARLY CAREER SPECIAL ISSUE
The papers selected for the conference will be invited for inclusion in a special Early Career issue of the journal, Thought. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2161-2234
The editors of the journal may request revisions which must be met to their satisfaction before publication of the paper will be guaranteed.

CRITERIA FOR SUBMISSIONS
We invite submissions from researchers who received their PhD within the last 5 years. Papers must fall under the research remit of the Northern Institute of Philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophies of logic, language, mathematics and mind.

GUIDELINE FOR SUBMISSIONS
We invite papers suitable for a 40-minute presentation and of no longer than 4000 words. Papers should be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 150 words and must be suitable for blind refereeing. Please indicate at the top of the first page of your paper which of the following categories it falls under: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Mind. Please include a separate cover sheet including name, title, institution, month and year of PhD award and contact details. The deadline for receipt of submissions is 12th April 2013. We aim to notify authors of the decision regarding their papers by 21st May 2013. Submissions must be in .doc or .pdf format and are to be submitted by e-mail to earlycareerconference@gmail.com

Meals (lunches and one social dinner) and accommodation will be provided for speakers.

Please direct any questions to the conference organisers on earlycareerconference@gmail.com

(Liège (Belgium)) De Vienne à Graz : Intentionnalité et objet de Brentano à Meinong

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:52:48 +0100

De Vienne à Graz : Intentionnalité et objet de Brentano à MeinongWorkshop international, Université de Liège, 26 mars 2013. Organisé par F. Boccaccini - A. Dewalque
Local: Salle de Réunion du Département de Philosophie (Place du Vingt-Août 7, Bât. central, Aile des Jésuites, 2e entre-sol).
Programme

- 10h00- Accueil des participants- 10h30-11h30 Denis Fisette (Université du Québec à Montréal ) : Franz Brentano et le principe de l’unité de la conscience- 11h30-12h30 Robert Brisart (Saint-Louis / Luxembourg) : La non-existence de l'objet intentionnel ou l'antiréalisme de BrentanoPause repas- 14h30-15h30 Uriah Kriegel (Institut J. Nicod, Paris) : What is Reism?- 15h30-16h30 Venanzio Raspa (Université d’Urbino) : Meinong on Aesthetic ObjectsPause café- 17h00-18h00 Alessandro Salice (Université de Vienne) : Possibility and States of Affairs in Meinong, Reinach, and Gallinger- 18h00 Fin des travaux

UR Phénoménologies Contact : Arnaud Dewalque a.dewalque@ulg.ac.be - Federico Boccaccini federico.boccaccini@ulg.ac.be

(Milano (Italy)) Seminario di filosofia e psicologia

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:49:43 +0100

Seminario di filosofia e psicologia

Università di Milano-Bicocca

Dipartimento di Scienze Umane “R. Massa”

Piazza dell’Ateneo Nuovo 1 – 20126 Milano

Aula Seminari

11 aprile 2013

ore 11.00

Giorgio Rezzonico
Università di Milano-Bicocca

Il concetto di autoinganno nella psicoterapia costruttivista

ore 14:00

Carla Bagnoli
Università di Modena-Reggio Emilia

Autoinganno: un resoconto costruttivista

ore 16:00

Francesco Berto
University of Aberdeen

Dalla concepibilità alla possibilità

(Milano (Italy)) Workshop di Ontologia

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:29:09 +0100

(Oxford (UK)) Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:24:47 +0100

(Athens (Greece)) Plato's Academy: Summer School 2013

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:22:03 +0100

(Umeå (Sweden)) The 2013 Burman Lectures with David Chalmers

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:18:45 +0100

(Bochum (Germany)) What is Cognition?

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:11:21 +0100

(Umeå (Sweden)) Reference and Frege Puzzles

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:05:38 +0100

(Tokyo (Japan)) Probability and Vagueness

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:59:48 +0100

(Rome (Italy)) Arthur Bierman - Lecture: Learning to travel in conceptual space

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:55:51 +0100

Sapienza University of Rome

Department of Philosophy

Villa Mirafiori - Via Carlo Fea, 2

Wednesday, 10 April 2013, 10:00 – 13:00

Auletta del Dipartimento (2nd floor)

Arthur K. Bierman

Dept. Philosophy – San Francisco State University

http://philosophy.sfsu.edu/philosophy/page/arthur-bierman

“Learning to travel in conceptual space”

Houses are not our building tools. Conceptual systems are not our mental tools.

Description

Bierman’s conceptual logic is not an alethic|truth logic, not a logic of inferential relations between statements. Conceptual logic is a logic of coherent relations between concepts in propositions, a logic of inferential relations between propositions. (Statements and propositions are not identical.) Gibert Ryle called something similar “conceptual cartography [mapping]”.

Conceptual logic supports truth logic, and is superior to it for philosophical work. Western philosophers, including Anglo-American and Continental analytic philosophers, have been repairing their abode’s leaking roof for over a century. One reason is that they relied solely on the canon of alethic|truth logics. Its use was expanded and began to dominate the whole of philosophy when Boole, Frege, Russell, Gödel began looking for a logical basis of mathematical ‘truth’. That’s not good even for pure mathematics, because there are no pure mathematical truths, only conceptual coherence--which is all we need. There are true/false applied mathematical statements, of course. Pure isn’t identical to applied mathematics.

Referring is a worn out act according to Bierman, who replaces it with Assign/Emplace acts. They differ logically. This has been the most controversial, but basic, part of Bierman’s new logic. He will explain that it helps to understand better the relation of world-to-language, such concepts as true/ false; that ‘correspondence’ accounts of alethic confirmations are logically incoherent; how objects and their properties become concepts when incorporated into conceptual structures; and reveals that we literally read the world’s sensed manifold.

Info: Emiliano Ippoliti (emi.ippoliti@gmail.com)

(Orlando, FL (USA)) International Symposium on Cognition/Knowledge Science and Engineering

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:53:26 +0100

(Paris (France)) Logic in Question

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:46:39 +0100

(Stockholm (Sweden)) Seventh Workshop in Decisions, Games & Logic

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:11:45 +0100

(Florence (Italy)) Law and Neuroscience

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:01:02 +0100

(Las Vegas, NV (USA)) The 2013 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:35:29 +0100

(New York City, NY (USA)) Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:34:06 +0100

(Oxford (UK)) Arthur Prior Centenary Conference

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:31:26 +0100

(Ravello (Italy)) Model Theory

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:27:04 +0100

(Bratislava (Slovakia)) Modal Metaphysics: Issues on the (Im)Possible

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:24:26 +0100

(Madrid (Spain)) Inferentialism in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:19:19 +0100

(Coimbra (Portugal)) The Role of Analogy

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:16:00 +0100

(Chieti (Italy)) Modelli della Razionalità e del Pensiero Logico-Matematico

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:13:12 +0100

GIOVEDI 14 MARZO 2013
AULA A, EDIFICIO FACOLTÀ DI LETTERE, 1 PIANO

MODELLI DELLA RAZIONALITÀ E DEL PENSIERO LOGICO-MATEMATICO

Seminario scientifico con la partecipazione di docenti dell’Università di Urbino

09.30 - 10:00 introduce Claudia Casadio (Univ. di Chieti-Pescara)

10:00 - 10:30 Gino Tarozzi (Univ. di Urbino)

«Vecchi e nuovi paradossi della Meccanica Quantistica»

10:30 - 11:00 Vincenzo Fano e Pierluigi Graziani (Univ. di Urbino)

«Teoremi di Gödel e filosofia della mente»

11:00 - 11:15 pausa

11:15 - 11:45 Mario Alai (Univ. di Urbino)

«Cos’è che il realismo scientifico deve spiegare, perché esso solo può farlo, e come»

11:45 - 12:30 discussione

12.30 - 13:00 conclude Mario Piazza (Univ. di Chieti-Pescara)

Università di Chieti-Pescara “G. d’Annunzio”
Campus Universitario – Via dei Vestini 31 – Chieti

Per informazioni: Prof.ssa Claudia Casadio e-mail: casadio@unich.it

(Siena (Italy)) Serie di lezioni filosofiche del Prof. Buettemeyer

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:58:58 +0100

UNIVERSITÃ DEGLI STUDI DI SIENA
Il Gruppo Filosofia invita ad una

SERIE DI LEZIONI FILOSOFICHE del

PROF. WILHELM BÃœTTEMEYER (UniversitÃ di Oldenburg, Germania)

(1) Filosofia della Scienza:

"IL METODO DELL'ESPLICAZIONE SECONDO RUDOLF CARNAP"

12.3.2013, ore 16, Palazzo Fieravecchia, Via Fieravecchia, aula C

(2) Logica:

"LA LOGICA DIALOGICA"

13.3.2013, ore 16, Palazzo Fieravecchia, Via Fieravecchia, aula S

(3) Filosofia morale:

"L'UTILITARISMO DI JOHN STUART MILL"

15.3.2013, ore 14, Palazzo Fieravecchia, Via Fieravecchia, aula S

(Durham (UK)) Concept Acquisition and the Role of Language

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:06:44 +0100

Concept Acquisition and the Role of Language (27-28th May 2013)

Keynote Speaker: Susan Carey

Deadline for submissions: 4th March 2013.

Part of the project `Philosophy and Psychology: Integrating Research Across Disciplines'

University of Durham, UK, 27/28th May 2013

We invite submissions from graduate students/post-doctoral researchers for papers to be presented at a workshop aimed at bringing together research from across discipline boundaries.

Abstracts for submission for either workshop should be no more than 750 words (exc. Bibliography), prepared for blind review. Please include a separate cover page including name, address, contact information, current institution, publications, and current position. Abstracts should be submitted in Microsoft Word, PDF or similar. Please e-mail submissions to j.t.m.miller@durham.ac.uk. We hope to have at least three slots per workshop for graduate speakers.

Deadline for submissions: 4th March 2013.

Some funding for graduate speakers to help cover travel and accommodation costs may be available (with thanks to the Analysis Trust). All accepted speakers will be considered for funding.

`Concept Acquisition and the Role of Language' (27-28th May 2013)

Keynote Speakers: Susan Carey (Harvard), Maggie McGonigle (Edinburgh), Wolfram Hinzen (Durham)

Historically, issues concerning concept acquisition have focused around the nativism/empiricism debate. The central concern was to give an account of how new concepts are formed, and what influence the external world has on such processes (if any). More recently however, a trend in the literature has focused on the way that the nature of concepts might change throughout development. Questions emerge as to how the cognitive abilities in animals and human infant cognition relate to the later developing complex conceptual capacities of adults.

This workshop looks to assess the recent literature on these questions with particular focus on the role of language acquisition in the developmental process. We look to investigate these issues with an interdisciplinary approach, utilising research in linguistics, psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, comparative cognition, and other related fields.

This workshop takes place as part of a broader event encompassing two workshops. Please see separate call for abstract for the workshop titled: Attention and Consciousness (13-14th June 2013).

(Durham (UK)) Attention and Consciousness

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:05:28 +0100

Attention and Consciousness (13-14th June 2013)

Keynote Speaker: Ned Block

Deadline for submissions: 4th March 2013.

Part of the project `Philosophy and Psychology: Integrating Research Across Disciplines'

University of Durham, UK, 13/14th June 2013

We invite submissions from graduate students/post-doctoral researchers for papers to be presented at a workshop aimed at bringing together research from across discipline boundaries.

Abstracts for submission for either workshop should be no more than 750 words (exc. Bibliography), prepared for blind review. Please include a separate cover page including name, address, contact information, current institution, publications, and current position. Abstracts should be submitted in Microsoft Word, PDF or similar. Please e-mail submissions to j.t.m.miller@durham.ac.uk. We hope to have at least three slots per workshop for graduate speakers.

Deadline for submissions: 4th March 2013.

Some funding for graduate speakers to help cover travel and accommodation costs may be available (with thanks to the Analysis Trust). All accepted speakers will be considered for funding.

`Attention and Consciousness' (13-14th June 2013)

Speakers: Ned Block (NYU), Bob Kentridge (Durham), Catherine Tallon-Baudry (UPMC), James Stazicker (Reading).

Whilst consciousness has seemed to many to be so utterly baffling that it was best left to philosophers to address, attention has until recently been studied almost exclusively by the empirical sciences and (with a few exceptions) has not really been addressed by philosophers. Now this is changing, and an interesting and fruitful dialogue has recently opened up between philosophers and empirical scientists.

All of these researchers are turning their efforts toward understanding consciousness and attention together, rather than attempting to tackle them separately. It is this interdisciplinary dialogue that this conference hopes to contribute to.

This workshop takes place as part of a broader event encompassing two workshops. Please see separate call for abstract for the workshop titled: Concept Acquisition and the Role of Language (27-28th May 2013).

( Mainz (Germany)) Modal Epistemology

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:01:20 +0100

Workshop announcement
Modal Epistemology - 7th-8th of March 2013 - Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
Mainz

Invited Speakers:
Thomas Krödel (Berlin), Christian Nimtz (Bielefeld), Sonia Roca-Royes
(Stirling), Daniele Sgaravatti (L'Aquila)

Schedule:

Thursday, 7th
09:30 - 11:00 Thomas Krödel "Counterfactuals and the Epistemology of
Modality"
11:30 - 13:00 Christian Nimtz "Conceptual Truths, Strong Possibilities and
Our Knowledge of Metaphysical Necessities"
15:00 - 17:00 Sonia Roca-Royes "Conceivability and De Re Modal Knowledge"

Friday, 8th
09:30 - 11:00 Christian Nimtz "Firm Ground and Beyond? On the Metaphysics
and Epistemology of Metaphysical Modality"
11:30 - 13:00 Sonia Roca-Royes tba
15:00 - 16:30 Daniele Sgaravatti tba
17:00 - 18:30 Silvère Schutkowski "On the Explanation of Modal Knowledge"

Organization:
Ralf Busse, Silvère Schutkowski
Info and registration: schutkow@uni-mainz.de

(Bonn (Germany)) Constructing the World: Author Meets Critics Workshop with David Chalmers

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:56:18 +0100

(Mexico City (Mexico)) Conference on Aesthetic and Naturalism

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:54:33 +0100

(Oxford (UK)) The Moral Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:45:00 +0100

(Paris (France)) 7th Latin Meeting in Analytic Philosophy

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:25:53 +0100

(Nordfjordeid (Norway)) Nordic Spring School in Logic

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:37:54 +0100

(Clermont-Ferrand (France)) Fifth French PhilMath Workshop

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:17:53 +0100

(Stockholm (Sweden)) The 3rd Stockholm Philosophy Graduate Conference

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:28:57 +0100

3rd STOCKHOLM PHILOSOPHY GRADUATE CONFERENCE
27-28 September 2013 Stockholm University, Department of Philosophy
SE - 10691 Stockholm, Sweden gradconf2013@philosophy.su.se www.philosophy.su.se/gradconf2013 Call for papers: 3rd Stockholm Philosophy Graduate Conference We invite submissions of papers by graduate students to a conference
hosted by the Philosophy Department at Stockholm University, 27-28
September 2013. Papers on any topic in philosophy are welcome. Submissions will be
selected according to argumentative strength, clarity, originality, and
accessibility to a general philosophical audience. Participating papers
will be given 60 minutes (30 minutes presentation, 10 minutes commentary,
and 20 minutes open discussion). Senior faculty members at the department
will give the comments, in so far as it is possible. We are pleased to announce that our Keynote Speakers are: Martin Davies (Oxford)
Elinor Mason (Edinburgh) Submission Guidelines: Deadline for submission is 1 May 2013. The application should contain the following:
1. A cover letter containing (a) author’s name, (b) institutional
affiliation, (c) contact information (email, phone number, mailing
address), (d) title of the paper, (e) word count, and (f) area(s) of the
paper (e.g. ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language,
etc.).
2. The paper, which should not exceed 3000 words (including footnotes,
excluding abstract). The paper should be prepared for blind review, and
should include an abstract of no more than 250 words. Please send applications as separate attachments in pdf-format to gradconf2013@philosophy.su.se containing as subject "Application". All questions relating to the conference should be sent to this address. Updates and more information on www.philosophy.su.se/gradconf2013 Organizers: Mats Ingelström, Eric Johannesson, Hege Dypedokk Johnsen, Sara Packalén, Daniel Ramöller, Olle Torpman.

(Brussels (Belgium)) Logic, Knowledge, and Language. Paul Gochet Memorial Conference

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:26:44 +0100

(Manchester (UK)) Consciousness, Cognition and the Self

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:25:42 +0100

Consciousness, Cognition and the Self:Philosophy of Mind Workshop
Friday,
March 8th, 2013, University
of Manchester (University Place 5.205)

Attendance
is free and open to all
No booking required, but please register your intention to attend by contacting Tim Bayne (tim.bayne@manchester.ac.uk)

Speakers

Ryoji Sato (University of Tokyo): Attention
and representationalism
Pablo
López-Silva (University of Manchester): Experience
of self-continuity, autobiographical memory and sense of ownershipKoji Ota
(University of Tokyo): The
representational basis of temporal experience
Yoshiyuki Hayashi (University of Tokyo): Split-brain and the structure of mind
Joel
Smith (University of Manchester): Alienation and self-presentation
Yukihiro
Nobuhara (University of Tokyo): Can the
one-factor theory explain the tenacity of delusions?
Tim Bayne
(University of Manchester): Modes of
consciousness

(Melbourne (Australia)) Australasian Association for Logic Annual Meeting

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:32:36 +0100

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Australasian Association for Logic Annual Meeting

On 15--16 June 2013, at the University of Melbourne, the Australasian Association for Logic will conduct its annual meeting. We invite submission of abstracts on any area of logic, pure or applied.

Abstracts should be prepared for blind review and submitted to davewripley@gmail.com in plain text, .rtf, or (preferably) .pdf format on or before 25 March. Please include "AAL" in the subject line of your submission email. Authors will be notified about acceptance in early April.

This conference will be immediately preceded by Priestfest: A conference in honour of Graham Priest (12--14 June, same venue); abstracts that fit both events will be considered for both, unless otherwise specified.

We aim to create a conference with a diverse group of topics and presenters. As such, we strongly encourage submissions from members of groups that are underrepresented in academic philosophy, as well as authors working on underexplored issues.

(Auckland (New Zeland)) 2013 New Zealand Philosophy Conference

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:31:07 +0100

2013 New Zealand Philosophy Conference
(hitherto 'AAP NZ Division Conference')
8-12 December, The University of Auckland

This is an early notice that this year's New Zealand Philosophy Conference
will be held at The University of Auckland (New Zealand) from the evening
of Sunday 8th December to the afternoon of Thursday 12th December 2013.

Due to legal/structural changes of the AAP, a number of formal details of
the conference are yet to be finalised (including its title). Details of
the event will be posted on our departmental website in late July, once the
2013 AAP Conference hosted by The University of Queensland and Bond
University has ended. We will also send a call for papers at that time.

In the meantime, if you would like further details on arrangements, please
feel free to contact the organisers at the following addresses:

Denis Robinson: dj.robinson@auckland.ac.nz
Marco Grix: m.grix@auckland.ac.nz

Department of Philosophy
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland 1142
New Zealand

(Bristol (UK)) The Limits and Scope of Mathematical Knowledge

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:28:59 +0100

(Paris (France)) Third Paris-Hamburg Ontology Workshop

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:00:24 +0100

The Nominalizations project is holding the

Third Paris-Hamburg Ontology Workshop:
"The Ontology of the Mind and the Semantics of Nominalizations"

February 22-23, 2013,
IHPST, 13 rue du four, 75006 Paris, France.

Programme:

Friday, February 22
14.30 - 15.45: Moritz Schulz (Barcelone): 'Grounding Mental Causation'
15.45 - 16.15: Coffee break
16.15 -17.30: Benjamin Schnieder (Hambourg): 'Grounding'
17.30 - 18.00: Coffee break
18.00 - 19.00: Damiano Costa (Genève): 'Do traditional theories of
persistence rest on a category mistake?'

Saturday, February 23
9.30 - 10.45 Lisa Bylinina (Utrecht): 'Sources of Subjectivity and the
Judge Argument'
10.45 - 11.15. Coffee break
11.15. - 12.00 Friederike Moltmann (IHPST, Paris): 'Remarks on
Nominalizations of Predicates of Taste'
12.00 - 13.00 Arash Behboodi (IHPST, Paris): 'Understanding Ontologies
and Existential Syncretism'
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.15 Uriah Kriegel (IJN, Paris): 'Brentano's Simple Attitudes'
15.15- 15.45: Coffee break
15.45 - 16.30: Friederike Moltmann (IHPST, Paris): 'Intentional Objects
and the Semantics of Intentional Verbs'

http://semantics.univ-paris1.fr/index.php/visiteur/activite/afficher/activite/182

http://nominalizations.wordpress.com/

(Bochum (Germany)) Rudolf Carnap Lectures 2013

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:57:18 +0100

(Bologna (Italy)) Cogito Workshop on Truth and Reference

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:55:40 +0100

Dipartimento di Filosofia e comunicazione
Sala Rossa, III piano via A. Gardino 23
*Schedule:*

10.00

*Giuseppe Spolaore*, Padova

Unsettled reference.

Descriptive names, empty names, and future contingents

11.45

*Sebastiano Moruzzi*, Bologna, and *Matteo Plebani*, Venezia

Is Truth-relativism compatible with Deflationism?

14.30

*Jessica Pepp*, Oslo

Referring as experiencing

ore 16.15

*Joseph Almog*, UCLA

Language, thought, perception--continuous or disjoint?

18

*Paolo Leonardi*, Bologna

Language as an add-on prelinguistic cognition

*Organizer*: Paolo Leonardi

(Lowell, MA (USA)) The Charles S. Peirce International Centennial Congress

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:54:08 +0100

(Duesseldorf (Germany)) Methods in studying social cognition

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:17:30 +0100

(London (UK)) Knowledge and Intuitions

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:14:29 +0100

(Budapest (Hungary)) Philosophy of Language and Mind

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:11:36 +0100

(Lisbon (Portugal)) OFA (Oficina de Filosofia Analítica)

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:05:16 +0100

OFA9 – Graduate Workshop

12-13 September 2013,

Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon

Call for Abstracts

This call for abstracts is directed at all graduate students and
researchers who have obtained their PhDs in philosophy within the last 2
years. All submitted abstracts must be in English or Portuguese, in the
analytic tradition (broadly construed), with no further restrictions as
regards topics or areas. Final papers will have a short presentation at the
workshop (25 minutes), followed by a commentary (10 minutes) and an open
discussion (40 minutes).

All papers are pre-read, to maximise time for discussion. Speakers will
presuppose that all participants have read the relevant material.

Contributed Papers

Authors should send an abstract of 1500 words (where the thesis defended
and the arguments backing them up should be clearly stated). Abstracts must
be submitted at:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ofa9<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.easychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Dofa9&h=iAQEvLP2p&s=1>

Abstracts should be arranged for blind anonymous review. Abstracts
containing self-identifying references (name, citations, publications,
acknowledgements or meta-data) will be disregarded. Information about
authors should be indicated on a separate title page including title of the
paper, author’s full name, e-mail address and affiliation. The selection
will be carried out by the members of our scientific committee and authors
will be informed by email of the final decisions (see deadlines bellow). If
the abstract is accepted, the author must send the final paper to be
presented at the workshop by 30 July 2013.

Note: Authors may also express their interest to participate as
commentators.

Commentators

Those interested in participating as commentators should send their data
(name, e- mail address, affiliation and a short CV) to < ofaworkshop AT
gmail.com >. A description of the main areas of philosophy they are
interested in will also be required.

Deadlines

Submitted abstracts will be accepted until 30 April 2013. The result of the
selection process will be communicated to the authors by mid June 2013.
Speakers must send the final version of their papers before 30 July 2013.

Description

OFA (Oficina de Filosofia Analítica) is a graduate workshop in analytic
philosophy, broadly contrued. OFA’s main goal is to provide a stimulating
environment for graduate students and recent post-docs to present and
discuss their research. OFA accepts submissions from Portuguese
researchers, researchers based in Portugal, and from international
researchers. OFA aims to reinforce the academic links between the
Portuguese and the international community of researchers in philosophy,
contributing to their training and raising their standing in the overall
international scene.

OFA is co-organized by the Portuguese Philosophy Society (SPF) and the
Portuguese Society for Analytic Philosophy (SPFA) since 2006. From 2012,
the LanCog research group joined the two societies in its organization.

Contact

For further information, contact: <ofaworkshop AT gmail DOT com>

OFA9 Organizing Committee

Pedro Galvão

Sara Bizarro

Luís Rodrigues

(Rennes (France)) Philosophy of science

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:04:28 +0100

Contacts: philosci2013@sciencesconf.org

(Montevideo (Uruguay)) International Conference on History and Philosophy of Chemistry

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:01:29 +0100

(Milano (Italy)) Le molte facce del realismo. Storia e geografia di un problema filosofico

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:55:59 +0100

(Xi'an (China)) International Conference on Philosophy of Information (ICPI 2013)

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:53:05 +0100

Call for Papers for the International Conference on Philosophy of
Information (ICPI 2013)

Dear Colleagues:

As the study of the philosophy of information (PI) is developing in the
world, the 1st International Conference on Philosophy of Information in
China will be held. Here we call for papers of this conference. The
followings are information of this Conference, we are cordially looking
forward to your active response.

?. TOPICS

1. Meta-theoretical Aspects of the Philosophy of Information:

· information ontology

· information epistemology

· theory of information evolution

· theory of informational value

· informational thinking way

2. Philosophy of Information and Philosophical questions in Frontiers
of Contemporary Sciences :

· informational and computational philosophy

· information and knowledge, logic, semantics

· PI and the philosophy of cognitive science

· information and philosophy of science

· information and biology

· PI and complexity theory

· PI and theory of quantum information

· PI and philosophy of system

3. Comparison of Philosophy of Information and Other West Philosphical
Thoughts:

· PI and mind philosophy

· PI and language philosophy

· PI and phenomenology

· PI and post-modern philosophy

· PI and philosphy of religion

· PI and political philosophy

· PI and philosophy of law

· PI and ancient Greek philsophy

· PI and Chinese philsophy

· PI and Indian philosophy

4. Philosophical Issues of Information Economy and Information Society:

· information ethics

· philosophical issues of virtual reality and network culture

· ecological civilization and PI

· philosophical questions in logistics information management

· research on information production and information productivity

· knowledge and philosophical problems in information economy

· information society and philosophical problems in information
civilization

5. Inter-disciplinary research in PI and questions in science

Attention: people working on topics in the philosophy of information
not covered by the list are also welcome.

?. CONFERENCE TIME, LOCATION AND LANGUAGE

Time: October 18-21, 2013.

Location: Xian, China.

Languages: English, Chinese

?. CONFERENCE SCALE AND COST

Scale: 100 people or so.

Register fees: 800 RMB.

Accommodation will be arranged by the Conference, but the round-trip
flight, accommodation and meal expenses of participants will be
supported by participants themselves.

?. PAPERS SUBMISSION

Conference papers should be written in English.

The suggested length of full paper is 6000-15000 words, the abstract,
300-500 words.

Please send the abstract and full paper (in PDF or MS Office WORD) to:

wukun@mail.xjtu.edu.cn or

amandawxh@sina.com or

joe.brenner@bluewin.ch

Important Dates:

Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 May, 2013

Full Paper Submission Deadline: 1 August, 2013

?. CONTACT

Wukun: 86-29-8262-6736, 133-9928-4026(cell), Email: wukun@mail.xjtu.edu.cn

Wang Xiaohong: 86-29-8267-1651, 136-7910-5619(cell), Email:
amandawxh@sina.com

Joseph E. Brenner?joe.brenner@bluewin.ch

Initiators:

International Center for Philosophy of Information, Xian Jiaotong
University, China

Department of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire, UK

Joint Initiators:

International Association for Computing and Philosophy

International Society for Information Science

Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Digital Humanity Laboratory, University of Evansville, USA

Program in Cognitive Science, Indiana University, USA

Committee of complexity and system science, China Association of
Dialectics of Nature, China

School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Xian Jiaotong University, China

Department of Information Management, Peking University, China

Institute of Science, Technology and Society, Tsinghua University, China

Center for Social Information Science, Huazhong University of Science
and Technology, China

Department of Intelligence Science and Network Engineering, Beijing
University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Research Base for Beijing Modern Logistics, Beijing Wuzi University, China

Research Center for Psychology of Information, Wuhan University, China

Research Center for Development, Chongqing University of Posts and
Telecommunications, China

Information Society 50 Forum, China

Shaanxi Association of Dialectics of Nature, China

Society for Value Philosophy, China

(Hamburg (Germany)) 2nd Hamburg Summer School in Philosophy: Truthmaker Semantics

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:49:45 +0100

Professor Benjamin Schnieder & the phlox research group are proud to
announce the second Hamburg Summer School in Philosophy, featuring
Professor Kit Fine (Silver Professor of Philosophy & Mathematics at NYU).

Topic - Truthmaker Semantics
Dates - 22nd to the 26th of July 2013
Venue - Room 1009, Department of Philosophy, University of Hamburg

Course Description - This course examines and develops a version of
situation semantics called truthmaker semantics. Under situation semantics,
it is parts of the world rather than the whole world that are taken to
verify a statement; under truthmaker semantics, the situation which is the
verifier must be wholly relevant to the statement that is verified. This
new truthmaker semantics is, it will be contended, relevant to a wide range
of problems in the philosophy of language, philosophical logic,
linguistics, the philosophy of science and artificial intelligence, while
the resulting semantic notion of truthmaker verification is a kind of
semantic counterpart to the metaphysical notion of ground. The first part
of the course provides a basic exposition of the semantics; while the
second part of the course considers a number of different applications of
the semantics. Special emphasis will be placed on the notion of partial
content, which derives from Kant?s notion of an analy
tic truth and provides an alternative to the notion of logical consequence
in dealing with many of these problems.

During the course, Prof. Fine will present and lead discussion on both
published and unpublished work on the topic; opportunities for
presentations from participants will also be provided.

Registration - there is space for a limited number of external
participants. If you would like to participate, please send a registration
email, appending (i) a brief CV and (ii) a short letter indicating how the
course would benefit your work, to ?sommerkursATgmx.de?.

??lease note there is a registration fee of 20?, to ensure that we can
provide drinks and sweets during the coffee breaks.

Further information - More information regarding the Summer School is
available on the course website (http://**hamburgersommerkurs.wordpress.**
com/ http://hamburgersommerkurs.wordpress.com/>), but if you have any
further questions, please feel free to contact the organizers at
'sommerkursATgmx.de'.

We look forward to seeing you in Hamburg in July!

Dr. Stephan Krämer
Nominalizations research group
Philosophisches Seminar
Universität Hamburg
Von-Melle-Park 6
20146 Hamburg, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)40 42838 3226
Web: http://www.philosophie.uni-**hamburg.de/Team/kraemer_e.html http://www.philosophie.uni-hamburg.de/Team/kraemer_e.html>

(Hamburg (Germany)) Big vs Small - Fundamentality in Things, Thought, and Language

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:47:20 +0100

(Evian (France)) Disagreement (19th International Philosophy Colloquium Evian)

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:43:05 +0100

(Dublin (Ireland)) Pragmatism, Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology in the seminal years 1895-1935

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:36:35 +0100

Contact: Maria.Baghramian@ucd.ie

(Dublin (Ireland)) Philosophies of Philosophy

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:35:00 +0100

Contact: Maria.Baghramian@ucd.ie

(London (UK)) Individuating Names & Determining Reference

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:28:08 +0100

Workshop Announcement: Individuating Names & Determining Reference.

13th-14th May 2013, King's College London.

Generously supported by the Mind Association, the Aristotelian Society and the King's College London Philosophy Department.

Keynote Speakers: Mark Sainsbury (UTexas, Austin) and Frank Jackson (Princeton & ANU).

The workshop aims to investigate how proper names should be individuated, and how this question relates to the determination of their reference.

Other Speakers: Mark Textor (KCL), Genoveva Marti (Barcelona), Louis deRosset (Vermont), Dolf Rami (Göttingen), Gail Leckie (Oxford), and Peter Ridley (KCL).

The number of delegate places is limited to 24, and so entry is by registration only with a £10 fee. Registration is now open at www.tinyurl.com/kclnamesregistration .

See www.tinyurl.com/kclnamesworkshop for further details. Further enquiries can be made to namesconference.kcl@gmail.com. The workshop is organized by Peter Ridley and Dolf Rami.

(London (UK)) International Conference and Graduate Workshop on the Philosophy of Ludwig ...

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:22:14 +0100

(Paris (France)) 2nd International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:18:37 +0100

(Oslo (Norway)) Typed versus Untyped Approaches to Semantics

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:46:42 +0100

TYPED VERSUS UNTYPED APPROACHES TO SEMANTICS

Oslo, 12-13 April 2013

In both linguistic and model-theoretic semantics, there is a choice between typed and
untyped approaches: Are there many distinct types or categories of semantic values or
just one? Examples of typed approaches include Frege’s distinction between objects and
concepts and George Boolos’s semantics for plurals, whereas set-theoretic
semantics provides an example of an untyped approach.

Topics and questions may include the following.

- Ramsey on the distinction between universals and particulars
- Frege’s problem of the concept horse
- Gödel’s criticism of typed approaches
- To what extent is contemporary semantics committed to type distinctions?

Confirmed speakers: Salvatore Florio (Kansas State and Oslo), Bob Hale (Sheffield),
Stephan Krämer (Hamburg), David Liebesman (Boston University), Fraser MacBride
(Glasgow)

The event is organized in connection with Øystein Linnebo's ERC Starting Grant "Plurals,
Predicates, and Paradox"

http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/projects/ppp/

To register or inquire about the event, please email Salvatore Florio at florio@ksu.edu

(Lund (Sweden)) Intensionality in Mathematics

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:30:11 +0100

(Lund (Sweden)) The Philosophy of Information and Information Quality

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:29:08 +0100

(Barcelona (Spain)) BW8: Eighth Barcelona Workshop on Issues in the Theory of Reference

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:27:20 +0100

(Barcelona (Spain)) Workshop on Fiction

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:25:57 +0100

(Barcelona (Spain)) Artifacts: Semantics and Metaphysics

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:24:35 +0100

WORKSHOP ON ARTIFACTS: SEMANTICS AND METAPHYSICS
Andrea Bianchi (U. Parma) Massimiliano Carrara (U. Padova) Michael Devitt (CUNY) Luis Ferna?ndez Moreno (U. Complutense de Madrid) Diego Marconi (U. Torino) Daria Mingardo (U. Padova) Jesus Vega (U. Auto?noma de Madrid) Asa Wikforss (Stockholm U.)
Venue Reside?ncia d'Investigadors, C/ Hospital, 64, Barcelona
For more information please contact logos.barcelona@gmail.com There are no registration fees but if you are attending, please send a message to logos.barcelona@gmail.com

(Helsinki (Finland)) III Conference of the European Network on Social Ontology

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:21:44 +0100

(Titisee, Black Forest (Germany)) Summer School: Physics and Philosophy of Time

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:18:34 +0100

Summer School: Physics and Philosophy of Time, 23-28 July 2013

Organized and sponsored by the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy and the Chair for Philosophy of Science in the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lausanne

The focus of this summer school will be to appreciate how physics and philosophy interact to contribute to our understanding of the nature of time. Our goal is to bring together scholars from both areas to consider central aspects of time as they arise in various physical theories, as well as how traditional philosophical questions regarding time may both motivate physical theorizing and find themselves constrained by it. In particular, we shall consider what statistical physics, the special and general theories of relativity, quantum mechanics, and recent developments in quantum gravity imply for our understanding of (space and) time. The relevant scientific theories consider, among many other topics, the physics of motion, the nature of the continuum, and the geometry of flat and curved spaces. Although the summer school will also consider more straightforwardly philosophical issues, the primary focus will be on the foundations of spacetime as the philosophy of physics is concerned with.

Organizers and Scientific Committee:

Detlef Dürr (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
Michael Esfeld (University of Lausanne)
Stephan Hartmann (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
Christian Wüthrich (University of California, San Diego)

Invited speakers:

Claus Beisbart (University of Bern)
Gordon Belot (University of Michigan)
Mathias Frisch (University of Maryland)
Jenann Ismael (University of Arizona)
Tim Maudlin (New York University)
Nino Zanghì (University of Genova)

Audience: PhD students in the intersection between physics and philosophy, master students who envisage doing a PhD in the philosophy of physics, general public being acquainted with the subject at least at master level

Venue: Saig / Titisee, Black Forest, Germany,
Nearest airport: Basel (or Frankfurt or Zurich), start 23 July evening, end 28 July after lunch

Fee: EUR 600 for PhD and master students, EUR 900 for other participants, includes accommodation in single room with private bathroom in good hotel (***S), full board and tuition

Inscription: please send short letter of motivation and CV by e-mail to mariohubert1@googlemail.com by 1 April 2013.

For further information, see http://www.unil.ch/philo/page95121.html, follow http://takingupspacetime.wordpress.com, or contact mariohubert1@googlemail.com.

(Amsterdam (The Netherlands)) Amsterdam Workshop on Truth

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:15:58 +0100

The Amsterdam Workshop on Truth is organised by the Institute for
Logic, Language, and Computation of the University of Amsterdam.
The workshop will take place from Wednesday the 13th to Friday the
15th of March 2013.

The workshop is intended to serve as a meeting point for researchers
working on the philosophy of truth in order to discuss latest results
and work in progress.
It will address a wide range of truth-related topics and it is open to
more formal or less formal approaches.

The following speakers have confirmed participation:
Stefan Wintein, Philip Welch, Albert Visser, Giulia Terzian,
Johannes Stern, Jönne Speck, Sonja Smets, Georg Schiemer, Carlo
Nicolai, Iris Loeb, Øystein Linnebo, Graham Leigh, Jeffrey
Kettland, Leon Horsten, Volker Halbach, Nina Gierasimczuk, Martin
Fischer, Theodora Achourioti.

Attendance is free of charge, however, registration is required.
The deadline for registering is March the 3rd.
The workshop will start on Wednesday at 12:00 and end on Friday at 15:00.

For more information, visit the workshop website (www.illc.uva.nl/truth/truth13)
or contact the organisers Dora (t.achourioti AT uva.nl) and Cian
(chartiec AT tcd.ie).

(Duesseldorf (Germany)) Concepts and categorization in linguistics, cognitive science and ...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:14:37 +0100

Workshop at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, May 15-16, 2013
"Concepts and categorization in linguistics, cognitive science and
philosophy" (CC2013)

??he study of concepts lies at the intersection of various scientific
disciplines, both formal and empiric. Linguistics deals with concepts as
basic semantic units of natural (or ideal) languages, aiming to uncover
their logical constitution and structural relationships within a given
linguistic system. Cognitive science is interested in concepts insofar as
they are the constituents of thought - e.g. some kind of mental entities
(or objects) - which are used in an explanation of such diverse
psychological phenomena like categorization, inference, memory, learning,
and decision-making. In philosophy the challenge imposed by concepts
consists, among other things, in linking a theory of intentional content
with a theory of knowledge (e.g. Peacocke?s challenging question: "How can
our conception of truth in one area be reconciled with the means by which
we think we come to know truth about that area?") and thereby establishing
a relationship between reference, knowledge and realit
y, putting the notion of "concept" in the broader area of epistemological
and metaphysical issues.

??n recent research - for instance in the development and discussion of
Minsky's and Barsalou's frame-theory -, linguists, cognitive scientists and
philosophers have collaborated more and more to contribute to a unified
understanding of concepts and conceptual categorization. As welcome as this
interdisciplinary programme is, however, the joint venture suffers (so far)
from the fact that it is generally left unclear how exactly the different
studies on concepts and categorization undertaken in the participating
sciences relate to each other. What do linguists, cognitive scientists and
philosophers mean by the notion of ?concept?? Is there some sort of
core-theory of concepts and conceptual categorization underlying
linguistic, psychological and philosophical research? If not, how and why
do the specific theories differ?

??eynote Speakers:

Hans-Johann Glock, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
Matthias Kaufmann, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Albert Newen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

??he workshop is organized by the projects A01 ?Mathematical modeling of
frames? and A05 "Presuppositions of Frame Theory in the History of
Philosophy" in the Collaborative Research Centre CRC 991 "The Structure of
Representations in Language, Cognition and Science" funded by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

??ttp://www.sfb991.uni-**duesseldorf.de/en/the-**
structure-of-representations-**in-language-cognition-and-**science/http://www.sfb991.uni-duesseldorf.de/en/the-structure-of-representations-in-language-cognition-and-science/>

??mportant dates: Extended deadline for submission of abstracts (500-700
words): February 10, 2013 Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2013

Workshop: May 15-16, 2013

Please submit abstracts in .doc or .pdf format to: cc2013@phil.hhu.de.

??rganizational team: Tanja Osswald, Lars Inderelst, David Hommen

(Aix-en-Provence (France)) Kurt Gödel, philosopher: From Logic to Cosmology

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:09:55 +0100

(Munich (Germany)) Quantum Gravity in Perspective

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:07:37 +0100

(Kirchberg am Wechsel (Austria)) Summer school: "Wittgenstein's conception of philosophy"

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:05:15 +0100

(Kirchberg am Wechsel (Austria)) Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society: Mind, Language and Action

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:03:43 +0100

(Siena (Italy)) VI Summer School in Mind & Language

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:01:31 +0100

VI Summer School
in
Mind & Language
(Part One)

Siena, June 13-15, 2013
Collegio Santa Chiara, via Valdimontone, 1 – Aula Cantucci

The ‘Tree’ of the Tractatus:
Form and Development

The teacher of the School will be Dr.
Luciano Bazzocchi
(Università di Siena)

Discussants: Giuseppe Varnier,

Lessons will be in seminar form, and research works and exercises will be
proposed.

A brief description of the course:
The decimal codes of Wittgenstein’s propositions (or “perspicuous
representation”)
o a conceptual map of the Tractatus
o reading units and (tree-wise) arrangement by hierarchical levels
o modalities of approach to the text
Analysis of the reading units
o clarity, consequentiality, aesthetical and formal expressivity
o new hermeneutical indications about the text
o dissolving some problems of interpretation (including the editorial
mistake in the eye-and-visual-field sketch of TLP 5.6331)
The composition of the Manuscript of the Tractatus, esp. MS104 (the
so-called “Prototractatus”)
o top-down development of the writing units of the MS
o Wittgenstein’s log file, and the representation “on loose sheets”
o (final) restructuring and putting together; W.’s “Ergänzungen”
Chronology of textual composition
o von Wright’s misunderstandings, McGuinness’ intuitions
o solving the last riddles?
o documental occurrences and evidence

Essential Literature:
G.H. von Wright, „Die Entstehung des Tractatus logico-philosophicus“, in
G.H. von Wright and W. Methlagl (eds.), Briefe an Ludwig von Ficker,
Salzburg 1969. [Reprinted as B.F. McGuinness, T. Nyberg, and G.H. von Wright
(eds.), Historical Introduction to L. Wittgenstein, Prototractatus, Ithaca,
NY, Cornell University Press 1971; 19962.]
B.F. McGuinness, “Wittgenstein’s 1916 Abhandlung”, in Haller, H. and Puhl,
K. (eds.), Wittgenstein and the Future of Philosophy, Wien 2002, pp.272-282.
L. Bazzocchi, L’albero del Tractatus, Milano, Mimesis 2010.
L. Wittgenstein, Tractatus logico-philosophicus “as tree” (on line:

Schedule:
June 13: 10-13 and 15-17
June 14: 10-13 and 15-17
June 15: 10-13

Practical Information

Attendance is free of charge.
The language of the course will be English if some participants are not
Italian speakers, Italian otherwise.
If you want to enter the Summer School please send an e-mail to Prof.
Gabriele Usberti (usberti@unisi.it).

(Lille (France)) Darwinism & Social and Human Sciences

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:56:49 +0100

**Lille-Ghent *Workshop**« Darwinism & SHS »***

supported by*UMR 8019 Clersé *(University of Lille 1) and *UMR 8163 Savoirs Textes Langage *(University of Lille 1 and 3)

*_February 12, Tuesday_ *(Darwin birthday !)

at the university of Lille 1, "Salle du Conseil" (1^st floor)*, building of the**Faculty of "Sciences économiques et sociales*" (building SH2, near subway station « Cité scientifique »)

*13:20 -- Introduction :* *Annette Disselkamp* (sociologist, UMR Clersé) & *Gilles Denis* (historian of Biology, UMR Savoirs Textes Langage)

*13:30 - Stefaan Blancke* (philosopher ; university of Ghent)
"From ends to causes (and back again) by metaphor: the paradox of natural selection"

*14:00 - Emanuele **Coco *(historian of Biology ; EHESS Marie Curie Fellow)
"W.D.Hamilton, his unpublished lectures and the problem of the units of selection"

*14:30 - break
*

*14:40 - Griet Vandermassen *(philosopher ; university of Ghent)
"Biophobia within Feminism"

*15:10 - Sylvain Billiard* (biologist ; university of Lille 1)
"What models bring or not in evolutionary biology ? The example of male homosexuality in humans"

(St Petersburg (Russia)) Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 6

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:31:19 +0100

Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 6

It is our pleasure to announce the 6^th Semantics and Philosophy in Europe Colloquium (SPE6), which this year will take place in St Petersburg during the White Nights.

Place: Bobrinsky Palace, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Smolny College),

St. Petersburg State University, St Petersburg

Time: June 10-14, 2013

INVITED SPEAKERS

GENERAL SESSION

Barbara Partee (University of Massachusetts, Amherst / Moscow University)

Kjell Johann Saebo (University of Oslo)

SPECIAL SESSIONS

[1] The Interface between Linguistic Semantics and Philosophy of Mind

Berit Brogaard (University of Missouri, Saint Louis)

Frances Egan (Rutgers University)

Scott Soames (University of Southern California)

Tutorial:

Robert Matthews (Rutgers University)

Friederike Moltmann (IHPST (Paris1/ENS/CNRS), Paris)

[2] The Status of Semantics in the History of Generative Grammar

John Collins (University of East Anglia)

Wolfram Hinzen (Durham/Barcelona)

Robert May / Adam Sennett (UC Davis)

Howard Lasnik (University of Maryland)

[3] Empirical Methods in the Investigation of Semantics

Erica Cosentino (Calabria/Bochum)

Tatiana Chernigovskaya (St Petersburg State University / NRC ‘Kurchatov Institute’, Moskow)

Natalia Slioussar (Utrecht/ St Petersburg State University)

Markus Werning (Bochum)

Abstract Submission Details:

Please send an anonymous two-page long abstract with to: slioussar@gmail.com

In the subject field of the e-mail, please mention ‘SPE6 abstract’.

In the body of the e-mail please specify whether the submission is for the general session or one of the special sessions and mention title and your name, affiliation, and e-mail address.

Abstract Submission Deadline: March 22, 2013

Notification of Acceptance: April 5, 2013

Organizing Committee of SPE6:

Berit Brogaard, Tatiana Chernigovskaya, Wolfram Hinzen, Robert Matthews, Robert May, Friederike Moltmann, Natalia Slioussar, Markus Werning, Ede Zimmermann

(Paris (France)) Minds in Common

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:41:55 +0100

MINDS IN COMMON
Second Aarhus - Paris Conference on Coordination and Common Ground

Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
June 25-26, 2013

Keynote Speakers
Cristina Bicchieri (University of Pennsylvania)
Philip Pettit (Princeton University & Australian National University)
Dan Sperber (Jean Nicod Institute & Central European University)
Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

Speakers
Estela Bicho (University of Munho); Guy Kahane (University of Oxford); Etienne Koechlin (Ecole Normale Supérieure); Ivana Konvalinka (Technical University of Denmark); Christina Pawlowitsch (University Paris 2); Michael Bang Pedersen (University of Aarhus); Martin Pickering (University of Edinburgh); Nicholas Shea (King’s College London); Luc Steels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); Tad Zawidzki (George Washington University).

Central Research Questions
The second Aarhus - Paris conference in social ontology and social cognition addresses the role of coordination and common ground in the constitution of the social reality, as well as their relations within the architecture of human social cognition. Coordination of behaviour depends on common ground at multiple levels: a shared understanding of who is coordinating with whom, what their goals and strategies are, what objects, people and events are relevant to the shared goal. Common ground may include things as different as physical bodies, artefacts, spaces, linguistic contexts, mutual knowledge and the background of human-like biological propensities. On the other hand, coordination also creates and sustains common ground, e.g. by means of bodily synchronization, conversational and mental alignment, the sharing of conventional worlds and situation models.

What psychological, neural, cultural, evolutionary processes facilitate the cultivation and maintenance of common ground as a condition for coordinated interaction? How are such processes related to each other? How are we to model top-down and bottom-up interactions among these processes? What is the role played by development in easing coordination through common ground? How have dual processes of biological evolution and of cultural acquisition contributed to the mutual interplay of coordination and common ground?

Call for Posters
We invite posters suitable for presentation on any topic related to the themes of the conference. Abstracts for posters not exceeding 350 words should be submitted in .doc or .pdf format by email to: johnmichaelaarhus@gmail.com. Please include a separate cover sheet including name, poster title and affiliation. The deadline for receipt of submissions is March 1st, 2013. We will notify authors of the decision regarding posters on a rolling basis, usually within 3 days of submission.

Registration
Attendance is free of charge, but space is limited. Please register by sending an email to: mattia.gallotti@gmail.com.

Scientific Organization
Mattia Gallotti (Jean Nicod Institute, Paris) & John Michael (University of Aarhus)

This conference is jointly funded by the Interacting Minds Centre at the University of Aarhus (http://interactingminds.au.dk/), and by the Jean Nicod Institute at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris (http://www.institutnicod.org/).

(Modena (Italy)) Emotions and Knowledge

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:22:16 +0100

Società Italiana di Filosofia Analitica
(Italian Society Analytic Philosophy)

CALL FOR PAPERS
EMOTIONS AND KNOWLEDGE

Midterm Conference of the S.I.F.A. (Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy)
University of Modena 9-10 December 2013

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
• Clotilde Calabi (Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università degli studi di Milano)
• Naomi Eilan (Departmen of Philosophy, Warwick University)
• Christine Tappolet (Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Meta-ethics, Université de Montréal)

General Aim
The aim of the Conference is Emotions in epistemology, social epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law.
This conference aims to address the topic of the interplay of emotions and cognition as?it bears on views of epistemology, reasoning, moral?philosophy, and aesthetics, with special attention to production and transmission of knowledge.

CALL
The Italian Society of Analytic Philosophy invites submitted symposia and papers for this meeting in the following topics:

Emotions and perception
Emotions and perceptual illusions
Emotions and self-knowledge
Emotions and self-deception
Emotions and moral salience
Emotions and mutual recognition
Emotions and cognition
Emotions and practical judgment
Emotions and shared action
Emotions and action
Emotions and practical conflict
Emotions and practical reasoning
Emotions and consistency

Session Papers should not exceed a length of 25 minutes (about 12 double-spaced pages) for a total 45 minute session.
Symposia (two) are allocated a two-hour slot and consist of a set of 3 linked papers on a common theme.
Symposia organisers should submit an outline of the symposium along with a list of speakers and abstracts as a single document. Please do not submit more than one PDF file per symposium.

Submissions should be by abstract (500 words). Submissions will be blind-refereed and selected on the basis of quality and philosophical relevance.

All paper and symposia submissions should be in PDF-format and should be properly anonymized in order to allow for blind refereeing.

Papers may be in Italian or in English, but English is preferred.

THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS SEPTEMBER 1ST 2013.

Please, send your proposals to Carla Bagnoli: carla.bagnoli@unimore.it

(Chicago, IL (USA)) Seminar on the Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Gravity

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:15:16 +0100

(Lisbon (Portugal)) Epistemology of Modality

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:13:23 +0100

(Munich (Germany)) Carnap on logic

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:12:15 +0100

(Aberdeen (UK)) Relativism with John MacFarlane and Crispin Wright

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:11:03 +0100

Call for Applications:

MASTERCLASS ON RELATIVISM WITH JOHN MACFARLANE AND CRISPIN WRIGHT

Northern Institute of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen
8th-9th July 2013

This intensive two-day event will provide a select group of graduate students with the opportunity to discuss cutting-edge issues on the topic of Relativism. The event will be led by two distinguished experts in the field, John MacFarlane (Berkeley) and Crispin Wright (NYU/Aberdeen), and will feature focused research seminars in which active participation from all students will be strongly encouraged.

Successful applicants for the masterclass will be graduate students in philosophy whose research closely engages with issues surrounding relativism. Your application should include two elements: first, a letter of reference, preferably from a supervisor; and second, a statement describing your research interests and how they relate to the topic of the masterclass. This statement should be no longer than two pages.

The deadline for applications is 31st March 2013. Please send applications, along with any queries, to p.sweeney@abdn.ac.uk

Dr Paula Sweeney
Research and Operations Officer
Northern Institute of Philosophy
University of Aberdeen · Old Brewery · High Street · Aberdeen · AB24 3UB

phone: 01224 272357
email: p.sweeney@abdn.ac.uk

The University of Aberdeen Open Day

Tuesday 27th August 2013

8.45am - 3.30pm

For more information or to book a place, visit

www.abdn.ac.uk/openday

(Bordeaux (France)) Political Legitimacy and Collective Political Agency

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:09:27 +0100

(Fort Wayne, IN (USA)) The Fifth Midwest Workshop in Philosophy of Science, Technology, ...

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:47:47 +0100

(Island of Aegina (Greece)) Summer School on "Embodied Inter-subjectivity: the 1st-person ...

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:43:48 +0100

(Bucharest (Romania)) Bucharest Graduate Conference in Early Modern Philosophy

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:19:04 +0100

CFP: The 4th Edition of the Bucharest Graduate Conference in Early Modern Philosophy

The Center for the Logic, History and Philosophy of Science organizes its fourth graduate conference for advanced master and PhD students working on early modern philosophy and on the history and philosophy of science. The event will be held on May 10-11, 2013 at the University of Bucharest, Romania.

Invited speakers:

Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge)

Peter Anstey (University of Sydney)

Vlad Alexandrescu (University of Bucharest)

We cordially invite graduate students to forward abstracts on any topic related to early modern philosophy by February 15, 2013. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words and should be prepared for blind review. Participating papers will be given 40 minutes (30 minutes talk, 10 minutes open discussion). The Program Committee will notify authors of its decision by February 20.

Please send abstracts by email to: dana.jalobeanu@gmail.com. For any additional questions: claudia.dumitru1@gmail.com

(Munich (Germany)) New Perspectives on External World Scepticism

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:05:46 +0100

(Johannesburg (South Africa)) Kant on Animals

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:04:53 +0100

nternational Conference Call for Papers: Deadline March 31, 2013.
Kant on Animals: a conference to be held 5-8 July 2013, hosted by the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, held at the Protea Hotel, Kruger Park Gate.
This conference will be the first one devoted solely to the topic of the status of non-human animals within Kant’s philosophy. The conference will explore the place of animals in Kant’s Pre-Critical and Critical writings, and with regard to Kant’s epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and natural science.
Topics to be examined will include:
- animal cognition (especially animal sensations and spatial representation) and the implications of thinking about animals for Kant's account of human cognition.
- duties to animals
- the role of animals in Kant’s biology;
- the contrast with animals in Kant’s anthropology.
Confirmed Speakers:
John Callanan (KCL)
Steve Naragon (Manchester)
Jon Garthoff (Tennessee)
Sacha Golob (KCL)
Ina Goy (Concordia)
Patrick Kain (Purdue)
Thaddeus Metz (Johannesburg)
Colin McClear (Cornell)
Nick Stang (Florida)
Sergio Tenenbaum (Toronto)
Clinton Tolley (UCSD)
Jennifer Uleman (Purchase College)
Helga Varden (Illinois)
Eric Watkins (UCSD)
Papers, suitable for presentation in 30 minutes, should be sent to Professor Lucy Allais Lucy.Allais@wits.ac.za> no later than March 31st 2013.

(Omaha., NE (USA)) The Work of Saul Kripke

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:31:43 +0100

CFP: The Work of Saul Kripkepresented by University of Nebraska at Omaha

In honor of the city of Omaha’s most famous philosophical son and in celebration of the recent publication of his Philosophical Troubles: Collected Papers, Volume 1, the University of Nebraska at Omaha will host a national conference on the recent work of Saul Kripke from May 19-22, 2013.

In addition to invited speakers, a number of conference positions are reserved for submitted papers.

Submissions regarding any aspect of Kripke’s published work are welcome, but submissions concerning the papers in his recently published collection are especially encouraged. Submissions should be no more than 4000 words (40 minute presentation time) and are due by Feb. 28, 2013. Submissions may be evaluated on a rolling basis. Thus, early submissions are encouraged.

Through a generous donation from the Jewish Federation of Omaha, the conference is able provide accommodations, food, and an honorarium to help offset travel costs.

Submissions should be prepared for blind review and should include a front page with (i) title of the submission, (ii) 500 word abstract, (iii) word count, and (iv) list of the principle work(s) of Kripke that are the focus of the discussion. A separate identifying cover sheet with author’s name, affiliation, rank (graduate students are welcome to apply), and contact information should also be included. Submissions should be made electronically to: omahakripkeconf@gmail.com.

(Budapest (Hungary)) Moral Intuitionism: Epistemological and Ethical Aspects

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:27:44 +0100

( Budapest (Hungary)) Justice: Theory and Applications

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:26:10 +0100

(London (UK)) Continental and Analytical Political Theory

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:24:23 +0100

Continental
and Analytical Political Theory: An Insurmountable Divide?

28
May 2013

School of Politics &
International Relations
Queen Mary
Universityof London

Analytical and Continental political theory are divided not only over
substantial issues, but also over the very nature of political theorising.
Theorists working within one tradition view with scepticism the work and
conclusions of theorists within the other tradition, and the two traditions
often speak past one another because they do not agree what theorising amount
to in the first place. Further, the division is also marked by different
conceptions of politics and the political. Consequently, Analytical and
Continental theorists have different understandings of the role of and
relationship between philosophy and politics.

We invite contributions that address the divisions between Analytical
and Continental political theory, and between liberal normative theory and
post-structuralism. Is it possible to bridge the different traditions? If so,
what would this entail? If divisions will remain, what is the exact nature of
those divisions? Are they primarily political or philosophical? And are there
approaches that eschew these divisions? Contributions can be comparative
discussions between different approaches, analyses of specific debates, or
readings of texts that address the divisions in an indirect way.

Paper givers should send an abstract of no more than 300 words to the
conference organisers: Clayton Chin (c.chin@qmul.ac.uk) and Lasse
Thomassen (l.thomassen@qmul.ac.uk) by 28 February
2013. Notifications by 15 March 2013.

Keynote speaker: Prof. Paul Patton, University of New South Wales

Roundtable participants: Prof. Paul Patton, University of New South Wales, Prof. David Owen (University
of Southampton) and Dr David Howarth (University of Essex)

(Helsinki (Finland)) Workshop on Aristotelian Themes in Dependence, Modality, and Essence

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:23:04 +0100

Aristotelian Themes in Dependence, Modality, and Essence
Workshop at the University of Helsinki, Finland
Saturday, January 26th 2013
Location: University Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33, room 8.

Program
09:00 – 10:30 Lucas Angioni (Campinas, Brazil), ‘Essence, Causality and Necessity in Aristotle’s Theory of Scientific Explanation’
10:40 – 12:10 Michail Peramatzis (Oxford), ‘Essence and
Necessity in Aristotle’
12:10 – 13:10 Lunch
13:10 – 14:40 Tuomas Tahko (Helsinki), ‘Grounding Modality in
Essence’
14:50 – 16:20 Benjamin Schnieder (Hamburg), ‘Grounding and
Dependence’
16:30 – 18:00 Mika Perälä (Helsinki), ‘Aristotle on ouk aneu Dependence’
Attendance is free, but we would kindly ask you to e-mail either Mika Perälä (mika.perala@helsinki.fi) or Tuomas Tahko (tuomas.tahko@helsinki.fi) if you are planning to attend. Some of the papers will be available for pre-reading, please contact Mika or Tuomas for further details.
The workshop is organized by Dr. Mika Perälä and Dr. Tuomas Tahko and is funded by Mika Perälä’s Academy of Finland project Aristotle on Memory and the Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki.

(Madrid (Spain)) Seventh Meeting of the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:22:27 +0100

Seventh Meeting of the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy
SEFA 2013
11-14 September 2013
University Carlos III, Madrid

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Seventh Meeting of the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy (SEFA 2013) will be held on 11-14 September 2013 at University Carlos III, Madrid organized by the Faculty of Humanities and Communication.

Organization
SEFA, Faculty of Humanities and Communication.

Venue
Campus Madrid-Puerta de Toledo. Madrid, Puerta de Toledo

Submissions:

The Society welcomes submissions of papers on any philosophical topic. The papers should be written for the delivery of 30-minute talks followed by a 10-minute discussion. They can be written in either Spanish or English—the official languages of the conference. The Society also welcomes submissions of posters from pre-doctoral researchers. Posters will be displayed throughout the Conference as well as at designated poster session. Each author of an accepted poster, who does not also present a paper, will only pay half of the registration fee.

In both cases, submissions should consist of a detailed summary of the intended talk or poster (about 1000 words). Summaries are expected to clearly indicate the topic, highlight its relevance, and provide a sketch of the main argument(s). Please specify at the beginning of the summary the exact title of the talk or poster, your name, your affiliation and your e-mail. Decisions on acceptance will be based on this summary.

Format of the PDF document:

Size: DIN A4Margins: all margins should be 3 cm
Font: TIMES NEW ROMAN 12 pt., single line spacing
Title of the talk: Bold, justified and centred.
Name and address: standard (non-bold).
Main text: justified on both sides (margins of 3 cm).

You must submit another copy of the paper with no author information for blind review.

Submissions and request for further information: septimocongresosefa@gmail.com

Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2013

Selection

All summaries will be blind-refereed. Efforts will be made to include in the program quality original papers from different philosophical disciplines. Notification of acceptance will be sent by June 15th, 2013. Due to scheduling demands, at least one presenter for each paper must be registered by September 1, 2013.

Keynote Speakers

María José Frapolli (Universidad de Granada)
John Broome (Oxford University)
Daniel Hutto (Hertfordshire University)
Joao Branquinho (Universidade de Lisboa)
María Ávarez (to be confirmed) (King´s College)

(Pavia (Italy)) 11th Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:20:49 +0100

11th Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy

9th and 10th September 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS

On the 9th and 10th of September 2013, the Department of Political and
Social Sciences, University of Pavia (Italy), under the joint
patronage of the Italian Society for Political Philosophy and the
Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, will host the eleventh
edition of the Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy. This
two-day conference is meant to offer graduate students an opportunity
to present papers, get helpful feedback in a friendly atmosphere, and
exchange ideas both with peers and with leading academics in the field
of political philosophy. In addition to parallel sessions devoted to
studentsâ€™ presentations, there will also be two plenary sessions.
Plenary speakers in past editions have been: Hillel Steiner, Anna
Elisabetta Galeotti, Peter Jones, Gianfrancesco Zanetti, Jonathan
Wolff, Michele Nicoletti, Philippe Van Parijs, Sebastiano Maffettone,
Giovanni Giorgini, Andrew Williams, David Miller, Alessandro Ferrara,
Valeria Ottonelli, Adam Swift, Gerald Gaus, Serena Olsaretti, Thomas
M. Scanlon. This yearâ€™s keynote speakers will be:

Sebastiano Maffettone (LUISS, Roma)

Philip Pettit (Princeton University)

Graduate students interested in giving papers should send their
contributions (max 2500/3000 words â€“ in English) accompanied by a
short abstract (max 300 words â€“ in English), by Sunday 28th April
2013. Papers may focus on any area within political philosophy, and
presentations should take no longer than twenty minutes to allow at
least another twenty minutes of discussion. Please note that the 28th
of April is also the deadline for registration for anyone who wishes
to attend the conference without presenting a paper.

Conference registration is free of charge. Paper givers will be
offered accommodation in local university colleges. Accommodation fees
and details will be arranged individually. Anyone who wishes to attend
the conference without presenting a paper can write to check
availability. Details about meal arrangements and conference programme
to follow.

Please address all correspondence (including paper submissions and
additional inquiries) to the conference email address:
pavia.gradconference@gmail.com

The conference is sponsored by the Department of Political and Social
Sciences of the University of Pavia (FIRB Research Project â€œAlimentare
il rispettoâ€) and by the Department of Humanities of the Piemonte
Orientale University in Vercelli (ESF Start-up Grant â€œURBANITASâ€,
Compagnia di S. Paolo, Torino).

(Paris (France)) Unity and autonomy in the philosophy of medical science

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:18:42 +0100

(Helsinki (Finland)) The Philosophy of Joseph Margolis

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:16:54 +0100

(Saarbrücken (Germany)) Action, Belief, Perception

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:02:46 +0100

Conference Reasons: Action, Belief, Perception
in Saarbrücken, Germany, October 10-12, 2013

Invited speakers:

Terence Cuneo (Vermont)

Gerhard Ernst (Erlangen)

Jennifer Hornsby (Birkbeck)

Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen (Aarhus)

The aim of the conference is to bridge the gap between reasons in action
theory/ethics and reasons in epistemology, particularly with respect to the
distinction between motivating and normative reasons. Main questions are:
What do reasons for actions and reasons for belief have in common? Are
reasons of both kinds normative or motivating or explanatory in the same
sense? What can be learned from reasons of the one kind for understanding
reasons of the other kind, for example with respect to their ontology? Are
reasons of both kinds facts, states of affairs, or propositions? If there
are normative reasons for belief, are they evidence, truth-makers, mental
states, or their contents? Can our understanding of reasons for belief be
improved by transferring the conceptual apparatus of action theory to
epistemology (or the other way around)? Could distinctions from action
theory be fruitfully put to work in the debate between intentionalism and
disjunctivism in the epistemology of
perception?

Call for papers:

We invite papers for talks of up to 30 minutes, followed by 30 minutes of
discussion. Deadline is March 31st 2013.

Strong preference will be given to papers explicitly devoted to connections
and/or differences between reasons for action and epistemic reasons. Papers
concerned only with reasons of one of these types will be considered only
if some open slots cannot be filled otherwise. Please send an abstract with
no more than 1500 words to conference.reasons@gmail.com. Please state your
full name, address, institutional affiliation, as well as your current
status (PhD student, post-doc, professor, etc.). Up to seven presentations
can be accepted. We intend to fill at least half of the slots with speakers
in early stages of their career, if possible. We will try to acquire some
funding for travel and accommodation of speakers who cannot raise
sufficient funds at their home institution, but how much we can do remains
to be seen.

Organization

Eva Schmidt

Susanne Mantel

Universität des Saarlandes, Philosophisches Institut,

http://www.uni-saarland.de/**fachrichtung/philosophie.html http://www.uni-saarland.de/fachrichtung/philosophie.html>

Supported by the Doctoral Programme of the Philosophy Department (Saarland
University), the Chair of Philosophy of Mind (Saarland University), and the
Chair of Practical Philosophy (Saarland University)

(Florence (Italy)) Aesthetic preferences, language games and forms of life: from Ludwig ...

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:00:07 +0100

Conference Announcement “Aesthetic preferences, language games and forms of life: from Ludwig Wittgenstein”

Dates: 24-26 January 2013

Location: University of Florence, Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, Aula Magna

Organization: Fabrizio Desideri (scientific coordination) and Lorenzo Bartalesi (executive secretary)

Online review “Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico” [www.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/index] is pleased to announce the international Conference “Aesthetic preferences, language games and forms of life: from Ludwig Wittgenstein” that will be held in Florence from 24 to 26 January 2013.

Invited Speakers: A. Arbo (Strasbourg), S. Borutti (Pavia), J.-P. Cometti (Provence-Aix-Marseille), F. Desideri (Firenze), G. Di Giacomo (Roma La Sapienza), G. Matteucci (Bologna), L. Perissinotto (Venezia), M. Rowe (East Anglia), S. Säätelä (Bergen), V. Sanfélix (València), J. Schulte (Zürich), K. Stock (Sussex), G. Tomasi (Padova), A. Voltolini (Torino), E. Caldarola (Padova), M. De Iaco (Bari), L. Distaso (Napoli), L. Taddio (Udine), F. Valagussa (Milano San Raffaele).

The conference aims to explore the themes developed by Wittgenstein in his own writing on aesthetics as well as the implications of Wittgenstein's wider philosophical views for understanding central issues in aesthetics. Some central questions: 1) Aesthetics Preferences, Language Games and Forms of Life; 2) «seeing» and «seeing-as»; 3) Aesthetics and Ethics from the “Tractatus” to the “Philosophical Investigations”; 4) the Question of Aesthetic Judgement; 5) Music and Art in Wittgenstein’s Philosophy.

The conference is related to the issue 1/2013 of the journal “Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico”.

Conference Program:

Thursday 24 January

15.00-17.00 Chair: G. Matteucci

Opening of the Conference. Welcome.

J.-P. Cometti, Standard and Taste. Wittgenstein and the Question of Aesthetic Judgment

F. Desideri, Grammar, degrees of freedom and indeterminacy of aesthetic. On a motif in Wittgenstein

17.00-17.15 Coffee break

17.15-19.00 Chair: G. Matteucci

S. Säätelä, Aesthetics - Wittgenstein’s paradigm of philosophy?

S. Borutti, Wittgenstein’s concepts for an aesthetics: judgment and understanding of form

Friday 25 January

9.15-11.00 Chair: S. Borutti

L. Perissinotto, Understanding and not understanding (Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, I, §§ 524-543)

G. Matteucci, Rhetoric of the Ineffable and Practice of Understanding

11.00-11.15 Coffee break.

11.15-13.00 Chair: S. Borutti

M. Rowe, Success through Failure: Wittgenstein and the Romantic Preface

G. Tomasi, Wittgenstein on Beauty

13.30: Lunch

15.00-16.45 Chair: L. Perissinotto

V. Sanfélix, Showing and saying. An aesthetic difference

G. Di Giacomo, Art and perspicuous vision in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Reflection

16.45-17.00 Coffee break

17.00-18.45 Chair: L. Perissinotto

J. Schulte, Language-games involving discussions of music

A. Arbo, Language games and musical understanding

Saturday 26 January

9.15-11.00 Chair: F. Desideri

K. Stock, Seeing-as, imagining, and understanding metaphor

A. Voltolini, The content of a seeing-as experience

11.00-11.15 Coffee break

11.15-13.30

E. Caldarola, M. De Iaco, L. Distaso, F. Valagussa, New researches on Wittgenstein & Aesthetics: Round table coordinated by L. Taddio.

Greetings

13.30 Lunch

(Stockholm (Sweden)) The Swedish Congress of Philosophy

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:09:47 +0100

On June 14–16 The Swedish Congress of Philosophy will be held in Stockholm.

For the first time, the congress will be bilingual, both Swedish and
English. The speaker decides which language to use and information on the
chosen language will be provided in the schedule.

Registration is not yet open, but you can submit an abstract if you wish to
be one of the speakers. Templates and more information can be found on our
website: www.kth.se/philcongress2013

We need your abstract no later than February 28 (new deadline).

International speakers
•    Hannes Leitgeb, LMU Munich (Theoria speaker)
•    Richard Kraut, Northwestern University
•    Katalin Farkas, Central European University

Other invited speakers
•    Tomas Ekenberg, Uppsala University
•    Sten Lindström, Umeå University
•    Levi Spectre, The Open University of Israel
•    Kathrin Glüer-Pagin, Stockholm University
•    Johan Brännmark, Lund University
•    Karin Edvardsson Björnberg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
•    Anna-Sofia Maurin, University of Gothenburg
•    Marcia Cavalcante, Södertörn University
•    Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Aarhus University

Themes
•    History of philosophy
•    Logic and decision theory
•    Epistemology
•    Philosophy of language
•    Moral philosophy
•    Environmental philosophy
•    Metaphysics
•    Phenomenology
•    Political philosophy
•    Teaching philosophy
•    Others to be announced

The congress is jointly organized by the Department of Philosophy at
Stockholm University, Philosophy at Södertörn University, the Division of
Philosophy at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, the Swedish Philosophical
Association and the Swedish National Committee for Logic, Methodology and
Philosophy of Science.

Best regards,
Sven Ove Hansson (Chair, Swedish Philosophical Association)
Erik Dahl (Congress secretary)

(Vienna (Austria)) Wittgenstein's Lecture on Ethics

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:57:20 +0100

(Paris (France)) Conference on Risk and Expertise

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:53:39 +0100

The French Society for Philosophy of Science(www.sps-philoscience.org/) organizes in Paris its next Duhem Conference on the theme:

"Risk and Expertise"

The two speakers will be:

- Sven Ove Hansson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm): "Risk policy and the integrity of science"
- Marc Fleurbaey (CERSES CNRS/Paris 5): "L'évaluation des risques collectifs"

Date: January 18, 2013, from 1:45pm to 5:45pm.

Location: Ecole normale supérieure, Salle des Actes, 45 rue d'Ulm, Paris, France.

Very best wishes,

Thomas Pradeu
Associate Professor
Paris-Sorbonne University
& Institut universitaire de France
Philosophy&Sociology Department
1 rue Victor Cousin
75005 Paris
France
http://thomaspradeu.com

(Antwerp (Belgium)) The Reach of Radical Embodied or Enactive Cognition

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:51:11 +0100

(Denver, CO (USA)) Philosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:00:51 +0100

(Milwaukee, WI (USA)) Averroes and His Philosophy

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:59:32 +0100

(Milwaukee, WI (USA)) Virtue, Emotion and Practical Reason in Aristotle and the Aristotelian ...

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:58:26 +0100

(Würzburg (Germany)) Aquinas and Arabic Metaphysics

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:57:01 +0100

(Zurich (Switzerland)) Zurich Summer School in Neuroethics

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:55:23 +0100

The 2013 Zurich Spring & Summer School in Neuroethics

Progress in understanding the human brain poses various ethical problems: How can neuroscientific research with animals and humans be conducted in a responsible way? What are the practical consequences of increasing insights on neurobiological causes for behavioral disorders? Should we use neuroscientific knowledge to enhance our brains and minds? Does neuroscientific research on human moral behavior change our understanding of ethics? These are some of the questions Neuroethics deals with. In the Zurich Spring & Summer School students will get an overview, insights and competences in this emerging field.

The Zurich Spring and Summer School in Neuroethics are two coupled events. In the Spring School (April 2nd to 5th 2013), students will get an introduction in the field by a leading international expert, Judy Illes, together with a teaching team of researchers working in neuroethics. In addition, students will participate in a workshop, where neuroscientific researchers from various fields present and discuss ethical issues of their work. In the Summer School (June 3rd to 7th 2013), the students will expand their expertise in various site visits and meet leading researchers of the Neuroscience Center Zurich, the joint competence center of ETH and University of Zurich unifying 800 neuroscientists. The students are encouraged to summarize their findings and insights gathered during the spring and summer school for poster contributions to the 2013 International Neuroethics Society Meeting.

All students with interests in neuroethics are invited to apply for the Zurich Spring and Summer School in Neuroethics, preference will be given to PhD students working in fields related to neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry and/or ethics of the Universities Basel and Zurich. It is expected, but not mandatory, that students participate in both schools. A total of 15 to 20 students are envisaged to form the school, no fees apply. The School is part of the PhD Program in Biomedical Ethics and Law of the Universities Basel and Zurich.

Please send your application (CV and a short letter of motivation) both to Laura Cabrera (laura.cabrera@unibas.ch) and Markus Christen (christen@ethik.uzh.ch).

(Zurich (Switzerland)) Zurich Spring School in Neuroethics

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:54:03 +0100

(Washington DC (U.S.A.)) Philosophy of Information

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:52:22 +0100

(Amsterdam (The Netherlands)) XI. Conference of the International Network for Economic Method

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:49:14 +0100

(Oxford (UK)) Understanding Others

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:47:31 +0100

Conference Announcement `Understanding Others': An international two-day workshop on the problem of other minds

Dates: 11-12 March, 2013

Location: University of Oxford, St Hilda's College, Jacqueline du Pré Auditorium

Organisers: Dr Anita Avramides & Dr Michael Sollberger

The workshop aims to bring together researchers who work on the problem of other minds, i.e., the question of how we understand and know about the mental lives of other people. The problem of other minds is a topic that interests philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists alike. The interest in this problem can be explained by reference to its scope, variety, and inter-disciplinary nature. In fact, it forms part of the broader context of social cognition, i.e., of how we perceive, understand, emotionally apprehend, and interpret the intentional activity of others. There are many differing approaches to the problem of other minds within philosophy: there is the approach of analytical philosophy, as well as that of the phenomenological tradition. Even within analytical philosophy there are those who take this to be an epistemological issue and those that insist it is largely conceptual. There is important work being done in both psychology and neuroscience that can be used to advance our understanding here. The workshop will highlight the current state of the art, provide an opportunity to exchange ideas, and open up innovative questions for future research.

Schedule:

Monday, 11 March

9.00 - 9.30 Coffee and registration

9.30 - 11.00 Shaun Gallagher (Memphis): In your face: Embodied and enactive social cognition

11.00 - 11.15 Tea

11.15 - 12.45 Anita Avramides (Oxford): TBA

12.45 - 14.30 Sandwich lunch

14.30 - 16.00 Søren Overgaard (Copenhagen): Other minds and disjunctivism about behaviour

16.00 - 16.30 Tea

16.30 - 18.00 Michael Sollberger (Oxford/Fribourg): Other minds and the knowledge asymmetry

Tuesday, 12 March

9.15 - 10.45 Anil Gomes (Oxford): Problems of other minds

10.45 - 11.00 Tea

11.00 - 12.30 Pierre Jacob (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris): A puzzle about belief-ascription

12.30 - 14.00 Sandwich lunch

14.00 - 15.30 Jane Heal (Cambridge): 'You' and 'I'

15.30 - 16.00 Tea

16.00 - 17.30 Paul Snowdon (UCL London): TBA

17.30 - 18.15 Speakers roundtable discussion

REGISTRATION IS ESSENTIAL
To register please send an email to: [michael.sollberger@philosophy.ox.ac.uk]
Fees (include teas and sandwich lunches on both days):
Staff and students of Oxford University: £10
Staff and students of other philosophy departments: £20
Others: £50
In the email please indicate your name and surname, affiliation, fee category, and whether you prefer vegetarian food. All fees will be collected at the workshop venue. Places are limited, so it is appreciated that you register as soon as possible.

We are very thankful for the support of the Aristotelian Society, the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford, John Fell OUP Research Fund, Mind & Language, and St Hilda's College.

(Paris (France)) Aquinas and the Arabic Tradition

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:45:04 +0100

3-4 June 2013, Université de Paris - Sorbonne & Institut Catholique de Paris, "Thomas d'Aquin et ses sources arabes / Aquinas and 'the Arabs'".

Call for papers on Aquinas and the Arabic Tradition
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2013
Send proposals for presentations of up to 40 min.
Include title with 150 word abstract and send to: Richard.Taylor@Marquette.edu

Program announced 1 March 2013

Organizers: J.-B. Brenet, Isabelle Moulin & Richard C. Taylor

Website: http://academic.mu. edu/taylorr/Aquinas_and_the_ Arabs/Paris_%26_Wurzburg_June_ 2013.html

(Toronto (Canada)) Representions of Space and Place

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:54:48 +0100

They ask that abstracts of no more than 300 words be submitted as email
attachments (.doc/.pdf) to utoronto.grad.classics@gmail.com no later
than January 28th, 2013. Papers will be allotted 20 minutes, plus 10
minutes for discussion.

Domesticating Reality: Representations of Space and Place in Antiquity

Graduate Student Conference
Department of Classics
University of Toronto
20-21 April, 2013

Keynote speakers: Lisa Nevett, University of Michigan
Gábor Betegh, Central European University

The interplay between culture and space in ancient thought is
manifested in many ways. Not only are artistic and literary features
envisioned and understood in spatial terms, but physical spaces are
also imagined and explored through cultural expression. This
interaction is found in all forms of the representation of spaces -
textual, verbal, pictoral, architectural. Alex Purves' recent study of
space and narrative highlights this approach: "Plot's spatial legacy
is pervasive in ancient Greek thought, where songs might be conceived
as pathways, logoi as routes, writing as the movement of oxen turning
back and forth across a field with a plough..., narratives as pictures
or landscapes, and plots even as living creatures that take up set
areas of space."

As scholars of Classical antiquity, we find ourselves at the mercy of
representation to shape and inform our understanding of spaces -
landscapes, buildings, voyages, rooms - which are no longer knowable
by any other means. At the same time, our understanding of cultural
expression is often enriched by our ability to comprehend it in
spatial terms.

We invite graduate students working in any area of Classical studies
(such as literary criticism, history, archaeology, science,
philosophy, social history, and philology) to submit papers exploring
the various means by which space was represented in antiquity. How was
space conceived, constructed, and defined in the Greek and Roman
worlds? How were differences in spaces and places articulated? How was
their use represented?

Some further possible themes to explore include:

-Abstraction: How is space conceptualised in ancient sciences such as
geometry, astronomy, geography, and astrology?
-Scale: How do cartographic or proto-cartographic representations
negotiate issues related to the size of the subject? (The microcosm
and the miniature.)
-Rhetoric: How do the spaces and places invoked function in discourse?
How do particular ritually, historically, or mythologically relevant
places resonate in various genres?
-Mobility: What is the effect of movement through space? How do travel
and representations of real or imagined journeys articulate
differences and universalities? (Ethnography, alterity, regional
specificity.)
-Polarities: What frequently appearing dichotomies are built on
spatial concepts? (Public & private, home & away, liminal &
centripetal.)
-Formalities: What formal techniques do poets, painters, and other
ancient artists employ to represent and construct space and places?
(Ekphrasis, pastoral, space as literary trope.)

We ask that abstracts of no more than 300 words be submitted as email
attachments (.doc/.pdf) to utoronto.grad.classics@gmail.com no later
than January 28th, 2013. Papers will be allotted 20 minutes, plus 10
minutes for discussion.

Conference funding provided by the University of Toronto?s Department
of Classics and the Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval
Philosophy (CPAMP).

(Edmonton (Canada)) University of Alberta Philosophy Graduate Conference: Disagreement

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:39:33 +0100

Call for Papers:
Disagreement
University of Alberta Philosophy Graduate
Conference
May 10-12, 2013
Edmonton, Alberta

Keynote Speakers:
Thomas Christiano, University of Arizona
Adam Morton, University of British Columbia

We invite submissions of papers by graduate
students and postgraduates (who were awarded their PhDs no earlier than 2007)
to the graduate philosophy conference to be held on May 10-12, 2013 at the
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

At first, one might take ‘disagreement’ to be
merely a matter of subjective opinion. Nevertheless, disagreement is a
pervasive and genuine phenomenon of and in our experience which calls for
philosophical reflection. This conference focuses on the notion of disagreement
broadly construed. We invite papers that discuss the nature, value of, and
attitudes towards disagreement. Papers from both the analytic and continental
traditions, as well as from disciplines and traditions of investigation other
than philosophy are welcomed. Possible questions for consideration include but
are not limited to: What constitutes disagreement? What distinguishes private
from public disagreement; internal from external disagreement; or intra- from inter-personal
disagreement? Are all disagreements resolvable, and on what grounds? Are
disagreements structured by power dynamics? Is reconciliation always desirable
or is there value in perennial discord? Can there be faultless or harmless
disagreements in the realms of ethics/politics/aesthetics/epistemology, etc.?
If so does this entail some sort of relativism or pluralism, and if it does is
this a bad thing?

Deadline
for submissions: January 30, 2013 (Extended from January 10, 2013)

Submission Guidelines: Papers should not exceed
3000 words. They should be prepared for blind review and sent as a PDF file to uofaphilconference@gmail.com. In a separate PDF attachment, please include your
name, academic affiliation, e-mail address, paper title, and an abstract of no
more than 150 words.
For more information, please contact us at uofaphilconference@gmail.com

We would like to thank the following
organisations for their generous support: the University of Alberta Faculty of
Arts, the Graduate Student
Association, and the Departments of Comparative Literature, English and Film
Studies, Philosophy, and Psychology.

(Taipei (Taiwan)) International Workshop on Consciousness IV

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:31:24 +0100

(Urbino (Italy)) Mid-Term Postgraduate Conference in Logic and Philosophy of Science

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:01:47 +0100

POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE IN LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCES

Call for Papers.

The 2013
Mid-Term Postgraduate conference in Logic and Philosophy of Science will be
held in Urbino on 29-30-31 May 2013.

The conference
will be organized by the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS) and will host six different
sessions, namely:

1)                  History and
Philosophy of Physics
2)                  Logic and
Philosophy of Logic
3)                  Philosophy of
Biology
4)                  Philosophy of
Language and Mind
5)                  History and
Philosophy of Mathematics
6)                  Philosophy of
Social Sciences

There will not
be parallel sessions. Each session will be chaired by the following renown
international scholars:

History and Philosophy of Physics
Chair: Mauro Dorato (University of Rome 3)
Logic and Philosophy of Logic
Chair: Francesco Paoli (University of Cagliari)
Philosophy of Biology
Chair: CorradoSinigaglia (University of Milan)
Philosophy of Language and Mind
Chair: Marco Giunti (University of Cagliari)
History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Chair: Mario Piazza (University of Chieti-Pescara)
Philosophy of Social
Sciences
Chair: Enzo Di Nuoscio (Unimol) and Albertina Oliverio (University of
Chieti-Pescara)

We invite submissions in the aforementioned areas of research from PhD
students or scholars that have been awarded their PhD in the last 4 years.

Each session will host 4 different talks which will be selected through a
double blind peer review process.

Please send the following materials (as pdf files attachments) to Claudio
Calosi at claudio.calosi@uniurb.it

(1) Anonymous Abstract of no
more than 500 words
(2) Title Page containing
the following information:

a) Author
b) Affiliation
c) Title
d) Session
e) Current Academic Position

Deadline for
submission is 28th February. Authors will be informed of the
decisions on 31st March 2013.

Authors of
selected papers will be given full accommodation for the nights of May 29th,
30th in one of the University
dorms and the social dinner on the night of May, 30th. Special fares
for the University cafeteria will be available for lunches and the remaining
dinners.

Further
information can be found at www.silfs.net and writing to Vincenzo Fano at vincenzo.fano@uniurb.it or to Pierluigi
Graziani at pierluigi.graziani@uniurb.it

During the
conference there will be the award ceremony for best SILFS-PhD thesis of the
year. Information
are available on the society website.

Scientific Committee: Mauro Dorato,
Mauro Ceruti, Pierluigi Minari, Roberto Giuntini, Francesco Paoli, Massimo
Marraffa, Massimiliano Carrara, Federico Laudisa, Roberto Arpaia, Matteo
Morganti, Enzo Di Nuoscio, Albertina
Oliverio, Gino Tarozzi, Mario Alai, Corrado Sinigaglia, Marco Giunti and
Isabella Tassani

Organizing Committee: Mario Alai, Stefano Bordoni, Claudio Calosi,
Vincenzo Fano, Pierluigi Graziani, Sara Matera, Massimo Sangoi, Isabella
Tassani.

(Munich (Germany)) Combining probability and logic to solve philosophical problems

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 09:27:52 +0100

Progic 2013: The Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic
"Combining probability and logic to solve philosophical problems"

Workshop website: www.pfeifer-research.de/progic/

Introduction
------------
The Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (progic 2013)
continues the progic workshop series
(www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/jw/progic.htm). Progic 2013 takes place
on September 17 and 18, 2013. The workshop location is the Carl
Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, which is located at the Nymphenburg
Palace in Munich. The workshop is financially supported by the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and hosted by the Munich Center for
Mathematical Philosophy.

Progic 2013 focuses on "Combining probability and logic to solve
philosophical problems". Topics include but are not restricted to

-) acceptability
-) argument strength
-) belief revision
-) conditionals
-) conditionalization
-) counterfactuals
-) information
-) probability logic

Scholars who combine probability and logic to elaborate new solutions
to philosophical problems are invited to submit an extended abstract
(two pages) for presentation at the workshop (40 min. talk, 10 min.
discussion). Contributors should indicate if they are prepared to submit
a paper to the progic 2013 special issue in the Journal of Applied
Logic.

Invited speakers are Igor Douven (Faculty of Philosophy, University of
Groningen), Alan HÃ¡jek (School of Philosophy, Australian National
University), Kevin T. Kelly (Center for Formal Epistemology, Carnegie
Mellon University), Hannes Leitgeb (Munich Center for Mathematical
Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich), and Peter Milne
(Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling).

Invited talks
-------------
-) Igor Douven: Conditionals and closure.
Abstract: www.pfeifer-research.de/progic/abstracts.html#douven

-) Alan HÃ¡jek: Probabilities of counterfactuals and counterfactual
probabilities.
Abstract: www.pfeifer-research.de/progic/abstracts.html#hajek

-) Kevin T. Kelly and Hanti Lin: Qualitative reasoning that tracks
Jeffrey
conditioning.
Abstract: www.pfeifer-research.de/progic/abstracts.html#kelly

-) Hannes Leitgeb Belief: and stable probability.
Abstract: www.pfeifer-research.de/progic/abstracts.html#leitgeb

-) Peter Milne: Information, confirmation, and conditionals.
Abstract: www.pfeifer-research.de/progic/abstracts.html#milne

Important dates
---------------
Deadline for extended abstracts: April 15, 2013
Notification of acceptance of extended abstracts: May 1, 2013
Deadline for full papers: September 1, 2013
Workshop dates: September 17-18, 2013
Notification of acceptance of full papers: November 15, 2013
Deadline for final versions of full papers: December 15, 2013

The extended abstracts (max. two pages) should be sent in PDF format
to niki(dot)pfeifer(at)lrz(dot)uni-muenchen(dot)de

Local organizer
---------------
Niki Pfeifer (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy,
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)

Steering committee
-----------------
Jeff Helzner (Department Philosophy, Columbia University)
Niki Pfeifer (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy,
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
Jan-Willem Romeijn (Department of Philosophy, University of Groningen)
Gregory Wheeler (Centre for Research in Artificial Intelligence, New
University of Lisbon)
Jon Williamson (Department of Philosophy & Centre for Reasoning,
University of Kent)

--
Dr.Dr. Niki Pfeifer
www.pfeifer-research.de

Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Germany)

(Liege (Belgium)) Cook Wilson and Oxford Realism

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 09:25:21 +0100

(Zurich (Switrzerland)) Annual Conference 2013 of the Society for Applied Philosophy

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 11:04:45 +0100

(Oxford (UK)) Space and Place

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 10:59:47 +0100

(Granada (Spain)) 21st Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 10:56:51 +0100

EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY

CALL FOR PAPERS

21st Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and
Psychology in Granada, Spain, 9-12th July, 2013

The deadline for submission of SYMPOSIA, PAPERS and POSTERS is 15th
March 2013.

Online submission: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=espp2013
Keynote speakers:
Katherine Nelson (CUNY)
Christopher Peacocke (Columbia)
Michael Martin (UCL)
Angela Friederici (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain
Sciences, Leipzig)

There will be four invited symposia on the following topics:
Time and Causation (Organizer: Marc Buehner, Cardiff, to include Alison
Gopnik, Berkeley)
The Second Person (Organizer: Naomi Eilan, Warwick)
Normativity (Organizer: Hannes Rakoczy, University of Göttingen)
Non-literal content (Organizer: Esther Romero, Granada)

General Aim
The aim of the European Society for Philosophy & Psychology is 'to
promote interaction between philosophers and psychologists on issues of
common concern'. Psychologists, neuroscientists, linguists, computer
scientists and biologists are encouraged to report experimental,
theoretical and clinical work that they judge to have philosophical
significance; and philosophers are encouraged to engage with the
fundamental issues addressed by and arising out of such work. In recent
years ESPP sessions have covered such topics as spatial concepts, theory
of mind, attention, joint attention, reference, problems of
consciousness, introspection and self-report, emotion, perception, early
numerical cognition, infants' understanding of intentionality, memory
and time, motor imagery, counterfactuals, the semantics/pragmatics
distinction, minimalism in linguistic theory, reasoning, vagueness,
mental causation, action and agency, thought without language,
externalism, connectionism, hypnosis, and the interpretation of
neuropsychological results (http://www.eurospp.org).

CALL

The Society invites submitted symposia, papers and posters for this
meeting. Submissions are refereed and selected on the basis of quality
and relevance to psychologists, philosophers and linguists.

Symposia are allocated a two-hour slot and consist of a set of linked
papers on a common theme. Symposia organisers should submit an outline
of the symposium along with a list of speakers and abstracts as a single
document. Please do not submit more than one PDF file per symposium.
Papers should not exceed a length of 20 minutes (about 8 double-spaced
pages) for a total 30 minute session. Submissions may be by abstract
(ca. 500 words) but in the case of philosophical submissions a full
paper is preferred.

A submission for a poster presentation should consist of a 500-word
abstract.

When submitting your paper or poster online, please first indicate the
primary discipline of your paper (philosophy, psychology, or
linguistics) and then, by checking the respective box, whether your
submission is intended as a paper or a poster.

Submitted papers may also be considered for presentation as a poster,
in case they are found unsuitable for presentation as a paper. If you
would like us to consider your paper also as a poster, please check the
box 'Paper or poster'.

All paper and poster submissions (whether abstracts or full papers)
should be in PDF-format and should be properly anonymized in order to
allow for blind refereeing.

THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS THE 15th OF MARCH 2013.

Please use the online submission form to be found at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=espp2013
(this requires registering with EasyChair, which is easy to do and free
of charge).

If you have any questions, contact us by writing an email to:
2013@eurospp.org

Program chairs:
– Fabian Dorsch
– Teresa McCormack
– Gillian Ramchand

(London (UK)) Philosophical Accounts of Action 1500-2000

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 10:53:02 +0100

(Dusseldorf (Germany)) ESSLLI Workshop on Logical Models of Group Decision Making

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 10:24:25 +0100

(Ghent (Belgium)) Conference on Logic and Philosophy of Science

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 10:21:24 +0100

(Lisbon (Portugal)) 1st International Summer School on Evolution

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 10:16:12 +0100

(Taormina (Italy)) 12th European Conference on Artificial Life

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 10:09:24 +0100

(Torino (Italy)) Computer Science Logic (CSL)

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 10:06:59 +0100

(Valencia (Spain)) 2nd IAOA International Workshop on Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:57:45 +0100

CALL FOR PAPERS

2nd International Workshop on ONTOLOGIES and CONCEPTUAL MODELING
            (Onto.Com 2013)

            Together with the
25th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAISE 2013)
            organized by
the SIG on Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling of the
International Association for Ontologies and Applications (IAOA)

http://www.inf.ufes.br/~gguizzardi/ontocom2013/
=======================================================================================

PURPOSE AND SCOPE

There has been a growing interest in the role played by formal ontology,
as well as areas such as philosophical logics, cognitive sciences and linguistics,
in the development of theoretical foundations for conceptual modeling.
In particular, a number of ontological theories such as BWW, DOLCE, GFO and UFO
have been successfully applied to the evaluation of conceptual modeling languages and frameworks
(e.g., UML, ORM, ER, REA, TROPOS, ARIS, BPMN, RM-ODP, Archimate and OWL),
and to the development of engineering tools (e.g., methodological guidelines,
modeling profiles, design patterns) that contribute to the theory and practice of this discipline.

Additionally, there has been an increasing interest in the use of empirical studies
to assess the impact of the application of these theoretical foundations to the design
of conceptual modeling grammars and tools. The objective of this workshop
is to collect innovative and high-quality research contributions regarding
the role played by the aforementioned disciplines to the foundations of conceptual modeling.

With this workshop we would like to create a true forum for discussion and,
in that spirit, we would like to solicit papers that address specific questions of relevance
to body of knowledge of the emerging discipline of Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling.

This bi-annual workshop had its sucessful first edition organized during the
30th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2011) and is an official
event of the SIG on Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling of the
International Association for Ontologies and Applications (IAOA).

WE PARTICULARLY WELCOME PAPERS THAT RAISE CHALLENGING QUESTIONS, INNOVATIVE IDEAS AND “OUT-OF-THE-BOX” THINKING
AND WHICH, AS A CONSEQUENCE, CAN HELP TO PROMOTE INTERESTING DISCUSSIONS AT THE WORKSHOP.

Examples for topics that can be of interest address questions such as:

    What is the relation between Ontology as an Artifact, Ontology as a Philosophical Discipline, Conceptual Modeling and Metamodeling?
    What is the relation between Ontology Levels of Instantiation and Metamodeling Levels of Instantiation?
    What is the relation between Ontological Semantics, Formal Semantics, Abstract and Concrete Syntax for Visual Conceptual Modeling Languages?
    What kind of Logical, Ontological and Epistemological Foundations are needed for Conceptual Modeling?
    How can fundamental theoretical research on Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Empirical Research fit together?
    How can Formal Ontological Theories be used for the Analysis and Design of Conceptual Modeling languages (including Enterprise Modeling and Domain-Specific Modeling languages)?
    How researchers and practitioners in other domains not related to computer science and information systems (such as the Bioinformatics) are using Ontologies?
    Is there a common notion of "Ontology" shared in all these domains, or are we including different notions under the same term (Ontology)

Workshop Chairs:

    Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil
    Oscar Pastor, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
    Yair Wand, University of British Columbia, Canada

Deadlines:

    Abstract submission: Feb 15, 2013
    Paper submission: Feb 22, 2013
    Notification: Mar 22, 2013
    Camera-ready paper submission: April, 3 2013
    Workshop: June 17th or 18th, 2013 (to be defined)

SUBMITTING A PAPER: Papers should be submitted via the following link https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ontocom2013

Program Committee (tentative):

    Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA
    Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway
    Andrew Burton-Jones (University of Queensland, Australia)
    Brian Henderson-Sellers, University Technology Sydney, Australia
    Carson Woo, University of British Columbia, Canada
    Chris Partridge, BORO Solutions, UK
    Claudio Masolo, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Italy
    Cory Casanave, Model Driven Solutions, USA
    Dragan Gaševi?, Athabasca University, Canada
    Frederick Gailly, Ghent University, Belgium
    Friederich Steimann, Hagen University, Germany
    Geert Poels, Ghent University, Belgium
    Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany
    Heinrich Herre, University of Leipzig, Germany
    Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
    John Mylopoulos, University of Trento, Italy
    João Paulo Andrade Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
    Leo Orbst, MITRE Corporation, USA
    Michael Rosemann, University of Queensland, Australia
    Nicola Guarino, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Italy
    Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden
    Peter Rittgen, University College Boras, Sweden
    Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel
    Richard Dapoigny, University of Savoie, France
    Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands
    Ron Weber, Monash University, Australia
    Sergio de Cesare, Brunel University, UK
    Simon Milton, University of Melbourne, Australia
    Terry Halpin, LogicBlox, Australia
    Uwe Assman. Technical University Dresden, Germany
    Veda Storey, Georgia State University, USA
    Vijay Khatri, Indiana University, USA
    Vinay Chaudri, SRI International, USA]

Submission and types of papers

Workshop proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNBIP (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing) series.
Authors must submit manuscripts using the Springer-Verlag LNBIP style. See http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for style files and details.

We welcome technical research papers as well as speculative/visionary papers addressing the topics of the workshop.

Submissions should be in LNBIP and pdf format. The maximum length is 10 pages. Accepted papers will be published in the LNBIP workshop proceedings.
After the discussions at the workshop, we are planning to organize a special issue at a high-quality journal on the field with invited extended versions of the papers.

SUBMITTING A PAPER: Papers should be submitted via the following link https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ontocom2013

Contact

For all inquiries regarding this workshop one can contact Giancarlo Guizzardi (gguizzardi-at-inf.ufes.br).

(Zurich (Switzerland)) Social Gradients in Health

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:00:44 +0100

Workshop Announcement

Social Gradients in Health: Empirical, Normative, and Policy Perspectives
Venue: University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Date: 24 May 2013

Confirmed Speakers:
J. Paul Kelleher (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Laura Vanderbloemen (University of York)
Jonathan Wolff (University College London)

Organized by: Carina Fourie & Jan-Christoph Heilinger (University of Zurich)

Sponsored by: University Research Priority Program for Ethics (University of Zurich)

Research strongly indicates that health follows social gradients, e.g. each step up a rank on an occupational hierarchy is correlated with relatively higher life expectancy and lower morbidity. While the existence of these gradients seems fairly uncontroversial, precisely why they occur, whether or not they are unjust, and what, if anything, policy-makers should do about them are very much open to debate. Making progress on these questions requires dialogue between the range of disciplines investigating the social gradients in health, including health sciences, political philosophy and biomedical ethics. This one-day workshop aims to foster such dialogue by examining social gradients in health according to the latest empirical research, normative analysis and policy perspectives.

Participation is free but registration is required in advance as places are limited. For enquiries or for registration, please email Carina Fourie: fourie@philos.uzh.ch.

Carina Fourie
Research Fellow
Ethics Research Institute
& Institute of Biomedical Ethics
University of Zurich
fourie@philos.uzh.ch
http://www.ethik.uzh.ch/ibme/team/mitarbeitende/carinafourie.html

(Hangzhou (China)) IV International Workshop on Logic, Rationality and Interaction

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:57:34 +0100

*THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LOGIC, RATIONALITY AND INTERACTION*
October 9 - 12, 2013
Center for the Study of Language and Cognition, Zhejiang University?
Hangzhou, P.R. China

Scope and mission: the LORI workshop series aims at bringing together
researchers working on a wide variety of logic-related fields concerned
with the understanding of rationality and interaction. These include
Game Theory and Decision Theory, Philosophy and Epistemology,
Linguistics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. The series
aims at fostering a view of Logic as an interdisciplinary endeavor, and
supports the creation of a Chinese community of interdisciplinary
researchers.

We invite submissions of contributed papers bearing on any of the broad
themes of the LORI workshop series. More specific topics of interest for
this edition include but are not limited to:
• argumentation and its role in interaction
• norms, normative multiagent systems and social software
• semantic models for knowledge, for belief, and for uncertainty
• dynamic logics of knowledge, information flow, and action
• logical analysis of the structure of games
• belief revision, belief merging
• logics of preference and preference representation
• logics of intentions, plans, and goals
• logics of probability and uncertainty
• logical approaches to decision making and planning
• logic and social choice theory

*Important dates*:
• Paper submission: June 1, 2013
• Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2013
• Camera ready version: August 1, 2013
• Conference dates: October 9 - 12, 2013

Submissions: papers can be submitted via Easychair
(https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=lori4)

Publication: The proceedings of LORI-4 will be published in the Springer
LNCS/Folli series.

Invited speakers:
• Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci (University of Amsterdam)
• Valentin Goranko (Technical University of Denmark)
• Beishui Liao (Zhejiang University)
• Hannes Leitgeb ((Ludwig Maximilians University)
• Iyad Rahwan, to be confirmed (Masdar Institute)
• Sonja Smets (University of Amsterdam)
• Dongmo Zhang (University of Western Sydney)

Chairs:
• Program chairs: Davide Grossi (University of Liverpool) and Olivier
Roy (Ludwig Maximilians University)
• Organizing chair: Huaxin Huang (Zhejiang University)

Program committee:
• Thomas Ågotnes (University of Bergen)
• Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham)
• Albert Anglberger (Ludwig Maximilians University)
• Alexandru Baltag (University of Amsterdam)
• Hans van Ditmarsch (LOIRA)
• Jan Van Eijck (University of Amsterdam and CWI)
• Ulle Endriss (University of Amsterdam)
• Nina Gierasimczuk (University of Amsterdam)
• Jiahong Guo (Beijing Normal University)
• Wesley Holliday (UC Berkley)
• Tomohiro Hoshi (Stanford University)
• Fangzhen Lin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
• Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua University)
• Yongmei Liu (Sun Yat-Sen University)
• Guo Meiyun (Southwest University)
• Eric Pacuit (University of Maryland)
• Henry Prakken (Utrecht University)
• Ramaswamy Ramanujam (Institute of Mathematical Sciences)
• Antonino Rotolo (University of Bologna)
• Jeremy Seligman (University of Auckland)
• Kaile Su (Griffith University)
• Wenfang Wang (National Yang Ming University)
• Yanjing Wang (Peking University)
• Minghui Xiong (Sun Yat-Sen University)
• Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University)

Organizing committee (Zhejiang University):
• Longbiao Hu
• Li Jin
• Beishui Liao
• Cihua Xu

(Paris (France)) Political Decision and Truth

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:38:39 +0100

« Political Decision And Truth »
Interdisciplinary Symposium

Call for papers: information

Ø Submission deadline: January 30, 2013

Ø Notification of acceptance: March 30, 2013

Ø Format of proposals: One page (a maximum of 2500 to 3000 characters, including spaces) abstracts – in French or English – should be submitted via email in Word or PDF format.Along with your submission, please attach ashort biography, including your contact information, selected publications, and affiliation.

Ø Confirmed invited speakers(provisional list):
- Bruno Latour(Professor at Sciences Po Paris (Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris))
- Frédéric Lordon(Research director at CNRS and researcher at CESSP, Paris-Sorbonne)

Ø Scientific committee:
- Sophie Guérard de Latour (Université Paris I)
- Laurent Jaffro (Université Paris I)
- Jean-François Kervégan (Université Paris I / IUF)
- Catherine Larrère (Université Paris I)

Ø Date and place of event: November 15-16, 2013 – Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France

Ø Accepted contributed papers will be allocated 30 minutes, plus 15 minutes discussion.

Ø Contact:
- Adeline Barbin: adelinebarbin@yahoo.fr
- Élodie Djordjevic: elodie.djordjevic@gmail.com
- Symposium webmail: rationalites.pratiques@gmail.com

« Political Decision And Truth » Conference


Argument*

We are used to saying a political decision is good or fair, or even right rather than to say it is true. Yet, that the statement “true decision” may seem unapt, clumsy, even meaningless, does not imply that there is generally no conception of truth involved in practical choice, and particularly in political decision-making. Thus our describing political decision as good or bad, or asfair or unfair, would express an ambiguous and controversial involvement of the concept of truth rather than its exclusion. At the same time, political debate purports to demonstrate that some are right and others wrong. Moreover, knowledge is permanently called for and required, including within the context of modern democracy, as shown by the use of skillfulness made in all experts debates. Those experts are supposed to know better than the average citizen what ought to be chosen, and what decisions ought to be made.
This conference aims to be an opportunity to explore the use of the notion of truth, which is often implied in the way we analyze and value political decisions. Among the different issues that are raised, two main directions – likely to be connected – take shape:
- The first one, more conceptual, addresses directly the questions of the determination and nature of the notion of truth involved in the political field.
The goal is to clarify the meaning of the notion of truth in the field of political decision-making. What kind of truth are we talking about? Which sense is most apt to make for a legitimate use of the notion? Certainly not the paradigm notion of truth we meet in theoretical fields and which implies the double attribute of necessity and universality. If the realm of human affairs is one where the modal status of things and events is contingence, where normativity is implied, and where we have to decide between various ends and values, it seems debatable and – to say the least – difficult to think of practical truth according to the model of theoretical truth.
On the other hand, it is probably not relevant to say that all decisions are merely subjective – not to say arbitrary: admittedly, political choices cannot claim to be unquestionable the way theoretical statements can be, but some of those choices are obviously considered better than others, and are considered to be so from a point of view that claims not to be merely subjective. Insofar as decisions can be debated, a debate presupposes the production and the confrontationof reasons – reasons which involve and mix in a problematic way concepts of fairness, goodness, and truth. So, exactly what are we discussing when we make a decision? Since one must determine the best ends to aim for and the best ways to achieve them, both practical and theoretical rationality – or, in Kantian terms, practical judgments and knowledge judgments – seem to be involved, without any sharp divide between each.
In order to get round difficulties – both epistemological and strictly political – which are linked to determination of a “goodness”, a “fairness” and a “truth”, well-known theories plead purely procedural conceptions of decision-making. But, what is the meaning of “justice” in those theories? Does this meaning really succeed in excluding every reference to such notions?

- The second direction is more contextual and is concerned with how the notion of truth is used in current public space, within modern, pluralistic, and representative democracy.
The notion is pervasive under different shapes. We appeal to experts in science, economics, even ethics. Think tanks have become common institutions whose explicit goal is to influence policy-making in virtue of their expertise. In France, the CCNE (National Consultative Ethical Committee) is an expression of the need for debate – especially about bioethics –, but equally of the preference for experts’ advice over citizens’ opinions. While political pluralism and democracy are not overtly questioned, a distinction between those who know and those who don’t is consistently reasserted. So, what do those who know actually know? Even if they know more, why would they know better what ought to be done? Is there but one right answer to a given problem? If so, the range of possibilities would be drastically reduced and would echo Margaret Thatcher’s famous “TINA” slogan: “There is no alternative”. But then, exactly what is practical in
political decisions: are they not reduced to a problem of pure knowledge, and politics to simple management business? On the other hand, it’s not clear that such a reduction really is more value- and preconception-free: choosing means is only meaningful in relation to an end, even when aiming at this end does not result from an explicit decision.
Finally, questioning the relationship between political decision and truth is confronting the way we think of democracy and of the possibility for each political entity to make its own destiny. It’s as well questioning the way we circumscribe and define the realm of the possible and the contingent, within which and no other something like a real political decision can be conceived: human agency takes place in a sphere where, while not everything can be known, one nevertheless has to choose and decide. Now, isn’t the very definition of this sphere something that implies, at least in part, a decision? In other words, isn’t it itself a genuinely political issue?

« Political Decision and Truth » Symposium (rationalites.pratiques@gmail.com)
Organization : Adeline Barbin et Élodie Djordjevic
EA 3562 PhiCo — Philosophies Contemporaines
Équipe NoSoPhi

1st Genoa Worshop on Cognitive Linguistics

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:15:21 +0100

EPILOG
Università di Genova - Dipartimento di Filosofia

1st WORKSHOP ON COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

h 14:30 - DIANA MAZZARELLA (University College of London):
On-line pragmatic processing: associative vs. inferential approaches

h 15:30 - HARRIS CONSTANTINOU (University College of London):
The intensifier: deriving its different meanings

---Cofee Break---

h 17:00 - FILIPPO DOMANESCHI (University of Genoa):
Processing Presupposition Projection in Conditional Sentences

Moderano
Carlo Penco (Università di Genova)

&

Massimiliano Vignolo (Università di Genova)

Genova (Italy) - via Bensa 1 - Dipartimento di Filosofia - Aula Dottorandi.

(Washington DC (UK)) Reasons and Reasoning

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:13:37 +0100

(Bristol (UK)) Evolution, Intentionality and Information

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:07:04 +0100

(Bochum (Germany)) Aktuelle Debatten in der Erkenntnistheorie: Wissen-wie und die soziale ...

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:49:27 +0100

Zeit und Ort:
28. 2. 2013, Ruhr-Universität Bochum,
GA 04/187, 9- 18.30 Uhr

*Teil 1: Wissen-Wie*
Ein Buchsymposium zu J. Stanleys Buch "Know how":
9-10: Jason Stanley, Rutgers University "Wissen-Wie"

Stellungnahmen und Kommentare:
10.00-10.45 Hanjo Glock, Universität Zürich
10.45-11.15 Kaffeepause
11.15-12.00 David Löwenstein, HU Berlin
12.00-12.45 E.-M. Jung, Münster und A.Newen, Bochum

*Teil 2: Die soziale Dimension des Wissens*
Ein Workshop zu den zentralen Fragen der sozialen Erkenntnistheorie: Wie
sollte mit den Zeugnissen Dritter umgegangen werden? Wie soll mit
wissenschaftlichem Dissens in der Bewertung von Hypothesen umgegangen
werden? Unter welchen Bedingungen kann epistemische Kooperation stattfinden
und wie kann sie verbessert werden?

14.30 -- 15.30: Stephan Hartmann, LMU München
15.40 -- 16.20: Jan Sprenger, Tilburg
16.20 -- 16.40: Kaffeepause
16.40 -- 17.20: Peter Brössel, Bochum
17.30 -- 18.30: Gerhard Schurz, Düsseldorf

Wiss. Organisation: Peter Brössel (Bochum), Eva-Maria Jung (Münster),
Albert Newen (Bochum)

(College Park, MD (USA)) The Annual Meeting of the International Association for Computing and ...

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:09:56 +0100

(Rome (Italy)) L'inconscio da Freud alle scienze Neurocognitive

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:47:05 +0100

L’INCONSCIO: DA FREUD ALLE SCIENZE NEUROCOGNITIVE

Organizzato dal Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università Roma TRE, con il
patrocinio della Società Italiana di Logica e Filosofia della Scienza
(SILFS).

Roma, 21 dicembre 2012

Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia,

Università di Roma Tre,

Via Ostiense 234,

00144 Roma

Aula Verra

*PROGRAMMA*

*09:30-09:45 *

Gianluca Consoli (La Sapienza-Università di Roma) e Massimo Marraffa
(Università Roma Tre)

Introduzione al seminario

*09:45-10:30*

Riccardo Chiaradonna (Università Roma Tre) **

Inconscio e filosofia antica: due esempi

*10:30-11:15*

Michele Di Francesco (Università Vita-Salute “San Raffaele”)

LA SCIENZA COGNITIVA E IL RAPPORTO COSCIENZA-INCONSCIO

*11:15-11:30* – Pausa caffè

*11:30-12:15*

Sandro Nannini (Università di Siena)

INCONSCIO, COSCIENZA E INTENZIONALITÀ NEL NATURALISMO COGNITIVO

*12:15-13:00*

Alfredo Paternoster (Università di Bergamo)

ALCUNI PROBLEMI DELL’INCONSCIO COGNITIVO

*13:00-14:45* – Pausa pranzo

*15:00-15:45*

Paolo Migone (psichiatra e psicoterapeuta, Parma; direttore di *Psicoterapia
e Scienze Umane*)

UNA RASSEGNA DELLE RICERCHE SPERIMENTALI SULL’INCONSCIO PSICOANALITICO

**

*15:45-16:30*

Gianni Liotti (psichiatra e psicoterapeuta, Roma)

LA PSICOTRAUMATOLOGIA CONTEMPORANEA E LA RIFLESSIONE SUI RAPPORTI FRA
PROCESSI MENTALI COSCIENTI E INCONSCI

**

*16:30 -17:00* – Pausa caffè

*17:00-17:45*

Giovanni Valeri (Unità operativa di Neuropsichiatria infantile, Ospedale
pediatrico “*Bambino Gesù”, Roma*) e Riccardo Williams (La Sapienza -
Università di Roma)

INCONSCIO E FORMAZIONE DELL’IDENTITÀ NEI PAZIENTI PSICOTICI E AUTISTICI

*17:45-18:30*

Luisa de Paula (Università di Urbino “Carlo Bo”)

(Naples (Italy)) Architecture and Realism

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 07:45:07 +0100

(Durban (South Africa)) Annual South African Philosophy of Science Colloquium

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:15:49 +0100

ANNUAL SOUTH AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM (Venue: Salt Rock
Beach Hotel, Durban SA)
ORGANISED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA
13 JANUARY 2013

Please find the programme for the 3rd SA Philosophy of Science
Colloquium below (also attached if version below is unclear).

PROGRAMME
08.30        Welcome

08.45 Section 1: Progress, method, truth
1. Alex Broadbent & Thad Metz (University of Johannesburg, SA) Ubuntu
and the Scientific Method
Chair: Han Geurdes
2. Han Geurdes (Logica) On an Intrinsic Quantum Theoretical Structure
inside Einstein's Gravity Field Equations
Chair: Hennie Lötter
3. Hennie Lötter (University of Johannesburg, SA) Elements of a Theory
of Truth in Science
Chair: Dean Peters
4. Dean Peters (University of Johannesburg) Predictivism and the
confirmation of scientific theories
Chair: Tim McMynne
10.05    Discussion 1    Chair: David Spurrett

10.30    TEA/COFFEE

11.00    Section 2: Logic
1. Tim Mcmynne (Leuven, Belgium) Outflanking the Vicious Circle (in
Dummett’s terms)
Chair: Adriano Palma
2. Adriano Palma (Universityof Kwa-Zulu Natal, SA) Logic as a Science
Chair: Alan Baker
3. Alan Baker (Swathmore College, US) Mathematical Explanation in
Biology
Chair: David Spurrett
12.00    Discussion 2    Chair: Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem

12.20    LUNCH

13.30    Section 3: Realism
1. David Spurrett (University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, SA) What does
Neuro-Economics reduce, and to What?
Chair: Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem
2. Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem (University of Pretoria, SA) Retrospection in
Selective Realisms
Chair: Darrell Rowbottom
3. Darrell Rowbottom (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) The Illusion of
Scientific Realism
Chair: John Collier
14.30    Discussion 3    Chair: Thad Metz

14.50    TEA/COFFEE

15.20    Section 4: Metaphysics
1. John Collier (University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, SA) Functionality and
Autonomy in Open Dynamical Systems
Chair: Guilia Pravato
2. Guilia Pravato (Ca' Foscari University, Venice) Natural Laws and
Social Conventions: Exceptions as a Case Study
Chair: Thad Metz
16.00 Discussion 4    Chair: Hennie Lötter

16.20 – 17.00    Closing Statements    David Papineau (King’s
College London, UK)

All queries: emma.ruttkamp-bloem@up.ac.za

(Lisbon (Portugal)) Reasoning and Argumentation in Legal Discourse

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:02:29 +0100

13 December 2012, 10:00
Faculdade de Ciências Socias e Humanas - Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Av. de Berna 26-C,
Torre B, Piso 7 - sala de Reuniões

António M. Hespanha (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Dimitri Dimoulis (Fundação Getulio Vargas)
Jordi Ferrer Beltrán (Universitat de Girona)
José Rodrigo Rodriguez (CEBRAP/SP, Brazil)
Maurizio Manzin (CERMEG-Università di Trento)
Serena Tomasi (CERMEG-Università di Trento)
Soraya Lunardi (Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)

Reasoning and Argumentation in Legal Discourse
13 December 2012
Sala de Reuniões, 7° Piso da Torre B
MORNING
10:00 José Rodrigo Rodriguez (CEBRAP/SP, Brazil).
Ethos, pathos and logos in the Brazilian Supreme Court.
10:45 Dimitri Dimoulis (Fundação Getulio Vargas), Soraya Lunardi (Universidade
Estadual Paulista (Unesp).
Sacralidade e heresia no texto constitucional. A ação direta de
inconstitucionalidade 4.277 sobre união estável de pessoas do mesmo sexo
do Supremo Tribunal Federal brasileiro.
11: 30 Coffee Break
12:00 Jordi Ferrer Beltrán (Universitat de Girona).
Legal Proof and Legal Truth: Bentham revisited.
13:00 Lunch
AFTERNOON
15:00 Maurizio Manzin (CERMEG-Università di Trento).
Argumentation in law: a rhetorical approach to reasoning in legal decisions.
A normative account.
15: 30 Serena Tomasi (CERMEG-Università di Trento).
Argumentation in law: a rhetorical approach to reasoning in legal decisions.
A descriptive example.
17: 00 Giovanni Battista Ratti (Università di Genova).
Counterfactuals in the Law. A Survey
17:45 António M. Hespanha (Universidade Nova de Lisboa).
Diálogos: Discurso Judiciário; Discurso Jornalístico; Discurso do cidadão.

(Exeter (UK)) Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:00:56 +0100

(Riga (Latvia)) Fifth Graduate International Summer School in Cognitive Sciences and Semantics

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:43:50 +0100

(Bochum (Germany)) Honorary Doctorate Ceremony Prof. John Perry

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:39:04 +0100

On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 Prof. John Perry (Stanford University) will receive an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy and Education at the Ruhr-University Bochum.

Prof. John Perry will give a talk within the program of the Academic Ceremony. You can find the whole program of both events below.

Please note that there will be only limited space at the Academic Ceremony. Therefore we would kindly ask you to register for both or only one event by sending an e-mail to sekretariat-newen@rub.de until December 19^th 2012.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

9:00 – 12:00

Scientific Symposium in Honor of Prof. John Perry
Venue: Ruhr-University Bochum, GA 2/41 (Comenius-Raum)

Reflexivity, Beliefs and Belief Reports

9 – 10 Francois Recanati (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)
Mental Files and Reflexivity

10 – 11 Wolfgang Spohn (Universität Konstanz)
How Perrys Problem about continued Belief refutes the Primacy of Sentence Meaning

11 – 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-12 Albert Newen (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Person Files in Belief Reports

14:00 – 16:30

Academic Ceremony
Venue: Ruhr-University Bochum, “Veranstaltungszentrum”, Room 2a

Introduction:

· Musical Performance

· Opening Speech (Prof. Joachim Wirth – Decan)

· Welcoming Speech (Prof. Elmar Weiler – Rector, Ruhr-University)

· Laudatio (Prof. Albert Newen)

· Musical Performance

Keynote Lecture:

· Prof. John Perry: “Meaning and the Self”

Further Program:

· Musical Performance

· Reception to follow

(Paris (France)) Causality and Experimentation in the the Sciences

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:36:56 +0100

(Hong Kong (China)) 10th Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:02:18 +0100

(Munich (Germany)) Foundations of Physics

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:59:27 +0100

(Krakow (Poland)) 9th International Whitehead Conference in Krakow

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:47:29 +0100

(Bochum (Germany)) 2nd Workshop on Neuroenhancement and Ethics

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:46:27 +0100

(Marseille (France)) Giovanni Vailati. Pragmatism, logic and transdisciplinarity

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:08:37 +0100

Journée « Giovanni Vailati. Pragmatisme, logique et transdisciplinarité »
« Giovanni Vailati. Pragmatism, logic and transdisciplinarity. »

10 décembre 2012, de 9h30 à 18h00

IMéRA, Maison des Astronomes
2 place Le Verrier, 13004 Marseille

Les mathématiciens qui travaillaient à Turin sous la supervision de Giuseppe Peano entre la fin du XIXe siècle et le début de XXe siècle étaient des spécialistes en logique et mathématiques, mais ils s’intéressaient aussi à la linguistique, la psychologie, l’histoire des sciences, la philosophie, la philologie et la politique. Giovanni Vailati (1863-1911), en particulier, a appliqué une approche interdisciplinaire à l’investigation de plusieurs questions épistémologiques, dont la nature des définitions, le rôle du langage technique et les propriétés de la méthode scientifique. Le développement d’une forme originale de pragmatisme pourrait aider à comprendre la conception de la connaissance qui soutenait son approche interdisciplinaire.

The group of mathematicians who studied or worked in Turin under the supervision of Giuseppe Peano between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, were highly specialized in logic and the foundation of mathematics, but had also multidisciplinary interests in linguistic, psychology, history of sciences and philosophy, philology, and politics. Giovanni Vailati (1863-1911), in particular, applied a truly interdisciplinary approach to the research into several fundamental epistemological questions, including the nature of definitions, the role of technical language, and the properties of scientific method. Vailati’s development of an original form of pragmatism should be taken into account in order to understand the conception of knowledge that underpins his interdisciplinary approach.

PROGRAMME

9h30 Paolo PARRINI (Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Firenze)
Vailati and Calderoni on semantics and philosophy of science

11h00 Paola CANTU (CEPERC, Université d’Aix-Marseille, CNRS et IMéRA)
A pragmatic conception of logic : Vailati, Peano and Padoa

14h30 Amirouche MOKTEFI (IRIST, Université Strasbourg)
Comment choisir sa logique? Variations sur un texte de Vailati: ‘Pragmatisme et logique mathématique’ (1906)

16h00 Pierre LIVET (CEPERC, Université d’Aix-Marseille et IMéRA)
Peut-on réconcilier le pragmatisme du raisonnement langagier et celui du calcul? De Vailati à Girard en passant par Van Heijenoort

Organisation scientifique : Paola Cantù (paola.cantu@univ-amu.fr)

(Dublin (Ireland)) Perception and Understanding

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:04:32 +0100

Dublin Philosophy Graduate Conference
Deadline: 1 December 2012

2013 Theme: 'Perception and Understanding'
Conference dates: 5th and 6th of April, 2013

Keynote Speakers:
Kenneth Westphal (University of East Anglia, Norwich) and James O’Shea
(University College Dublin)

The philosophy departments of Trinity College and University College Dublin
will host the annual Dublin Philosophy Graduate Conference on the 5th and
6th of April, 2013. The theme will be ‘perception and understanding’.
Graduate students working in relevant fields are warmly invited to submit
their work for presentation during the conference.

The relationship between perception and understanding is crucial for our
intelligent engagement in the world around us. Kant went further to say
that we would have no self-conscious experience without the cooperation of
our perceptual capacities and our conceptual capacities. For Kant and
Hegel, and more recently, for Sellars and McDowell, clarifying the
relationship between our mutually dependent capacities for rational judgment
and for sense perception is integral to understanding not simply how our
categorial thought is rationally constrained, but how we think determinately
at all.

Would a satisfactory account of the relationship between our perceptual and
judgmental capacities enable us to make sense of intentionality for rational
subjects? Without such an account of intentionality, are there alternative
ways to explain thought’s answerability to the world? For sense experience
to justify rather than merely cause belief, for it to function normatively
like this, it seems that it must, on the one hand, be receptive so that it
opens us up to the world; and it must, on the other hand, be categorically
formed, i.e., formed in a manner that opens us as rational beings up to the
world. In a word, it seems that perceptual capacities and judgmental
capacities must cooperate. So how does our embodiment shape our
understanding? And in what ways does our understanding constitute our
embodied experience?

We might, nevertheless, wonder whether the relationship between perception
and understanding is as crucial as some have made it out to be. First, if
we uphold a broadly Kantian view, then what should we make of the ability to
respond intelligently to things without having the relevant concepts in play
while doing so? Animals and children seem to do this routinely. Second, it
seems that hallucinations are cases of conceptually structured perceptual
experiences in which we are not ‘open’ to the world. Third, maybe concepts
can actually obscure what is given in experience. Even when one’s
experience is shaped by the right concepts of what is given in experience,
one’s experience can be shaped like this for the wrong reasons, such as,
irrational prejudices.

Given our intelligent engagement with the world around us, it seems that
perception and understanding must largely converge. But given (inter alia)
that we can continually misunderstand and reinterpret what was anyway given,
what was anyway perceived, and given that some individuals can be said to
perceive without the relevant concepts at play and likewise without the
capacity to make the relevant judgments, it seems that perception and
understanding must largely diverge.

Papers are invited from analytic, continental, and historical traditions on
any philosophical problem relating to perception and understanding.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of suggested topics:
•    Nietzschean perspectivism and objectivity in sense experience
•    Social conditioning and perceptual experience
•    Intersubjectivity and perception
•    Essences and the synthesis of perceptions
•    The disjunctive conception of experience
•    Non-conceptual mental content
•    Direct vs. Representationalist accounts of perception
•    Animal perception
•    Perceptual scepticism
•    Perception as justificatory or only a causal constraint
•    Reliabilism
•    The Myth of the Given
•    The primary-secondary quality distinction
•    Value concepts and perception
•    Empathy
•    Heidegger’s being-in-the-world and being ready-to-hand
•    Embodiment and cognition
•    Kant vs. Hegel on cognition
•    Brain damage, pathologies and atypical forms of experience

Papers must be around 3,500 words long (suitable for a 30 minute
presentation). Please submit the full paper (.doc or .pdf) together with a
200-word abstract, omitting personal information, and an additional cover
letter with title of the paper, affiliation and contact details to
dublingradconf@gmail.com. The deadline for submission is 1 December 2012.
Authors will be notified by 15 December.

(Munich (Germany)) Workshop on Laws of Nature

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:02:36 +0100

(Padova (Italy)) Philosophy of Logic Workshop

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:01:17 +0100

(Bologna (Italy)) Philosophy of Mathematics Mini-Workshop

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:00:08 +0100

(Aarhus (Denmark)) Cooperation: Why, How, and With Whom?

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:50:05 +0100

Conference on “Cooperation: Why, How, and With Whom?”

April 8^th-9^th 2013 at the University of Aarhus, Denmark

Bochum-Aarhus Cooperation III

Scientific Organization: A. Fiebich, J. Michael, A. Newen, A. Roepstorff

Call for Posters: Please submit an abstract (approx. 200 words) for posters by February 15^th 2013 to aarhus.conference@gmail.com

Call for Participation: Please register by March 1^st 2013 to aarhus.conference@gmail.com

PROGRAM

DAY 1 (08.04.2013)

Why do we cooperate?
9.00-9.15 Introduction
9.15-10.00 Albert Newen (Bochum): The roots of cooperation
10.00-10.45 Alicia Melis (Warwick): tba
10.45.-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-11:45 Sacha Burgeois-Gironde (IJN Paris): Money-emergence among rhesus monkeys
11.45-12.30 Mattia Gallotti (IJN Paris) & John Michael (Copenhagen/Aarhus): Objects in mind: social ontology and social cognition
12.30-13.15 Juliane Kämmer (MPI Berlin): Time-perception in an information-sharing dilemma: how an anticipated future affects cooperation intentions in realistic scenario tasks

13.15-14.15 Lunch

14.15-14.30 1-min Poster Introduction
14.30-15.30 Poster Session

How do we cooperate?

15.30-16.15 Natalie Sebanz (Budapest): Cognitive mechanisms supporting joint action
16.15-17.00 Hanne De Jaegher (San Sebastian): The participatory sense-making view on how we cooperate
17.00-17.30 Coffee Break
17:30-18.15 Stephen Butterfill (Warwick): How to construct cooperative agents
18.15-19.00 Dan Monster (Aarhus) & Dorthe Hakonsson (Aarhus): Emotions and performance in cooperative teams

19.30 Conference Dinner

DAY 2 (09.04.2013)

With whom do we cooperate?
9.00-9.45 Thomas Bugnyar (Vienna): Cooperation and social bonds in ravens

9.45-10.30 Felix Warneken (Harvard): tba
10.30-11.15 Valentina Fantasia (Portsmouth): Towards an embodied approach to cooperation:
implications for Autism and Development

11.15-11.45 Coffee Break

Outlook

11.45-12.45 Anika Fiebich (Bochum), Sarah Schwarzkopf (Cologne), and Nhung Nguyen (Bielefeld): Cooperation and cognition: perspectives from philosophy, psychology, and informatics
12.45-13.00 Andreas Roepstorff (Aarhus): Concluding remarks

(Milton Keynes (UK)) An interdisciplinary workshop on Information: Space, Time, and Identity

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:33:41 +0100

(Bochum (Germany)) Understanding Through Modeling? Epistemology, Semantics, and Metaphysics of ...

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:30:44 +0100

(Instanbul (Turkey)) Brains, Mind and Language #2: A philosophy/cognitive science workshop

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:49:04 +0100

(Munich (Germany)) PhDs in Logic V

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:46:37 +0100

(Duisburg (Germany)) Automatic Actions workshop

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:45:07 +0100

Automatic Actions workshop

11.1.13, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen (R12 V05 D20)

After the Control and the Absent Mind conference in the summer of 2012,
we are organizing for the beginning of 2013 a follow-up event which
brings together early-career philosophers based in Germany and the
Netherlands working on automatic actions and habits and their
theoretical and ethical implications for such concepts as intention,
awareness, responsibility and freedom.

Speakers:

Julia Peters (Bonn), Habits, Virtue, and Automaticity.

Daan Evers (Utrecht), Free Will and Conscious Origination.

Martin Weichold (Göttingen), Affordances as Paradigm for Analyzing
Automatic Action.

Filippo Santoni de Sio (Delft), The Legal Puzzle of Automatic Action.

Hannes Worthmann (Göttingen), Automatic Actions and Capacities.

Organized by Ezio Di Nucci & Neil Roughley. For further information and
registration please contact ezio [dot] dinucci [at] uni-due [dot] de.
Attendance is free. Further info here: http://tinyurl.com/czp8l4l

(Venice (Italy)) Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:32:25 +0100

(Kiev (Ukraine)) The Problem of Justification and the Ways of Argumentation

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:46:32 +0100

(Edinburgh (UK)) New Waves in Philosophy of Mind Online Conference

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:41:39 +0100

(Paris (France)) Indispensability and Explanation Workshop

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:52:19 +0100

WORKSHOP

INDISPENSABILITY AND EXPLANATION
Monday, November 19, 2012 - Tueday, November 20, 2012

IHPST
Salle de Conférences
13, rue du Four, 75006 PARIS
1er étage

Organized by

Denis Bonnay, Marco Panza, Fabrice Pataut

IHPST, CNRS, Université PARIS 1, ENS

Workshop Program

Monday, November 19, 2012

Morning

10:00 - 12:00
David Liggins
(Philosophy, University of Manchester)
The Fast Lane

Respondent
Matteo Plebani
(Philosophy, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice)

*

Afternoon

14:30 - 16:30
Mark Colyvan
(Philosophy, University of Sidney)
The Ins and Outs of Mathematical Explanation

Respondent
Fabrice Pataut
(Philosophy, IHPST)

Coffee Break

17:00 - 19:00
Daniele Molinini
(Philosophy, REHSEIS, SPHERE, Paris)
Evidence, Explanation, Enhanced Indispensability

Respondent
Andrea Sereni
(Philosophy, San Raffaele University, Milan)

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Morning

10:00 - 12:00
Jacob Busch
(Philosophy, University of Aarhus)
The IBE Baby and the Mathematical Bathwater

Respondent
Joshua Hunt
(Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh)

*
Afternoon

14:30 - 16:30
Christopher Pincock
(Philosophy, University of Missouri)
Principled limitations on inference to the best explanation

Respondent
Denis Bonnay
(Philosophy, Université Paris Ouest - Nanterre)

Coffee Break

17:00 - 19:00
Marco Panza
(in collaboration with Andrea Sereni)
(Philosophy, IHPST)
The varieties of indispensability arguments

Respondent
Henri Galinon
(Philosophy, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand)

*** ABSTRACTS ***

Jacob Busch
(Philosophy, University of Aarhus)

The IBE Baby and the Mathematical Bathwater

Indispensabilists like Colyvan and Baker have argued that mathematics is indispensable to science in the sense that mathematics raises the theoretical virtues of theories, making theories in which mathematics feature “best” theories on (probably) most standards of theory evaluation. Therefore the existence of mathematical entities can be argued for by using inference to the best explanation (IBE). In arguing in this way, it appears that both Colyvan and Baker believe that IBE is a reliable principle of inference. When presenting this line of arguing, Colyvan (Colyvan 2001 and Colyvan 2006) suggested that this ought to make indispensability considerations particularly convincing to scientific realists (as they in large part accept IBE).
Because the reliability of IBE has to be argued for (it cannot be taken for granted), the challenge for a scientific realist is in part to show that theoretical virtues are truth tracking. However, in this process, it appears that the role of mathematics in scientific theories may play a surprising part in putting the reliability of IBE, based on widely recognised truth tracking theoretical virtues, in jeopardy. I argue that this will be all the more obvious once we recognize that the appropriate contrast class for evaluating the benefit of mathematics to scientific theories are mathematized vs. nominalized theories, rather than the set of “candidates for being a best theory” vs. the set of non-appropriate candidates.

Respondent
Joshua Hunt
(Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh)

*

Mark Colyvan
(Philosophy, University of Sidney)

The Ins and Outs of Mathematical Explanation

Proofs of mathematical theorems tell us that the theorems are true, but some proofs go further and tell us why the theorems are true. That is, some, but not all, proofs are explanatory. Call this “intra-mathematical explanation”. It has been argued that whenever there are physical applications of the theorems in question, we also have mathematical explanations of physical phenomena. Call this “extra-mathematical explanation”. In this paper I will consider both intra- and extra-mathematical explanations and discuss why they are of philosophical interest. I will also make some speculative remarks about two promising accounts for a theory of intra-mathematical explanation.

Respondent
Fabrice Pataut
(Philosophy, IHPST)

*

David Liggins
(Philosophy, University of Manchester)

The Fast Lane

I discuss a neglected sort of response to the indispensability argument (IA). First of all, I’ll investigate the metaphysical commitments of platonists who endorse IA. This reveals some resources which nominalists are entitled to use. Then I’ll present the neglected response to IA— a liberalized version of Field’s — and discuss its significance. I argue that if it succeeds, it provides a new refutation of IA, and that, even if it fails, its failure may bolster some of the fictionalist responses to IA already under discussion.

Respondent
Matteo Plebani
(Philosophy, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice)

*

Daniele Molinini
(Philosophy, REHSEIS, SPHERE, Paris)

Evidence, Explanation, Enhanced Indispensability

The first step in every analysis of the notion of mathematical explanation should be a plausible answer to the following question: What is a genuine mathematical explanation in science and on what basis do we consider it as such? This is a question that unveils the philosophical conception of the philosophers engaged in the debate and which represents a particularly urgent starting point in the context of the enhanced indispensability arguments (EIA) debate. In this paper I will start by addressing this question, which I call the “question of evidence”. I will maintain that scientific practice does provide an indicator of the goodness of an explanation and, therefore, that the move made by philosophers such as Alan Baker (who refers to genuine mathematical explanations by appealing to the observation of scientific practice and then plug them into the new indispensability argument) is perfectly legitimate. However, I will criticize the claim that the notion of the explanatory power of mathematics has some ontological import in the EIA. I will maintain that the “genuineness” of mathematical explanations of scientific facts is dependent on pragmatic criteria and therefore cannot be used to establish existential claims about numbers (or, more generally, about mathematical objects). To illustrate my point, I will provide two examples of mathematical explanations in science that are dependent on such pragmatic constraints. These examples show that genuine mathematical explanations in science are dispensable (in the sense intended in EIA) because they depend on scientists’ preferences and interests.

Respondent
Andrea Sereni
(Philosophy, San Raffaele University, Milan)

*

Marco Panza
(in collaboration with Andrea Sereni)
(Philosophy, IHPST)

The Varieties of Indispensability Arguments

The Indispensability Argument (IA) comes in many different versions that all reduce to a general valid schema. Providing a correct IA reduces to providing a full interpretation of the schema according to which all premises are true. Hence, arguing whether IA is valid results in wondering whether the schema admits such an interpretation. In the case of IA with explanation, it is doubtful that this could be obtained.

Respondent
Henri Galinon
(Philosophy, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand)

Christopher Pincock
(Philosophy, University of Missouri)

Principled Limitations on Inference to the Best Explanation

Some discussions of inference to the best explanation (IBE) defend it by tacitly restricting this form of ampliative reasoning to special situations. One example of this approach is Lipton’s defense of IBE only in cases where the explanations are both causal and contrastive. However, other influential discussions of IBE view it as having a much wider scope. Harman, for example, argues that IBE is involved even in simple forms of reasoning like enumerative induction. In this paper, I sketch a third position that claims that IBE can be applied more widely than Lipton acknowledges, but not as widely as Harman maintains. These limitations result from an analysis of what explanations accomplish and suggest that IBE arguments for the existence of abstract objects face significant obstacles.

Respondent
Denis Bonnay
(Philosophy, Université Paris Ouest - Nanterre)

(Jena (Germany)) Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Physics Working Group of the German ...

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:48:02 +0100

(Pittsburgh, PA (USA)) Relativistic Causality in Quantum Field Theory and General Relativity

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:45:13 +0100

(Pittsburgh, PA (USA)) Mathematical and Conceptual Foundations of Physics

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:43:30 +0100

(Paris (France)) Logic, Questions and Inquiry

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:55:13 +0100

(Hatfield (UK)) 5th Workshop on Philosophy of Information

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:48:28 +0100

(Padova (Italy)) Accordi e votazioni. A partire dal dilemma del prigioniero e dal paradosso ...

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:39:07 +0100

*Corso per il dottorato di Filosofia*

*Università di Padova*

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*

Titolo del corso: *Accordi e votazioni. A partire dal dilemma del
prigioniero e dal paradosso del voto.*

*Responsabile del corso: *Massimiliano Carrara

Numero ore: *12*

*14 Novembre 3 ore mattina + e 3 ore pomeriggio. Docente: Francesco **Guala*

*15 Novembre: 3 ore mattina + e 3 ore pomeriggio. Docente: Daniele Porello.
*

Parte prima del corso: *Problemi strategici: coordinazione e cooperazione*

*Docente: *Francesco Guala

*14 Novembre: *

*9.30 - 12.30: Sala seminari *(P.zza Capitaniato 3, Padova)

*14 - 17: Sala Giacon* (P.zza Capitaniato 3, Padova)

*Temi trattati*

1. Giochi simultanei ed equilibri di Nash

2. Giochi sequenziali ed equilibri perfetti di sottogioco

3. Problemi di coordinazione: contrattazione e giustizia economica

4. Punti focali e convenzioni

5. Problemi di cooperazione: dilemma del prigionero e beni pubblici

6. Giochi finitamente e indefinitamente ripetuti

7. Norme sociali

Parte seconda del corso: *Preferenze, giudizi e deliberazione*.

*Docente*: Daniele Porello

*15 Novembre 2012: *

*10-13 Sala seminari *(P.zza Capitaniato 3, Padova)

*14-17 Aula 5* (P.zza Capitaniato 3, Padova)

*
*

*Temi trattati:*

1. Paradosso di Condorcet e regola di maggioranza.

2. Il teorema di impossibilità di Arrow, il welfarismo ordinale, e teoria
della scelta sociale.

3. Le vie d'uscita praticabili all'impossibilità di Arrow: welfarismo
cardinale, indebolimento dei requisiti normativi, restrizione del dominio
delle preferenze possibili.

4. Giustificazioni della restrizione delle preferenze individuali e
utilitarismo.

5. Deliberazione e giustificazione della revisione delle preferenze. Una
visione deliberativa della democrazia:

6. Preferenze e giudizi. Un teorema di impossibilità di aggregazione dei
giudizi. Democrazia deliberativa e teoria della scelta sociale: approcci
recenti

Per informazioni scrivere a: massimiliano.carrara@unipd.it

(Geneva (Switzerland)) The Ontology of Emotions

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:36:47 +0100

THE ONTOLOGY OF EMOTIONS, Geneva, 26th-27th April 2013

Confirmed speakers:
MGF Martin
Matthew Soteriou
David Pineda
Joachim Schulte
Clare Mac Cumhaill
Edoardo Zamuner
Agnes Moors
Hitchem Naar

Motivation:
It is quite natural to think that the basic units composing our affective lives are emotions. It is clear, though, that emotions are not temporal “atoms”. Emotions start at a given time, last for a while, follow a particular trajectory, wax and wane and then disappear. This is to say that there are different stages in the unfolding of an emotion, and no doubt important relations between these stages. What, we may then ask, constitutes the temporal unity of an emotion? Or, considered from the first person perspective, how is the identity of an emotion over time given to one? What is the role of values, if any, in constituting this unity? Does the characteristic unfolding of emotion just referred to support the view that emotions are processes rather than states? For example, is the contrast recently emphasized between, on the one hand, the continuous and processive nature of phenomenal experience, and, on the other hand, the durationless and
instantanous character of states like judgements and thoughts, evidence that emotions are processes? The claim that emotions are processes is in any case at the heart of recent discussions of emotions. It has been defended by the late Peter Goldie and also underlies influential versions of appraisal theories that conceive of emotions as dynamic patterns of basic appraisal checks. But what constitutes an emotion in such models? More generally, how should we best characterize the nature of emotions in relation to or by contrast with other affective phenomena such as moods and emotional dispositions? Does paying attention to the characteristic sequences that different emotions tend to assume help understand their nature? The goal of this conference is to bring together established and emerging researchers from various disciplines to make some headway in addressing these questions and related ones.

*Registration is free*

A small number of grants to assist with costs of travel (up to 5) will be available to PhD students working on themes related to the conference. To be considered for a grant, please send a letter of motivation to Julien Deonna (julien.deonna@unige.ch) by 1st February, with 'Conference Grant' in the subject line.

For all other enquiries or to register, please contact one of the organisers: Julien Deonna (julien.deonna@unige.ch), Fabrice Teroni (fabrice.teroni@philo.unibe.ch), and Clare Mac Cumhaill (clare.maccumhaill@unige.ch)

For information on thumos, its research activities and weekly seminar program, please visit our webpage:
http://www.unige.ch/lettres/philo/thumos/Thumos/Home.html

(Ewing, NJ (USA)) Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50 Years On

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:24:04 +0100

(York (UK)) The Actual and the Possible

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:20:46 +0100

The Actual and the Possible

British Society
for the History of Philosophy

Annual Conference 2013

University of York
April 16th-18th2013

Confirmed Speakers
Thomas Baldwin (York)
John Divers (Leeds)
Simo Knuuttila (Helsinki)
Jessica Leech (Sheffield)
Anna Marmadoro (Oxford)
Wayne Martin (Essex)
Ohad Nachtomy (Fordham/Bar-Ilan)
Peter Simons (Dublin)

In what senses can a thing or event be possible? How do notions of possibility relate to ideas of potentiality or powers? In what ways do conceptions of possibility relate to ideas of actuality? Are notions of possibility compatible with freedom and an open future?

This conference will address responses to these and related questions in the history of philosophy, from Ancient Greece to the 20th century. In this way, the conference aims to illuminate the background to recent ‘analytic’ and ‘continental’ approaches to modality, and to establish dialogue between them.

Papers concerning possibility and/or actuality are invited on any figure or period in the history of philosophy. Post-graduate students are encouraged to apply. To propose a paper, please send a 500 word abstract to m.sinclair@mmu.ac.uk by 6th Jan. 2013.

(Prishtina (Kosovo)) How Seminal Works in Research Methodology Shape our Understanding of ...

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:18:29 +0100

(Pittsburgh, PA (US)) The Social Organization of Scientific Inquiry

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:15:27 +0100

How might science be organized differently? This conference will examine
past, present and, especially, novel forms of social organization of science
and their consequences, using methods from philosophy, history, psychology,
economics, sociology, and science studies. Invited speakers and participants
include David Guston, Rainer Hegselmann, Philip Kitcher, Miriam Solomon,
Kyle Stanford, Michael Strevens, Michael Weisberg, and Kevin Zollman.

The conference will be held April 20-21, 2013, at the Center for Philosophy
of Science, University of Pittsburgh.

Call for papers can be found on the Center Web site:
www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr

Organizing Committee: Kyle Stanford (Chair), Kevin Zollman, Michael
Weisberg, John Norton, and Jim Woodward.

Questions can be directed to Kyle Stanford (stanford@uci.edu) or Eric
Hatleback (enh8@pitt.edu).

(Lisbon (Portugal)) International Conference on Evolutionary Patterns

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:12:34 +0100

(Tübingen (Germany)) Husserl, Cassirer, Schlick

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:10:56 +0100

(Oxford (UK)) 2012 Winter Intelligence Conference

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:06:38 +0100

(Notre Dame, IN (USA)) 4th annual Notre Dame/Northwestern Graduate Epistemology Conference

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:37:28 +0100

The philosophy departments at the University of Notre Dame and Northwestern University are proud to announce the fourth joint annual graduate epistemology conference, to be held at the University of Notre Dame April 26-27, 2013. Our keynote speaker will be Thomas Kelly (Princeton).

Submission Guidelines: We welcome submissions in the field of analytic epistemology, broadly construed. Papers should be no more than 4000 words (approx. 13 pages). Submissions should also include a second sheet with an abstract (200 words or less). Papers should be suitable for blind review: include detachable cover page with the paper’s title, author’s name, mailing address, email, phone number, school affiliation, and word count; please omit any self identifying marks within the body of the paper.

Deadline: Papers must be received by January 15th, 2013. Papers should be emailed as an attachment to the conference organizers at nundgradconf@gmail.com pref erably in PDF format. Any questions about the conference can also be emailed to this address.

Website: http://www.wcas. northwestern.edu/epistemology/ egradconf4/

Sponsored by:

Notre Dame Philosophy Department, Northwestern Philosophy Department, Notre Dame Center for Philosophy of Religion, ISLA, Notre Dame Graduate School

(Luxembourg) New work on concepts

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:33:24 +0100

(Champéry (Switzerland)) Games Winter School 2013

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:26:50 +0100

(Boston, MA (USA)) Turing 100: A Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Alan Turing

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:24:29 +0100

(Paris (France)) Sperber week at Institut Jean Nicod

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:21:24 +0100

(Lugano (Switzerland)) I sensi dell'essere: ontologia medievale ed ontologia contemporanea

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 09:47:22 +0100

(Leuven (Belgium)) Workshop on Knowledge Attributions

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 09:44:18 +0100

Workshop Announcement

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The Centre for Logic and Analytic Philosophy (CLAW) at KU Leuven will be
hosting a workshop on

KNOWLEDGE ATTRIBUTIONS

The workshop will take place at PI 01.22 (Vesaliusstr. 2, 3000 Leuven,
Belgium) on 03.12.2012

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Workshop Programme

09.45-10.00
Coffee

10.00-11.10
Mikkel Gerken (Copenhagen)
What We Talk about When We Talk about Knowledge

11.10-11.20
Break

11.20-12.30
Adam Carter (Eindhoven)
Relativism, Knowledge and Understanding

12.30-14.00
Lunch

14.00-15.10
Erik Stei (Bonn)
Strict Invariantism and the Variability of Knowledge Ascriptions

15.10-15.20
Break

15.20-16.30
Dirk Kindermann (Rutgers)
Ascribing Knowledge and Error

16.30-16.40
Break

16.40-18.00
Elke Brendel (Bonn)
Knowledge, Indexical Contextualism, and Relativism

18.00
Drinks and Dinner

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For further information, visit CLAW’s website at http://hiw.kuleuven.be/claw
or contact the workshop organiser at christoph.kelp@hiw.kuleuven.be

Registration is not necessary and attendance is free of charge. However,
those who wish to attend the workshop lunch or dinner are requested to send
an email to the organiser before 19.11.2012.

(Cambridge (UK)) Philosophy and the Sciences – Old Visions, New Dir ections

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:12:26 +0100

(Barcelona (Spain)) PETAF Space and Time Workshop

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:06:30 +0100

(Barcelona (Spain)) PERSP Space & Time Workshop on Time and Identity

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:04:08 +0100

(Cambridge, MA (USA)) Self, Knowledge, Expression

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:01:46 +0100

SELF, KNOWLEDGE, EXPRESSION

A one-day workshop hosted by the Harvard Department of Philosophy

Friday, November 2nd, 2012
(Morning Session: 10am-12:20pm; Afternoon Session: 2pm-6pm)

Plimpton Seminar Room
Barker Center 133
12 Quincy St
Harvard University

Speakers:

David Finkelstein, University of Chicago
“Consciousness Extended Backwards”
(10-11:10 AM)

Valérie Aucouturier, Center Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussels
“Practical Knowledge and the Expression of Intention”
(11:20 AM-12:30 PM)

Matthew Boyle, Harvard University
“The Need for Expression”
(2-3:10 PM)

Sophie Djigo, Lycée Alexandre Ribot
“The Discrete Self and Discretionary Authority”
(3:10-4:20 PM)

Berislav Maruši?, Brandeis University
“Against the Evidence”
(4:30-5:40 PM)

Closing discussion chaired by:
Richard Moran, Harvard University
(5:40-6:30 PM)

Description:

The notion of ‘expression’ plays a distinctive role, or a number of
distinctive roles, in a tradition of thought associated with
Wittgenstein, Elizabeth Anscombe, Stanley Cavell, and others.
Wittgenstein accords a crucial role to the expression of sensations in
establishing the meaning of sensation terms, and he appeals to the
notion of expression to defuse difficulties about how we know our own
minds. Anscombe gives a special importance to the expression of
intention in understanding the unity of the concept of intention. And
in his discussion of knowledge of other minds, Cavell connects the
possession of knowledge of the other to its expressibility in
acknowledgment. The notion also figures suggestively in the work of a
variety of philosophers not grounded in this Wittgensteinian
tradition, notably Herder, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Sartre.
The purpose of the present workshop is to consider the importance of
the notion of expression and related notions (transparency, making
manifest, telling, etc.) for a variety of areas of philosophical
inquiry and dispute. Our aim will be to reflect on questions such as
the following: What is the notion of expression, and what, if
anything, is its significance for the philosophy of mind, and for
epistemology? In what way might it be relevant to the understanding
of human communication, and more generally, to our knowledge of the
thoughts and feelings of other persons? What light can it shed on our
capacity to know our own minds? What is its bearing on the
understanding of human action?

For more information, please contact:
Richard Moran (moran@fas.harvard.edu) or Byron Davies
(bmdavies@fas.harvard.edu).

(Hamilton , Ontario (Canada)) Russell and Wittgenstein at the Crossroads

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:55:13 +0100

(Urbino (Italy)) Perspectives on Science and Metaphysics

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:52:40 +0100

Perspectives on Science and Metaphysics
First Barcelona – Urbino Meeting
Università di Urbino "Carlo Bo", Universitat de
Barcelona,   Universitat Autonoma de
Barcelona

Urbino,
Palazzo Albani / Collegio del Colle, November 2-3, 2012

Very often physics and metaphysics are
regarded as mutually isolated intellectual enterprises. On the one hand,
questions about change, material composition, causality have seldom been
discussed on the background of consolidated physical theories. On the other
hand, physicists and philosophers have often been skeptical with respect to the
actual capacity of metaphysics to raise interesting problems and to provide a
general view of reality.
    Yet, recently, many
attempts have been made to fill the gap between the two disciplines—although
mainly on a programmatic level so far. For instance, considerations about
theoretical physics have been crucially important in the reflection about the
metaphysics of time, persistence and the part-whole relation. What is, then, the
relation between the two inquiries? Is it possible to integrate the two
methodologies? What are the problems and the areas where physics and metaphysics
more naturally overlap?
    Researchers of both Italian and
Spanish groups have spent significant efforts tackling issues about metaphysical
intimations of contemporary sciences on the one hand, and about the possibility
of metaphysical analysis to help clarify crucial notions employed in sciences.
It is for this reason that a meeting of the two groups centered on new
perspectives in science and metaphysics represents an incredible research
opportunity for both the institutions
November 2,
2012
PALAZZO ALBANI room
C5

10:00 Opening:
Gino Tarozzi; Josè A. Diez; Carl Hoefer.
10:30 Albert Solé Bellet
(Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
Against redundancy
11:30 Josè Antonio Diez (Universitat
de Barcelona)
Scientific W-Explanations as
Ampliative, Specialized Embedding: a Neo-Hempelian Account
12:30
Discussion
13:15 Lunch Break
15:00 Mauro
Dorato (Università di Roma 3)
Rovelli's relational quantum
mechanics and its metaphysical implications
16:00 Mario Alai
(Università di Urbino)
Does Scientific Realism Need
Reconstruction? Doppelt on Psillos and Discriminatory Realism
17:00 Coffee
Break
17:15 Giuliano
Torrengo (Universitat de Barcelona)
Keeping track of identity in
time-travel
18:15
Discussion

November 3,
2012
PALAZZO ALBANI room
C5

9:00 Claudio
Calosi (Università di Urbino)
Quantum
Mechanics and Priority Monism
10:00 Laura Felline (Universitat
Autonoma de Barcelona):
It's a matter of principle. Axiomatic
reconstructions of Quantum Theory and their contribution to our understanding of
the quantum world
11:00 Coffee
Break
11:15 Andrea
Bottani (Università di Bergamo)
Physics, Metaphysics and What
There Is
12:15 Discussion
13:00  Lunch
Break

COLLEGIO COLLE - Conference
hall

15:00 Carl Hoefer (Universitat Autonoma de
Barcelona)
Time and Free Agency in a
Deterministic World
16:00 Isabella
Tassani (Università di Urbino)
Influential metaphysics in the
debate on Einstein-Popper’s interpretation of quantum mechanics
16:15 Coffe
Break
17:15 Gino
Tarozzi and Vincenzo Fano (Università di Urbino)
From “pure metaphysics” and
“metaphysics within physics” to “metaphysics with physics”
18:15
Discusssion

PROGRAM
COMMITTEE:
Mario Alai (Università
degli studi di Urbino Carlo Bo), mario.alai@uniurb.it
Pierluigi Graziani
(Università degli studi di Urbino Carlo Bo), pierluigi.graziani@uniurb.it
Claudio Calosi
(Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo), claudio.calosi@uniurb.it
?Giuliano Torrengo (Universitat
de Barcelona), giuliano.torrengo@gmail.com

SCIENTIFIC
COMMITTEE
Gino Tarozzi
(Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo),
Vincenzo Fano
(Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo),
Mario Alai
(Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo),
Carl Hoefer
(Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona),
Josè Antonio Diez
(Universitat de Barcelona),
Giuliano Torrengo
(LOGOS, Universitat de Barcelona – Università di
Torino),
Pierluigi
Graziani (Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo
Bo),
Claudio Calosi
(Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo)

(Padova (Italy)) The Logic of Hegel's Science of Logic II

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:50:32 +0100

The Logic of Hegel's Science of Logic II
December 18, 2012

The PhD School in Philosophy of Padova University is pleased to announce the second workshop on Hegel's Science of Logic.
Date: December 18, 2012 (from 9 A.M. to 6:30 P.M.)
Venue: Padova University, Department of Philosophy, Padova (Italy)
Organized by: Luca Illetterati, Francesca Menegoni, Antonio Nunziante.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Lucio Cortella

Call for Papers
The organizers invite young researchers to submit a proposal for a presentation. Papers should be suitable for a 20 minutes presentation in English, German or Italian.
Please include the following information in your submission:
(1) The paper's title
(2) Abstract (max 500 words)
(3) Author's name
(4) CV
(5) Author's email address
Email a copy of your abstract, as an attachment, in Microsoft Word (.doc), Rich Text Format (.rtf), or Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf) to hegel.pd@gmail.com
Abstracts must be received by November 15, 2012. Abstracts will be reviewed by a committee. Five abstracts will be selected for presentation. Notification of acceptance will be made via email by November 20, 2012.
Proposed topics are (but in no way limited to)
- The concept of logic in Hegel's system
- The philosophical relevance of Hegel's Science of Logic
- Speculative logic and formal logic
- Hegel's logic between ontology and epistemology
- Contemporary rereading of Hegel's Science of Logic
- Critiques of Hegel's Logic
For any information send an email to hegel.pd@gmail.com

(Lisbon (Portugal)) LanCog Workshop on Fiction and Imagination

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:46:38 +0100

(Leeds (UK)) Normative Disagreement

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:44:04 +0100

(Paris (France)) Second Hamburg-Paris Ontology Workshop

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:39:26 +0100

(Princeton, NJ (USA)) Structure at 50: Assessing and Reassessing Kuhn and his Legacy

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:56:32 +0100

(Milano (Italy)) XVIII Seminario Italo-spagnolo-francese di Teoria del Diritto

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:52:01 +0100

PROGRAMMA

Venerdì 26 ottobre

9.30 – Saluto introduttivo e apertura dei lavori

10.00 – Relazione 1: Silvia Zorzetto (Università di Milano) – “Lex specialis e ragionamento giuridico”

11.30 – Coffee Break

12.00 – Relazione 2: Juan Pablo Alonso (Universidad de Buenos Aires) – “Principios Implícitos y Coherencia”

13.30 – Pranzo

15.00 – Relazione 3: Pau Luque Sanchez (Università di Genova) – "Acerca de la posibilidad de los desacuerdos irrecusables en el derecho"

16.30 – Coffee Break

17.00 – Relazione 4: Adrian Sgarbi (Universitat de Girona) – “Delimitación del Neuroderecho”

18.30 – Fine della giornata

Sabato 27 ottobre

10.00 – Relazione 5: Federico José Arena (Università Bocconi) – “Un'alternativa convenzionalista per lo scetticismo interpretativo, e viceversa”

11.30 - Coffee Break

12.00 - Relazione 6: Jorge Rodríguez (Universidad de Mar del Plata) – "Lógica deóntica, mundos normativamente ideales y mundos normativamente perfectos"

13.30 – Pranzo

15.30 – Tavola rotonda: Modelli economici e scienza giuridica

Chair person: Pierluigi Chiassoni, Università di Genova

Partecipanti: Francesco Denozza (Università di Milano), Antoine Lyon Caen (Université de Paris Ouest), Fausto Panunzi (Università Bocconi), Diego Martín Papayannis (Universitat de Girona).

18.30 – Fine dei lavori

Il Convegno è organizzato da RULES - Research Unit Law and Economics Studies in collaborazione con il Dipartimento di Studi Giuridici.

(Edinburgh (UK)) 3rd Annual Edinburgh Graduate Epistemology Conference

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:15:20 +0100

(Pittsburgh, PA (USA)) Duquesne University Graduate Conference

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:13:35 +0100

7th Annual Duquesne University Graduate Conference in Philosophy

Philosophy and Nature

February 23, 2013

Keynote Speaker:
Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico & Emory Psychoanalytic Institute

The relation between nomos and physis has occupied a central place in the history of philosophy,
from Aristotelian Physics to contemporary analytic debates on the philosophy of mind. Moreover,
nature, as both an object of knowledge and a public resource, has taken on increasingly urgent
social and political import: the distribution of resources and the impact of climate change have
become central issues in public policy; and, as in the cases of race, sexual difference, and sexual
orientation, legal and social status is often determined in accordance with an appeal to their
supposedly biological bases, or, that is, to a commonplace conception of “the natural.” Thus the
very identity of the human itself is intimately connected to the ways in which nature operates either
on or for us. This conference invites submissions from all areas of philosophy that are concerned
to investigate the ontological, ethical, political, and epistemological status of nature.

To help facilitate this discussion, possible topics include, but are not limited to: nomos & physis in
Ancient philosophy; the relation between God & nature; human freedom & natural determinism;
consciousness & cognitive science; the social construction of nature; chaos & vitalism; the
necessity or impossibility of causation; the constitutive relationship between humans and nature
(realist, idealist, materialist, and/or hybrid positions); phenomenology of/and nature; social
constructivist vs. essentialist figurations of identity; politics & the state of nature; the ethical status
of animals & the environment; and the biological or social origins of race, sexual difference, and/or
sexual orientation.

Submissions: Please prepare submissions for blind review and send to
duquesnegradconference@gmail.com by Saturday, December 1, 2012. Submissions should not
exceed 3000 words. Cover sheets should include name, submission title, email address, and
institutional affiliation.

(Munich (Germany)) Workshop on Groundedness in Semantics and Beyond

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:09:22 +0100

(Milan (Italy)) Computability in Europe: The Nature of Computation

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:07:21 +0100

(Bochum (Germany)) Graduate-Workshop Saphir | Systematic Analytic Philosophy and ...

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:06:15 +0100

Graduate-Workshop

Saphir | Systematic Analytic Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Research

February 25-27, 2013

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Room GA 2/41 - Comenius Raum

Keynote Speakers

Mathias Frisch (University of Maryland)

Hans Radder (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Jason Stanley (New York University)

Call for Papers

DoktorandINNen an Universitäten in Nordrhein-Westfalen

sind herzlich eingeladen, einen Vortrag zu halten

(25-30 Minuten + Diskussion). Bitte schicken Sie

bis zum 1. Dezember 2012 einen erweiterten Abstract

(ca. 1500 Worte) an tomoo.ueda@rub.de.

Konferenzsprachen sind Deutsch und Englisch.

Graduate students, who are working at a University in

Nordrhein-Westfalia [!], are invited to present a paper

(25-30 minutes + discussion) at the Graduate Workshop.

Please submit an extended abstract of about 1500 words to

tomoo.ueda@rub.de by December 1st, 2012.

Workshop languages are English and German.

(Paris (France)) Conference on Cassirer's American Exile

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:26:21 +0100

Conference on Ernst Cassirer's American exile
November 16th and 17th
Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure
Organizers: Muriel van Vliet (Université de Rennes I), Sabine Plaud (Phico/Execo)

Cassirer
et l’exil américain [1942-1945]:
De la « science de la forme »
au structuralisme, quel tournant pour les « sciences de la
culture » ?

Jours :
après-midi du 16 et journée du 17 novembre 2012
Lieu :
ENS

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Programme

Vendredi
16 novembre : salle Celan
14h
- 14h30 Introduction par Sabine
Plaud
Présidence :
Danièle Cohn
Cassirer et le tournant
structuraliste du cercle Linguistique de New York
14h30 15h30 Gérard Raulet (Professeur
d’histoire des idées allemandes à l’Université Paris-Sorbonne) : « Le
point de fuite de la Philosophie des formes symboliques, une logique
linguistique ? »
15h30
- 16h30 : Ronan de Calan (Maître de conférences à l’Université Paris
I) : « Cassirer et Jakobson : du Remmaren au Cercle Linguistique
de New York, pour une nouvelle histoire du structuralisme »
16H30
- 17h30 Ralf Müller (Chercheur postdoctoral à l’Université de Kyoto par la
fondation Alexander von Humboldt, et chercheur associé à l’Université de Zürich
- University Research Priority Program Asia and Europe): « Ernst Cassirer
et le structuralisme linguistique »
17h30
- 18h30 Gildas Salmon (CNRS) : « Les éléments d’une refonte de
la notion de forme symbolique à New York au début des années 40 »

Samedi
17 novembre : Amphithéâtre Rateau
9h
- 9h30 Introduction par Muriel van
Vliet : « L’originalité de la lecture de Cassirer par John Michael
Krois »
Matin
- Présidence : Jocelyn Benoist
Cassirer et les
courants de pensée anglo-saxons :
9h30
- 10h30 Massimo Ferrari (Université de Turin) : « Ernst Cassirer et
le pragmatisme américain »
10h30
- 11h30 Enno Rudolph (Université de Heidelberg) : « Cassirer et
Rorty » (titre provisoire)
11h30 -12h30 : Fabien Capeillères (Université
de Caen) : « Images américaines de Cassirer : une galerie de
portraits »

Pause
déjeuner
Après-midi -
Présidence : Massimo Ferrari
Perspectives
épistémologiques : la théorie des groupes :
14h
- 15h : Jean Seidengart (Professeur de Philosophie, Directeur de
l’Institut de Recherche Philosophiques (EA 373)) : « Les dynamiques
de l’invention philosophique, scientifique et artistique. Université Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-La
Défense) : « La fécondité philosophique de la théorie des groupes dans
l’évolution de Cassirer »
Art, mythe,
perspectives éthiques et politiques :
15h
- 16h : Audrey Rieber (Université de Bâle) : « Cassirer et l’art
dans les années 1942-45 » (titre provisoire)
16h
- 17h : Pellegrino Favuzzi (Université de Padoue / Université
Humboldt – Berlin) : « Ernst Cassirer und die Struktur des
Politischen Mythos »
17h-18h : Andreas Jürgens (Université de Lüneburg) :
« Humanismus und Kulturkritik. Ernst Cassirers amerikanische Werk als
philosophisches Denkraum » (conference traduite en français)

(Ghent (Belgium)) The Future of Theory and Philosophy of History

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:22:40 +0100

(Antwerp (Belgium)) Philosophy of Perception and Aesthetics Conference

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:20:53 +0100

(Bilbao (Spain)) 7th International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:17:36 +0100

(Milano (Italy)) La testimonianza: profili giuridici e filosofici

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 15:26:55 +0100

Università Bocconi - Aula N02 piazza Sraffa 13, Milano

18/10/2012

17:00 - 19:00

"La testimonianza: profili giuridici e filosofici"

Introduce
Giovanni Tuzet (Università Bocconi)

Relatori
Alberto Alessandri (Università Bocconi)
Gherardo Colombo (Presidente Garzanti)
Nicla Vassallo (Università di Genova)

Organizzato da:
Dipartimento di Studi Giuridici "Angelo Sraffa" - Scuola di Giurisprudenza

Ingresso gratuito fino a esaurimento posti

Per informazioni:
tel. 02-5836.5221/5231

http://www.unibocconi.it/wps/wcm/connect/News+ed+Eventi/Eventi/Bocconi+Eventi/Eventi+in+programma/ev2012090149

(Bucharest (Romania)) Bucharest Colloquium in Analytic Philosophy

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:02:27 +0100

(Uppsala (Sweden)) Topics in Economics and Philosophy

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:24:33 +0100

Conference: Topics in Economics and Philosophy, October 24-25/2012

Venue: Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies (SCAS), Linneanum,
Thunbergsvaegen 2, Uppsala

Invited speakers:
Gustaf Arrhenius, Katharina Berndt, Luc Bovens, Till Grüne-Yanoff,
Johan E. Gustafsson, Sven Ove Hansson, Stephan Hartmann, Wlodek
Rabinowicz, Stéphane Zuber

This is a joint event of the Franco-Swedish Programme in
Philosophy and Economics and the National Committee for
Philosophy, Logic and the Methodology of Science of the Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme and The Tercentenary Foundation of the Bank of Sweden, .

Program

October 24

13:45 Welcoming address by Prof. Björn Wittrock, the Principal of
SCAS

14:00 Luc Bovens (LSE): Concerns for the Poorly-Off in Ordering
Prospects

15:00 Stephan Hartmann (LMU Munich): Updating on Conditionals =
Kullback-Leibler + Causal Structure

16:00 Coffee

16:30 Sven Ove Hansson (KTH): Interdefinabilities in Decision
Theory

17:30 Till Grüne-Yanoff (KTH): Preference Consolidation with
Endogenous Entrenchment

18.30-19:00 Reception

October 25

9:15 Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund University): Goodness and Numbers

10:15 Coffee

10:30 Johan E. Gustafsson (CEM Paris): General Consequentialism

11:30 Katharina Berndt Rasmussen (Stockholm University): On the
Weighted Majority Rule

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Stéphane Zuber (CERSES, CEM Paris): Escaping the Repugnant
Conclusion: Rank-Discounted Utilitarianism with Variable
Population

15:00 Coffee

15:30-16:30 Gustaf Arrhenius (Stockholm University, SCAS, CEM
Paris): Inequality and Population Change

(Lille (France)) Identity & Paradox

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:12:32 +0100

Workshop "Identity and Paradox"
CNRS research unit "Savoirs, Textes, Langage"
http://stl.recherche.univ-lille3.fr/
Lille, France, April 11-12, 2013
Organizers: Giuseppina Ronzitti (STL), Tero Tulenheimo (STL, Lille 3)

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Workshop Description

On the one hand, the concept of identity naturally enters the discussion concerning many types of
paradox that are not, primarily, about identity itself. On the other hand, there are a number of
paradoxes considered as paradoxes of identity in which identity is apparently the concept
generating the paradox (e.g., the ship of Theseus paradox, Chrysippus's paradox, the paradox of
change, the paradox of constitution).

The goal of the workshop is to discuss philosophical, logical and linguistic aspects of paradoxes in
which the notion of identity plays a role. More specifically, we wish to examine whether the so-
called paradoxes of identity really are paradoxes of identity in the sense that their paradoxicality is
primarily connected to the concept of identity; and we want to investigate the role of concepts of
identity in connection with the formulation/solution of other types of paradoxes.

Invited speakers:

Jonathan Lowe (Durham)

and

David Nicolas (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)
Manuel Rebuschi (Nancy)
Gerhard Schaden (Lille 3)

We invite submissions presenting novel contributions to the topic from the viewpoints of
philosophy, logic and/or linguistics. Up to 4 papers will be accepted for presentation at the
workshop.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Identity and logic
- Identity, change, and paradox
- Identity, composition, and paradox
- Identity, counting, and paradox
- Relative identity and paradox

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Submission details

Papers should be between 3000 and 4000 words in length and should be suitable for a 30-minute
presentation. All papers should be prepared for blind review and should be emailed as attached
pdf-files to the organizers: ronzitti@gmail.com, tero.tulenheimo@univ-lille3.fr. The deadline is
January 16, 2013.

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Important dates:

Submission deadline: January 16, 2013
Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2013
Workshop: April 11-12, 2013

Contact: ronzitti@gmail.com, tero.tulenheimo@univ-lille3.fr

(Providence, RI (USA)) Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2013

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:08:53 +0100

(Terragona (Spain)) International Fall School in Natural Computing (FSNC 2012)

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:05:54 +0100

(St. Louis, MO (USA)) University of Missouri St. ...

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:15:34 +0100

University of Missouri-St. Louis

2013 Gateway Graduate Conference in Philosophy

The graduate students of the University of Missouri-St. Louis invite high quality paper submissions in
the areas of philosophy of mind, aesthetics, moral psychology and related subjects.

When: April 20-21
Where: University of Missouri at St. Louis
Keynote: Jesse Prinz
Submission guidelines

Presenters must be college/university students or postgraduate students.
Papers must be suitable for a 25 to 30 minute presentation (not to exceed 3500 words or roughly 10–
12 pages).
Papers must be prepared for blind review. All identifying information, including paper title, name,
email and 300 words (or less) abstract, must be placed on a separate cover page.
Email submissions, in either *.pdf, *.docx, *.doc, or *.rft format, and all inquiries to Kevin Lepore at
kevin.lepo@gmail.com or Bre’Anna Liddel at breanna.s.liddell@gmail.com by January 2nd 2013.

(Tuebingen (Germany)) Conference on Emotion and Perception

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:11:50 +0100

(Exeter (UK)) The Scandal of Computation - What is Computation?

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:08:57 +0100

(Rome (Italy)) L'eredità di Alan Turing

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:04:23 +0100

(Dijon (France)) Understanding Language: a dialogue between linguists and philosophers

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:50:05 +0100

(Ghent (Belgium)) On the Origins of Social Constructivism

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:56:43 +0100

(Riga (Latvia)) Perception and Concepts

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:34:13 +0100

(Rome (Italy)) Forms and Subjectivity

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:08:26 +0100

FORMS OF SUBJECTIVITY

Dipartimento di Filosofia

Sapienza Università di Roma

Aula XI, Villa Mirafiori - via Carlo Fea 2

5 ottobre, ore 14-19

PIERGIORGIO DONATELLI

TITO MAGRI

Introduction

AKEEL BILGRAMI

Value and Subjectivity

JAMES CONANT

Kant on Forms of Subjectivity

PIERGIORGIO DONATELLI

Human Life, Subjectively

TITO MAGRI

First Persons

(Bauru (Brazil)) IX International-Brazilian Meeting on Cognitive Science

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:05:59 +0100

(Bogazici (Turkey)) The Logic, Metaphysics, and Morals of Plurals and Mass Terms

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:00:33 +0100

(Valencia (Spain)) The XV Taller d’Investigació en Filosofia (TIF)

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:14:18 +0100

(Turin (Italy)) Unpacking Rawls International Conference

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:47:30 +0100

"Unpacking Rawls. Virtues and Vices of the Rawlsian Paradigm in the XXI Century".

27 Settembre, 2012

Pomeriggio (14.30 – 18.30): The New Century Challenges to Rawls

Saluti di benvenuto: Giuseppina De Santis – Direttore Generale, Centro Einaudi

Catherine Audard – London School of Economics

Samuel Freeman – University of Pennsylvania

Ian Carter – Università degli Studi di Pavia

Ingrid Salvatore – Università degli Studi di Salerno

Chair: Elisabetta Galeotti – Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale

28 Settembre, 2012

Mattina (9.30 -12.30): Unpacking Rawls

Saluti di benvenuto: Piero Gastaldo – Segretario Generale, Compagnia di San Paolo

Enrico Biale - Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale

Giulia Bistagnino – Università degli Studi di Milano

Francesca Pasquali - Università degli Studi di Milano

Nicola Riva - Università degli Studi di Milano

Chair: Valeria Ottonelli – Università degli Studi di Genova

Pomeriggio (14.30 – 18.30): John Rawls beyond Political Philosophy

Maurizio Ferrera – Università degli Studi di Milano

Roberto Mordacci – Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele

Francesco Viola – Università degli Studi di Palermo

Chair: Alessandra Facchi – Università degli Studi di Milano

Il convegno conclude il ciclo di iniziative dal titolo “Unpacking Rawls” promosso nell’anno accademico 2011-2012 dal Reading Group in Political Philosophy dell’Università degli Studi di Milano in collaborazione con il Laboratorio di Politica Comparata e Filosofia Pubblica del Centro Einaudi in occasione del quarantesimo anniversario dalla pubblicazione di A Theory of Justice e del decimo anniversario dalla morte di John Rawls.

Per ulteriori informazioni: http://www.centroeinaudi.it/eventi/details/293-unpacking-rawls.html

(Valencia (Spain)) Alternative beliefs and Actions

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:43:26 +0100

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ALTERNATIVES, BELIEF AND ACTION
University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain. November 15th-16th, 2012
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Organized by Carlos Moya and Sergi Rosell, under the auspices of the
Research Project â€œAlternatives, Belief and Actionâ€ (FFI2009-09686),
funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and
PHRÃ“NESIS - Analytic Philosophy Group.

Speakers:

Maria Alvarez (King's College London), Choice and Compulsion
Andrei Buckareff (Marist College) Eternalists cannot be Human compatibilists
Christopher Hookway (University of Sheffield), tba
Neil Levy (University of Oxford), Consciousness and Moral Responsibility
Michael McKenna (University of Arizona), tba
Constantine Sandis (Oxford Brookes University), Real Reasons and
Confabulation
George Sher (Rice University), Responsibility, Conversation, Communication
Helen Steward (University of Leeds), tba

There will be a respondent for each talk, followed by a general discussion.

The final programme will be announced shortly.

The International Symposium on Alternatives, Belief, and Action emerges
from a research project with the same title, currently run by
philosophers who belong to the University of Valencia but also by some
who work at several universities in the UK and Belgium. In the meeting,
the three general topics of alternatives, belief, and action will be
addressed, either by themselves or by means of exploring their
connections. This is the second Valencia Symposium, after the one
organized in 2008 under the heading of International Symposium on
Belief, Responsibility, and Action.

Anyone is welcome to attend the conference.

For more details visit the conference page:
http://valenciasymposium.weebly.com/

Conference Venue: Facultat de Filosofia i CiÃ¨ncies de l'EducaciÃ³,
Universitat de ValÃ¨ncia. Room: SalÃ³ de Graus. Address: Av. Blasco
IbÃ¡Ã±ez, 30, Valencia, 46010.

(Milano (Italy)) Responsibility and the Criminal Law

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:40:13 +0100

9 october, 15.30
John Stanton-Ife (King's College, London - The Law Commission) Mental Disorder and Sexual Consent: Williams and After
Discussant: Filippo Santoni de Sio (Delft University of Technology)
10 october, 10.00
Sir Anthony Kenny (The University of Oxford) Intention in Homicide: Italian and English Law Compared
Discussant: Dennis Patterson (The European University, Florence)
Venue: Dipartimento Cesare Beccaria, sezione di Filosofia e Sociologia del diritto, via Festa del perdono 7, Milano
For information contact: Filippo Santoni de Sio
f.santonidesio@tudelft.nl

(Salzburg (Austria)) Consciousness and Intentionality. Brentano's Heritage in Philosophy of Mind

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:58:56 +0100

(Bari (Italy)) Alan Mathison Turing: l’indecidibilità della vita

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:57:11 +0100

Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca
Seminario di Storia della Scienza

Alan Mathison Turing: l’indecidibilità della vita
CONVEGNO DI STUDI
Venerdì 5 ottobre 2012
Salone degli Affreschi, Palazzo Ateneo

*Programma*
*
*
Ore 9.00 - REGISTRAZIONE

Ore 9.15 – Saluti delle autorità e apertura dei lavori
Corrado PETROCELLI, Magnifico Rettore dell’Università di Bari Aldo Moro
Augusto GARUCCIO, Coordinatore dell’indirizzo di Dottorato in Storia della
Scienza
Mauro DI GIANDOMENICO, già Direttore del Seminario di Storia della Scienza
Pasquale GUARAGNELLA, Direttore del Seminario di Storia della Scienza

Ore 10.00 - Gabriele LOLLI, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
“Secondo solo a Newton nel Pantheon di Cambridge…”

Ore 11.00 – Coffee break

Ore 11.30 – Luigi BORZACCHINI, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di
Bari
La storia naturale dei segni

Ore 12.15 – Giuseppe MASTRONARDI, Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed
Elettronica, Politecnico di Bari
Storia di una complessità – Evoluzione delle architetture di calcolo

Pausa pranzo

Ore 15.00 – Giovanni PANI, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Bari
Conversazione in veranda. Il ponte d’oro

Ore 15.30 –Anna Maria FANELLI, Direttore del Dipartimento di Informatica,
Università di Bari
L’intelligenza delle macchine

Ore 16.00 – Carla PETROCELLI, Seminario di Storia della Scienza, Università
di Bari
Le macchine che hanno cambiato il mondo

Ore 16.30 – Francesco DE CEGLIA, Seminario di Storia della Scienza,
Università di Bari
La “grave indecenza” di Alan
Conclusioni a cura del prof. Gabriele LOLLI

A seguire lo spettacolo
Alan Turing – L’attributo dell’intelligenza
reading teatrale a cura della Compagnia “L’aquila Signorina” di Bologna, di
e con Gabriele Argazzi

*Per maggiori info:*

- segreteria organizzativa: Chiara Porcelluzzi c.porcelluzzi@gmail.com
- sito: ssscienza.uniba.it <http://www.ssscienza.uniba.it/cms4/>

(Edinburgh (UK)) Models and Explanations in Science and in the Cognitive Sciences

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:52:43 +0100

Models and Explanations in Science and in the Cognitive Sciences

University of Edinburgh, October 24th 2012

We invite you to participate in a whole day reception workshop for Dr.
Michela Massimi, new appointment at the Philosophy Department of the
University of Edinburgh.

The workshop will take place on the 24th of October 2012 in the Dugald
Stewart Building of the University (rooms 3.10 and 1.17).

The workshop will address different areas of intersection between
Philosophy of Science, as a general discipline, and Philosophy of
Cognitive Science. The aim is to explore possible paths of reciprocal
enrichment between these two philosophical fields, with special emphasis
on the different kinds of models and explanations available in science
in general and in the cognitive sciences in particular.

Invited speakers (12.00–17.30PM, DSB-Room 1.17)

Dr. Mark Sprevak - Is the extended mind hypothesis nonsensical?

Dr. Richard Shillcock - Universals in cognitive models

Prof. Michael Wheeler - What Matters: Embodied Explanation in Cognitive
Science

Dr. Michela Massimi - TBA

Morning session with postgraduate presentations (9–11AM, DSB-Room
3.10)

Robert O'Shaughnessy - If you can't make one, you don't know
how it works

Mario Villalobos - The black box, the observer and the miraculous
machine

Francesca Rossi - Folk Psychology and Explanatory Goodness

(Barcelona (Spain)) PETAF Space and Time Workshop

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:51:06 +0100

(Barcelona (Spain)) Empirical Data and Philosophical Theorizing

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:48:47 +0100

Workshop: Empirical Data and Philosophical Theorizing (EDPT)
Barcelona, 6 - 7 October 2012
SPEAKERS
Daniel Cohnitz (U. Tartu) Michael Devitt (CUNY) Justyna Grudzin?ska (U. Warsaw) Maria Jose? Fra?polli (U. Granada) Nathaniel Hansen (Jean Nicod/U. of Reading) Alan Moore (UC Riverside and EHU, Donosti) Jennifer Nagel (U. Toronto) Angel Pinillos (Arizona State U.) Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside) Neftali? Villanueva (U. Granada)
V e n u e Reside?ncia d'Investigadors, C/ Hospital, 64, Barcelona For more information please contact logos.barcelona@gmail.com
There are no registration fees but if you are attending, please send a message to logos.barcelona@gmail.com. There will be a conference dinner on Sunday October 7th. Approximate cost 35€. If you wish to attend, please indicate in your message whether you prefer a vegetarian or a regular menu.

(Barcelona (Spain)) Barcelona Workshop: Explanation, Models and Simulation in Social and ...

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:47:35 +0100

BARCELONA WORKSHOP
EXPLANATION, MODELS AND SIMULATION IN SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES 5 - 6 October 2012, Barcelona
Program
Friday October 5th
Venue: Room 412, Faculty of Philosophy, C/ Montalegre 6, 4th floor
9,15 - 9,30
9,30 - 11,00
11,00 - 11,30
11,30 - 13,00
13,00 - 15,00
15,00 - 16,30
16,30 - 17,00
17,00 - 18,30
Welcome
Stephan Hartmann (Munich U.): "Modeling the Emergence of Norms"
Break
Seamus Bradley (LSE): "Are reduced complexity models only useful because humans are stupid?"
Lunch
Charles Rathkopf (U. of Virginia) "Network science and topological explanation"
Break
Roman Frigg (LSE): "“Laplace’s Demon and the Adventures of his Apprentice"
Saturday October 6th
Venue: Sala de Reunions, Reside?ncia de Investigadors, C/ Hospital 64
9,30 - 11,00
11,00 - 11,30
11,30 - 13,00
13,00 - 15,00
15,00 - 16,30
16,30 - 17,00
17,00 - 18,30
18,45
David Pineda (U. of Girona): "The explanation of behavior by emotion: some philosophical issues"
Break
Jose? Di?ez (U. of Barcelona): "Unified Adaptive Explanations: Against Fodor against Darwin"
Lunch
Denis Bonnay & Mikae?l Cozic (U. Paris-Est): "Trust and Bayes"
Break
Paul Humphreys (U. of Virginia) "The Use of Stylized Facts in Social Models"
Closure

(Barcelona (Spain)) Departing from Sainsbury

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:45:35 +0100

(Miami, FL (USA)) 10th Annual University of Miami Graduate Student Conference in Epistemology

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:42:36 +0100

10th Annual University of Miami Graduate Student Conference in Epistemology

Date: January 10th-12th 2013
Place: Miami, Florida

Keynote Address: Alvin Goldman, Epistemic Relativism Revisited

Submission Deadline: November 9th 2012

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Miami invites submissions
for its annual graduate student conference in epistemology. We are
especially interested this year in papers at the intersection of epistemic
relativism and disagreement, though papers dealing with epistemic relativism
broadly construed are also welcomed. We also whole-heartedly welcome
submissions from graduate students in any area of epistemology if you
believe you can make a positive contribution to the conference. Please note
that the Department will provide lodging and meals for accepted speakers.

Submission Guidelines:

1.    Papers should be no more than 3000 words, or 30 minutes reading time.

2.    Papers should be prepared for blind review (no identifying information),
and accompanied by a title page including:
a)    Author’s name
b)    Academic status and affiliation
c)    Contact information (e-mail address preferably)
d)    150 word abstract

3.    Send electronic copies in .doc or .pdf format to
epistemology.um@gmail.com or send two paper copies to: Micah Dugas, UM
Philosophy Department, PO Box 248054, Coral Gables, FL 33124-4670, USA

For more information, email epistemology.um@gmail.com for information on
previous conferences, visit http://www.miami.edu/phi/gradconference/

(Lisbon (Portugal)) Rousseau and the Sciences

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:40:18 +0100

(Cincinnati, OH (USA)) Socially Engaged Philosophy of Science

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:52:17 +0100

(Konstanz (Germany)) Logical and Philosophical Aspects of Real Possibility

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:43:04 +0100

(Cambridge (UK)) Sixth Annual Cambridge Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Mathematics ...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:37:49 +0100

Sixth Annual Cambridge Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic: 19th - 20th January 2013.

Keynote speakers: Vann McGee and Crispin Wright

CALL FOR PAPERS:

We invite papers from graduate students, or those who have recently completed their PhD, on any topic in the Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic, broadly construed. Papers will have respondents, and will be followed by open discussion.

Papers should be no longer than 4,000 words, and suitable for a 40 minute presentation. They should also be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 150 words. The paper should be anonymised and suitable for blind refereeing. Please include a separate detachable cover sheet including name, title, institution, and contact details. Please note that we cannot accept more than one submission per student.

The deadline for receipt of submissions is 17h00 on the 16th November 2012. We will notify authors of the decision regarding their papers by the 10th of December. We will cover the accommodation, conference fee and conference dinner of successful applicants. Respondents will be selected from amongst the authors who submit papers and members of the Cambridge University Faculty of Philosophy and graduate students.

Submissions are preferred in .doc, .rtf or .pdf format. They should be e-mailed to cam.phil.grad.conf@googlemail.com.

(Lodz (Poland)) Philosophy of Language and Linguistics (PhiLang2013)

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:36:23 +0100

Third International Conference on Philosophy of Language
and Linguistics (PhiLang2013)
University of Lodz (Poland), 9-11 May 2013

First Circular and Call for
Papers

The
Department of English and General Linguistics at University of Lodz announces
the Third International Conference on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics (PhiLang2013).

The
principal aim of our Conference is to bring together philosophers, logicians and
linguists; we would like the papers to address the following issues (the list is
not exhaustive):

•
Philosophy of language and linguistics: mutual
inspirations
•
Philosophy of language, linguistics and literary
theory
•
Philosophical background of semantics and
pragmatics
•
Polish contribution to the development of the philosophy of
language

We also
plan a special session on Philosophy of
Language: The Legacy of Frege, Russell, and
Wittgenstein.

The
following scholars have accepted our invitation to address the conference as
plenary speakers:

Kasia Jaszczolt and Chi-Hé
Elder(University
of Cambridge)
Conditional utterances, conditional thoughts, and the
limits of contextualism

Emma Borg(University of
Reading)
Semantics and
context-sensitivity

John Collins(University of East
Anglia)
What is
a variable such that a (natural) language may realise
one?

Chris Fox(University of
Essex)
The
meaning of formal semantics

Gary Kemp(University of
Glasgow)
Quine
and Wittgenstein as regards linguistics as a
science

Paul Livingston(University of New
Mexico)
The
Sense of Finitude and the Finitude of Sense

Mieszko Ta?asiewicz(University of
Warsaw)
Categorial grammar and the foundations of the philosophy
of language

Abstracts of papers, in MS Word format, of max. 300 words
(followed by 5-7 key terms), should be forwarded by e-mail to: philang2013@uni.lodz.pl

Deadline for submission is 31 December 2012. Presentations should
last maximum 30 minutes (including discussion and questions). Notification of
acceptance will be sent by 1 March
2013.

A
volume of selected conference proceedings will be published with an
international publisher; we also
plan a special volume on The Legacy of Frege, Russell, and
Wittgenstein.

The
conference fee is 175 EUR (125 for
doctoral students); 350 PLN (175 for
doctoral students) for participants from Poland. It covers the cost of
participation, conference materials and conference
dinner.

Accommodation will be provided at the University
Conference Center, Lodz, Kopcinskiego 16/18 (www.csk.uni.lodz.pl). Single and
double rooms are available. The cost of a single room per night is 140 PLN,
double 210 PLN, breakfast is included in the price.

Further
details will be provided in the second circular in November
2012.

Organizing committee: Prof. dr Piotr Stalmaszczyk, Dr
Wiktor Pskit, Mr Ryszard Rasi?ski, Department of English and General
Linguistics, University of Lodz, http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/linguistics/ ?

(Bertinoro (Italy)) New Directions in the Philosophy of Science

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:33:51 +0100

ESF Research Networking Programme - The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective

International conference "New Directions in the Philosophy of Science", Bertinoro (Bologna), October 17-20, 2012.

The Bertinoro Conference will be the second plenary event of the Research Networking Programme “The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective (PSE)” (2008-2013). It will be articulated in five main sessions, plus parallel sessions hosting junior scholars that will explore new perspectives for future developments in the philosophy of science and in a number of scientific disciplines, hence encouraging an interdisciplinary approach. In detail, the five main sessions will focus on the following topics: i) new directions for the use of formal methods in philosophy of science; ii) scientific pluralism; iii) new approaches in the social concern on science: social constructivism and realism on the cultural and social sciences; iv) recent developments and new directions in the philosophy of physics; v) contemporary relevance of neglected approaches.

For details please contact: beatrice.collina4@unibo.it<mailto:beatrice.collina4@unibo.it>

(Lund (Sweden)) 5th Copenhagen Lund Workshop on Social Epistemology

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:29:23 +0100

(Athens (Greece)) 23rd International Conference of Philosophy

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:26:07 +0100

(Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)) Universal logic (Unilog)

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:23:51 +0100

(Austin, TX (USA)) Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2013

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:16:25 +0100

Call for Philosophy Papers

The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology announces a call for papers for its One Hundred and Fifth Annual Meeting, to be held February 28 â€“ March 2, 2013 in Austin, TX. SSPP meetings feature concurrent programs in Philosophy and Psychology, as well as plenary sessions jointly sponsored by the Philosophy and Psychology Program Committees. The deadline for all submissions is *October 15, 2012*

Speakers include: Patricia Smith Churchland, Austen Clark, Fred Dretske, and Michael Tye.

The Philosophy Program Committee encourages the submission of papers and symposium proposals. Their selection will be based on quality and relevance to Philosophy, Psychology, and other sciences of the mind. The aim of the committee is to present a program as balanced as the quality of submissions in each area permits.

*Submissions exceeding 3,000 words will not be considered* Submissions should include a word count and an abstract of no more than 150 words. Self-reference should be deleted to permit blind reviewing. All papers submitted and presented should employ gender-neutral language. All submissions must be made using our online submission system at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sspp2013

Under the Keywords section, in addition to descriptions of the submission, please include any of the following if they are applicable: To volunteer to be a session chair: â€˜Chair.â€™ To comment on a paper: â€˜Comment.â€™ To be considered for a Graduate Student Travel Award: â€˜GSTA.â€™ To be considered for the Griffith Prize: â€˜Griffith.â€™ For details and eligibility see: http://www.southernsociety.org/griffithaward.htm

Please direct Philosophy Program related questions to the Program Chair, Rik Hine at: rikhine@gmail.com

(Marseille (France)) Kurt Gödel philosophe : de la logique à la cosmologie

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:11:21 +0100

Programma

Jeudi 27 Septembre 2012
9h30-9h45 Ouverture de la journée
9h45-11h00 Gabriella CROCCO Kurt Gödel philosophe : de la logique à la cosmologie
11h15-12h30 Göran SUNDHOLM Gödel, Proofs, and the Meaning of the Constructive Logical Constants
14h30-15h45 Eva-Maria ENGELEN Gödel's Knowledge-Argument
16h00-17h15 Paola CANTU The Legacy of Leibniz’s characteristica in Grassmann, Peano and Gödel

Vendredi 28 Septembre 2012
9h30-10h45 Eric AUDUREAU Gödel et Einstein et Newton
11h00-12h15 Amélie MERTENS Subjectivité et objectivité des concepts
14h30-15h45 Gabriella CROCCO Logic, mathematics and time

Organisation de la journée : Paola CANTU (Université Aix-Marseille, CNRS)
Renseignements : paola.cantu@univ-amu.fr

(London (UK)) Philosophy without Intuitions

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:08:40 +0100

( Groningen (The Netherlands)) Graduate Conference in Theoretical Philosophy

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:06:43 +0100

(Graz (Austria)) Workshop on Perception and Knowledge

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:04:26 +0100

Workshop: Perception and Knowledge
(4th International Workshop of the Workshop-Series "Mind Knowledge!")
Date:               October 11-12,2012
Venue:           Department of Philosophy, University of Graz, Heinrichstraße 26/5, UR. 09.51
Organizers:   Martina Fürst and Guido Melchior

Speakers:

Marian DAVID(Graz)
Martina FÜRST(Graz)
Keith LEHRER (Arizona)
Brian MCLAUGHLIN(Rutgers)
Guido MELCHIOR (Graz/Rutgers)
Nenad MISCEVIC(Budapest/Maribor)
Susanna SCHELLENBERG (Rutgers)
Eva SCHMIDT (Saarland)
Maja SPENER(Antwerpen/Oxford)
Leopold STUBENBERG(Notre Dame)

Perception and Knowledge is the fourth event of the workshop series Mind Knowledge!
These workshops are held annually at the philosophy department at the University of Graz, Austria and are devoted to topics at the interface of epistemology and the philosophy of mind.

Attendance is free and everybody is welcome!

For further information please contact:
martina.fuerst@uni-graz.at
guido.melchior@uni-graz.at

(Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)) 4th World Congress and School on Universal Logic

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:15:03 +0100

(Friburg (Switzerland)) Self-consciousness and kinds of self workshops

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:51:53 +0100

(Friburg (Switzerland)) Self-consciousness and kinds of self workshops

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:50:04 +0100

(Fribourg (Switzerland)) Self-consciousness and kinds of self workshps

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:48:41 +0100

Second Parma Workshop on Semantics and Pragmatics

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:49:55 +0100

SECOND PARMA WORKSHOP ON SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS

========================================================

September 10, 2012

Dipartimento A.L.E.F.

Università degli studi di Parma

Plesso via D'Azeglio, Aula H

________________________________________________________

10.00 am Paolo LEONARDI (Università di Bologna)

Some Remarks on Meaning and Context

11.20 am Coffee break

11.40 am Dean PETTIT (UNC-Chapel Hill)

Goodness in Context

1.00 pm Lunch

2.30 pm Robin JESHION (University of Southern California)

Proper Names, Proper Nouns

3.50 pm Coffee break

4.10 pm Michael DEVITT (CUNY)

Should There Still Be a Problem About the Meaning of Names?

5.30 pm Marco SANTAMBROGIO (Università degli Studi di Parma)

Paderewski’s Two Names

The attendance is free

For further inquiries please contact: Andrea Bianchi (an.bianchi@libero.it)

(Helsinki (Finland)) IV Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA)

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:33:56 +0100

(Naples (Italy)) Third International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:06:38 +0100

(Oxford (UK)) Impacts and Risks of Artificial General Intelligence

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:04:51 +0100

(Notre Dame, IN (USA)) 1st Workshop of the Philosophy of Mathematics Association

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:01:39 +0100

The workshop will be held Friday, October 26th on the Notre Dame campus.
Invited speakers and their themes are:

Steve Awodey (Carnegie Mellon U): "Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent
Foundations"

Danielle Macbeth: "The Puzzle of Logic in Relation to Mathematics"

Jeremy Heis (U of California-Irvine): "Why did geometers stop using
diagrams?"

Mrs. Harriet Baldwin (baldwin.1@nd.edu) will be the workshop manager.
Please contact her with any questions you may have concerning rooms, meals,
etc.. She has booked a block of rooms for the MWPMW 13 in conjunction with
which the PMA workshop will be meeting. Since there are other conferences
going on the same weekend, demand for rooms may be high and it would thus
be a good idea to reserve a room with Harriet as soon as possible.

Please share this announcement with others you think might be interested.

(Konstanz (Germany)) Formal Methods in Argument Reconstruction

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:59:39 +0100

(Leeds (UK)) Leeds Workshop on philosophy of art/philosophy of science

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:10:16 +0100

Workshop: "What Can the Philosophy of Science do for the Philosophy of Art (and vice versa)?”

School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science,
University of Leeds

Friday October 19th

Venue: St. George Room, University House

10.45-11.00 Welcome

11.00-12.00 "Representation, Ontology and Heuristics: Regulating Trade Between the Philosophy of Art and Philosophy of Science” Steven French (Leeds)

12.00-13.00 "Probing Musicology with HPS" Dean Rickles (Sydney)

13.00-14.00 lunch

14.00-15.00 "Uncertainty in Art and Science" George Darby (Kent)

15.00-15.30 break

15.30-16.30 "Representing and Picturing: Approaches in Science and in Art" Otávio Bueno (Miami)

16.30-17.00 roundtable discussion

Registration is free but please indicate whether you will be attending so we can keep track of numbers.

(Lunch will not be provided; however the venue is next door to the University Refectory)

The aim of the workshop is to promote discussion of the inter-relationship between the philosophies of art and of science with a view to establishing an international network of those interested in such issues.

All welcome!

Enquiries to: s.r.d.french@leeds.ac.uk

Steven French
Professor of Philosophy of Science
School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
UK

(Dublin (Ireland)) Aporo one day conference on 'Perception and Action'

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:23:11 +0100

Apologies for cross posting.

Aporo Conference Announcement

One day conference on ‘Perception and Action.’

August 27th 2012, 10am-5pm, Newman House, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Programme:

10.00-11.00 Robert Foley (UCD): ‘The Two Pathways Hypothesis and Experience Based Control.’
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break.
11.30-12.30 Lilian O’Brien (UCC): ‘Intention and Recrimination.’
12.30- 1.30 Lunch
1.30- 2.30 Jim O’Shea (UCD): ‘Perception, Inference, and the Given.’
2.30- 3.30 Fred Cummins (UCD): ‘Skilled Movement and Synchronization.’
3.30-4.00 Coffee Break

4.00-5.00 Chris Mole (UBC): ‘Mental States and Temporal Orientation.’

There will be a dinner after the conference. If you would like to attend, please contact me so that I can book accordingly.

For further information please contact me at robert_t_foley@yahoo.co.uk

All welcome.

http://www.aporo.org/

(Cambridge (UK)) Logical Form

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:20:52 +0100

(Tampere (Finland)) Judgement and Justification

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:19:12 +0100

Judgement and Justification
Conference
Philosophy
School of Social Sciences and Humanities
University of Tampere, Finland
September 25-26

_Monday 24.9. _
Paavo Koli Lecture Theatre, Pinni A2100
9:45 Opening
   Leila Haaparanta
10:00 Assertion and Proof
   Maria van der Schaar (Leiden)
11:30 Break
11:45 Justification and Truth Conditions in the Concept of Knowledge
   Dale Jacquette (Bern)
12:30 On Judgement and Commitment
   Tuomo Aho (Helsinki)
13:15 lunch
14:30 Justification, Responsibility and Doxastic agency
   Conor McHugh (Southampton)
15:15 coffee

_2 Parallel Sessions_

I Paavo Koli
16:00 Formal and Cognitive Foundations of Probabilistic Justification
   Niki Pfeifer (LMU Munich)
16:45 Justifications and Wrong Judgements
   Giuseppe Primiero (Ghent)

II Pinni A3111
16:00 No Rest for the Realist - Why Dummett's Challenge is still a Threat
   Johan Gersel (Copenhagen)
16:45 Judgement and Justification: a Phenomenological Point of View
   Mirja Hartimo (Helsinki)

17:30 Welcoming Reception (Pinni B4132)

_Tuesday 25.9. _
Paavo Koli Lecture Theatre, Pinni A2100
10:00 Assent, Judgement and Belief
   Katalin Farkas (CEU)
11:30 Break
11:45 Reflective Equilibrium and Justification
   William Knorpp (James Madison University)
12:30 Intuitionism about Epistemic Judgements
   Rachael Boch (Brigham Young University)
13:15 Lunch
14:30 Conceiving and Justifying: What is the Connection, if any?
   Leila Haaparanta (Tampere)
15:15 Coffee

_2 Parallel Sessions_

I Paavo Koli
16:00 Believing, Judging and Supposing
   Benoit Gaultier (Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris)
16:45 Easy Knowledge and the Scope of the Epistemic Theories of
Justification
   Joose Järvenkylä (Tampere)

II Pinni A3111
16:00 Justifying Modal Beliefs and the Analogy to Perception
   Margot Strohminger (St. Andrews)
16:45-17:30 Coordination and Primary Intension
   John Hawthorne and Juhani Yli-Vakkuri (Oxford)

19:00 Conference dinner (TBA)

_Wednesday 26.9. _
Paavo Koli Lecture Theatre, Pinni A2100
10:00 Disagreeing Judgements: Ethics and Elsewhere
   Folke Tersman (Uppsala)
11:30 Break
11:45 Moral Disagreement and Metaethical Variability
   Francesco Orsi (Tartu)
12:30 Moral Knowledge by Testimony
   Amber Riaz (University of Management Sciences, Lahore)
13:15 Lunch
14:30 Moral Judgement and Moral Reality: a Non-Orthodox Humean Approach
to Justification
   Dejan Simkovic (Sydney)
15:15 Coffee

_2 Parallel Sessions_

I Paavo Koli
16:00 The Possibility of Assertion
   Alfredo Di Giorgio (Bari) & Daniele Chiffi (Padova)
16:45 G.E. Moore and the Nature of Judgement
   Alma Korko (Tampere)

II Pinni A3111
16:00 Wittgenstein on Music and Rules
   Hanne Appelqvist (Helsinki)

17:30 Ending

Information:
jani.hakkarainen[at]uta.fi

Organising Committee:
Professor Leila Haaparanta
Docent Mirja Hartimo
Dr Jani Hakkarainen
Dr Antti Keskinen
Dr Heikki J. Koskinen

The conference is organised and financed by the Academy of Finland project
Judgement and Human Rationality
(http://www.uta.fi/yky/judgement/index.html).

Description:

At least since Kant, the nature of judgment has been one of the central
issues in philosophy. According to one view that derives from Frege’s
philosophy, judgments are acts in which a propositional content, a
thought, is presented as true. Assertions, in turn, can be considered as
judgments made public by means of language. By making a judgment, you
present yourself as entitled to this act, which means that you have a
justification for your judgment. Certain types of contents for
judgments, for example ones concerning moral value or taste, raise
special questions about the possibility and the nature of justification.
More generally, philosophers have addressed issues concerning the
sources and the legitimate forms of justification. Such inquiry need not
be only descriptive; in fact, it can result in revisionism about
justificatory practices, as witnessed for example in Dummett’s philosophy.

The aim of this international conference is to bring together
researchers from different fields and orientations in philosophy to
discuss the nature of judgments and their justifications from a broadly
systematic (not purely historical) point of view.

(Umhlali (South Africa)) Annual South African Philosophy of Science Colloquium 2013

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:17:24 +0100

ANNUAL SOUTH AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
ORGANISED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA
13 JANUARY 2013

Papers are invited for a Philosophy of Science Colloquium on the day before the PSSA (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa) 2013 conference (14-16 January 2013) kicks off.

Please note:

Papers can cover any theme in general philosophy of science

There will be 30-40 minute slots, depending on the number of papers selected

The venue will be the Salt Rock Hotel, near Umhlali on the Kwa-Zulu Natal North Coast, SA
(Note that the venue is the same venue for PSSA 2013, which starts on the next day.)

Closing date for abstracts - 15 October 2012. Please send abstracts (1500 words) to Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem (emma.ruttkamp-bloem@up.ac.za) to reach her by 15 October 2012.

(Umhlali (South Africa)) Annual South African Philosophy of Science Colloquium 2013

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:16:21 +0100

(Geneva (Switzerland)) Nominalism: A Reassessment

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:06:53 +0100

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT “NOMINALISM: A REASSESSMENT”

eidos, the Center in Metaphysics of the University of Geneva, and CUSO (Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale) are pleased to announce the conference “Nominalism: A Reassessment”.

Dates: September 17-19, 2012
Venue: University of Geneva, Switzerland

Nominalism about properties is a traditional view according to
which all
existing entities are particulars. Specifically, nominalism
rejects universals
or properties in general. The conference aims to address issues
in the history
of nominalism, the problems and objections faced by different
versions of
nominalism, whether historical or contemporary, the relations
between different
varieties of nominalism, and any other philosophical issues
about nominalism.

Programme:

Monday, 17/09
- 14.00-15.15 Paolo Crivelli (University of Geneva), "Aristotle's definitions of universals and individuals in De Interpretatione 7”
- 15.30-16.45 John Marenbon (University of Cambridge), "Abelard and Twelfth-century nominalism"
- 17.00-18.15 Claude Panaccio (UQAM), "Ockham's ontology"

Tuesday, 18/09
- 9.30-10.45 Jani Hakkarainen (University of Tampere), "Hume as a trope nominalist"
- 11.00-12.15 Markku Keinänen (University of Turku), "Towards a trope nominalist theory of natural kinds"
- 14.00-15.15 Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (Oxford University), "Resemblance nominalism, conjunctions, and truthmakers"
- 15.30-16.45 Alex Paseau (Oxford University), "Resemblance theories of properties"
- 17.00-18.15 Joseph Melia (Oxford University), TBA

Wednesday, 19/09
- 9.30-10.45 Fraser MacBride (University of Cambridge), "How involved do you want to be in a non-symmetric relationship?"
- 11.00-12.15 Philip Goff (University of Liverpool), "Consciousness and the foundations of metaphysics"

For further information, please contact ghislain.guigon@unige.chor visit the website at eidos.

Organising Committee:
- Ghislain Guigon (University of Geneva)
- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (Oxford University)

(Warwick (UK)) Warwick Graduate Conference in the Philosophy of Mind ?

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:04:57 +0100

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS: MINDGRAD 2012
Warwick Graduate Conference in the Philosophy of Mind ?
1st-2nd December 2012
University of Warwick (UK)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: ?
E.J. Lowe (Durham University)
Timothy Williamson (Oxford University)

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 1st September 2012

Papers are invited from graduate students working in any area within the philosophy of mind broadly construed, i.e. including related topics in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of psychology and cognitive science. Submissions should be suitable for presentation in 30 to 40 minutes (typically 3,000 to 4,500 words). Papers will be reviewed by members of the University of Warwick Department of Philosophy and those accepted will receive a response from a Faculty member or visiting academic plus general discussion at the conference.
Papers (not abstracts) must be prepared for blind review. The reviewing process will be managed through the EasyChair Conference System, and papers may be uploaded as PDF files through the following link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mg2012

Please Note:
We will provide accommodation for Graduate Speakers, and limited funds may be available to cover the travel expenses of those who would otherwise be unable to attend. Please email mind.grad@warwick.ac.uk for further details.

For more information, please RSVP to our Facebook event, follow @MindGrad on Twitter, or visit the conference?web site.

MindGrad 2012 is supported by:

- The Mind Association ?
- The Analysis Trust
- The Aristotelian Society
- Warwick Philosophy Department

(Syracuse, NY (USA)) W. P. Alston Memorial Lecture

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:57:30 +0100

The first annual William P. Alston Lecture will be delivered at Syracuse University on September 22, 2012 at 4 pm in 500 Hall of Languages, Syracuse University. Peter van Inwagen, the John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame University, will present "Russell's China Teapot,"a discussion of an epistemological challenge to theism.
Professor van Inwagen was William Alston's colleague at Syracuse University for many years.
Two earlier sessions will also contribute to this tribute to Bill and his work.
Glenn Hartz (Ohio State University - Columbus) will present "Three New Cartesian Circles," a paper he has co-authored with Patrick Lewtas (American University - Beirut). Andrew Cortens (Boise State University) will provide comments.
Dan Howard-Snyder (Western Washington University) will present "Propositional Faith," and Mark Webb (Texas Technical University) will comment.

Many individual contributions from people who knew Bill and his work, a grant from the Templeton Foundation, and support from Syracuse University all help to make this first lecture possible and assure the continuation of the lectures for at least one more year.

Tentative schedule:

All talks in 500 Hall of Languages

10:30 am - noon (coffee available at 10 am)
"Three New Cartesian Circles," Glenn Hartz (Ohio State University - Columbus) and Patrick Lewtas (American University - Beirut).
Comments: Andrew Cortens (Boise State University)

2 - 3:30
"Propositional Faith," Dan Howard-Snyder (Western Washington University).
Comments: Mark Webb (Texas Technical University)

3:30 light refreshments

4 pm
The First Annual William P. Alston Lecture
Peter van Inwagen: "Russell's China Teapot"

5:30 pm
Reception at the Goldstein Alumni and Faculty Center

(Trieste (Italy)) Scuola di Filosofia e Storia della Biologia e della Medicina

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:50:19 +0100

Laboratorio Interdisciplinare per le Scienze Naturali e Umanistiche – SISSA – Trieste

Società Italiana di Storia, Filosofia e Studi Sociali della Medicina e della Biologia

Società Italiana Tossicodipendenze

Città di Nettuno - Università Civica “Andrea Sacchi”

In collaborazione con

Res Viva – Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerche Epistemologiche e Storiche sulle Scienze del Vivente

Institut d'Histoire de la Médecine et de la Santé – Université de Genève

Istituto Italiano di Antropologia

con il patrocinio

Società Italiana di Logica e Filosofia della Scienza

Società Italiana di Storia della Scienza

Scuola di Filosofia e Storia della Biologia e della Medicina

20-22 settembre 2012

Nettuno – Fortezza Sangallo

Il corpo del piacere

Coordinamento scientifico

Stefano Canali, Bernardino Fantini, Alessandro Pagnini, Massimo Stanzione

I sessione - 20 settembre 2012 – ore 14,30

Fondamenti storici

Moderatore Antonello La Vergata

1. Al di qua del principio del piacere

(Marco Solinas, Università degli Studi di Firenze)

2. Darwin e il principio del piacere

(Barbara Continenza, Università di Roma Tor Vergata)

3. Il piacere estetico. Una prospettiva evoluzionistica.

(Lorenzo Bartalesi, Università degli Studi di Firenze)

4. Paolo Mantegazza e la storia naturale del piacere

(Federica Cianfriglia, Università di Roma Tre)

5. Il rapporto desiderio/piacere nella definizione della psichiatria moderna. Il caso delle condotte sessuali anomale

(Marica Setaro, Università degli Studi di Firenze)

Ore 18 discussione

II sessione - 21 settembre ore 9,30

Filosofie del piacere nelle scienze biomediche, del comportamento e nella pratica clinica

Moderatore Alessandro Pagnini

1. Piaceri, passioni e sentimenti: oltre i confini dell'approccio analitico

(Massimo Stanzione Università di Cassino)

2. La costruzione dello spazio emozionale: il piacere nelle teorie dimensionali degli affetti
(Bernardino Fantini, Université de Genève)

3. La nozione di piacere nel modello dei sistemi motivazionali: tra psicologia dinamica, biologia evoluzionistica ed economia comportamentale.

(Massimo Marraffa, Università degli studi Roma 3)

4. Il piacere del cibo. Filosofie del gusto

(Nicola Perullo, Università degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche, Pollenzo, Bra)

5. La terapia come ricompensa: una prospettiva neuroscientifica dell'interazione terapeuta-paziente
(Fabrizio Benedetti, Università di Torino)

Ore 13 discussione

III Sessione – 21 settembre ore 14,30

Il piacere, il cervello, i comportamenti

Moderatore Massimo Stanzione

1. Dalla Libido alla dopamina: Kandel rilegge l'edonologia freudiana

(Yamina Oudai Celso)

2. Il piacere: dalla neurofarmacologia alla neurobiologia (e ritorno)

(Gaetano Di Chiara, Università di Cagliari)

3. Il meccanismo del piacere (e dolore) e la spiegazione biologica del comportamento

(Carmela Morabito, Università di Roma Tor Vergata)

4. Il piacere dell’empatia e dei comportamenti prosociali: la prospettiva delle neuroscienze cognitive

(Giorgia Silani, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati - SISSA - Trieste)

5. Cure, adattamenti e ricerca della felicità possibile. Il sistema di ricompensa cerebrale e le tecnologie del piacere.

(Stefano Canali, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati - SISSA - Trieste)

ore 18 discussione

IV Sessione - 22 settembre ore 9,30

Piacere, appetiti e apprendimenti patologici: il caso delle dipendenze

A cura della Società Italiana Tossicodipendenze – evento ECM in corso di accreditamento (6 crediti formativi)

Moderatore Pietro Casella (Asl RM/E - UOC Dipendenze – SITD Lazio)

1. Il piacere e le dipendenze. Molecole, emozioni, neuroni e parole: dalla biologia alla psicoterapia
(Gianluigi Gessa, Università di Cagliari)

2. Il piacere e il corpo nel trattamento delle dipendenze: dagli approcci "cognitivi" alle tecniche "emotive".
(Mauro Cibin, Dipartimento per le Dipendenze Az. Ulss 13 del Veneto)

3. La colpa del piacere: l'esperienza della persona tossicodipendente e le dinamiche nel contesto clinico e riabilitativo
(Leopoldo Grosso, Centro Interdisciplinare per la Ricerca e la Formazione in Sessuologia)

4. Ulisse e le sirene. Riflessioni filosofiche su dipendenza, autonomia e ricerca del piacere
(Gianfranco Pellegrino, Università LUISS Guido Carli)

13,30 – 14,15 pausa pranzo

Discussione: ipotesi di applicazioni cliniche

Discussant: Giovanni Addolorato (Università Cattolica - Roma), Stefano Dall’Aera (Ser.T. Enna), Paolo Jarre (Ser.T. - ASL TO3)

Ore 16,30 Verifica apprendimento e chiusura lavori

La Scuola di filosofia e storia della biologia e della medicina

Creata nel 2000 dall'Università degli Studi di Cassino e dal Comune di Nettuno, la Scuola ha sede presso la cinquecentesca fortezza Sangallo di Nettuno ed è la prima nel suo genere in Italia. Nata dal lavoro che da diversi anni sta svolgendo il Gruppo d'interesse della Società Italiana di Logica e Filosofia della Scienza (SILFS) sulle Filosofie della Biologia, è stata riconosciuta e promossa dal Direttivo della Società con delibera del 29 aprile 2000. Alla sua seconda edizione, nel 2001, ha ricevuto il riconoscimento di Scuola di Alta Formazione dall'Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici.

Le attività della Scuola hanno carattere residenziale si rivolgono a laureati, borsisti, dottorandi e giovani ricercatori, già impegnati nei campi della filosofia e della storia della biologia e della medicina. La Scuola mette a disposizione per i più giovani e meritevoli borse di studio per la partecipazione a totale o parziale copertura delle spese di viaggio e alloggio.

Per partecipare:

Le domande di partecipazione indirizzate alla Segreteria della scuola dovranno essere corredate dai dati anagrafici, dall’indicazione di numeri di telefono e indirizzi e-mail dove essere contattati, da un curriculum vitae, da un elenco delle pubblicazioni e da una selezione di non più di tre pubblicazioni.

Sono previste borse di studio che copriranno le spese di alloggio e una cena sociale con tutti i borsisti e i docenti. Gli interessati dovranno precisare nella domanda la loro intenzione di concorrere per una borsa. Le borse sono in numero limitato e la graduatoria sarà compilata valutando i curricula e privilegiando studenti e dottorandi.

Le domande di partecipazione, unitamente al materiale allegato, possono essere consegnate anche via email entro il 7 settembre 2012 al seguente indirizzo: segreteria@sibiom.it

(Pavia (Italy)) Chomsky on Language and Limits of Understanding

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:47:13 +0100

Inaugurazione dell'anno accademico Scuola Superiore Universitaria IUSS di Pavia.   Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare.   15 Settembre 2012, ore 10,  Aula Magna, Palazzo del Broletto,  piazza della Vittoria 1, Pavia  Prolusione di Noam Chomsky Language and Limits of Understanding   Per l’occasione il Broletto sarà aperto alla cittadinanza e sarà possibile seguire la prolusione da schermi attivati per l’occasione negli spazi del Palazzo. L’accesso all’Aula Magna è consentito solo su invito. Per informazioni: http://www.iusspavia.it/inaugurazione inaugurazione@iusspavia.it    15 settembre 2012, ore 17,  Aula Magna Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia  Chomsky incontra gli studenti  L'incontro è dedicato esclusivamente agli studenti, e sarà possibile porre domande su temi di carattere linguistico a Noam Chomsky . L'accesso è libero (fino a raggiungimento della capienza massima della sala). Per informazioni: http://www.nets.iusspavia.it/about/chomsky.php nets@iusspavia.it

(València (Spain)) Third PERSP Metaphysics Workshop

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:45:04 +0100

PMW3 -- Third PERSP Metaphysics Workshop

València 27-28 September 2012.

Organized by Dan López de Sa (ICREA-UB) & Pablo Rychter (UV), sponsored by PERSP B1.

This is the third of a series of workshops on the topics of PERSP Workpackage on Issues in Metaphysics — truthmaking, indeterminacy, grounding, and the meta-metaphysical and logical aspects of the discussions on these notions.

Thursday 27

15:00-16:45: Kathrin Koslicki (Colorado) Unity Through Independence: A Theory of Fundamentality for Substances. Comments by Marta Campdelacreu (Barcelona)

16:45-17:15: Coffee

17:15-19:00: Stefano Caputo (Sassari) Why … because …? The ground of grounding. Comments by Stephan Torre (Barcelona)

Friday 28

09:30-11:15: Thomas Sattig (Tübingen) Derivative Metaphysical Indeterminacy. Comments by Aurélien Darbellay (Barcelona)

11:15-11:45: Coffee

11:45-13:30: Emma Tobin (UCL) Philosophical Problems of Classification and Identification in Biochemistry. Comments by John Horden (Barcelona)

13:30-15:00: Lunch

15:00-16:45: Alexander Skiles (Geneva) On What Consists In What. Comments by Tatjana von Solodkoff (Barcelona)

16:45-17:015: Coffee

17:15-19:00: Achille Varzi (Columbia) Counting and Countenancing. Comments by Jordi Valor (Valencia)

Conference Venue: Facultat de Filosofia i Ciències de l'Educació, Universitat de València. Room: Saló de Graus. Address: Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 30, Valencia, 46010.

Further info: www.ub.edu/persp, persp.management@gmail.com

(Geneva (Switzerland)) Perceptual Ephemera

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:43:42 +0100

(Gothenburg (Sweden)) Numbers and truth - the philosophy and mathematics of arithmetic and truth

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:38:05 +0100

(Aachen (Germany)) Operationalizing Epistemic Concepts

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:36:08 +0100

(Parma (Italy)) Perspectives on Recognition and Personhood

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:33:01 +0100

10th-11th September 2012

Università di Parma

Perspectives on Recognition and Personhood

Two-Day Workshop

Speakers:

Heikki Hikaeheimo (University of New South Wales)

Hegel's concept of recognition - what is it?

Arto Laitinen (University of Jyväskylä)

Recognition and Freedom

Carla Bagnoli (Università di Modena-Reggio)

Recognition-respect and agential authority

Matteo Bianchin (Università Milano-Bicocca)

Is there a phenomenology of intersubjectivity?
First persons and collective intentionality

Wolfgang Huemer (Università di Parma)

Persons Perceiving Persons

Italo Testa (Università di Parma)

Subjects and social objects. Between critical theory and social ontology

Time: Monday 10th: 10am – 6.30 pm

Tuesday 11th: 9am – 1 pm

Venue: Aula di Presidenza, Ex Facoltà di Lettere
e Filosofia, Università di Parma, Via D'Azeglio
85, Parma [<http://goo.gl/maps/j6btu>http://goo.gl/maps/j6btu]

There is no registration fee.

All enquiries to: <mailto:italo.testa@unipr.it>italo.testa@unipr.it

Supported by

PRIN programme 2009, "Ontology, Hermeneutics and
Politics", Parma Research Unit on "Individuation"

Australian Research Council project "The Social Ontology of Personhood“

(Toulouse (France)) 12th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:28:58 +0100

(Luminy (France)) MALOA Final Conference

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:19:52 +0100

(Münster (Germany)) MALOA Set Theory Research Workshop

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:17:57 +0100

(Oxford (UK)) Third MALOA Training Workshop in Oxford

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:15:51 +0100

(London (UK)) AISB Workshop on Sensorimotor Theories of Perception

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:11:39 +0100

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: AISB Workshop on Sensorimotor Theories of Perception, 26 Sep 2012, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

(DEADLINE: 12:09:2012)
Contact: ma901am@gold.ac.uk

Introduction
This workshop aims to provide an insight into the contemporary state of Sensorimotor Theories and
their place in modern Cognitive Science. Particular focus will be given to J.K. O'Regan and Nöe's
2001 paper "A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness", including how both authors'
work has since developed and diverged. An overarching aim will be to describe how Sensorimotor
accounts relate to Enactive accounts: whether they are synonymous, compatible, or even mutually
exclusive. We invite comparisons of the strengths and critiques of Sensorimotor accounts as
compared to more established, and more radical theories. We seek to clarify the scope of
Sensorimotor theories, the subjects over which they provide the greatest explanations

Example Topics of Interest
- How an Enactive approach compares to a Sensorimotor approach.
- The "hard" problems solved or introduced by assuming a Sensorimotor Stance.
- How various Sensorimotor theories compare with each other and competing theories.
- Whether a Sensorimotor approach commits one to a certain philosophy of mind.
- The most influential existing projects that assume a Sensorimotor stance.
- How Sensory Substitution experiments and Sensorimotor Theory may inform each others' development.
- How Sensorimotor accounts may inform developments in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science.
- How to explain sensorimotor "mastery", and the relation between "understanding", "skill" and "knowledge".
- The role or need for perceptual "content" and internal representations.
- The relation between perception and action; between "knowing how to act" and "knowing what would
happen if you did act".

Any other topics related to Sensorimotor Theory will also be welcomed.

Event
We intend to provide an early avenue for informal exposition of views on the historical and
contemporary context of Sensorimotor theories. We invite scholars and students to submit a
250-500 word abstract for oral presentation and subsequent round table discussion.

Registration
Registration is free to members of the AISB [aisb.org.uk] and otherwise equal to the cost of
membership which will be processed as a membership application unless explicitly requested.
AISB Membership costs are available at http://www.aisb.org.uk/about/join

Venue
Goldsmiths, University of London is located in the heart of London, under five minutes' walk
from New Cross and New Cross Gate train stations. These stations are both served by National Rail
trains and the London Overground Network. Trains run from Charing Cross, Waterloo East, Cannon
Street and London Bridge. Journey time is roughly 10-15 minutes.

Location: RHB 140, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, New Cross
Time: 26 September 2012, 10:00 - 18:00

Further travel information and directions can be found at
http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/trainlondonovergroundtube/

Submission
Deadline for submissions is 12th September, 2012 (two weeks prior to the event). Email abstracts
to Andrew Martin at ma901am@gold.ac.uk, they will be contemplated but not submitted to formal
peer review. Accepted speakers will be notified by 19th September, 2012 (one week prior to the
event).

(Wellington (New Zeeland)) AAP New Zealand Conference 2012

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:10:16 +0100

(Warsaw (Poland)) Interpreting for Relevance: Discourse and Translation

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:06:51 +0100

(London (UK)) Conference on the Metaphysics of Relations

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:59:06 +0100

(Lubbock, TX (USA)) 7th Annual Texas Tech Philosophy Graduate Student Conference: Mind & ...

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:29:19 +0100

The Texas Tech University Philosophy Graduate Student Association announces a call for papers for
its 7th annual graduate student conference, to be held April 26 - 27, 2013 in Lubbock, Texas. The
topics for this conference are mind and language.

The keynote speaker will be Fred Dretske, Senior Research Scholar in Philosophy at Duke University.

Submissions from current graduate students in any area of philosophy of mind and philosophy of
language are welcome, but those dealing with the cognitive aspects of mind and language are
particularly encouraged. Papers should be between 3,000 - 3,500 words in length, and should be
prepared for blind review. A 150-word abstract should precede the paper.

Please send submissions to Matthew Keeler (matthew.keeler@ttu.edu) by Wednesday January 5, 2013.

A small stipend will be awarded to presenters to help defer some of the cost of travel.

(Hejnice (Czech Republic)) LOGICA 2013

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:26:54 +0100

The Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, announces

LOGICA 2013

the 27th in the series of annual international symposia devoted to logic, to be held at Hejnice (in northern Bohemia, about 2.5 hours from Prague) 17 – 21 June 2013.

Invited speakers are Johan van Benthem, Michael Dunn, Volker Halbach and Michiel van Lambalgen.

The official language of the symposium is English. The first session of the symposium begins on the morning of June 18. The symposium closes at noon Friday June 21.

Contributions devoted to any of the wide range of logical problems are welcome except those focused on specialized technical applications. Particularly welcome are contributions that cover issues interesting both for ‘philosophically’ and for ‘mathematically’ oriented logicians.

Contributions to Logica symposia are published in The Logica Yearbook series (College Publications). Previous volumes include papers from Nuel Belnap, Johan van Benthem, Kosta Došen, Melvin Fitting, Bob Hale, Wilfrid Hodges, Jaakko Hintikka, David Lewis, Jeff Paris, Dag Prawitz, Graham Priest, Stephen Read, Greg Restall, Gabriel Sandu, Howard Sobel, Stewart Shapiro and many others.

The fee for the symposium is 430 EUR for participants and 300 EUR for accompanying persons. The fee covers full board and lodging at Hejnice Monastery during the symposium, the conference coach from Prague to Hejnice and back, and (for participants) a copy of the volume containing contributions to the symposium - The Logica Yearbook 2013.

If you are interested in presenting a paper at the symposium, please email us a two-page abstract prepared for blind reviewing in pdf format accompanied by a separate page with your name, contact address and affiliation by 14 February 2013. The subject line of email submissions should contain “Logica 2013” to assure that the mail will not be deleted as spam. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by the end of March.

The members of the Program Committee are: Theodora Achourioti, Petr Cintula, Kosta Došen, Marie Duží, Christian Fermüller, Gary Kemp, Vojt?ch Kolman, Peter Milne, Jaroslav Peregrin, Hans Rott, Gabriel Sandu, Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson, Sonja Smets.

Scholars from countries with underfunded academic institutions are invited to apply for a reduction of the conference fee. In exceptional cases the organizing committee may cover the entire fee. Those who wish to apply for the reduction should explicitly state so when submitting their abstract, which should be extended to four pages.

For up-to-date information as well as information about previous events in the series visit:

www.flu.cas.cz/logica

For information about the conference venue see

http://www.mcdo.cz/index.php?lang=eng .

All correspondence concerning the symposium should be directed to

logica@flu.cas.cz

or to:

Vit Puncochar & Vladimir Svoboda
Co-chairs of the Organizing Committee of Logica 2013
Institute of Philosophy
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Jilská 1, 120 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic
fax: +420-221283321

(Norwich (UK)) Mathematising Science: Limits and Perspectives

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:23:50 +0100

(Ramat-Gan (Israel)) Philosophy/Political Thought Conference in Israel

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:22:02 +0100

Philosophy/Political Thought conference in Israel

The Israeli Philosophy Association will hold its annual conference on
February 18 2013, at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan (the Tel Aviv area).

This year the conference allows submissions in ancient and modern political
thought. This may include papers dealing with literary texts that address
philosophical issues.

Submissions in philosophy proper should be sent by November 17, 2012 to:
Israel.philosophy@gmail.com.

Submissions in political thought should be sent to Dr. Gabriel Danzig:
danzigg@mail.biu.ac.il.

(Rome (Italy)) For the centenary of Alan Turing, founder of computer science

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:41:25 +0100

(Wismar (Germany)) Frege: Freunde und Feinde

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:29:30 +0100

(Rome (Italy)) 9° Convegno Nazionale di Scienze Cognitive: AISC2012

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:54:10 +0100

(Alghero (Italy)) Nanoethics: Do We Need A New Ethics For Nanotechnology?

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:50:45 +0100

7 August 2012
Workshop
Nanoethics: Do We Need A New Ethics For Nanotechnology?
Department of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning AsiloSella,RoomC “LeCorbusier” 2ndfloor
Lungomare Garibaldi, 32 Alghero
9.00 Tsjalling Swierstra (Universiteit Maastricht) We need an old ethics for nanotechnology; just not the current one
10.00 Arianna Ferrari (Karlsruher Institut fu?r Technologie) From nanoethics to an ethics on technological visions
11.00 Coffee Break 11.30 Ludovica Lorusso (Universita? di Sassari)
Is nanoscience a new science?
12.00 Fabio Bacchini (Universita? di Sassari) New skin for the old ceremony
12.30 Alexei Grinbaum (CEA-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette) Ethics of nanotechnology and narratives of novelty and responsibility
13.30 Lunch 15.30 Luca Malfatti (Universita? di Sassari)
Nanoperspectives: from the lab to everyday life
16.00 Brice Laurent (Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, Mines-ParisTech, CNRS, Paris) Europeanizing the ethics of nanotechnology, rethinking nanoethics
17.00 Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Universite? Paris Ouest) Towards an object-centred ethics of nano
18.00 Coffee Break 18.30 Round Table
Participants: Arnaldo Bibo Cecchini, Cristiana Figus, Gianfranco Greppi
19.50 End of the workshop info: bacchini@uniss.it

(Pamplona (Spain)) Theories of Action and Morality. Perspectives from Philosophy and Social Theory

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:39:17 +0100

(Düsseldorf (Germany)) Sensorimotor Representations and Concepts

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:37:35 +0100

Sensorimotor Representations and Concepts
A Two-day Workshop
Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf - Germany
October 19-20, 2012

Traditionally, cognitive scientists argued for a view of the mind in which
perception, cognition and action were seen as distinct (classical sandwich).
Recently, this view of the human mind has been questioned and a call for
renegotiation of the relations between input, central processing and output
systems of the mind has been put forth. In particular, proponents of
‘embodiment’ argue that the human body plays a crucial role in cognition,
while proponents of ‘grounded cognition’ argue that cognition is ultimately
analyzable into sensorimotor representations.
The focus of this two-day workshop will be on theoretical questions related
to the ‘grounding cognition thesis’ and the implications stemming from the
claim that sensorimotor representations play a crucial role in cognition. An
attempt will be made to address, amongst others, the following issues:
• Are sensorimotor representations, and therefore our abilities to perceive
and to move, necessary conditions for cognition?
• Are sensorimotor representations sufficient for cognition, or a further,
possibly amodal code is required?
• Does conceptual thought always have a sensorimotor counterpart? Do
sensorimotor representations play the role of a mere starting point for
cognition, after which the latter becomes independent?
• Do impairments in sensorimotor abilities entail impairments in cognitive
abilities? If so, does the reverse relation hold?
• Does cognition influence sensorimotor perception, (top-down effects on
perception)?

List of Contributors:
Wolfgang Prinz
Pierre Jacob
Corrado Sinigaglia
Dan Weisskopf
Nivedita Gangopadhyay
Jennifer Cook
Byron Kaldis
Gottfried Vosgerau
Alex Tillas

Organization
Prof.Dr. Gottfried Vosgerau, Dr. Alex Tillas, Tim Seuchter, Arne Weber (all
Düsseldorf)

Participation is free. Please register by email to tim.seuchter@hhu.de or
arne.weber@uni-duesseldorf.de

(Brussels (Belgium)) Psychological Concepts Conference

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:22:52 +0100

(Berlin (Germany)) Feyerabend 2012

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:14:24 +0100

(Birmingham (UK)) Workshop on Time & Modality

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:13:03 +0100

Birmingham Workshop on Time & Modality

Monday 10th September, ERI building, University of Birmingham

Speakers:

* Alexander Bird (Bristol)
* Cian Dorr (Oxford)
* Jessica Leech (Sheffield)
* Jonathan Tallant (Nottingham)

Registration is free. To register, or if you have any questions, please contact a.j.wilson@bham.ac.uk

(Rome (Italy)) Animals, Humans, Machines. The Whereabouts of Language

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:33:09 +0100

(Copenhagen (Denmark)) Disjunctivism in Action

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:31:38 +0100

(Edinburgh (UK)) 6th Mind Network Meeting

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:06:45 +0100

(Madrid (Spain)) Inferentialism

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:05:06 +0100

(Munich (Germany)) Systems biology of the brain - Philosophical aspects

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:03:19 +0100

Contact: patrick.loedige@campus.lmu.de

(Rome (Italy)) First European Conference on Pragmatism

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:01:06 +0100

First European Conference on Pragmatism

Programme Outline:
http://www.associazionepragma.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/First-European-Conference-on-Pragmatism.pdf

Organized by Nordic Pragmatist Network and Associazione Pragma

Roma, September 19-21.

Università Roma Tre

Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia

via Ostiense 234

Wednesday, 19 September

9.30-13.00

Pragmatism in the Context of Modern Philosophy

Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki)

Russell B. Goodman (University of New Mexico)

Chris Skowronski (University of Opole)

Emil Visnovsky (University of Bratislava)

Aula Verra, ground floor

Art, Experience, and Practices of Art

Mikhail Stepanov (St. Petersburg State University)

John Ryder (Khazar University)

Larry Hickman (Southern Illinois University)

Lyubov Bugaeva (St. Petersburg State University)

Sala Dipartimento Studi sul Mondo Antico, ground floor

Inquiries within the Logical Space of Reasons

Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University)

Maria Baghramian (University College Dublin)

Kenneth Westphal (University of East Anglia)

James O'Shea (University College Dublin)

Sala Professori, II floor

Is There a Way for Pragmatist Metaphysics?

Claudine Tiercelin (Collège de France)

Fernando Zalamea (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)

Giovanni Maddalena (Università del Molise)

Jaime Nubiola (Universidad de Navarra)

Sala Conferenze, ground floor

LUNCH

14.30-18.00

Call for Papers

Michael Festl (University of St. Gallen)

Antje Gimmler (Aalborg University)

Lenart Skof (University of Primorska/Università del Litorale)

Robert B. Talisse (Vanderbilt University)

Joseph Urbas (Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III)

Aula Verra, ground floor

Call for Papers

Dirk-Martin Grube (University of Utrecht)

Miklos Nyiro (University of Miskolc)

Kathleen Wallace (Hofstra University)

Olivier Sartenaer (Université catholique de Louvain)

David Zapero (Université Paris 1 )

Sala Professori, II floor

Nordic Call for Papers

Erkki Kilpinen (University of Helsinki)

Lauri Järvilehto (Aalto University)

Martin Thellefsen (Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark)

Heikki A. Kovalainen (University of Tampere)

Sala Conferenze, ground floor

Young European Pragmatists: Knowledge

Maria Luisi (Università di Roma Tre)

Roman Madzia (Brno University)

Gabriele Gava (Goethe Universitaet Frankfurt am Main)

Maria Regina Brioschi (Università di Milano)

Sala Dipartimento Studi sul Mondo Antico, ground floor

Young European Pragmatists: Conduct

Tullio Viola (Humboldt Universitat)

Sarin Marchetti (University College Dublin)

Emma Sutton (University College London)

Andrea Parravicini (Università di Milano)

Sala riunioni del Dipartimento di Filosofia, II floor

18.00-19.00

Joint session

Rosa M. Calcaterra (Università di Roma Tre)

Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki)

Aula Magna

Thursday, 20 September

9.30-13.00

Normativity, Civic Virtues, Recognition and Faiths

Roberto Frega (EHESS)

Carlos Mougán (Universidad de Cádiz)

Torjus Midgarten (University of Bergen)

Ramón del Castillo (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain)

Aula Verra, ground floor

Language, Signs, and Dialogue

Augusto Ponzio (Università di Bari)

Michele Marsonet (Università di Genova)

Susan Petrilli (Università di Bari)

Rossella Fabbrichesi (Università di Milano)

Sala Dipartimento Studi sul Mondo Antico, ground floor

Agency, Normativity, and Practices

David Hildebrand (University of Colorado Denver)

Massimo Dell'Utri (Università di Sassari)

Giovanni Tuzet (Università Bocconi)

Joseph Margolis (Temple University)

Sala Conferenze, ground floor

Art and Aesthetics

Roberta Dreon (Università di Venezia)

Krystyna Wilkoszewska

Heidi Salaverrìa

Wojciech Malecki (University of Wrozlaw)

Sala Professori, II floor

LUNCH

14.30-18.00

On Un/Certainty. Religion in a Pragmatist Perspective

Gesche Linde (Goethe-University Frankfurt)

Ana Honnacker (Technical University Darmstadt)

Annette Pitschmann (Goethe-University Frankfurt)

Thomas Schmidt (Goethe-University Frankfurt)

Sala Conferenze, ground floor

The Pragmatist Maxim, Doubt and Practice

Stéphane Madelrieux (University of Lyon)

Olivier Tinland (Université Paul Valery)

Sandra Laugier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Mathias Girel (Ecole Normale Supérieure)

Aula Verra, ground floor

Values and Communication

Katariina Holma & Kontinen (University of Helsinki)

Henrik Rydenfelt (University of Helsinki)

Aki P. Lehtinen (University of Helsinki)

Mats Bergman (University of Helsinki)

Sala Professori, II floor

The Future of the Social Sciences

Filipe Carreira da Silva (University of Lisbon)

Margareta Bertilsson (University of Copenhagen)

Brendan Hogan (New York University)

Patrick Baert (Cambridge University)

Sala riunioni del Dipartimento di Filosofia, II floor

C.S. Peirce Society invited session

Marco Annoni (Università Bicocca)

Andrew Howat (Fullerton University)

Ivo Ibri (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo)

Daniel Herbert (University of Sheffield)

Sala Dipartimento Studi sul Mondo Antico, ground floor

Friday, 21 September

9.30-13.00

Pragmatism and Social Sciences

Antoine Hennion (Institut des Sciences et Technologie, Paris)

Cédric Terzi (EHESS)

Luigi Pellizzoni (University of Trieste)

Daniel Cefai (EHESS)

Sala Professori, II floor

Naturalism, Language and Agency

Bjorn Ramberg (University of Oslo)

Heikki J. Koskinen (University of Tampere)

Eirik Julius Risberg (University of Oslo)

Jonathan Knowles (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Aula Verra, ground floor

Ethics and Education

Anna Maria Nieddu (University of Cagliari)

Enricomaria Corbi, (University of Naples, Suor Orsola Benincasa)

Maura Striano (University of Naples Federico II)

Franco Cambi (University of Florence)

Sala Conferenze, ground floor

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy invited session

Kenneth Stikkers (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)'

Jacquelyn Kegley (California State University, Bakersfield)

Charlene Haddock Seigfried (Purdue University)

Sala Dipartimento Studi sul Mondo Antico, ground floor

(Lisbon (Portugal)) International Symposium of Epistemology, Logic and Language

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:59:20 +0100

(Buenos Aires (Argentina)) III Workshop on Philosophy and Cognitive Science

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:40:46 +0100

III Workshop on Philosophy and Cognitive Science
III Encuentro de Filosofía y Ciencia Cognitiva

Buenos Aires, Argentina
November 14th-16th, 2012

Invited speakers
Gregory Currie (The University of Nottingham)
Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri – St. Louis)
Mark Rowlands (University of Miami)

Based on the idea that empirical research illuminates philosophical problems about the mind while philosophical reflection contributes to the development of theories in cognitive science, this workshop aims to create a biennial forum to discuss problems that lie at the intersection of philosophy and cognitive science. Examples of relevant topics are, inter alia, mental representations, cognitive architecture, concepts, perception, innatism, consciousness, and self-knowledge. Preference will be given to submissions from different philosophical perspectives (i.e. philosophy of
mind and philosophy of cognitive science, phenomenology, etc.) as well as the disciplines that constitute cognitive science (i.e. psychology, linguistics, etc.) which deal directly with these issues.
We invite all those interested to send in submissions for 40-minute presentations in English or Spanish –including discussion. Submissions should take the form of a 1500-word abstract presenting the main argument. Submissions should be sent by email in an attached .doc, .pdf or .rtf file to iiiwpcc@gmail.com. Authors’ names and affiliation should be given only in the text of the e-mail message. The abstracts will be blind reviewed by the academic committee. The committee reserves the right to request the full paper, if necessary.

Deadline for reception of submissions: August 1, 2012
Notification of acceptance/rejection: September 15, 2012

The talks of the invited speakers will be given in English. There is no registration fee for speakers.

Venue: Argentine Society for Philosophical Analysis, Bulnes 642, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Organizing Committee: Liza Skidelsky (Universidad de Buenos Aires-CONICET), Diana Pérez (Universidad de Buenos Aires-CONICET), Diego Lawler (CONICET), Lucas Bucci (Universidad de Buenos Aires-CONICET), Sabrina Haimovici (Universidad de Buenos Aires-CONICET), Joel Lorenzatti (CONICET).

Academic Committee: Ignacio Ávila (Universidad Nacional de Colombia), Ezequiel Di Paolo (Ikerbasque/Basque Science Foundation, University of Sussex), Jesús Vega Encabo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Maite Ezcurdia (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), Francisco Pereira (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile), Rob Stainton (The University of Western Ontario).

For further information, please see the SADAF website at www.sadaf.org.ar, the CLC (Research Group on Cognition, Language and Consciousness) website http://www.grupoclc.org/actividades/eventos.asp?idevento=3, or contact us at iiiwpcc@gmail.com

(Athens (Greece)) 8th Annual International Conference on Philosophy

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:38:39 +0100

(Miglieglia, (Switzerland)) International Summer School 2012: Disagreement

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:36:27 +0100

International Summer School 2012: Disagreement
August 19-25, 2012, Casa Santo Stefano, Miglieglia (TI), Switzerland

Invited speakers: Yuri Cath, University of St Andrews; David Enoch, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem; Hans-Johann Glock, University of Zurich; Mark
Richard, Harvard University; Katja Vogt, Columbia University; Brian
Weatherson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

The aim of the summer school is to explore the nature and significance of
disagreement. Invited speakers, postdoctoral researchers and PhD students
will present recent work on different aspects of disagreement:

- The nature of peer disagreement
- The challenge from peer disagreement for intuitions in philosophy
- The role of disagreement for an epistemological distinction between
different domains of discourse
- The relation between disagreement in metaethics and disagreements in
epistemology and in political philosophy
- The role of disagreement for the rationality of tolerance
- The relation between faultless disagreement and relativism

There are a few spots left for graduate students. Application is possible
until July 1. Please send an abstract on a topic related to disagreement, a
CV, and a letter of motivation to miglieglia2012@gmail.com. Notification of
acceptance: July 15.

Attendance of the summer school is free. Accommodation and meals from Sunday
evening to Saturday morning will amount to about 750 Swiss Francs (790 US
Dollars/625 Euros/500 British Pounds).

The official program will run from Monday, August 20 to Friday, August 24
and leaves plenty of time for outdoor activities:
http://www.casa-santo-stefano.ch/page/en/home.Â Background readings will be
provided in advance.

The International Summer School in Philosophy 2012: Disagreement is funded
by the Doctoral Program â€œPhilosophy â€” Language, Mind, and Practiceâ€
(University of Zurich, Switzerland), Columbia University (USA), and Think
Swiss (USA).

Contact: miglieglia2012@gmail.com

(Hatfield (UK)) Wittgenstein, Enactivism & Animal Minds

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:32:13 +0100

5th BWS Annual Conference: Wittgenstein, Enactivism & Animal Minds

Saturday 7- Sunday 8 July 2012
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield

Saturday: Animal Minds

Michael TomaselloIf a chimpanzee could speak …
Dorit Bar-On Mind: the Gap
Peter Carruthers Animal minds are real, (distinctively) human minds are not
Hans-Johann GlockAnimal minds: a non-representationalist approach
Colin AllenThe Geometry of Partial Understanding

Sunday: Enactivism

Mark RowlandsEnactivism, Intentionality and Content
Ned BlockThe Challenge to Enactivism
Daniel D. Hutto The Reach of Radical Enactivism
Daniele Moyal-Sharrock Wittgenstein's Razor
Jose MedinaAn Enactivist Approach to the Imagination

Registration Fee:includes lunch & refreshments on both days: £75 / student: £50
Conference package:includes registration fee, lunch & refreshments on both days, conference dinner (3-course meal, including wine, tea/coffee), bed/breakfast at Beales Hotel (4*) on Saturday night (single occupancy): £190.00 / student £150.00.

For other options and to register, please go to BWS Conference Registration
Conference program available at the conference page on the BWS website: www.britishwittgensteinsociety.herts.ac.uk

How to get there:
Driving to the conference venue
Bus or train to the conference

If you would like to become a member of the British Wittgenstein Society, please send an email to bws@herts.ac.ukstating your affiliation and/or focus of interest in Wittgenstein.
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(Tilburg (The Netherland)) Models and Mechanisms

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:30:26 +0100

(Leuven (Belgium)) International Conference on the Philosophy of Chemistry

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:28:49 +0100

(Durham (UK)) Scientific Realism in Light of the History of Science

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:25:49 +0100

(Tilburg (The Netherlands)) The René Descartes Lectures 2012: C. Bicchieri on Social Norms

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:22:40 +0100

(Hamburg (Germany)) First Hamburg Summer School in Philosophy: Timothy Williamson, ...

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:18:19 +0100

First Hamburg Summer Course: Timothy Williamson on Quantification and
Modality

We are delighted to announce the first annual Hamburg Summer School, which
will take place on 10-14 September 2012, at the Department of Philosophy of
the University of Hamburg. This year's speaker is Prof. Timothy Williamson
(Wykeham Professor of Logic, New College, Oxford). He will give lectures on
quantification and modality, based on his forthcoming book on those issues.
The course is open for a limited number of external participants.
Prospective participants are asked to prepare for the course by studying
the first three chapters of Williamson's book, which will be made available
in due course. Please note that there is a small registration fee of €20,
which will allow us to provide coffee and sweets during breaks.

If you would like to participate, please send an email, with brief CV
appended, to sommerkurs-at-gmx-dot-de. In case there are more applicants
than places, we will unfortunatley have to reject some applications. Our
aim is to send out confirmation emails by the 1st of August.

For more information on the summer school, including accommodation and
travel suggestions, please visit our website: http://hamburgersommerkurs.**
wordpress.com <http://hamburgersommerkurs.wordpress.com> Prof. Dr. Benjamin
Schnieder, Dr. Stephan Krämer, Dr. Nathan Wildman

(Stuttgart) EMBODIMENT Workshop with Prof. Shaun Gallagher

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:15:37 +0100

EMBODIMENT-Workshop with Prof. Shaun Gallagher, July 11-12, University of
Stuttgart

Organization:
Prof. Catrin Misselhorn, University of Stuttgart
JunProf. Ulrike Pompe, University of Stuttgart

Programme:

July 11: Public Lecture: “Robotics and Intersubjectivity”
Time & Location: 19.15-20.45, Keplerstr. 17, 70174 Stuttgart, room 17.22

July 12: Workshop
Location: Institute of Philosophy, Seidenstr. 36, 3rd floor, room 36.31

Schedule:
11.30-13: “Proprioception, Immunity to Error through Misidentification and
the First-Person Perspective”

14.30-16: “Using Simulated Environments in Experimental Studies of Recognition“

Participation is free of charge, but the number of participants is limited
and registration is required.

For regristration and information please contact:
catrin.misselhorn@philo.uni-stuttgart.de

(Bologna (Italy)) XIX Congresso Società Filosofia del Linguaggio

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:13:31 +0100

(Rome (Italy)) Humean Readings 2012

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:11:01 +0100

Sapienza Università di Roma

Dipartimento di Filosofia

Cattedra di Filosofia Teoretica

HUMEAN READINGS 12

All meetings take place in Villa Mirafiori, via Carlo Fea 2,

Aula II

Schedule

Monday June 25

10.30-11.30

Julia Driver (Washington University in St. Louis)

A Humean Account of Self-Governance

11.30-11.45 Coffee Break

11.45-12.45

Dejan Simkovic (The University of Sydney)

Hume on 'Moral Deliberation', 'Moral Discrimination', and 'Moral Distinctions'

13.00 Lunch

14.30-15.30

David Kirby (Durham University)

Hume’s Naturalism and the Theory of Ideas

15.30-15.45 Coffee Break

15.45-16.45

Helen Beebee (Univeristy of Birmingham)

How Well has Hume’s Psychology of Causation Stood the Test of Time?

16.45-17.00 Coffee Break

17.00-18.00

Willem Lemmens (Univeristy of Antwerp)

Hume on True Religion and Atheism

21.00 Social Dinner

Tuesday June 26

10.30-11.30

Eugenio Lecaldano (Sapienza Università di Roma)

Naturalism and Projection: Hume’s Explanations of Causal Beliefs and Moral Sentiments

11.30-11.45 Coffee Break

11.45-12.45

Kate Abramson (Indiana University)

Character Traits, Natural Abilities, Pathologies and Other “Mental Qualities” – the Distinctions Hume Was, and Wasn’t, After

13.00 Lunch

14.30-15.30

Gianfranco Pellegrino (LUISS Guido Carli)

Why Only Hedonic Beliefs Motivate. Hume’s Motivational Hedonism

15.30-15.45 Coffee Break

15.45-16.45

Richard Davies (Università degli Studi di Bergamo)

Proportioning Belief to the Evidence and the Mutual Destruction of Belief and Authority: Hume on Miracles

(Berlin (Germany)) Kant and Modality

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:06:27 +0100

Kant and Modality, Humboldt University of Berlin, July 5-7 2012

Kant’s various modal terms play a central yet to a large extent neglected role throughout his
philosophy, from metaphysics, logic and epistemology to ethics, aesthetics and theology. Kant’s
transcendental method itself is deeply bound to how he understands the necessary conditions of
the possibility of some actual features of our cognitive capacities. Although lately the importance
of modality to several key-issues of Kant’s philosophy has been recognized, his views about
modality remain a poorly understood and under-researched area.

The conference Kant and Modality seeks to promote important issues of Kant’s theory of modality
and to exchange ideas by bringing together scholars working on all topics relating to his
conception of modality. It takes place at Humboldt University of Berlin on July 5–7 2012. It is
organized by Toni Kannisto (University of Oslo) and Tobias Rosefeldt (Humboldt University of
Berlin). For program and conference venue, see http://www.philosophie.hu-
berlin.de/institut/lehrbereiche/idealismus/veranstaltungen/konferenz-kant-and-modality

Speakers:
Uygar Abaci (University of Pennsylvania)
Ian Blecher (University of Pittsburgh)
Ralf Busse (Universität Regensburg)
Andrew Chignell (Cornell University)
Toni Kannisto (University of Oslo)
Berna Kilinc (Bogazici University)
Jessica Leech (Cambridge University)
Markku Leppäkoski (University of Stockholm)
Giuseppe Motta (Universität Trier)
Tobias Rosefeldt (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Timothy Rosenkoetter (Dartmouth College)
Nicholas Stang (University of Miami)
Alberto Vanzo (University of Birmingham)

Contact: Toni Kannisto, t.t.kannisto[at]ifikk.uio.no

(London (UK)) Philosophical Insights

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:29:36 +0100

(Notre Dame, IN (USA)) Midwest PhilMath Workshop

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:48:17 +0100

(Jerusalem (Israel)) Neuroplasticity and Cognitive Modifiability

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:40:38 +0100

(Buffalo, NY (USA)) Buffalo Experimental Philosophy Conference

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 15:28:44 +0100

CALL FOR PAPERS
Buffalo Experimental Philosophy Conference
October 5th & 6th, 2012
Keynote speaker: Joshua Knobe (Yale)

Submissions are invited on any topic pertaining to experimental philosophy. Authors will have approximately 40 min. presentation time. Authors can report new experimental results or contribute to broader philosophical or methodological debates over existing results.

Both XPhi-friendly and XPhi-critical papers are welcomed, although XPhi-critical authors may be asked to sit at the back of the room. Authors who choose to read their papers verbatim rather than talk through them will be served cold (but not iced) coffee.

Organizers: Paul Poenicke & James Beebe (Experimental Epistemology Research Group, University at Buffalo)

Submissions should be prepared for blind review and sent via email topaulpoen@buffalo.edu no later than June 30, 2012.

The event will take place on the campus of the University at Buffalo.

Sponsored by the Peter Hare Memorial Fund and the Department of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo

(Cagliari (Italy)) Metafora e Argomentazione

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 15:27:23 +0100

Università di Cagliari
Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione
Dipartimento di Pedagogia, Psicologia, Filosofia
Corso di Laurea in Scienze della Comunicazione

LinguisticaMente & ALoPhiS (Applied Logic, Philosophy and History of Science)

Synergia Research Group in Logic, Language, Cognition,
History and Philosophy of Sciences - Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo
Bo”

APhEx. Portale italiano di filosofia analitica (www.aphex.it)

13-14 giugno 2012
Cagliari-Urbino Workshop
Metafora e Argomentazione

Mercoledì 13 giugno 2012
Aula 6 (Corpo Centrale) - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione dell'Università
di Cagliari

Prima sessione_Il linguaggio della metafora
Chair: Pierluigi Graziani (Università di Urbino)

9:00-9:45 Elisabetta Gola (Università di Cagliari), Teorie della metafora
9:45-10:00 Commento: Massimo Sangoi (Università di Urbino)
10:00-10:15 Discussione generale

10:15-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-11:30 Giuseppe Bomprezzi (Università di Urbino), Bontempelli, Calvino,
Montale e Luzi: pensieri sulla metafora nella letteratura italiana
contemporanea
11:30-11:45 Commento: Francesca Ervas (Università di Cagliari)
11:45-12:00 Discussione generale

12:00-14:30 Pranzo

Seconda sessione_Epistemologia della metafora
Chair: Ines Adornetti (Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Università di Cagliari)

14:30-15:15 Massimo Sangoi (Università di Urbino), Metafore scientifiche:
caratteristiche e funzione
15:15-15:30 Commento: Elisabetta Gola (Università di Cagliari)
15:30-15:45 Discussione generale

15:45-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-16:45 Valentina Favrin & Pietro Storari (Università di Cagliari), Il
ruolo della metafora nella teoria del linguaggio di Mary Hesse
16:45-17:00 Commento: Adriano Angelucci (Università di Urbino)
17:00-17:15 Discussione generale

17:15-18:00 Sara Matera (Università di Urbino), L’ipotesi Gaia: la metafora
del pianeta come sistema vivente
18:00-18:15 Commento: Michele Camerota (Università di Cagliari)
18:15-18:30 Discussione generale

Giovedì 14 giugno 2012
Aula 6 (Corpo Centrale) - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione dell'Università
di Cagliari

Terza sessione_Argomentare con le metafore
Chair: Claudio Calosi (Università di Urbino)

9:00-9:45 Vincenzo Fano (Università di Urbino), La metafora e la scoperta
degli universali
9:45-10:00 Commento: Francesco Paoli (Università di Cagliari)
10:00-10:15 Discussione generale

10:15-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-11:30 Claudio Ternullo (Università di Pisa, University of Liverpool) &
Giuseppe Sergioli (Università di Cagliari), Metafora e fallacie del
ragionamento analogico
11:30-11:45 Commento: Vincenzo Fano (Università di Urbino)
11:45-12:00 Discussione generale

12:00-15:00 Pranzo

Quarta sessione_Sperimentare con le metafore
Chair: Stefano Federici (Università di Cagliari)

15:00-15:45 Francesca Ervas & Antonio Ledda (Università di Cagliari), Stelle e
attori. Sperimentare le metafore nella comprensione di quaternio terminorum
15:45-16:00 Commento: Giuseppe Bomprezzi (Università di Urbino)
16:00-16:15 Discussione generale

16:15-16:45 Coffee Break

16:45-17:30 Adriano Angelucci (Università di Urbino), Metafora ed esperimenti
mentali filosofici
17:30-17:45 Commento: Marco Giunti (Università di Cagliari)
17:45-18:00 Discussione generale

Comitato organizzativo: Francesca Ervas, Elisabetta Gola, Pierluigi Graziani,
Massimo Sangoi
Info: ervas@unica.it

(Leipzig (Germany)) International Kant Conference

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 15:24:55 +0100

International Kant Conference – University of Leipzig, on July the 12th, 13th and 14th

Logic and Self-consciousness - Logik und Selbstbewusstsein

The languages of the conference are English and German

For the participation, please contact Alexandra Newton: alexandra.newton@uni-leipzig.de, or me: seddone@uni-leipzig.de

Programm:

Donnerstag, 12. Juli 2012

     09.45 Uhr
Begrüßung

     10.00-11.30 Uhr
Patricia Kitcher (Columbia, New York)
"A Kantian Critique of Current
Approaches to Self-Consciousness"
Moderation: Andrea Kern

     11.30-12.00 Uhr
Kaffeepause

     12.00-13.30 Uhr
Thomas Land (Chicago)
"The Nonconceptualist Reading of Kant and the Transcendental Deduction"
Moderation: James Conant

     13.30-15.00 Uhr
Mittagessen

     15.00-16.30 Uhr
Timothy Rosenkoetter (Dartmouth)
"Which Logic is Home to the (So-Called) Table of Judgments? An Unconsidered Alternative"
Moderation: Martin Palauneck

     Freitag, 13. Juli 2012
     10.00-11.30 Uhr
Irad Kimhi (Chicago)
"The Primacy of Consciousness Against the Primacy of Thought"
Moderation: James Conant

     11.30-12.00 Uhr
Kaffeepause

     12.00-13.30 Uhr
Sebastian Rödl (Basel-Leipzig)
"Self-Consciousness and Knowledge"
Moderation: John McDowell

     13.30-15.00 Uhr
Mittagessen

     15.00-16.30 Uhr
Alexandra Newton (Leipzig)
"How is Kant's General Logic Normative for Thinking?"
Moderation: Christian Kietzmann

     16.30-17.00 Uhr
Kaffeepause

     17.00-18.30 Uhr
Ian Blecher (Pittsburgh)
"Kant on Formal Modality"
Moderation: Sebastian Rödl

     Samstag, 14. Juli 2012
     10.00-11.30 Uhr
Stephen Engstrom (Pittsburgh)
"Unity of Apperception"
Moderation: Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer

     11.30-12.00 Uhr
Kaffeepause

     12.00-13.30 Uhr
Wolfram Gobsch (Basel)
"Logic as First-Person Theology"
Moderation: Andrea Kern

     13.30-15.00 Uhr
Mittagessen

     15.00-16.30 Uhr
Tobias Rosefeldt
"Kant's Notion of Existence"
Moderation:Andrea Kern

Neuer Senatssaal, Ritterstraße 26, 04109 Leipzig
Organisation: Andrea Kern / Alexandra Newton

(Stirling (UK)) the British Soceity for the Philosophy of Science Conference

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:25:16 +0100

(Cologne (Germany)) Causation and Explanation in History

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:23:41 +0100

CAUSATION AND EXPLANATION IN HISTORY
Workshop in Cologne
June 8, 2012
DFG Research Group Causation/Laws/Explanation

10:30 Avizier Tucker (University of Texas, Austin; Fellow CLDE): "The Generation of Knowledge from Multiple Testimonies"

13:30 Tor Forland (University of Oslo): "History Without a Can Opener: How Historians Get from Testimonies to Knowledge"

14:30 Oliver Scholz (University of Muenster): "Philosophy of History and/or Philosophy of Historiography?"

The workshop will take place at Richard-Strauss-Str. 2, Cologne, Room 0A.01, 10:15 am.

Registration is kindly requested, but not mandatory: agoebel1@uni-koeln.de

Further Information on the Research Group
http://www.clde.uni-koeln.de/

(Cologne (Germany)) LEMMing Graduate Conference

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:21:26 +0100

(Manchester (UK)) Collective Intentionality VIII

Thu, 31 May 2012 16:46:18 +0100

(Blindern (Norway)) 6th Annual Arche/CSMN Graduate Conference

Thu, 31 May 2012 14:23:14 +0100

(Geneva (Switzerland)) Truth and normativity

Thu, 31 May 2012 14:15:30 +0100

Thursday 28 Juin 2012

Workshop

Truth and normativity

lieu / venue : salle U 159 Unidufour

10h David Velleman NYU

Normative relativism

11h30 Asbjørn Steglich Petersen Aarhus

The teleologist's dilemma revisited

14h 30 Massimiliano Carrara Padova

Truth and paradox

16h Matthew Chrisman Edinburgh

Should the Metalanguage of Metaethics be Nonnormative?

info : pascal.engel@unige.ch

(Tartu (Estonia)) Gottlob Frege Lectures: John Perry on Three Theories of the Attitudes

Wed, 30 May 2012 14:09:41 +0100

(Tübingen (Germany)) Tübingen International Summer School 2012

Mon, 28 May 2012 15:06:10 +0100

(Cesena (Italy)) XV Scuola Estiva di Filosofia della Fisica: La Natura dell'Artificiale

Mon, 28 May 2012 15:01:29 +0100

(Modena (Italy)) Responsabilità e emozioni

Mon, 28 May 2012 14:57:05 +0100

Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
via Largo Sant’Eufemia 19, Modena
Aula C

WORKSHOP RESPONSABILITA' & EMOZIONI

10-00-11:15 Roberta Lanfredini (Università degli studi di Firenze)

La struttura fenomenologica delle emozioni

11:30-13:00 Carla Bagnoli (Università degli studi di Modena)

Emozioni e razionalità pratica

14:15-15:30 Clotilde Calabi (Università degli studi di Milano)

Ambivalenza emotiva e contraddizioni

15:45-17:00 Annalisa Coliva (Università degli studi di Modena)

Il modello percettivo delle emozioni

(Budapest (Hungary)) Logic and Relativity

Mon, 28 May 2012 14:54:57 +0100

(Lugano (Switzerland)) Topics in the Metaphysics of Properties

Mon, 28 May 2012 14:53:16 +0100

ISFI, the Istituto di Studi Filosofici in Lugano, is pleased to announce a one day workshop on "Topics in the Metaphysics of Properties".

Date: June 4, 2012?

Venue: Istituto di Studi Filosofici, Lugano (Switzerland)

??Programme:?

G. Guigon (University of Geneva), Extensional Nominalism and the Difficulty of Coextensive Properties

?P. Keller (University of Geneva), Grounding Objective Resemblance: The Truthmaker Argument for the Existence of Universals

?A. Bottani (Università degli Studi di Bergamo), Is there a Problem about Temporally Qualified Instantiation?

??The relative discussions will be opened by:?

A. Giordani (Università Cattolica di Milano, Istituto di Studi Filosofici), Extensional Identity and Procedural Identification?

C. de Florio (Università Cattolica di Milano), Universal Attributes and Modes

?I. Canavotto (Università Cattolica di Milano), Are there Alternatives to Temporalizing the Copula?

Organizers: A. Giordani (Università Cattolica di Milano) and D. Costa (University of Geneva)

Attendance is free, but advance registration (damiano.costa@unige.ch or alessandro.giordani@unicatt.it) is required.

www.filosofia-applicata.ch

(Munich (Germany)) Formal Ethics 2012

Tue, 22 May 2012 13:28:48 +0100

(Pamplona (Spain)) VI Navarra Workshop on Vagueness

Tue, 22 May 2012 13:20:19 +0100

(Rome (Italy)) Scienze e Realtà

Tue, 22 May 2012 13:16:08 +0100

Villa Mirafiori
Via Carlo Fea 2 - 00186 - Roma

Mercoledì 6 giugno, Aula I, ore 10:30 - 13:30
"Scienze e realtà": matematica, fisica ed economia
Organizzatori: Emiliano Ippoliti (Filosofia - Sapienza), Sergio Caprara (Fisica - Sapienza)
10:30 Apertura
10:40 Carlo Cellucci (Logica - Sapienza), L’efficacia della matematica nelle scienze naturali
11:05 Andrea Giacchero (Risk Analyst – Cassa Deposito e Prestiti SpA), Il risk management: la valutazione del rischio tra matematica e realtà.
11:30 Luciano Pietronero (Fisica dei solidi - Sapienza - Direttore Institute of Complex Systems, CNR), La Complessità dalle Scienze Naturali a quelle Socio-economiche.
11:55 Massimiliano Schiraldi (Impianti Industriali - Tor Vergata), La fisica nel problem-solving
12:10 Dibattito
13:10 Votazione e Consegna Premio
* * *
Il workshop rappresenta l'incontro finale dello stage "Scienze e Realtà" (http://phimatlog.blogspot.it/2012/02/stage-2011-12-scienze-e-realta.html) e offre quattro punti di vista differenti (e figure ed esperienze teoriche e professionali) sui temi trattati.
Lo stage e l'incontro finale vertono sull'applicabilità e l'efficacia della matematica rispetto alla realtà fisica e sociale.
Più specificamente, i temi affrontati sono l'applicabilità e l'efficacia:
(1) della matematica rispetto al mondo fisico,
(2) delle matematica rispetto all'economia,
(3) della fisica rispetto all'economia.
L'ingresso è libero

(Milan (Italy)) Sense and Sensibility

Tue, 22 May 2012 13:12:55 +0100

The Research Unit “Person, social cognition and normativity” (Prin 2008), the Research Centre in Phenomenology and Sciences of the Person (www.phenomenologylab.eu) and the Research Centre in Experimental and Applied Epistemology at San Raffaele University (www.cresa.eu), Milan, organize the International Conference and Winter School

Sense and Sensibility. Empirical and Philosophical Investigations on the Five Senses

(Milan, January 17-18, 2013)

The conference will take place at San Raffaele University on the 17th and 18th of January 2013.

Invited Speakers:

Clotilde Calabi, State University of Milan
Maurizio Ferraris, University of Turin
Vittorio Gallese, University of Parma
Daniela Perani, San Raffaele University
Elisabetta Sacchi, San Raffaele University
Barry Smith, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study
Claudio de’ Sperati, San Raffaele University

As Erwin Straus claimed in The Primary World of Senses “ sensory fields seem to have a kind of passionate sympathy for everything morphic; they are always ready to take shape”. Unfortunately, his attempted “vindication of sensory experience” (as the subtitle of his book says) is yet to be done. To promote a thorough exploration of the world of senses and sensory experiences from both a phenomenological, a cognitive, and a neurobiological point of view is thus the aim of this conference. This conference will bring together researchers of different areas in order to stimulate a constructive interdisciplinary dialogue on the issue of the nature and individuation of the senses. The interaction between science and philosophy in this area is indeed crucial: on the one hand, science has informed the debate in various ways by providing data as well as scientific interpretations of them that any philosophical theory of experience has to address; on the other hand, also scientists need philosophical reflections in order to achieve a deeper understanding of the nature of our experience in all its different modalities. Some central questions in the debate are the following:

- What is the nature of the senses?
- How do the different senses operate? In particular, can each sense modality be understood in isolation from any other such modality or in order to fully understand each sense modality we need to understand how that modality relates to the others?
- Are our perceptual experiences representational states? And in the positive case what and how do they represent? Moreover, what relation is there between the representational features of our sense experiences and their phenomenal qualities?
- Apart from modal experiences are there also “crossmodal” ones and, in the positive case, how do they differ from the modal ones?
- How to account for the multi-modality of sensory experience and how the information gathered from different sensory modalities is bound together in such a way as to account to the fact that our experiences are phenomenally unified?

Answers to these questions are of intrinsic interest, but they have a wider significance too, both from a philosophical and a scientific point of view. We shall investigate these issues by focusing on different sense modalities: visual, tactual, auditory, olfactory and gustatory. Particular attention, in the field of human auditory experience, will be given to the musical experience which will be investigated from both a phenomenological and a neurological perspective (according to the “music and the brain” research project pursued in neuropsychology).

The conference is related to the third issue of the journal “Phenomenology and Mind”. Presentations accepted for the conference will be published in the journal.

Authors interested in presenting a paper at this event are asked to submit articles, 22000 characters max, spacing included (approximately 5 pages), suitable for double blind review, by the 30th of August. Authors will also be asked to submit a separate sheet containing the name of the author(s), title of the submitted paper, the author's affiliation (if any), and an abstract of 1500 characters (spaces included).

Submitted papers, with the separate sheet containing author's information, shall be sent to socialworld@unisr.it by the 30th of August.

Notification of acceptance shall be emailed by the 1st of December.

Contributed authors will then have until the 1st of January to revise their papers according to the referees' suggestions. Eight contributed papers will be accepted for presentation and publication.

There will NOT be a further evaluation phase, neither before nor after the conference, nor prior to the publication of the related issue of “Phenomenology and Mind”.

(Paris (France)) Workshope 'Binominal Denominave NPs'

Tue, 22 May 2012 13:11:03 +0100

Workshop on 'Binominal Denominative NPs'

June 2, 2012

IHPST, Grande Salle
13 rue du Four, 75006 Paris

'Binominal denominative NPs' are NPs like 'the name John', 'the poet Goethe',
'the concept 'horse'', 'the truth value true' and 'the number eight'. Such NPs
have not received much attention in the syntactic and semantic literature, even
though they present extremely interesting challenges to syntactic and semantic
theory as well as to philosophy of language. The construction involves issues
in the syntax and semantics of quotation as well as semantic strategies of
'reification'. This workshop will address empirical linguistic generalizations
concerning the construction in different languages, syntactic and semantic
approaches to their analysis as well as philosophical issues.

Program

11:00-12:00
Ora Matushansky (UiL OTS, Utrecht University, CNRS/Paris 8)
"What's proper?"

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 - 14:10
Ulrich Reichard (University of Durham)
“Rigid and Yet Descriptive”

14:10 – 14:50
Fayssal Tayalati (Université Lille 3)
“Binominal denominative structures in standard and dialectal Arabic”

14:50 – 15:05 Coffee break

15:05 - 16:05
Friederike Moltmann (IHPST-CNRS/Paris 1/ENS)
"Denominative Binominal NPs and the Theory of Quotation"

16:05 - 16:20 Coffee break

16:20 - 17:20
Danièle Van de Velde (STL-Lille 3)
"L'expression "le fait que p" est-elle une structure dénominative?"

All welcome, no registration required

(Kolding (Denmark)) ETHICOMP 2013

Tue, 22 May 2012 13:08:57 +0100

ETHICOMP 2013: University of Southern Denmark, Kolding, Denmark, 12-14 June 2013

Since 1995 the ETHICOMP conference series has provided a forum to discuss the ethical and social issues surrounding Information and Communication Technology. During that time over 900 papers have been presented at 12 conferences by individuals from all parts of the world. But ETHICOMP is more than this – it is an interdisciplinary community dedicated to exploring issues and seeking ways forward. Conferences are enjoyable, stimulating and highly interactive events. Collaborative ventures including co-authorship and funded research have been spawned by this supportive and inclusive network.

ETHICOMP 2013 will be hosted by the Institute of Business Communication and Information Science at University of Southern Denmark on the Kolding Campus. Local representatives Dr Anne Gerdes, and Gitte Møldrup together with international representative Professor William Fleischman will join the ETHICOMP co-founders Professor Terry Bynum and Professor Simon Rogerson as co-directors of the event.

The overall theme for the ETHICOMP 2013 is “The possibilities of ethical ICT”. The aim is to explore from a range of perspectives the complex and often interrelated ethical and social issues surrounding pervasive ICT.

In order to do this there are two broad themes for the conference

PROCESS
Process concerns the activities of ICT professionals when undertaking research, development and service/product delivery. Four areas will be explored under this theme:

* Education and Training: e.g. e-learning; learning for life; digital tutors; robot learning; the nature and content of ethically sensitive ICT education and training
* Design: e.g. value driven; participative
* Governance: e.g. internet; closed networks; clouds
* Conduct: e.g. professionals, users

PRODUCT
Product concerns the outcome of professional ICT endeavor and the potential impact of these products on people, society and the environment.

* Application Areas and Impacts: e.g. social space; work place; environmental impacts and safeguards; health
* Emerging Technologies: e.g. robotics; nano technology;welfare technology, artificial companions
* Embedded ethical values
· Technological Integrity
Extended abstracts can be submitted until mid-October for consideration. Full details of the call will be announced shortly.

(Chongqing (China)) East-Asian School on Logic, Language, and Computation

Tue, 22 May 2012 13:01:56 +0100

(Ewing, NJ (USA)) Kuhn Conference

Tue, 22 May 2012 12:59:33 +0100

(Salzburg (Austria)) Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy

Tue, 22 May 2012 12:57:06 +0100

(Lisbon (Portugal)) Language and Mathematics in Wittgenstein

Tue, 22 May 2012 12:55:29 +0100

The Institute for Philosophy of Language (IFL) at the New University of Lisbon (UNL) will host the international conference â€œLanguage and Mathematics in Wittgensteinâ€ on 5 and 6 June 2012. This conference is part of the project â€œWittgensteinâ€™s Philosophical
Investigations: Re-Evaluating a Projectâ€, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). A seminar with P. M. S. Hacker and Joachim Schulte will also take place on 4 June in connection with the conference. The theme of the seminar is
P. M. S. Hackerâ€™s article â€œWittgenstein on Grammar, Theses and Dogmatismâ€, recently published in Philosophical Investigations (Volume 35, Issue 1, January 2012, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9205.2011.01460.x/abstract). There is no registration fee for these events.

Venue: Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (FCSH), Tower B, Auditorium 1.

Programme:

Seminar, 4 June

16:00-18:00

Conference, 5 June

9:45-10:00 â€“ Nuno Venturinha, Project Coordinator: Welcome and Introduction

10:00-11:15 â€“ Joachim Schulte (Zurich): The Notion of a Rule

11:15-11:30 â€“ Coffee Break

11:30-12:45 â€“ Michel Le Du (Strasbourg): Other-Mindedness: An Enduring Anthropological Challenge in the Philosophical Investigations

12:45-14:15 â€“ Lunch Break

14:15-15:00 â€“ Alberto Arruda (Lisbon): Transparency and Receptivity in Rule-Following

15:00-16:15 â€“ Nuno Venturinha (Lisbon): Logicism and Psychologism

16:15-16:45 â€“ Coffee Break

16:45-18:00 â€“ Severin Schroeder (Reading): Rule-Following in Mathematics and Language

6 June

10:00-11:15 â€“ Charles Travis (London): The Rules of the Game

11:15-11:30 â€“ Coffee Break

11:30-12:45 â€“ JesÃºs Padilla GÃ¡lvez (Toledo): Proof and Truth of Mathematical Propositions

12:45-14:15 â€“ Lunch Break

14:15-15:00 â€“ Ana Falcato (Lisbon): How far goes Wittgenstein with the Context Principle?

15:00-16:15 â€“ AntÃ³nio Marques (Lisbon): â€œDer Waage, auf der man die EindrÃ¼cke wÃ¤gt, ist nicht der Eindruck von einer Waageâ€ (PI 259)

16:15-16:45 â€“ Coffee Break

16:45-18:00 â€“ P. M. S. Hacker (Oxford): Wittgenstein on Mathematical Proof

18:00 â€“ AntÃ³nio Marques, Director of IFL: Closing Remarks

For information about the project and how to get to the Faculty, please visit www.wittgensteinpi.ifl.pt. Enquiries relating to any subject should be sent to Dr Nuno Venturinha (nventurinha.ifl@fcsh.unl.pt).

(Tuebingen (Germany)) Summer School in Tuebingen on Einstein’s Philosophy of Science, with ...

Tue, 22 May 2012 12:53:33 +0100

(London (UK)) Social Epistemology and Epistemic Responsibility

Thu, 17 May 2012 18:07:26 +0100

(Milan (Italy)) CIA Lecture Series 2012: Mike Martin

Thu, 17 May 2012 18:05:02 +0100

(Gargnano sul Garda (Italy)) Filosofi del linguaggio a Gargnano

Thu, 17 May 2012 18:03:25 +0100

(Amsterdam (The Netherlands)) Emotions, Psychology and Moral Judgments

Thu, 17 May 2012 18:01:32 +0100

Emotions, Psychology and Moral Judgments
University of Amsterdam
June 8-9, 2012

Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the origins and
influences of moral intuitions and judgments. Multiple theories have been
defended by philosophers and psychologists. Many of these theories call into
question the reliability of our moral intuitions and the normative theories
that are based on them. The aim of this conference is to explore these
challenges and the possible links between moral psychology and normative
ethics, as well as related issues in moral epistemology and metaphysics.

Friday, June 8. 10.00-16.30

Pauline Kleingeld (Groningen): The Significance of Empirical Psychology for
Kantian Ethics
David Enoch (Hebrew University): A Defense of Moral Deference
Stephen Darwall (Yale): Reactive Attitudes and the Epistemology of Deontic
Judgments

Saturday, June 9. 10.00-16.30

Antti Kauppinen (Trinity College Dublin): Scepticism About Moral
Intuitions
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke): Is Morality Unified?
Bart Streumer (Reading): Can Moral Intuitions Refute the Error Theory?

Location:
Doelenzaal, University Library, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam

Registration:
Attendance is free but please register by sending a message to
L.C.J.vanApeldoorn@uva.nl with ³Conference Emotions and Moral Judgments ² as
the subject header.

The conference is organized by the NWO research project Good Guides or False
Pilots? The Role of Emotion in Moral Judgment (Prof. Frans Jacobs, Dr. Antti
Kauppinen, Dr. Thomas Nys, Dr. Laurens van Apeldoorn)

(Bucharest (Romania)) Philosophy of Mathematics Today

Mon, 14 May 2012 18:05:46 +0100

BCAP 2012 - Bucharest Colloquium in Analytic Philosophy 2012

Philosophy of Mathematics Today

Friday, June 1^st

Chair: Sorin Costreie

09:00 - 10:00 – Patricia Blanchette - Axioms and Conceptual Analysis in Frege

10:00 - 11:00 – Mircea Dumitru - On Fine on the Fregean approach to conceptual abstraction

11:00 - 11:30 - Coffee Break

Chair: Patricia Blanchette

11:30 - 12:30 – Göran Sundholm - Functions

12:30 - 13:30 – Adrian Haret - Deflationist truth in mathematics

13:30 - 15:00 - Lunch Break

Chair: Göran Sundholm

15:00 - 16:00 – David McCarty - Philosophy of Mathematics: Is it all False?

16:00 - 17:00 – Sorin Costreie - On Arithmetical Cognition

17:00 – 17:30 – Coffee Break

Chair: Iulian Toader

17:30 – 18:30 – Gabriel Târziu - The Role of Aesthetic Considerations in the Development and Appreciation of Mathematical Knowledge

Saturday, June 2^nd

Chair: Gabriel Sandu

09:00 - 10:00 – Dirk Schlimm - From Pasch to Hilbert: Metaphors for the foundations of mathematics

10:00 - 11:00 – Brice Halimi - Relativizing Tarskian variables

11:00 - 11:30 - Coffee Break

Chair: Dirk Schlimm

11:30 - 12:30 – Michael Detlefsen - On Axiomatic Methods and their Ideals of Completeness

12:30 - 13:30 – Iulian Toader - Algebra?c Closure, Un?f?cat?on, and Understand?ng

13:30 - 15:00 - Lunch Break

Chair: Michael Detlefsen

15:00 - 16:00 – Gabriel Sandu - IF logic and foundations of mathematics

16:00 - 17:00 – Markus Pantsar - Empirically feasible epistemology of mathematics

17:00 – 17:30 – Coffee Break

Chair: Marco Panza

17:30 – 18:30 – Andrea Sereni - Frege, Indispensability, and the Compatibilist Heresy

Sunday, May 3^rd

Chair: Sebastien Gandon

09:00 - 10:00 – Sean Walsh - Classification in Mathematics: Understanding its Aims and Logic

10:00 - 11:00 – Walter Dean - Dedekind's Categoricity Theorem, schematic induction, and mathematical communication

11:00 - 11:30 - Coffee Break

Chair: Brice Halimi

11:30 - 12:30 – Marco Panza - Abstraction and Epistemic Economy

12:30 - 13:50 – Matthias Schirn - Second-Order Abstraction, Self-Evidence versus Real Knowledge, and the Aftermath of Russell’s Paradox. A Critical Analysis

13:30 - 15:00 - Lunch Break

Chair: Mircea Dumitru

15:00 - 16:00 – Sebastien Gandon - Logicism, Anti-Psychologism and the Philosophy of Mathematical Practices

16:00 - 17:00 – Kit Fine - Truthmaker Semantics for Intuitionistic Logic

(Boulder, CO (USA)) 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology

Mon, 14 May 2012 18:02:07 +0100

(Paris (France)) Aquinas and 'the Arabs'"

Mon, 14 May 2012 17:50:20 +0100

(Paris (France)) Dialogue with Contextualism

Mon, 14 May 2012 17:46:45 +0100

DIALOGUE WITH CONTEXTUALISM

Universite Paris-Diderot (Paris 7), Sept 18, 2012 (immediately preceding SemDial 2012 (SeineDial)

https://sites.google.com/site/semdial2012seinedial )

Invited speakers (partial list):

Nicholas Asher (IRIT, Toulouse),

Robin Cooper (Gothenburg University),

Isidora Stojanovic (Institute Jean Nicod, Paris).

Context is a key component in a variety of phenomena that have been used to argue pro and con various versions of contextualism, including unsaturated predicates, domain selection, metonymy, knowledge attributions, ethical judgements, and gradable adjectives. More recently there has been significant interest in phenomena involving overt discussion between interlocutors, for instance with respect to personal taste predicates and epistemic modals. These debates have mostly taken place at some remove from work in the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, where theories such as SDRT, KoS, and PTT provide detailed, formal notions of conversational context (typically explicated in terms of coupled information states of the interlocutors), discussion, and metacommunicative interaction. All this grounded in evidence from conversational corpora such as the British National Corpus, Switchboard, Trains etc.

This one day workshop seeks to bridge this divide. We seek contributions underscoring the dialogical nature of contextualist phenomena, or contributions that show how these can be provided with precise analysis in formal dialogue theories or contributions providing corpus or experimental evidence on such interaction.

We anticipate publication of a selection of papers (after a subsequent open call) as a special issue of the journal _Dialogue and Discourse_ http://dialogue-and-discourse.org

Submission: A few slots are available for submitted contributions. We invite submissions of abstracts of up to two pages including references, for a 30-minute talk.

Abstracts should be sent to:

seinedial@gmail.com

Deadline: June 15, 2012

Notification: June 28, 2012

(Amsterdam (The Netherlands)) Extended cognition and epistemology

Tue, 08 May 2012 15:08:36 +0100

Extended cognition and epistemology
date: 6-7 June
place: Amsterdam

Contributors:
Fred Adams (Delaware)
Ken Aizawa (Centenary)
Ronald Giere (Minnesota)
Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern)
Richard Menary (Macquarie, Sydney)
Evan Butts (Geneva)
Adam Green (Innsbruck)
Stephen Hetherington (New South Wales, Sydney)
Michael Kirchhoff (Macquarie, Sydney) and Will Newsome (Macquarie, Sydney)
Paul Loader (Sussex)
Tom Roberts (Exeter)

To register, send a mail to m.v.holland {{[a][t]}} tue.nl

(Liège (Belgium)) Objects and Pseudo-Objects

Mon, 07 May 2012 11:10:19 +0100

(Lund (Sweden)) Philosophy and Computation

Mon, 07 May 2012 11:08:57 +0100

(Paris (France)) Fourth French PhilMath Workshop

Mon, 07 May 2012 11:02:57 +0100

Fourth French PhilMath Workshop (FPMW 4)
(formerly Paris-Nancy PhilMath Workshop)

Thursday, October 4—Saturday, October 6, 2012
Paris, Collège de France & Ecole Normale Supérieur

This is the fourth in an annual series of workshops on the philosophy of mathematics organized by a team of scholars in France and elsewhere. The three-day meeting will feature both invited and contributed talks. The invited speakers, who have confirmed their participation, are:

*** Mic Detlefsen (Notre Dame University, South Bend)
*** Sébastien Gandon (Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand)
*** Gerhard Heinzmann (Archives Henri Poincaré, Nancy)
*** Hannes Leitgeb (Munich University)
*** Jean-Pierre Marquis (University of Montreal)
*** Vladimir Voevodsky (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

Call for papers

Deadline for submission: June 30, 2012

Notification of acceptance: July 30, 2012

The program will include six contributed talks. Submissions of full-text papers in any topic in < /span>the philosophy of mathematics are welcome. The languages of the workshop are English and French. Presentations should be no longer than 45 minutes, and will be followed by 30 minutes of discussion. Younger scholars and graduate students working on their dissertations are particularly encouraged to submit, as the workshop provides them with an opportunity to discuss their work with experts from around the world. The deadline for submission is June 30, 2012. Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged by email. The Program Committee will evaluate all papers and announce its decisions by July 30, 2012. The papers should be sent by email in doc, rtf, or pdf format to the following address:

Mark (dot) vanAtten (at) univ-paris1 (dot) fr

This workshop is supported by the Collège de France (Paris), IHPST (Paris), SPHERE (Paris), Université Paris 10, Archives Henri Poincaré (Nancy), Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand)

Scientific Committee: Andrew Arana, Mark van Atten, Denis Bonnay, Paola Cantù, Gabriella Crocco, Michael Detlefsen, Jacques Dubucs, Sebastien Gandon, Brice Halimi, Gerhard Heinzmann, Paolo Mancosu, Philippe Nabonnand, Marco Panza, Fabrice Pataut, David Rabouin, Andrei Rodin, Stewart Shapiro, Ivahn Smadja, Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz, Claudine Tiercelin, Sean Walsh

Local organisers: Mark van Atten, Brice Halimi, Denis Bonnay, Fabrice Pataut, Marco Panza, Ivahn Smadja, Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz

(Siena (Italy)) V Summer School in Mind and Language

Mon, 07 May 2012 11:01:36 +0100

(Paris (France)) Paul Benacerraf Workshop

Mon, 07 May 2012 10:57:46 +0100

Organisation: Fabrice Pataut
Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (IHPST)
Fabrice.Pataut@univ-paris1.fr
Collège de France
11, place Marcelin Berthelot
75231 Paris Cedex 05
Standard : 01 44 27 12 11
Accueil : 01 44 27 11 47

RER B : Saint-Michel - Notre-Dame
M° : Cluny - La Sorbonne (M10)
Bus : 63, 86, 87

Thursday, May 10, Salle 5

MORNING

9:00 - 9:45 Claudine Tiercelin (Collège de France, Chaire de métaphysique et philosophie de la connaissance): Welcoming speech

Fabrice Pataut (Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques): Short introduction to the workshop

Chair: Sébastien Gandon

9:45 - 11:15 Jody Azzouni (Tufts university): The problem with Benacerraf’s problem

Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00 Brice Halimi (Université Paris Ouest (IREPH) and SPHERE): Benacerraf’s mathematical antinomy

AFTERNOON

Chair: Mary Leng

14:30 - 16:00 Bob Hale (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy in the University of Sheffield): Properties, Skolem and the interpretation of second-order logic

Coffee Break

16:15 - 17:45 Jacques Dubucs (Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques): Motionless Gödel’s long strides. Note on the contemporary versions of Zeno’s arguments

Coffee Break

18:00 -19:30 Claudine Tiercelin (Collège de France, Chaire de métaphysique et philosophie de la connaissance): Peirce on mathematical objects and mathematical objectivity

Friday, May 11, Amphithéâtre Budé

MORNING

Chair: Claudine Tiercelin

9:00 - 10:30 Mary Leng (University of York): Truth, fiction and stipulation

Coffee Break

10:45 - 12:15 Sébastien Gandon (Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont II) and Institut Universitaire de France): Benacerraf on logicism

AFTERNOON

Chair: Fabrice Pataut

14:30 - 16:00 Andrea Sereni (Università Vita e Salute San Raffaele, Milan): A dilemma for Benacerraf’s dilemma?

Coffee Break

16:15 - 17:45 Stuart Shapiro (The Ohio State University - Arché Professorial Fellow, University of St. Andrews): What does it take to be an object in mathematics?

Coffee Break

18:00 Paul Benacerraf (James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University): Concluding remarks

(Chieti (Italy)) The Limits of Rationality

Thu, 03 May 2012 15:15:43 +0100

THE LIMITS OF RATIONALITY - CHIETI 9 maggio, 2012

Aula Magna di scienze Sociali - Campus di Chieti

The Limits of Rationality (I limiti della razionalità) è la giornata di studio interdisciplinare con la quale l?Università ?Gabriele d?Annunzio? onorerà il 9 maggio a Chieti uno dei più grandi filosofi della scienza viventi

Joseph Agassi

che compie in questi giorni 85 anni. È stato allievo e collaboratore di Karl Popper e ne ha diffuso, esteso, ma anche criticato la filosofia. È autore di molti libri e innumerevoli articoli che lo hanno reso mondialmente famoso; molti di questi sono stati tradotti in Italiano.

Il professor Agassi tratterà uno dei suoi grandi temi di studio: La razionalità. L?incontro, che si svolgerà quasi interamente in inglese, sarà interdisciplinare e vi parteciperanno esperti di vari campi: gli storici dell?antichità Umberto Bultrighini e Giulio Lucchetta, i filosofi della scienza Claudia Casadio e Stefano Gattei, Martina Del Castello, storica delle idee e Michael Segre, storico della scienza e allievo di Agassi. Interverrà anche la consorte di Agassi, Judith Buber, sociologa di fama e nipote del filosofo Martin Buber.

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Thu, 03 May 2012 15:13:43 +0100

Workshop in Analytical Metaphysics: Challenging Perspectives on the
Ontology of Time

14-15 May, 2012

University of Namur (BELGIUM) - ESPHIN

"Salle académique", Faculty of Law - 5th floor - Rempart de la vierge,
5, NAMUR

The workshop aims at provide young researchers in metaphysics the
opportunity to present and discuss their current work on the ontology of
time.

This workshop will be hosted by the Department of Sciences, Philosophies
and Societies of the Faculty of Sciences and the ESPHIN center (Centre
d'Etudes Sciences et PHilosophie à Namur) of the University of Namur
(Belgium).

Speakers:

Baptiste Le Bihan, University of Rennes 1

Muriel Cahen, Institut Nicod - EHESS - Paris

Michele Salimbeni, Institut Nicod - EHESS - Paris

Damiano Costa, University of Geneva - eidos

Giuliano Torrengo, University of Barcelona - LOGOS

Marta Campdelacreu, University of Barcelona - LOGOS

Samuel Baron, University of Sydney - Center for Time

Mathieu Cornélis, University of Namur - ESPHIN

Programme:

14th Monday

9h15 Opening

9h30 Marta Campdelacreu (University of Barcelona - LOGOS) : Do we Need
Two Notions of Constitution?

10h30 Discussion

11h Coffee Break

11h15 Samuel Baron ( University of Sydney - Center for Time): Presentism
and Endurantism

12h15 Discussion

12h45 Lunch

14h00 Michele Salimbeni (Institut Nicod - EHESS): Possible Worlds, Time
and Film

15h00 Discussion

15h30 Coffee break

15h45 Mathieu Cornélis (University of Namur - ESPHIN) : A Study About
Identity and Four-dimensionalism

16h45 Discussion

17h15 End

15th Tuesday

9h15 Opening

9h30 Baptiste Le Bihain (University of Rennes 1): A World Without Time
10h30 Discussion

11h Coffee Break

11h15 Damiano Costa (University of Geneva - eidos): Events and Objetcs
in Time

12h15 Discussion

12h45 Lunch

14h00 Giuliano Torrengo (University of Barcelona - LOGOS): How Should an
Error Theory of the Passage of Time be Like?

15h00 Discussion

15h30 Coffee break

15h45 Muriel Cahen (Institut Nicod - EHESS): Dynamic Temporal Relations

16h45 Discussion

17h15 End

Everyone is cordially invited.

Registration is not required.

informations: mathieu.cornelis@fundp.ac.be

Sponsoring: University of Namur, FNRS and CNRL

(Hradec Kralove (Czech Republic)) Naturalism and Normativity in the Social Sciences

Thu, 03 May 2012 15:10:46 +0100

(London (UK)) Knowledge of Action

Thu, 03 May 2012 15:05:40 +0100

(Colchester (UK)) 'Perception' Graduate Conference

Thu, 03 May 2012 15:04:01 +0100

(Rome (Italy)) Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

Thu, 03 May 2012 15:01:01 +0100

(London (UK)) The Personal and the Subpersonal

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:31:31 +0100

(Padua (Italy)) Cogito Workshop in Philosophy of Logic

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:29:09 +0100

(Paris (France)) Self-Knowledge

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:30:01 +0100

(Guangzhou (China)) Cultures of Mathematics and Logic

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:28:16 +0100

(Sydney (Australia)) The 2012 annual conference of the Australasian Association of Logic

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:14:25 +0100

Contact: nicholas.smith@sydney.edu.au

(Luxembourg (Luxembourg)) Self-Knowledge in Kant

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:06:04 +0100

SELF-KNOWLEDGE IN KANT

A WORKSHOP WITH PATRICIA KITCHER (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEW YORK)

21-22 May 2012, Department of Philosophy, University of Luxembourg

Program:

21 May:

14:00-15:00 h
PATRICIA KITCHER
Kant on Self-Consciousness and Object Cognition

15:00-15:30 h
Comment by MANFRED BAUM (Wuppertal)

15:30-16:30 h
Discussion

Coffee break

17:00-18:00 h
PATRICIA KITCHER
Kant's View of Why Knowledge of an 'I-think' is Limited

18:00-18:30 h
Comment by BRADY BOWMAN (Penn State)

18:30-19:30 h
Discussion

22 May:

10:00-11:00 h
PATRICIA KITCHER
A Kantian Critique of Current Approaches to Self-Knowledge:
I. Kant's Theory in the Contemporary Context; Kant vs. Anscombe's Thought Experiment

11:00-11:30 h
Comment by ALEXANDRA NEWTON (Leipzig)

11:30-12:30 h
Discussion

Lunch break

14:00-15:00 h
PATRICIA KITCHER
A Kantian Critique of Current Approaches to Self-Knowledge:
II. Kant vs. 'Transparency'; Kant vs. First Person/Third Person Asymmetry in Knowledge of Mental States

15:00-15:30 h
Comment by DIETER STURMA (Bonn)

15:30-16:30 h
Discussion

Patricia Kitcher's papers can be downloaded here:
http://wwwfr.uni.lu/recherche/flshase/laboratoire_de_philosophie_et_d_histoire_des_idees/news_and_events

Admission free, registration required: dietmar.heidemann@uni.lu

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Dietmar Heidemann, University of Luxembourg, Department of Philosophy, Campus Walferdange, Route de Diekirch, BP2, L-7220 Walferdange/Luxembourg

http://philosophie.uni.lu

(Parma (Italy)) Workshop on Belief Attribution

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:06:12 +0100

ELIEF ATTRIBUTION

May 11, 2012

Dipartimento di Filosofia

Università degli Studi di Parma

Plesso di via D'Azeglio

Aula D

10.00 am Christopher GAUKER (University of Cincinnati): Belief Attribution as Indirect Communication

11.20 am Coffee break

11.40 am Marina SBISA (Università di Trieste): Speakers and Believers

1.00 pm Lunch

2.30 pm Carlo PENCO (Università di Genova): Appropriateness Evaluations, Beliefs, and Presuppositions

3.50 pm Coffee break

4.10 pm Marco SANTAMBROGIO (Università di Parma): Belief Ascriptions and the Disquotational Principle

5.30 pm Alberto VOLTOLINI (Università di Torino): Why Substitutivity Fails in Belief Attributions but not in Extensional Contexts

The attendance is free

For further information, write to Andrea Bianchi (an.bianchi@libero.it)

(Paris (France)) Justification: from reasons to reasoning

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:58:11 +0100

(Lisbon (Portugal)) Petrus Hispanus Lectures 2012: Timothy Williamson

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:55:59 +0100

(Milwaukee, WI (USA)) Meaning, Metaphysics, and Inference in Aristotle and Aristotelianism

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:53:18 +0100

(Duisburg-Essen (Germany)) Control and the Absent Mind

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:45:57 +0100

(Geneva (Switzerland)) The Nature of Desire

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:39:45 +0100

(Cambridge (UK)) Cambridge / MIT decision theory workshop

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:37:00 +0100

Cambridge / MIT workshop on Decision Theory, etc.

23 May 2012

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College

Nozick's 1970 statement of Newcomb's problem inaugurated a dispute in the
foundations of decision theory that at present shows no sign of resolution.
The basic question is over the role of causal information in
decision-making. Perhaps agents *must* possess such information in
practical settings, in which case only a *Causal* Decision Theory can
appropriately formalize practical reasoning. Or perhaps they need only
possess whatever statistical and other non-causal information guides the
predictions and retrodictions of disinterested spectators--in which case an
*Evidential* theory is sufficient. Or perhaps the conflict is itself
illusory: maybe causation itself is a form of evidential connection that is
only visible from the agential perspective. This workshop presents recent
and in-progress work on these issues.

Program

12pm-110pm: Caspar Hare / Brian Hedden (MIT): Self-Reinforcing and
Self-Undermining Decisions

110-2 Lunch: (own arrangements)

2-310: Arif Ahmed (Cambridge): Deliberation and myopia

315-425: Richard Holton / Caspar Hare (MIT): Determinism, Sloth and the
Opacity of the Future

425-450: Tea

450-6pm: Huw Price (Cambridge / Sydney): Retrocausality -- What would it
take?

Registration is free but if you are interested please email Arif Ahmed at
ama24@cam.ac.uk to give us an idea of numbers.

(Madrid (Spain)) Recent Perspectives on Knowledge and Action

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:35:31 +0100

(Aarhus (Denmark)) Objects in Mind

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:13:51 +0100

OBJECTS IN MIND

First Aarhus-Paris Conference in Social Ontology and Social Cognition
University of Aarhus, Denmark
June 25-26, 2012

Keynote Speakers
Christopher Frith (All Souls College, Oxford)
Ruth Millikan (University of Connecticut)
John R. Searle (University of California at Berkeley)

Speakers and Commentators

Ian Apperly (Birmingham), Cristina Becchio (Turin), Brian Epstein (Tufts), Mattia Gallotti (CNRS, Jean Nicod Institute), Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde (Aix-Marseille & Jean Nicod Institute), Jakob Howhy (Monash University), Clement Levallois (Erasmus Rotterdam), Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh), John McGraw (Aarhus University), John Michael (Aarhus), Andreas Roepstorff (Aarhus), Joshua Skewes (Aarhus), Kristian Tylen (Aarhus).

Abstract

Social objects are objects in virtue of having the status functions we intend them to have. Some social objects, such as screwdrivers, have physical affordances that facilitate the recognition of their purpose and offer potentials for action. Others, like money, appear to depend entirely upon understanding of the intentions and attitudes that ground their social status. But if the reference of social concepts like ‘money’ is fixed by collective acceptance, does it depend on distinct mechanisms from those which contribute to understanding the reference of concepts of other kinds of object? What psychological and neural mechanisms, if any, are involved in the constitution, persistence and recognition of social facts? The first Aarhus-Paris conference will address this question by exploring the burgeoning theoretical and empirical literature on social objects across the sciences of mind and brain.

Research Questions to be Addressed

It has been argued that humans are predisposed and motivated to engage in joint actions with con-specifics, and that this may be due in part to a unique mechanism for sharing mental states. Is such a mechanism responsible for fixing the reference of concepts of social objects? Do we depend upon a distinct, collective mode of intentionality in order to use these concepts? What role might mindreading and other (embodied and/or interactive) components of social cognition play in sustaining the reference of these concepts? Does the conventional constitution of social objects entail that learning about them during development involves psychological processes and brain areas postulated in current research on the development of social cognition? What role is played by explicit instruction or pedagogical cues in learning the norms and conventions that enable social objects to exist? Does this make any difference for the question of whether the conventions and norms that sustain social objects are implicit and/or explicit? Do individuals with social cognition deficits, such as autism spectrum disorder, or an impaired understanding of the distinction between moral rules and conventions, have difficulties in recognizing and/or reasoning about social objects?

Call for Posters
We invite posters suitable for presentation on any topic related to the themes of the conference. Abstracts for posters not exceeding 350 words should be submitted by email to johnmichaelaarhus@gmail.com in .doc or .pdf format. Please include a separate cover sheet including name, poster title and affiliation. The deadline for receipt of submissions is May 1st, 2012. We will notify authors of the decision regarding posters on a rolling basis, usually within 3 days of submission.

Registration

Attendence is free of charge, but space is limited. Please register by sending an email to: johnmichaelaarhus@gmail.com

Scientific Organization
Mattia Gallotti (CNRS, Jean Nicod Institute) & John Michael (Aarhus University)

(Bochum (Germany)) Rudolf Carnap Lectures

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:59:33 +0100

Contact: tobias.schlicht@rub.de

Rudolf-Carnap-Lectures 2012
Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany), May 31st – June 2nd, 2012

Ned Block & Susan Carey:
Attention and Concepts

EXTENDED DEADLINE !!!
Call for Papers
We invite graduate students to submit high quality papers related to the
themes of the Carnap-Lectures. We also accept papers that are loosely
attached to these topics, but still remain in the area of philosophy of mind
or developmental psychology. Four selected papers will be presented during a
workshop with Susan Carey and Ned Block. Submissions (full papers, no longer
than 2000 words) should be sent electronically to Nike Zohm (nike.zohm (at)
rub.de) before April 30th, 2012.

Tentative Schedule
Thursday May 31st
10.15-12.15 Lecture 1:
Susan Carey: The Origin of Concepts: A Case Study of Natural Number
15.15-17.15 Lecture 2:
Ned Block: How the nature of attention can decide among the major theories
of perception
18.15-20.00 Public Evening Lecture 3:
Ned Block: How iconic memory shows that consciousness is fundamentally
different from cognition

Friday 1st of June
10.15-13.30 Graduate presentations
15.15-17.15 Lecture 4:
Ned Block: Insights about what we see from crowded perception

Saturday 2nd of June
10.15-12.15 Lecture 5:
Susan Carey: Core Cognition of the Social World

For more information see: www.rub.de/philosophy/carnaplectures

Organization
Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht, Prof. Dr. Albert Newen
Institut für Philosophie II
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Universitätsstr. 150, GA3
44780 Bochum

(Vienna (Austria)) Wittgenstein on Colour

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:56:39 +0100

(Glasgow (UK)) 2nd Glasgow Philosophy of Religion Seminar

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:28:44 +0100

Contact: Victoria.Harrison@glasgow.ac.uk

(Dublin (Ireland)) Wittgenstein Symposium

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:26:51 +0100

Contact: Maria.Baghramian@ucd.ie

Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Symposium
April 26. 10.00 am – 6.00 pm
Iveagh Room, Newman House
86 St Stephens Green, Dublin 2

The symposium is organised by UCD School of Philosophy to commemorate Wittgenstein’s birth on April 26 1889 and his connections with Ireland

10. 00 - Opening Address
“To live in the world in which you are”
Maria Baghramian
University College Dublin

11.00 - “On Certainty paragraphs 306-8, 369-70:
Wittgenstein’s Refutation of Scepticism”
Andy Hamilton
Durham University

Lunch

1.30 "Wittgenstein's Notes on Logic"
Peter Simons
Trinity College Dublin

3.00 Graduate Sessions
(i) “Regress and reductio arguments in the Philosophical Investigations'?
Tom McNally (Trinity College Dublin)

(ii)"Wittgenstein, Rorty, and Cultural Relativism"
John Dillon (University of Notre Dame)

(iii)“Cavell and how to read with Wittgenstein”
Fergal McHugh (University College Dublin)

3.30 Coffee break

4.00 “Philosophy, Aesthetics and Cultural Criticism”
Hans-Johann Glock
University of ZürichAll Welcome

(Oxford (UK)) The John Locke Lectures 2012: Stephen Yablo on "Truth and Content"

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:22:47 +0100

The 2012 John Locke Lecture series will be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in Trinity Term 2012. The lectures will be given at the T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, Oxford (enter by Rose Lane). The schedule for the lectures is as follows:

25April: Semantic Excuses
2 May: The Truth and Something But the Truth
9 May: Extrapolation and its Limits
16 May: Confirmation and Verisimilitude
23 May: Knowing About Things
30 May: Saying Things: Pretense and Presupposition

(Istanbul (Turkey)) Turing Centenary Meeting

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:14:14 +0100

(Paris (France)) Logic-in-Question

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:12:04 +0100

(Barcelona (Spain)) Second PERSP Metaphysics Workshop

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:21:31 +0100

Contact: persp.management@gmail.com

Barcelona, 17-18 May 2012.

Organized byÂ DanÂ LÃ³pez de Sa (ICREA-UB) & Moritz Schulz (UB), sponsored by PERSP B1.

This is the second of a series of workshops on the topics of PERSP Workpackage on Issues in Metaphysics â€” truthmaking, indeterminacy, grounding, and the meta-metaphysical and logical aspects of the discussions on these notions.Â

ProgramÂ

Thursday 17 May
10:30 Welcoming Coffee
11.00 - 13.00 Benjamin Schnieder (Hamburg): "On Ground and Consequence", comments by TBA.
15.00 - 17.00 Irem Kurtsal Steen (BoÄŸaziÃ§i): "The Argument from Anthropocentrism and Endurantism",Â comments by TBA.
17.30 - 19.30 SÃ²nia Roca (Stirling): "Rethinking Origin Essentialism", comments by Stpehan Torre (UB).

Friday 18 May
10:30 Welcoming Coffee
11.00 - 13.00 Matti Eklund (Cornell): "The Ontologese Quantifier", comments by Bryan Pickel (UB).
15.00 - 17.00 Alex Steinberg (Hamburg): "Non-Fundamental Objects", comments by Giuliano Torrengo (UB).
17.30 - 19.30 Thomas Hofweber (North Carolina): "Are There Completely Ineffable Aspects of Reality?",Â comments by Sven Rosenkranz (ICREA-UB).

Workshop Venue: Seminari de Filosofia, 4th floor, faculty of Philosophy. C/Montalegre 6-8, 08001 Barcelona.

For further information, please visitÂ http://www.ub.edu/persp/?q=content/pmw2-second-persp-metaphysics-workshop-barcelona-17-18-may-2012

(Cambridge (UK)) Turing's 100th Birthday Party at King's College

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:34:59 +0100

(Amsterdam (The Netherlands)) Tarski Workshop

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:33:31 +0100

(Milan (Italy)) The Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS) mid-term Conference

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:29:43 +0100

(Brussels (Belgium)) Turing in context II -- Historical and Contemporary Research in Logic, ...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:27:21 +0100

(Paris (France)) Mass/Count in Linguistics, Philosophy and Cognitive Science

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:14:04 +0100

(Edinburgh (UK)) Hybrid Theories in Meta-Ethics

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:10:50 +0100

(Chennai (India)) TARK 2013: Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:13:21 +0100

(Oxford (UK)) 16th Oxford Graduate Philosophy Conference

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:10:02 +0100

(Campinas (Brazil)) Philosophy & Mathematics of Uncertainty and Vagueness

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:08:22 +0100

(Torun (Poland)) Conference on Non-Classical Logic. Theory and Applications

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:06:00 +0100

(Norwich (UK)) Philosophical Insights

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:03:08 +0100

Contact: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

(Montreal (Canada)) The Evolution and Function of Consciousness

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:36:01 +0100

(Berlin (Germany)) First Berlino/Urbino Workshop: The relations between Quantum Physics and ...

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:23:14 +0100

Contact:

Massimiliano Badino, Email: mbadino@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Pierluigi Graziani, Email: pierluigi.graziani@uniurb.it

(Manchester (UK)) Contemporary Issues in Philosophy of Language

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:15:25 +0100

Contact: sean.crawford@manchester.ac.uk

(Padova (Italy)) Incontri su Neuroscienze e Società

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:21:04 +0100

(London (UK)) Originalism about Concepts

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:47:39 +0100

(Auckland (New Zeland)) 2012 Australasian Philosophy Postgraduate Conference

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:46:05 +0100

Contact: appc2012@auckland.ac.nz

(Sapporo (Japan)) 7th International Conference on Applied Ethics

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:44:16 +0100

(Paris (France)) Metaphysical Knowledge

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:42:05 +0100

(Buenos Aires (Argentina)) Logic Workshop at Buenos Aires - A Tribute to Horacio Costa

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:40:48 +0100

Contact: info@sadaf.org.ar

(Manchester (UK)) Celebrating the Work of Peter Goldie

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:32:47 +0100

Contact: Julian.Dodd@manchester.ac.uk

(Paris (France)) Propositions and Propositional Attitudes

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:30:30 +0100

(Bochum (Germany)) Rudolf-Carnap-Lectures

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:26:59 +0100

Tentative Schedule
Thursday May 31st
10.15-12.15 Lecture 1:
Susan Carey: The Origin of Concepts: A Case Study of Natural Number
15.15-17.15 Lecture 2:
Ned Block: How the nature of attention can decide among the major theories
of perception
18.15-20.00 Public Evening Lecture 3:
Ned Block: How iconic memory shows that consciousness is fundamentally
different from cognition

Friday 1st of June
10.15-13.30 Graduate presentations
15.15-17.15 Lecture 4:
Ned Block: Insights about what we see from crowded perception

Saturday 2nd of June
10.15-12.15 Lecture 5:
Susan Carey: Core Cognition of the Social World

For more information see:Â www.rub.de/philosophy/carnaplectures

Organization
Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht, Prof. Dr. Albert Newen
Institut fÃ¼r Philosophie II
Ruhr-UniversitÃ¤t Bochum
UniversitÃ¤tsstr. 150, GA3
44780 Bochum

Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht
Professor for Philosophy ofÂ
Consciousness & Cognition
Institut fÃ¼r Philosophie II
Ruhr-UniversitÃ¤t Bochum
UniversitÃ¤tsstr. 150, GA3/29
44780 Bochum
Email: tobias.schlicht@rub.de

(Durham (UK)) Philosophy and Physics Workshop on Kirchhoff and Scientific Realism

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:24:22 +0100

(Donostia (Spain)) The ILCLI International Workshop on Cognitive Science

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:22:33 +0100

Contact: jesusmaria.larrazabal@ehu.es

(Roskilde (Denmark)) The 8th Scandinavian Logic Symposium

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:20:38 +0100

(Tampere (Finland)) Judgment and Justification

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:40:30 +0100

Contact: Jani Hakkarainen jani.hakkarainen[at]uta.fi

(Cambridge (UK)) First PERSP Legal Philosophy Workshop

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:38:19 +0100

(Wollongong (Australia)) The 2012 Conference of the Australasian Association of Philosophy

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:35:02 +0100

Contact: aap-2012@uow.edu.au

(Liège (Belgium)) Aspects et enjeux de la philosophie de Roderick Chisholm

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:20:26 +0100

D'un point de vue intentionnel: Aspects et enjeux de la philosophie de Roderick Chisholm

Journée d'étude, Université de Liège, 30 mars 2012.

Organisateur: Federico Boccaccini (ULg)

Salle de l'Horloge (Place du Vingt-Août 7, Bât. central, Aile des Jésuites, 2e entre-sol).

Programme

• Théorie de la connaissance et philosophie de l'esprit

9h Présentation de la journée.
9h30 Federico Boccaccini (ULg): Le primat de l'intentionnalité et ses conséquences philosophiques.
10h30 Denis Seron (FNRS): Les états de choses à moindres frais.
11h30 Pause café.
11h45 Howard Sankey (University of Melbourne): Chisholm, scepticisme et relativisme.
12h45 Pause repas.

• Logique et métaphysique

14h30 Bruno Leclercq (ULg): Faire cohabiter les objets sans domicile fixe (homeless objects): Chisholm et les logiques meinongiennes.
15h30 Sébastien Richard (ULB): Composition et identité. Sur l'essentialisme méréologique de Chisholm.
16h30 Pause café.
17h Arnaud Dewalque (ULg): Intentionnalité de se.

Contact Federico Boccaccini 32 (0)4 366 55 93 - federico.boccaccini[a]ulg.ac.be

(Cologne (Germany)) 7th Cologne Summer School in Philosophy

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:47:42 +0100

(Rome (Italy)) Intentions: philosophical and empirical issues

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:43:52 +0100

Call for papers: Topoi conference and special issue
INTENTIONS: PHILOSOPHICAL AND EMPIRICAL ISSUES
Rome, Italy, 29-30 November 2012

We are proud to announce that the first TOPOI CONFERENCE will be held in
Rome in November 2012. This will be the first in a series of conferences,
to be held every 2 years, sponsored by Topoi: An International Journal of
Philosophy (http://www.springer.com/philosophy/journal/11245).
In analogy with the journal format, each conference will focus on a
specific theme (topos), and contributions presented to the conference will
later appear in an issue of the journal dedicated to the same topic.

INVITED SPEAKERS
Marcel Brass (Ghent)
Cristiano Castelfranchi (Rome)
Elisabeth Pacherie (Paris)
Corrado Sinigaglia (Milan)
Bruno Verbeek (Leiden)

SUBMITTED PAPERS
Submissions of unpublished papers are welcome on any topic relevant to the
conference theme (see below). Submitted articles should be in English, not
exceed 5.000 words in length (including references), and be prepared for
blind reviewing. Only original papers (i.e., not published or submitted
for publication elsewhere) will be considered, since the authors of
accepted contributions will be invited to submit a revised longer version
of their papers for a special issue of Topoi, edited by Markus Schlosser
(Leiden) and Fabio Paglieri (Rome).

Submission of papers by e-mail to: Fabio Paglieri
(fabio.paglieri@istc.cnr.it)
Accepted file formats: .doc, .rtf., .odp, .pdf
Deadline for submission (full papers): 31 August 2012

RATIONALE AND THEME
Theorizing about human action has a long history in philosophy, and the
nature of intention and intentional action has received a lot of attention
in recent analytic philosophy. At the same time, intentional action has
become an empirically studied phenomenon in psychology, cognitive
neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and robotics. Many results obtained
in these areas have been incorporated within the current philosophical
debate, while at the same time scientists have often adopted in their
experiments and models philosophical assumptions on the nature of
intention and intentional action. As a result, the study of intentions is
nowadays a thriving enterprise, where both conceptual and empirical issues
are discussed in a dialogue across disciplines.
This conference aims to bring together empirically informed philosophers
and philosophically savvy scientists to address a variety of central
problems in the study of intention. Possible topics for contributions
include:
What is the relevance of recent findings in neuroscience and experimental
psychology for our philosophical understanding of intentions and
intentional action?
What role can philosophical analysis play in the design of experiments and
in the interpretation of empirical results?
What is the relation between intentions, choices, and other mental states
and events (such as desires, goals, plans, beliefs, expectations,
emotions, etc.)?
Are intentions necessarily conscious? Are they causally efficacious in
virtue of being conscious?
What, exactly, are motor intentions, proximal intentions, and distal
intentions?
What are the neural correlates of the different kinds of intentions?
What are the mechanisms responsible for intention recognition and action
understanding?
What is the role of intentions in gaining self-knowledge and
self-understanding?
What is the nature of group or shared intentions?
What role do intentions play in self-control and weakness of the will?
Do (or can) other animals or robots have intentions?
And so on.

PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENTS
The conference will be held at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and
Technologies of the National Research Council of Italy (ISTC-CNR,
http://www.istc.cnr.it/), Via San Martino della Battaglia 44, Rome, Italy.
The language of the conference is English. Attendance is free and no
registration is required. All meals will be provided for the authors of
accepted papers, but at the moment no reimbursement for accommodation and
travel costs is expected to be available.

ORGANIZERS AND SPONSORSHIP
The conference is organized by Fabio Paglieri (Rome) and Markus Schlosser
(Leiden), and sponsored by Topoi, Springer, the European Network for
Social Intelligence, SINTELNET (http://www.sintelnet.eu/), and the
Goal-Oriented Agents Lab (GOAL, http://www.istc.cnr.it/group/goal) of the
ISTC-CNR.

For further information, please contact Fabio Paglieri,
fabio.paglieri@istc.cnr.it

(Rome (Italy)) Does free will exist

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:39:37 +0100

Contact: Mario De Caro decaro@uniroma3.it

Workshop: “Does free will exist?”

Università Roma Tre, venerdì 16 marzo, ore 15.

Ore 15:00 Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame), In favor of free will

Ore 15:45 Discussion

Ore 16:15 Coffee break

Ore 16:30 Derk Pereboom (Cornell University), Against free will

Ore 17: 15 Discussion

Chair: Matteo Bianchin (Università Milano Bicocca)

Aula del Dipartimento di filosofia (secondo piano) , via Ostiense 234, Università Roma Tre (vicino a fermata metro B “Marconi”)

Chiunque fosse interessato è invitato a partecipare

(Bristol (UK)) Structuralism in Physics and Mathematics

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:37:35 +0100

(Bochum (Germany)) Philosophical Perspectives on Epistemology, Mind, and Science

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:35:37 +0100

(Paris (France)) Mind, Language and Metaphysics

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:33:53 +0100

(Bergamo (Italy)) Causalità: riflessioni teoriche e storiche

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:32:18 +0100

Bergamo, 22 marzo 2012
LA CAUSALITAâ€™: RIFLESSIONI TEORICHE E STORICHE
Dipartimento di Lettere, arti e multimedialitÃ
Sede di Via PIGNOLO, AULA 1

9,30 Maddalena Bonelli (UniversitÃ di Bergamo):
Il destino come causa efficiente: Aristotele e l'aristotelismo

10,30 Federico Laudisa (UniversitÃ di Milano-Bicocca):
CausalitÃ e leggi

11,50 Margherita Benzi (UniversitÃ del Piemonte orientale):
Cause singolari

Pausa pranzo

15,00 Simone Gozzano (UniversitÃ dellâ€™Aquila):
Unâ€™altra causazione non Ã¨ possibile

(Szklarska Poreba (Poland)) 17th Conference on Applications of Logic in Philosophy and the ...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:30:12 +0100

(Knoxville, TN (USA)) Themes from the Moral Philosophy of Rawls and Kant

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:26:50 +0100

(Paris (France)) Vicarious Representation

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:43:15 +0100

(Pisa (Italy)) Filosofia della matematica: dalla logica alla pratica

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:31:59 +0100

24 - 26 settembre
Aula Dini
Palazzo del Castelletto
Piazza del Castelletto
56126 Pisa

Con la collaborazione di: SELP
Col patrocinio di: SIFA, SILFS e AILA

Filosofi a della matematica:
dalla logica alla pratica.
Giovani studiosi a confronto
Convegno della Classe di Lettere

Lunedì 24 settembre

14:50 Introduzione
15:00 Paolo Mancosu (University of California Berkeley)
Assiomatica e purezza del metodo: sulla relazione tra geometria piana e
solida
16:00 Davide Crippa (Université Diderot Paris 7)
La relazione tra purezza e semplicità nell‘estensione della conoscenza
matematica
16:45 Alejandro Cuneo (Università di Bergamo)
Il teorema fondamentale del algebra usando solo numeri reali
17:30 Pausa caffè
17:45 Alberto Naibo (Université Sorbonne Paris 1)
Costruibilità e geometria
18:15 Silvia de Toffoli (Technische Universität Berlin)
Valeria Giardino (Universidad de Sevilla)
La dinamica dei diagrammi in teoria dei nodi
19:00 Conclusione prima giornata

Martedì 25 settembre:
09:00 Michele Ginammi (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Applicabilità e struttura
9:45 Andrea Sereni (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele)
Applicabilità, indispensabilità, e l’eresia compatibilista
10:30 Marina Imocrante (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele)
Una difesa del naturalismo matematico di Maddy dalle critiche di Roland:
il ruolo della profondità matematica
11:15 Pausa caffè
11:30 Claudio Ternullo (University of Liverpool)
Espansione concettuale e assiomi della teoria degli insiemi
12:15 Giorgio Venturi (Scuola Normale Superiore e Université Diderot Paris 7)
L’unità della matematica tra teoria e pratica
13:00 Pausa pranzo
15:00 Marco Panza (Institut d‘Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences et des
Techniques;
CNRS, Univ. de Paris 1 La Sorbonne, Ecole Normale Supérieur de Paris)
Astrazione ed economia epistemica
16:00 Francesca Boccuni (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele)
Grundgesetze fregeani e rivalutazione della impredicatività
16:45 Edoardo Caracciolo (Università di Torino)
Formalizzazione e intuizione nel Raumbuch di Husserl
17:30 Pausa caffè
17:45 Pietro Milici (Università di Palermo)
Un approccio costruttivo all‘analisi infinitesimale:
potenzialità epistemologiche e limiti
18:30 Mario Graziano (Università di Messina)
Numeri nella mente. L’intuizionismo nell’era della scienze cognitive
19:15 Conclusione seconda giornata

Mercoledì 26 settembre
09:00 Stefano Boscolo (Università di Palermo)
Oggetti o strutture? Un argomento a partire da insiemi e categorie
09:45 Ruggero Pagnan (Università di Genova)
La reificazione del segno in teoria delle categorie e il polimorfismo
parametrico
10:30 Samuele Maschio (Università di Pavia)
Qual è la vera categoria degli insiemi?“
11:15 Pausa caffè
11:30 Marianna Antonutti (Univeristy of Bristol)
Incompletezza, Tesi di Church e conoscenza matematica
12:15 Gabriele Pulcini (Università di Chieti-Pescara)
Deflazionismo, incompletezza ed ω_regola
13:00 Pausa pranzo
15:00 Luca San Mauro (Scuola Normale Superiore)
La naturalezza dei concetti matematici: un profilo logico filosofico
15:45 Giovanni Raimo (Technische Universität Berlin)
Significato e finalità del metodo assiomatico: l’aura metafisica della logica
16:30 Laura Tesconi (Università di Pisa)
Un contesto formale per la composizione di derivazioni
17:15 Pausa caffè
17:30 Laura Crosilla (University of Leeds)
Riflessioni sulla matematica costruttiva
18:15 Luca Tranchini (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
Semantica dimostrativo-teoretica, paradossi e
la distinzione tra senso e denotazione
19:00 Paolo Pistone (Università di Roma 3)
Il “seguire una regola” e i limiti della formalizzazione:
alcune considerazioni di Wittgenstein rievocate attraverso logica,
complessità e algebre di operatori

Per informazioni:
gabriele.lolli@sns.it
giorgio.venturi@sns.it
Attività culturali
050509307 - 323 - 554 - 432
eventiculturali@sns.it

(Bologna (Italy)) Workshop on Perception and Moral Perception

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:30:20 +0100

(Prague (Czech Republic)) Ernst Mach Workshop

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:28:22 +0100

(Spa (Belgium)) Agent-Based Modeling in Philosophy

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:26:32 +0100

(Toronto (Canada)) Fifth and Final Formal Epistemology Festival

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:39:07 +0100

(Aberdeen (UK)) Northern Institute of Philosophy Early Career Conference 2012

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:50:00 +0100

Contact: earlycareerconference@gmail.com

(University of Hertfordshire (UK)) Conference on Phenomenal Qualities

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:30:14 +0100

(Alghero (Italy)) The Answers of Philosophy. SIFA Twentieth Anniversary Conference

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:27:11 +0100

(Bergamo (Italy)) Giornata sull'Ontologia delle proprietÃ a Bergamo

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:23:16 +0100

Dipartimento di Lettere, Arti e MultimedialitÃ
UniversitÃ di Bergamo

LA METAFISICA DELLE PROPRIETÃ€

12 marzo 2012

Via Pignolo 123, Bergamo, 24121

Aula 6

9,30-10.45 KEVIN MULLIGAN (GENÃˆVE)
OLTRE GLI OGGETTI, LE RELAZIONI E LE PROPRIETÃ€

10,45-11,15 COFFEE BREAK

11,15-12,30 STEFANO DI BELLA (SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE, PISA)
DE ABSTRACTO ET CONCRETO. PROPRIETÃ€, ANALISI SEMANTICA E ONTOLOGIA DELLA
PREDICAZIONE IN LEIBNIZ

PRANZO

14,30-15,45 ANNA MARMODORO (OXFORD)
RECIPROCITA' SENZA SIMMETRIA NELLE INTERAZIONI CAUSALI. UN APPROCCIO
NEO-ARISTOTELICO ALLA CAUSALITA'

15,45-16,15 COFFEE BREAK

16,15-17,30 ANDREA BOTTANI (BERGAMO)
NOMINALISMO DELLA DIFFERENZA

(Lisbon (Portugal)) OFA-Oficina de Filosofia Analítica

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:21:07 +0100

(Istanbul (Turkey)) Summer School in Political Philosophy

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:54:38 +0100

(Bochum (Germany)) Quotation: Perspectives from Philosophy & Linguistics

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:51:25 +0100

(Edinburgh (UK)) Edinburgh Graduate Epistemology Conference

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:48:54 +0100

(Groningen (The Netherlands)) The mark of the cognitive

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:46:03 +0100

DATE: May 11thÂ 2012,
9.30 to 18.00
PLACE: Faculty of
Philosophy,Â University of Groningen
ATTENDANCE: All welcome, but please
send a message to cdutilhnovaes at yahoo dot com if you intend to come.

(Manchester (UK)) The Foundations of Ontology

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:38:41 +0100

(Barcelona (Spain)) Gender, Race, and Sexuality Conference in Barcelona

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:35:33 +0100

(London (UK)) Hume's Legacy

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:28:48 +0100

(Bergen (Norway)) 11th International Conference on Deontic Logic in Computer Science

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:24:44 +0100

(Trento (Italy)) The first IAOA Summer School

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:21:08 +0100

(Rome (Italy)) Free will, responsibility, and punishment (I)

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:16:16 +0100

Programma

Sessione mattutina

Chair: Andrea Lavazza

Ore 10:15 Erin Kelly (Tufts): “What is an excuse?”. Discussant: Mario De Caro

Ore 11:45 Coffee break

Ore 12:00 Cyrille Michon (Nantes): “Responsibility for consequences and alternative possibilities”. Discussant: Simone Gozzano

13:30 Lunch

Sessione pomeridiana

Chair: Roberto Pujia

14:45 Derk Pereboom (Cornell): “Criminal punishment and concerns about free will?”. Discussant: Andrea Lavazza

Ore 16:15 Coffee Break

Ore 16:30 Carla Bagnoli (Modena): “Responsibility, blame, and respect”. Discussant: Federica Della Grotta

Parteciperanno: Alessandro Ferrara, Andrea Iacona, Benedetto Ippolito, José Angel Lombo, Massimo Marraffa, Matteo Morganti, Teresa Numerico, Giorgio Pino, Juan José Sanguineti.

Aula Verra, Dipartimento di Filosofia, via Ostiense 234 (fermata “Marconi” della metro B).

Gli altri incontri della serie, ancora in parte da definire, seguiranno il 16 marzo e il 23 marzo. Informazioni: decaro@uniroma3.it.

(Philadelphia, PA, (USA)) Aristotle and Philosophy of Action

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:10:22 +0100

Contact: apayne@su.edu

(Pavia (Italy)) Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:08:20 +0100

(Lisbon (Portugal)) Knowledge and Disagreement

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:43:58 +0100

(Evian (France)) Contingency – Chance, Luck, Haphazardness

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:42:34 +0100

(Kanazawa (Japan)) Logic, Algebra, and Truth Degrees

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:40:25 +0100

(Barcelona (Spain)) Centered Content and Communication Workshop

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:38:50 +0100

(Fort Wayne, IN (USA)) The Third Midwest Workshop in Philosophy of Science, Technology, ...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:32:57 +0100

(Bristol (UK)) The Scope and Limits of Mathematical Knowledge

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:29:53 +0100

(Bielefeld (Germany)) Agents and Causes: Interdisciplinary Aspects in Mind, Language and Culture

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:28:46 +0100

(St. Andrews (UK)) Locke Workshop

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:25:41 +0100

Contact: Ruth Boeker rb294@st-andrews.ac.uk

(Montreal (Canada)) Charles Taylor at 80: an International Conference

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:22:08 +0100

(Bristol (UK)) Neurophenomenology

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:19:58 +0100

(Budapest (Hungary)) Problems of the Self

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:55:21 +0100

(Parma (Italy)) Reference and Proper Names

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:49:59 +0100

REFERENCE AND PROPER NAMES

=========================================================================================

February 16, 2012

Dipartimento di Filosofia

Università degli studi di Parma

Plesso di via D'Azeglio

_________________________________________________________________________________________

Morning Session (Aula K2)

10.00 am Genoveva MARTI (ICREA and Universidad de Barcelona): Reference Without Cognition

Discussant: Andrea MARINO (Università di Bologna)

11.35 am Coffee break

11.50 am Andrea BIANCHI (Università di Parma): Repetition and Reference

Discussant: Giuseppe SPOLAORE (Università di Verona)

_________________________________________

Afternoon Session (Aula E)

3.15 pm Michael DEVITT (CUNY): Should Proper Names Still Seem So Problematic?

Discussant: Massimiliano VIGNOLO (Università di Genova)

4.50 pm coffee break

5.05 pm Marco SANTAMBROGIO (Università di Parma): Did Madagascar Undergo a Change in Referent?

Discussant: Elisa PAGANINI (Università di Milano)

_________________________________________________________________________________________

The attendance is free

Those who plan to participate and are interested in receiving the papers under discussion in advance,

may write to: Andrea Bianchi (an.bianchi@libero.it)

(London, Ontario (Canada)) 12th Annual Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Physics Conference

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:09:23 +0100

(Saarbruecken (Germany)) KI 2012: Artificial Intelligence

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:34:05 +0100

(Milan (Italy)) Workshop on Ethics: A "Junior-Senior" Debate

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:20:21 +0100

(St. Petersburg (Russia)) Philosophy, Mathematics, Linguistics: Aspects of Interaction

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:16:50 +0100

(Braga (Portugal)) Fifth Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Analytic Philosophy

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:14:54 +0100

(Santiago de Compostela (Spain)) The Lullius Lectures and the Philosophy of Philip Kitcher

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:06:10 +0100

(London (UK)) Annual Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:12:42 +0100

(Canterbury (UK)) Evidence and Causality in the Sciences

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:07:19 +0100

(Turin (Italy)) Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 5

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:01:30 +0100

Contact: spe.2012@gmx.net

(Leusden (The Netherlands)) Narrativity: Interpretation, Embodiment and Responsibility

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:38:52 +0100

(Budapest (Hungary)) On the Scope of Distributive Justice

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:36:20 +0100

(Budapest (Hungary)) Aspects of Self and Agency

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:34:31 +0100

(Kirchberg am Wechsel (Austria)) 35th International Wittgenstein Symposium 2012 "Ethics - ...

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:21:20 +0100

(Kirchberg am Wechsel (Austria)) 4th Wittgenstein Summer School

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:18:44 +0100

(San Sebastian (Spain)) Conference on Prinz

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:15:57 +0100

(Istanbul (Turkey)) Kant on the Ideal and Ideals

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:11:28 +0100

(Nottingham (UK)) Reality Making

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:39:07 +0100

Contact: mark.jago@nottingham.ac.uk

(Oxford (UK)) British Society of Aesthetics 2012 Annual Conference

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:37:27 +0100

(Lisbon (Portugal)) First IFL Graduate conference in Analytic Philosophy

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:34:46 +0100

Contact: Klaus Gaertner <KlGa@gmx.de>

(Gothenburg (Sweeden)) Moral Motivation: Evidence and Relevance

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:31:46 +0100

(Leipzig (Germany)) II. International Kant-Workshop

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:29:11 +0100

(Pisa (Italy)) Pisa Summer Workshop in Proof Theory

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:25:21 +0100

(Las Vegas, NV (USA)) The 2012 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and ...

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:23:43 +0100

(Zurich (Switzerland)) Perspectives on Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:45:59 +0100

Contact: anne-katrin.schlegel@philos.uzh.ch

(Cambridge (UK)) What are Foundations of Mathematics and what are they for?

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:43:47 +0100

(Lugano (Switzerland)) Logic and Metaphysics of Essence

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:39:10 +0100

(Liège (Belgium)) Subjective experience: Phenomenological approaches to phenomenal consciousness

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:36:32 +0100

(Cambridge (UK)) Turing in Context

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:32:37 +0100

(Bologna and Modena (Italy)) The European Epistemology Network Meeting

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:42:46 +0100

(Sydney (Australia)) Social Ontology and Collective Intentionality

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:25:58 +0100

(Lund (Sweden)) 1st Conference on Games, Interactive Rationality and Learning

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:17:30 +0100

(Bamberg (Germany)) Philosophical Summer School 2012

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:14:25 +0100

Contact: contact@summerschool-bamberg.de

(Birmingham (U.K.)) Natural/Unconventional Computing and its philosophical significance

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:10:56 +0100

(Canterbury (UK)) Turing's Legacy

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:09:24 +0100

(Perth (Australia)) Mind & Consciousness Conference UWA

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:07:26 +0100

(Warwick (UK)) Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Theory

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:05:05 +0100

Contact: warwick.conference@gmail.com

(Dublin (Ireland)) Sellars Centenary Conference

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:02:11 +0100

Contact: jim.oshea@ucd.ie

'SELLARS CENTENARY CONFERENCE' (Dublin, June 4-8, 2012): REGISTER NOW (IN APRIL) to ensure accommodation:

Please register online as soon as possible during April for the 'Sellars Centenary Conference' to be held in Dublin June 4-8th 2012 (www.sellarscentenary.com), if you wish to book accommodation at our special conference rates. Beginning on April 20th we will have to begin releasing many of our reserved rooms, and accommodation in Dublin is scarce for this coming June.

Registration is required but is FREE (plus €45 Euro to attend the conference dinner, and there are other optional social events). Invited speakers for the main conference (June 6-8) include:

Robert Brandom

Paul Churchland

Bill deVries

Robert Kraut

Rebekka Kukla

Mark Lance

John McDowell

Ruth Millikan

Jim O'Shea

Huw Price

David Rosenthal

Johanna Seibt

Michael Williams

This will be preceded by a full two-day Workshop on Sellars on June 4-5, including talks by more than two dozen speakers. Please visit the conference website for all details, including more details on the Workshop programme soon (www.sellarscentenary.com).

(Riga (Latvia)) Games, Games Theory and Semantics

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:27:42 +0100

Contact: apointe@mcmaster.ca

(Oxford (UK)) Hume and Virtue

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:09:39 +0100

Contact: dobrien@brookes.ac.uk

(Montreal (Canada)) Science, Philosophy, Society

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:05:47 +0100

(Bologna (Italy)) Cogito Day 7

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:30:47 +0100

(Kitchener-Waterloo (Canada)) The Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science ...

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:24:49 +0100

(Bochum (Germany)) Animal Cognition

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:21:09 +0100

(Graz (Austria)) FOIS2012

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:18:48 +0100

(Delft (The Netherlands)) 2012 Episteme Conference on Epistemology and Privacy

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:15:30 +0100

(Paris (France)) Individuals Across Sciences: A Revisionary Metaphysics

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:13:11 +0100

(Laval (France)) Enhancing Human Experience via Emerging Technologies

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:09:18 +0100

(Pittsburgh, PA (USA)) 2012 Pitt-CMU Graduate Philosophy Conference

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:57:59 +0100

Contact: PittCMUConference@gmail.com

(Cambridge (UK)) The Mathematical Legacy of Alan Turing

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:54:16 +0100

(Dusseldorf) Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition, and Science

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:53:07 +0100

(Birmingham (UK)) 4th Mind Network Workshop

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:09:09 +0100

(Paris (France)) Character and Personality

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:06:50 +0100

Character and Personality: current debates in philosophy and psychology

17 - 18 July 2012
Sorbonne, Paris

The concepts of character and personality play important roles in moral philosophy, legal theory, and public policy. But there is considerable debate over how these concepts should be understood, how they are related to values, goals, attitudes, beliefs, desires, and automatic cognitive processing. This conference will bring together philosophers, psychologists, and other researchers leading this debate to discuss their current work. The keynote speakers are Professor John Doris and Professor Walter Mischel.

Researchers wishing to present work at the conference are invited to submit abstracts of no more than 1000 words by the deadline of 31 January. Please bear in mind that presentations should last no more than 30 minutes and should take the form of lectures rather than paper readings. Authors of selected abstracts may be invited to submit a full version of the paper for publication in an edited book with a leading academic publisher.

Abstracts should be prepared for anonymous review. Please submit as doc or pdf attachments to webberj1@cardiff.ac.uk with 'Paris submission' in the subject line. Please include author details in the body of the email.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 January 2012

Selection decisions will be emailed by: 29 February 2012

The conference is hosted by the Department of Philosophy at University of Paris-Sorbonne. Conference organisers are Alberto Masala (Paris-Sorbonne) and Jonathan Webber (Cardiff).

(Riga (Latvia)) International Summer School in Cognitive Sciences and Semantics: Theories of ...

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:00:24 +0100

(Rome (Italy)) Consciousness and Personal Identity

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:55:16 +0100

*Consciousness and Personal Identity*.
*Philosophical Perspectives and Neuroscience
*XX Annual Conference, P. Univ. S. Croce, Rome

Monday February 27, 2012

8.45: Chairman Prof. Mario De Caro, Università degli Studi Roma Tre

9.15: The ontological consistency of consciousness in classical thought
Prof. Juan José Sanguineti, Pontificia Università della Santa Croce

10.00: A phenomenological account of personhood, its temporal structures
and bodily dimensions
Prof.ssa Sara Heinämaa, University of Helsinki

11.15: The openness of the spirit: consciousness, life, dialogue
Prof. Ariberto Acerbi, Pontificia Università della Santa Croce

15.00: Papers

16.45: Chairman: Prof. José Manuel Giménez Amaya, Universidad de
Navarra, Pamplona

17.00: Self-awareness, willpower, and long-term intentional action
Dott. Fabio Paglieri, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione,
Roma

Tuesday February 28, 2012

Chairman: Dott.ssa Marta Bertolaso, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

9.15: Neural circuits involved in consciousness and self-awareness
Prof.ssa Carmen Cavada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

10.00: Tracking the footprints of consciousness in the brain
Prof. Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology

11.15: Consciousness irreducible
Prof. Giulio Tononi, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

16: Chairman: Prof. Juan José Sanguineti
Pontificia Università della Santa Croce

16.15: Conscious perception of sensory stimuli
Prof. Ranulfo Romo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

(Copenhagen (Denmark)) First European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences Conference

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:58:00 +0100

(Taipei (Taiwan)) Incommensurability 50

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:54:33 +0100

(Torino (Italy)) Nuovo Realismo

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:09:17 +0100

Torino, 5 Dicembre 2011 - Fondazione Rosselli, Corso Giulio Cesare 4 bis/b, Torino

Fondazione Rosselli:

NUOVO REALISMO: UNA DISCUSSIONE APERTA

Conferenza organizzata in collaborazione con: LabOnt - Laboratorio di Ontologia e Dipartimento di Filosofia - Università di Torino

Relazioni di:

Mario De Caro, Roberta De Monticelli, Umberto Eco, Costantino Esposito, Maurizio Ferraris,
Paolo Flores D’Arcais, Miguel Gotor, Diego Marconi, Stefano Rodotà, Alberto Voltolini

Programma

Ore 09,00 Registrazione

Ore 09,20 Saluti e apertura della conferenza
Francesca Traclò (Direttore Fondazione Rosselli)
Ore 09,30 Lectio introduttiva
Umberto Eco (Università di Bologna)
Chair: Massimo Dell’Utri (Università di Sassari)

Ore 10,20 Discussione

Ore 10,40 I° sessione
Chair: Andrea Lavazza (Centro universitario internazionale Arezzo)
La rilevanza del realismo
Mario De Caro (Università Roma Tre)
Sullo scetticismo pratico e le sue nefaste conseguenze intellettuali e morali
Roberta De Monticelli (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele)

Ore 11,20 Discussione

Ore 11,40 Coffee break

Ore 12.00 Interventi
Realismo minimale
Diego Marconi (Università di Torino)
Realismo critico
Maurizio Ferraris (Università di Torino)

Ore 12,40 Discussione

Ore 13,00 Chiusura I° sessione

Ore 15,00 II° sessione
Chair: Massimo Mori (Università di Torino)
Consolazione ermeneutica e ritorno alla realtà
Paolo Flores d’Arcais (Direttore “Micromega”)
La fallacia ermeneutica e il sospetto fondamentalismo
Alberto Voltolini (Università di Torino)

Ore 15,40 Discussione

Ore 16,00 Interventi
Che cosa ci chiede la realtà?
Costantino Esposito (Università di Bari)
Il ritorno del documento: il caso Moro tra finzione e realtà
Miguel Gotor (Università di Torino)

Ore 16,40 Discussione

Ore 17,00 Intervento conclusivo
Stefano Rodotà (Università "La Sapienza" di Roma)
Chair: Armando Massarenti (Il Sole 24 Ore)

(Rome (Italy)) Neuroetica e tribunali

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:06:55 +0100

15 Dicembre 2011

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR),

P.le Aldo Moro, 7 – 00185 Roma

Aula Marconi

Convegno:

NEUROETICA E TRIBUNALI.

Profili di responsabilità morale, legale e sociale nella prospettiva delle neuroscienze

Organizzato da: Modulo di Ricerca “Bioetica, Etica della ricerca e Diritto”, Istituto di Studi Giuridici Internazionali (ISGI-CNR)

(Opole (Poland)) ESSLLI 2012 Logic and Cognition Workshop

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:04:24 +0100

(Toronto (Canada)) Varieties of Possibility: Logical, Metaphysical, Epistemic and Practical

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:02:16 +0100

Varieties of Possibility: Logical, Metaphysical, Epistemic and
Practical
The 12th Annual University of Toronto Graduate Conference in
Philosophy
March 30 & 31, 2012

Keynote Speaker: Timothy Williamson, University of Oxford

What is it for something to be possible? And what have possibilities
to do with us and the world? Can envisioning them tell us something
about what there is and how to act? How do we know that something is
possible, and how should we reason about it? Is there a core
conception of possibility that runs through all such questions? If
not, in what relations do these various conceptions stand?

The graduate students of philosophy at the University of Toronto
invite papers exploring these and related issues for their 12th annual
graduate conference. We welcome submissions from all fields in
philosophy, including those making connections to other disciplines,
and especially encourage those engaging the history of philosophy.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:

The logic of future contingents in ancient and contemporary philosophy
The concept of potentiality (dunamis) in ancient thought, and its
relation to the modern notion of possibility
Developments in medieval theories of modality in the thirteenth and
fourteenth centuries
The relations among various sorts of possibility, e.g., logical,
conceptual, epistemic, metaphysical, mathematical, nomological,
technological or practical
The relations between various sorts of possibility and various kinds
of modal logic, e.g., alethic, doxastic, deontic and so on
Quantified modal logic and the Barcan Formula
Realism and antirealism about possibilia
The existence of unactualized or unactualizable possibilities
The connections between intuitions, evidence, conceivability and
possibility in counterfactual or thought experimental reasoning
The relations between skeptical possibilities, justification and what
it means 'to know that p'
The conceptual relations between the notions of possibility and
probability
The supervenience of the normative on the natural, i.e. the
impossibility of an identical world having the same natural but
different normative properties
The bearing of the principle of alternate possibilities on free-will
and moral responsibility
The best of all possible worlds and Leibniz's philosophical theology
The role of utopias or ideal social arrangements in political and
ethical thought
The relation between the possibility of discourse and democratic
institutions

Deadline for submission: JANUARY 5, 2012

Please submit through EasyChair. Submissions must be in doc(x) or pdf
format and prepared for blind review. Papers should not exceed 4000
words and abstracts should not exceed 300 words. Only one submission
per author. Limited travel stipends are available, with special funds
for exceptional papers in ancient and medieval philosophy.

For more information, please contact us at: torontophilgradconf@gmail.com

(Warwich (UK)) MindGrad 2011

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:05:01 +0100

(Rome (Italy)) 9th Italian Convention on Computational Logic (CILC 2012)

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:00:09 +0100

(London (UK)) The London Conference in Critical Thought

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:56:32 +0100

(Oxford (UK)) Pattern Formation: The inspiration of Alan Turing

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:54:34 +0100

(Oxford (UK)) Analytic Philosophy of Mind and Language: French-British Dialogue(s)

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:52:06 +0100

he Institut Nicod and The Maison FranÃ§aise d'Oxford are pleased to announce the following conference:

"Analytic Philosophy of Mind and Language: French-British Dialogue(s)"

Friday 2 December

9.30am-10.00am Â Â Tea/Coffee
Welcome by Luc Borot,Director of the Maison FranÃ§aise dâ€™Oxford

Morning Session: 10.00am-12.00
Chair:Martine PÃ©charman, CNRS-MFO

SymposiumÂ : Mental Files

Thea Goodsell, Magdalen College
Michael Murez, ENS Paris

12.00-1.30pmÂ Lunch

Afternoon Session I: 1.30pm-3.30pm
Chair:Tim Williamson,New College
Â
SymposiumÂ : Attitude Ascriptions and the
First Person

Daniel Morgan,New College
FranÃ§ois Recanati,CNRS/St Andrews

3.30pm-4.00pmÂ Tea/Coffee

Afternoon Session II: 4.00pm-6.00pm
Chair:Martin Davies, Corpus Christi College (TBC)

SymposiumÂ : Delusions, Beliefs and Metacognition

Tim Bayne,St Catherineâ€™s College
Elisabeth Pacherie,CNRS Paris

Saturday 3 December

9.30am-9.45am: Tea/Coffee

Morning Session: 9.45am-12.00
Chair: Maja Spener, St Catherineâ€™s College

Experience and Phenomenal Content

9.45am-10.45am
JÃ©rÃ´me Dokic,EHESS Paris
Perceptual Appearances and Feelings of Presence

10.45am-11.00amÂ Tea/Coffee

11.00am-12.00
William Child,University College
Phenomenal Concepts, Subjectivity, and Wittgenstein

12.15-1.30pmÂ Lunch

Afternoon Session: 1.30pm-4.00pm
Chair:Scott Sturgeon, Wadham College

Round Table: Singular Thought

John Hawthorne,Magdalen College
Ofra Magidor, Balliol College
FranÃ§ois Recanati, CNRS/St Andrews

4.00pmÂ Tea/Coffee

(Oxford (UK)) 2012 Oxford Political Thought Conference

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 09:47:01 +0100

(Bochum (Germany)) Lecture Series Recanati: "Language & Thought": Using Files: ...

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:49:07 +0100

(Bochum (Germany)) Lecture Series Recanati: "Language & Thought": Varieties of Files

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:45:35 +0100

Contact: sekretariat-newen@rub.de

(Munich (Germany)) Decision, Games and Logic 2012

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:35:09 +0100

(Barcelona (Spain)) IV Workshop on Vagueness and Metaphysics

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:26:31 +0100

(Athens (Greece)) 7th Annual International Conference on Philosophy

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:24:14 +0100

(Pavia (Italy)) Law & Neuroscience Winter School

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:20:39 +0100

(Paris (France)) Acts and Propositional Content

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:40:26 +0100

(Helsinki (Finland)) Models and Simulations 5

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:38:45 +0100

(Macerata (Italy)) Mente e Linguaggio

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:34:02 +0100

Mente e Linguaggio
Convegno dedicato alla memoria di
Hector-Neri Castañeda (1924-1991)
nel ventennale della sua scomparsa

Giovedì 17 novembre 2011, ore 15
Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze Umane (Via Garibaldi, 20 - Macerata)
Aula C – Terzo piano

15.00–15.15: F. Orilia (Università di Macerata), I principali contributi filosofici di Castañeda: le praticazioni, i quasi-indicatori, la teoria delle guise

15.15–15.30: V. Raspa (Università di Urbino), Castañeda e Meinong

15.30–16.15: G. Varnier (Università di Siena), Autocoscienza e linguaggio

16.15–17.00: A. Zucchi (Università di Milano), Descrizione degli eventi e predicati con classificatori nelle lingue dei segni

17.00–17.15: Pausa caffè

17.15–18.00: G. Usberti (Università di Siena), Idee per una semantica internista

18.15–19.00: L. Cimmino (Università di Perugia), Percezione del tempo e suo passaggio

19.00–19.30: Discussione finale e conclusione dei lavori

Per informazioni, si prega di contattare Michele Paolini Paoletti (michele.paolinip@gmail.com)

(Konstanz (Germany)) What may we believe? What ought we to do?

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:30:28 +0100

(Berlin (Germany)) Personal and Shared Intentions

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:37:01 +0100

Conference Homepage:
http://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/interdisciplinary-workshop-personal-and-shared-intentions-veranstaltung-auf-englisch

(Sofia (Bulgaria)) 3rd Sofia International Conference on Ontology

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:14:27 +0100

(Aberdeen (UK)) Conference on the A Priori at the NIP

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:12:08 +0100

Contact: d.dodd@abdn.ac.uk

(Vienna (Austria)) Nothing but the Truth

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:08:58 +0100

(Stirling (UK)) 2010 Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:02:55 +0100

(London (UK)) Physicalism and Phenomenal Concepts

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:00:53 +0100

(Geneva (Switzerland)) Cognitive Perspectives on Perceptual Epistemology

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:32:50 +0100

(Cologne (Germany)) The Epistemology of Modality

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:45:37 +0100

(Rotterdam (The Netherlands)) 2012 Rotterdam Graduate Conference in Philosophy of Science

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:43:10 +0100

Contact: ruzzene@fbw.eur.nl

(Amsterdam (The Netherlands)) Vagueness in Language, Reasoning and Cognition

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:39:41 +0100

(Munich (Germany)) Paradox and Logical Revision

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:35:39 +0100

(Munich (Germany)) Axiomatic versus Semantic Truth

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:32:54 +0100

Contact: axiomaticsemantic@gmail.com

(Cologne (Germany)) Dispositions, Causes, Modality

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:28:15 +0100

(Bochum (Germany)) Philosophy international - Lecture Series with Prof. Francois Recananti

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:37:05 +0100

Philosophy international - Lecture Series

PROF. FRANCOIS RECANATI
Institut Jean Nicod (Paris)
__________________________

Language & Thought

Ruhr-Universität Bochum, GABF 04/358, 9.00 - 12.30 Uhr

Nov 18, 2011         Singular Thought & Mental Files: The Indexical Model
Dec 16, 2011         Varieties of Files
Jan 13, 2012          Using Files: From Referential Communication to Mindreading

Francois Recanati is a Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
(CNRS, Paris) and Director at the Institut Jean Nicod (Paris).
He has published many papers and several books on the philosophy of language and mind,
including Meaning and Force (Cambridge, 1987), Direct Reference (Blackwell, 1993), Oratio
Obliqua, Oratio Recta (MIT Press, 2000) and Truth-conditional pragmatics (Oxford, 2010).
He is also co-founder and past President of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy.

Please register (there are no fees) before 15th Nov.: sekretariat-newen@rub.de

Scientific Organisation:
Prof. Albert Newen
Dr. Leon de Bruin
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Institut für Philosophie II
GA 3/152
Universitätsstr. 150
44801 Bochum

(Austin, TX (USA)) Second Annual Analytic Philosophy Symposium

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:22:54 +0100

The journal Analytic Philosophy is pleased to announce the second annual Analytic Philosophy Symposium to be held at The University of Texas at Austin on December 2nd and 3rd, 2011. The symposium will feature talks by Susanne Bobzien (Yale), James Dreier (Brown), Anil Gupta (Pittsburgh), and Stephen Neale (CUNY).

The conference will be held in:

David L. Miller Conference Room
Waggener Hall, Room 316
Department of Philosophy
University of Texas at Austin

And is scheduled as follows:

Friday 12/2
2:00-4:00pm Susanne Bobzien
4:15pm-6:15pm Anil Gupta

Saturday 12/3
12:30pm-2:30pm Stephen Neale
3:00pm-5:00pm James Dreier

--
David Sosa
Editor, Analytic Philosophy
Temple Professor and Chair

Department of Philosophy
University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station (c3500)
Austin, TX 78712

(Aberdeen) PETAF Midterm Conference

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:19:20 +0100

(Sevilla (Spain)) LOFT10 2012: Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:15:00 +0100

(Torino (Italy)) Disaccordo/Disagreement

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 09:35:31 +0100

Contact: carola.barbero@unito.it

DISACCORDO / DISAGREEMENT

Torino, 12-13 dicembre 2011

Lunedì, 12 dicembre

Università di Torino, Sala “Principi D’Acaja”, Palazzo del Rettorato, via Po 17

9.00

Saluti delle autorità

9.15

THE ANALYTIC/CONTINENTAL DISAGREEMENT

Chair: STEFANO POGGI (Firenze)

HANS-JOHANN GLOCK (Zürich)

JEAN PIERRE COMETTI (Aix-en-Provence)

11.00 Coffee break

11.15

DISAGREEMENT OF JUDGMENTS OF TASTE

Chair: DIEGO MARCONI (Torino)

BARRY SMITH (London)

MAX KÖLBEL (Barcelona)

13.00 Pausa

14.45

DISACCORDO MORALE

Chair: MARIO DE CARO (Roma)

EUGENIO LECALDANO (Roma)

ANTONIO DA RE (Padova)

16.30 Coffee break

16.45

DISAGREEMENT IN MATHEMATICS/NATURAL SCIENCE

Chair: GABRIELE LOLLI (Pisa)

PIERDANIELE GIARETTA (Padova)

MARIA PONTE (San Sebastian)

18.30

ASSEMBLEA DEI SOCI DELLA SIFA

Martedì, 13 dicembre

9.30

DISACCORDO IN ONTOLOGIA

Chair: MAURIZIO FERRARIS (Torino)

MASSIMILIANO CARRARA (Padova)

LUCA MORENA (Torino)

11.15 Coffee break

11.30

DISACCORDO POLITICO

Chair: ELISABETTA GALEOTTI (Vercelli)

VALERIA OTTONELLI (Genova)

EMANUELA CEVA (Pavia)

13.15 Pausa

15.00

DISACCORDO IN ERMENEUTICA

Chair: FRANCA D’AGOSTINI (Torino)

CLAUDIO CIANCIO (Vercelli)

LUIGI PERISSINOTTO (Venezia)

For further information please write to carola.barbero@unito.it

Per ulteriori informazioni scrivere a carola.barbero@unito.it

(St. Andrews (UK)) Indefinite Extensibility and Logical Paradoxes

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:53:23 +0100

Contact: Lynn Hynd arche@st-and.ac.uk

(Amerfoort (The Netherlands)) Everyday Reason Talk

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:51:03 +0100

(Karlsruhe (Germany)) COMPUTING 2011: 75 years of Turing machine and lambda calculus

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:31:12 +0100

(Beijing (China)) Turing Centenary Meeting

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:28:48 +0100

(Fort Wayne, IN (USA)) Midwest Workshop in the Philosophy of Science, Technology, Engineering, ...

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:27:13 +0100

(Nancy (France)) Tacit knowledge in science: discussions with Harry Collins

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:28:48 +0100

Contact: l_soler@club-internet.fr

(Edinburgh (UK)) Workshop on Epistemic Expressivism

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:26:43 +0100

(Paris (France)) Acts and Propositional Content

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:25:07 +0100

Contact: Alexandra Arapinis <Alexandra.Arapinis@malix.univ-paris1.fr>

Workshop 'Acts and Propositional Content'

Paris, November 26, 2011

IHPST, 13 rue du Four, 75006 Paris
Grand Salle

Program

09.15-10.30 Kevin Mulligan (Université de Genève)
"Acceptance, Affirmation, Agreement, Acknowledgment, Assertion, Belief,
Certainty, Conviction, Denial, Judgment, Refusal, and Rejection"

Coffee break

10.45-12.00 Mark Textor (King's College London)
"Reinach on Rejection and Negation"

Lunch break

14.30-15.45 Friederike Moltmann (IHPST - CNRS/Paris 1/ENS)
"The Action-Product Distinction for Transitive Intensional Verbs"

Coffee break

16.00-17.15 Maria van der Schaar (Leiden University)
"Mere Belief and the Etiolations of Language"

(Hejnice (Czech Republic)) Logica 2012

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:22:58 +0100

(Padova (Italy)) 2° Workshop di Pratica e Teoria dell'Argomentazione

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:23:02 +0100

(Amsterdam (The Netherlands)) Third Annual Dutch Conference on Practical Philosophy

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:20:47 +0100

(Kingston upon Thames (UK)) Feminist Epistemology and Philosophical Traditions

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:18:28 +0100

(Bochum (Germany)) Trends in Logic XI

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:50:24 +0100

(Padova (Italy)) The Logic of Hegel's Science of Logic

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:48:26 +0100

Contact: hegel.pd@gmail.com

(Rome (Italy)) Menzogne? Il concetto di falsità della comunicazione filosofica e scientifica

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:26:27 +0100

(Rome (Italy)) Ontologies et Sémantique lexicale

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:24:44 +0100

(Ghent (Belgium)) Kuhn and Rationality

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:22:10 +0100

PROGRAMME:

9:30 - 10:15 - Thomas Nickles (University of Nevada)
10:15 - 11:00 - Dunja Seselja (Ghent University)

11:00 - 11:30 - Coffee break

11:30 - 12:15 - Rogier De Langhe (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies)
12:15 - 13:00 - Tim De Mey (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

13:00 - 14:30 - Workshop lunch

14:30 - 15:15 - Maarten Van Dyck (Ghent University)
15:15 - 16:00 - General discussion

VENUE:
Blandijnberg 2, room 2.16
Faculty of Arts and Letters
Ghent University, Belgium

REGISTRATION is not required and attendance is free.

More information: rogierdelanghe@gmail.com

(Norwich (UK)) Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language and Mind Workshop

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:17:40 +0100

Contact: M.Serban@uea.ac.uk

Location: University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Date: 14 December 2011
Deadline for abstracts submission:Â 4 November
Notification of acceptance:Â 11 November

(Regensburg (Germany)) Decisions and the Process of Reasoning

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:27:07 +0100

(Palm Springs, CA (USA)) Foundations of Computer Science

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:03:56 +0100

(Evanston, IL (USA)) Northwestern/Notre Dame Graduate Epistemology Conference

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:08:12 +0100

(Siena (Italy)) Autocoscienza e Linguaggio

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:05:53 +0100

Università degli Studi di Siena
- Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze Sociali & Facoltà di Lettere e
Filosofia
- Dottorato in Scienze Cognitive
- Insegnamenti di Filosofia Teoretica, Filosofia del Linguaggio ed
Epistemologia Generale

"Autocoscienza e Linguaggio. Filosofia e Scienze Cognitive" –
8-9 settembre 2011 –
Aula H di Palazzo Fieravecchia, ingresso da Via Roma 47, SIENA

Giovedì 8 settembre:
14.00 G. Varnier: Introduzione
14.20 Sandro Nannini, "La naturalizzazione dell'io. Spunti
preliminari"
15.10-16.00 Francesco Orilia, “Autocoscienza e stati di cose”
16.00-16.30 Pausa Caffé
16.30-17.20 Alberto Voltolini, "Coscienza senza intenzionalita'"
17.20-18.10 Giuseppe Varnier, “Un problema circa la ‘conoscenza’
di se stessi”
19.00-20.0 Giacomo Romano, “Facoltà del linguaggio e varietà di
coscienze”

20.30-45: Cena

Venerdì 9 settembre:
9.00-9.50 Nicola Simonetti, “Una interpretazione
riduttivo-naturalistica del Sistema dei Neuroni Specchio”
9.50-10.40 Luigi Rizzi, TBA
10.40-11.00 Pausa caffé
11.00-11.50 Massimo Marraffa, "Saper dire perché: la teoria della
teoria dell'autocoscienza introspettiva"
11.50-12.40 Pietro Perconti, "Autocoscienza e linguaggio. Analisi
concettuale e scienza cognitiva a confronto"
12.40-13.30: DISCUSSIONE

(PIsa (Italy)) Possibilità al di là della determinazione

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:28:46 +0100

/Possibilità al di là della determinazione/

Matematica, fisica e filosofia della complessità

Giornata di studi in memoria di Aldo Giorgio Gargani

Pisa, 19/09/2011 -- Dipartimento di Filosofia (Aula Barone)

*Programma*

*

h 10,00. Apertura dei lavori: Alfonso Maurizio Iacono (Facoltà di
Lettere e Filosofia), Simonetta Bassi (Dipartimento di Filosofia).

Chairman: Alfonso Maurizio Iacono (Dipartimento di Filosofia)

*

h 10, 30. Stefano Salvia (Dipartimento di Filosofia)

/Determinismo, linearità, prevedibilità. Il "problema dei tre corpi" /

/da Newton a Poincaré./

*

h 11,15. Leone Fronzoni (Dipartimento di Fisica)

/Ordine e caos nella scienza moderna/.

*

h 12,00. Pausa pranzo

Chairman: Mauro Mariani (Dipartimento di Filosofia)

*

h 14, 30. Giuseppe Longo (ENS -- Paris)

/Dalla determinazione dei sistemi di riferimento in fisica all'aleatorio
biologico:/

/l'indeterminazione intrinseca dello stato vivente della materia./

*

h 15, 15. Angelo Marinucci (Dipartimento di Filosofia)

/Possibilità al di là della determinazione: una prospettiva filosofica./

- h 16, 00. Coffee break

*

h 16, 30. Silvano Tagliagambe (Università di Sassari)

/Crisi della ragione tra ordine e caos./

- h 17, 15. Conclusione dei lavori.

(Riga (Latvia)) Games, Game Theory and Game Semantics

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:24:04 +0100

Contact: lapointe@mcmaster.ca

(Miami, FL (USA)) 9th University of Miami Graduate Epistemology Conference

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:22:18 +0100

Contact: epistemology.um@gmail.com

(Nancy (France)) 3rd Paris-Nancy Phil Math workshop

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:04:59 +0100

Contact: Anny.Begard@univ-nancy2.fr OR orgerhard.Heinzmann@univ-nancy2.fr

PNPMW 2011 Program

Tuesday September, 27th (Nancy,MSH Lorraine, salle Internationale, 91, av.
de la Libération)

10:30-10:45 welcome of participants
10:45-12:15 Jacques Dubucs,
12:15-14:00 lunch break

14:00-15.30 Ivanh Smadja,
15.30-17:00 Luca Incurvati, "The graph conception of set"
17:00-17.15 coffee break
17.15-18.45 Gianluigi Oliveri, "On a New Argument for Realism in
Mathematics"
19:30 workshop dinner

Wednesday September, 28th (Nancy, MSH Lorraine, salle Internationale, 91,
av. de la Libération)

9:00-10:30 Michiel van Lambalgen, "The completeness of Kant's Table of
Judgements and its consequencesfor philosophy of mathematics."
10:45-12:15 Jonathan Payne, "Abstraction with domain expansion"

12:15-14:00 lunch break

14:00-15.30 Iris Loeb, "Questioning Constructive Reverse Mathematics"
15.30-17:00 Giovanni Sambin, "Real and ideal in mathematics: a dynamic
view"

17H30-18H30 organization of the P-NPMW 2012

Steering Committee: Andrew Arana, Mark van Atten, Michael Detlefsen, Paolo
Mancosu , Marco Panza, David Rabouin, Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz.

Program Committee: Denis Bonnay, Gabriella Crocco, Jacques Dubucs, Sebastien
Gandon, Gerhard Heinzmann, Brice Halimi, Philippe Nabonnand, Andrei Rodin,
Stewart Shapiro, Sean Walsh.

(Tilburg (The Netherlands)) The Progress of Science

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:57:17 +0100

(Tilburg (The Netherlands)) The Progress of Science

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:50:15 +0100

(Parma (Italy)) First Parma Workshop on Semantics and Pragmatics

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:04:41 +0100

Contact: Andrea Bianchi (an.bianchi@libero.it)

FIRST PARMA WORKSHOP ON SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS

====================================================

September 12, 2011

Dipartimento di Filosofia

Università degli studi di Parma

Plesso via D'Azeglio, Aula H

____________________________________________________

10.00 am Kent BACH (San Francisco State University)

The Lure of Linguistification

11.20 am Coffee break

11.40 am Andrea BIANCHI (Università degli Studi di Parma)

Speaker Reference and Semantic Reference: A Theoretically Useful Distinction?

1.00 pm Lunch

2.30 pm Howard WETTSTEIN (University of California at Riverside)

The Myth of Reference Determination

3.50 pm coffee break

4.10 pm Marco SANTAMBROGIO (Università degli Studi di Parma)

Disagreement and Content

5.30 pm Michael DEVITT (CUNY)

What's Wrong with Linguistic Contextualism?

(Donostia (Spain)) SPR-11: ILCLI International Workshop on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Rhetoric

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:17:39 +0100

(Charlotte, NC (USA.)) Modeling Complexity in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:23:29 +0100

(Vienna (Austria)) Vienna International Summer University Scientific World Conceptions

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:20:36 +0100

Cost of the program: EUR 880,– Lodging in student dormitories is available at approximately EUR 350,– for the whole duration of the course.
Applicants should submit: A short educational curriculum vitae A list of most recent courses and grades or a copy of your diplomas A one-page statement (in English), briefly outlining your previous work and your reason for attending the VISU-SWC A (sealed) letter of recommendation from your professor, including some comment on your previous work. This letter may also be sent directly by your professor. A passport photo Please make sure that all documents arrive in time because we can process only complete applications. Application form (available on our web site: http://www.univie.ac.at/ivc/VISU) may be sent in advance.
To participate mastering English on a high level is required.
Application deadline: January 31, 2012 (Later applications may be considered if space is still available.)
A letter of admission together with a detailed syllabus will reach successful applicants by mid-February, 2012.
The administration of VISU-SWC at the University of Vienna can assist the candidates admitted in applying for funds and in the accreditation of the course, but unfortunately, cannot offer financial assistance. However, for a few gifted applicants who can demonstrate that, despite serious documented efforts, they have not been able to obtain any financial support, in particular due to economic difficulties in their own country, a tuition waiver grant, awarded by the Institute Vienna Circle and the University of Vienna, will be provided.
Applications should be sent to Professor Friedrich Stadler, Institute Vienna Circle University Campus, Spitalgasse 2–4, Court 1, Entrance 1.13 A-1090 Vienna, Austria Fax: +43-1-4277 41297
For further inquiries, please send email to friedrich.stadler@univie.ac.at or consult the IVC's Web site www.univie.ac.at/ivc/VISU

(Ghent (Belgium)) Isaac Newton and his Reception

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:16:39 +0100

Contact: Eric Schliesser nescio2@Yahoo.com

(Birmingham (UK)) AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 - Alan Turing 2012

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:14:57 +0100

(Hatfield (UK)) Workshop on Wittgenstein's On Certainty

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:57:02 +0100

Contact: d.moyal-sharrock@herts.ac.uk

(Washington DC (USA.)) Philosophy of Information

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:49:28 +0100

(Dublin (Ireland)) Sellars Centenary Conference

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 07:57:29 +0100

Contact: Jim O’Shea jim.oshea@ucd.ie

(Goettingen (Germany)) Proper Names: Philosophical and Linguistic Perspectives

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:16:59 +0100

(Fortaleza (Brazil)) II Meeting of the Brazilian Society for Analytic Philosophy (BSAP)

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:13:54 +0100

(Durham (UK)) Ancient Fallacies

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:02:39 +0100

(Hamilton (Canada)) The first annual conference of the Society for the Study of the History of ...

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:57:12 +0100

(Rome (Italy)) XVIII Convegno nazionale della Società di Filosofia del linguaggio

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:54:40 +0100

(Bogotá (Colombia)) II Colombian Conference on Logic, Epistemology and Philosophy of Science

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:44:46 +0100

(Berlin (Germany)) Social Epistemology

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:35:57 +0100

(Berlin (Germany)) Algorithmic Intelligence

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:32:14 +0100

(Halifax (Canada)) HOPOS 2012

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:26:58 +0100

(Kirchberg am Wechsel) Wittgenstein Symposium

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:47:25 +0100

(Bochum (Germany)) The Semantics and Epistemology of Mental State Ascriptions

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:23:57 +0100

(Oxford (UK)) Axiomatic Theories of Truth

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:25:08 +0100

(Barcelona (Spain)) Space & Time Workshop on the Open Future

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:44:48 +0100

(Lisbon (Portugal)) International Colloquium: Argumentation in Polit ical Deliberation

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:03:16 +0100

(Amsterdam (The Netherlands)) Formal Semantic Evidence

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:59:48 +0100

Contact: K.Schulz@uva.nl

(Rende (Italy)) The Nature of Social Reality

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:35:54 +0100

(Ghent (Belgium)) Perspectivalism Workshop 2012

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:51:32 +0100

(Amsterdam (The Netherlands)) Amsterdam Graduate Philosophy Conference

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:47:47 +0100

(Cambridge (UK)) 5th Annual Cambridge Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Mathematics and ...

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:53:10 +0100

Contact: cam.phil.grad.conf@googlemail.com

(Paris (France)) SOPHA congress 2012

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:50:32 +0100

(Edinburgh (UK)) The Aims of Inquiry and Cognition

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:55:28 +0100

Contact: ahazlett@staffmail.ed.ac.uk

(Edinburgh (UK)) The Aims of Inquiry and Cognition

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:55:11 +0100

Contact: ahazlett@staffmail.ed.ac.uk

(Chieti (Italy)) Joachim Lambek: Mathematics, Logic and Language

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:27:27 +0100

(Nara (Japan)) 12th Meeting on Mathematics of Language

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:17:48 +0100

(Lund (Sweden)) Social Epistemology

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:07:22 +0100

(Copenhagen (Denmark)) Social Epistemology

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:06:09 +0100

(Bochum (Germany)) Opening Center for Mind, Brain and Cognitive Evolution

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:59:07 +0100

(Paris (France)) Genericity: from morphology to cognition

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:25:52 +0100

(Copenhagen (Denmark)) Advances in Modal Logic

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 15:52:00 +0100

(Paris (France)) Hume's Legacy

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:14:14 +0100

(Amsterdam (The Netherlands)) Inquisitiveness

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:48:06 +0100

(Stuttgart (Germany)) Ontological, Epistemological and Methodological Aspects of Computer Science

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:45:14 +0100

Contact: juan.duran@philo.uni-stuttgart.de

(Orsay (France)) Model theory of difference fields and applications

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:41:58 +0100

(Guangzhou (China)) Non-classical modal and predicate logics

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:40:19 +0100

(Sydney (Australia)) Epistemology Workshop

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:34:11 +0100

Contact: Email Karyn Lai k.lai@unsw.edu.au

(Thessaloniki (Greece)) Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:48:56 +0100

(Bologna (Italy)) Wittgenstein Day + Book Symposium

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:04:37 +0100

(Tubingen (Germany)) Interdisciplinary Tubingen Summer School: Operationalisation of mental states

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:01:06 +0100

Contact: info@fsci.uni-tuebingen.de

(St. Andrews (UK)) Arche/CSMN Graduate Conference

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:09:38 +0100

Contact: acgc5@googlegroups.com

(London (UK)) Lewis Carroll - Man of Science

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:30:05 +0100

Contact: markrichards@aznet.co.uk

(Edinburgh (UK)) Edinburgh Epistemology Workshop

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:36:03 +0100

(Blonay (Switzerland)) The Pragmatic Load in Knowledge

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:33:00 +0100

(Urbino (Italy)) Defending Realism: Ontological and Epistemological Investigations

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:31:21 +0100

Defending Realism
Ontological and Epistemological Investigations
20-22 June 2011
Università di Urbino
Palazzo Albani, Via Timoteo Viti 10, Room D2

Mon 20-6-2011
9:00-9:15 Welcome
9:15-9:55 Erwin Tegtmeier, Realism and intentionality
10:00-10:40 Guido Bonino, Russell’s “robust sense of reality”
10:45-11:15 break
11:15-11:55 Gregory Landini, Impredicativity and the foundation of mathematics and intentionality
12:00-12:40 Russ Shafer-Landau, Genealogical critiques of moral realism

15:00-15:40 Walter Hopp, The veil of cognition
15:45-16:25 Greg Jesson, The impossibility of scepticism
16:25-17:00 break
17:00-17:40 Ingvar Johansson, Proof of the existence of universals – from a fallibilist
17:45-18:25 Tomis Kapitan, Aristotelian Platonism
18:30-19:10 Ann-Sophie Barwich, Science and fiction: on the reference of models

Tue 21-6-2011
9:15-9:55 Dale Jacquette, Realism vs. idealism in the nature-nurture dispute
10:00-10:40 Bernhard Weiss, The reality of linguistic norms
10:45-11:15 break
11:15-11:55 Fred Wilson, Was Frege a realist?
12:00-12:40 Guillaume Fréchette, Realism or nominalism? States of affairs in the school of Brentano
15:00-15:40 Massimiliano Carrara – Silvia Gaio – Marzia Soavi, Two arguments against antirealism on artifact kinds
15:45-16:25 Javier Cumpa, Observation and interpretation: the problem of the problem of universals
16:25-17:00 break
17:00-17:40 L. Nathan Oaklander, Temporal realism
17:45-18:25 Yuval Dolev, A realist’s conception of time’s passage
18:30-19:10 Vittorio Morato, The transparency objection against modal anti-realism

Wed 22-6-2011
9:00-9:40     Francesco Orilia, Metaphysical realism and Castañeda’s minimal transcendental realism
9:45-10:25   Ron Bombardi, Does Bell’s theorem imply metaphysical realism?
10:25-11:00 break
11:00-11:40 Frédéric Nef, Ontological structures and the problem of a particularist realism
11:45-12:25 Volker Gadenne, Why realism and ontology presuppose each other

(Urbino (Italy)) Language, Experience and Reality. Workshop to celebrate Hector-Neri Castañeda

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:29:10 +0100

University of Urbino
Palazzo Albani, Via Timoteo Viti 10, Room D2
June 23, 2011

Morning - 9.00 a.m. - 12:45 a.m.
Chair: Francesco Orilia
9:00 - 9:10
Francesco Orilia: Greetings and Introduction
9:10 - 9:30
Tomis Kapitan: Castañeda: System and Style
9:30 - 10:15
William J. Rapaport: From Guise Theory to Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition
10:15 - 11:00
Erwin Tegtmeier: Guises vs. Grossmann’s Descriptions
11:00 - 11:15
COFFEE BREAK
11:15 - 12:00
Alberto Voltolini: Contingent Sameness and Necessary Identity
12:00 - 12:45
Javier Cumpa: Theories and Properties: The Metaphysics of Exemplification Paradoxes

Afternoon - 3.00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.
Chair: Venanzio Raspa
3:00 - 3:10
Venanzio Raspa: Introduction
3:10 - 3:30
Gregory Landini: Anecdotes and Reminiscences
3:30 - 4:15
Adriano Palma: Indicated Orthodoxy
4:15 - 5:00
Giuseppe Varnier: Quasi-Indexicals, Monsters, and Self-Consciousness
5:00 - 5:15
COFFEE BREAK
5:15 - 6:00
David McCarthy: Arithmetic, Language-Games, and Reality
6:00 - 6:45
Dale Jacquette: Practitions in Castañeda’s Deontic Logic

(Rome (Italy)) The Ethics of Language – The Language of Ethics

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:27:32 +0100

Ludwig Wittgenstein International Conference
20-22 giugno 2011
Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sapienza Università di Roma
via Carlo Fea, 2 Roma

20 giugno ore 15.00
Saluti
Preside della Facoltà Marta Fattori
Direttore del Dipartimento di Filosofia Stefano Petrucciani
Presidente della Internationale Wittgenstein-Gesellschaft: Stefan Majetschak
Introducono: Donatella Di Cesare e Piergiorgio Donatelli

I sezione – 20 giugno 15.30 Chair: Stefan Majetschak
James CONANT (University of Chicago), Wittgenstein’s Methods
Jocelyn BENOIST (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), Concepts do not always help
Tilman BORSCHE (Universität Hildesheim), Die Grenzen unserer Sprache sind auch die Grenzen unserer Ethik
Massimo DE CAROLIS (Università di Salerno), The Limits of Language and Praxis
II sezione – 21 giugno 9.00 Chair: James Conant
Lars HERTZBERG (Åbo Akademi University), You Can’t Understand
David STERN (University of Iowa), On Dialogues – Wittgenstein’s Literary Style and Philosophical Methods
Donatella DI CESARE (Sapienza Università di Roma), Ethik als Lebensform. Jüdische Spuren bei Wittgenstein
Thomas RENTSCH (Technischen Universität Dresden), Wittgensteins kritische Hermeneutik und ihre praktische Bedeutung
III sezione – 21 giugno 14.30 Chair: Emidio Spinelli
Luigi PERISSINOTTO (Università Ca’Foscari Venezia), Wittgenstein on Doubt and Religion
Panel
Silver BRONZO (University of Chicago), Atomism, Contexualism, and the Burden of Making Sense: Cavellian Themes in the Tractatus
Gino BOSCHI (Sapienza Università di Roma), Understanding Music
Matteo FALOMI (University of Essex), Wittgenstein’s Investigations and Moral Perfectionism
Marco CASU (Sapienza Università di Roma), Wittgensteins Gebrauch des Imperativs. Von der „Vorstellung“ zum «Stell Dir vor!»
IV sezione – 22 giugno 9.00 Chair: Tito Magri
Sandra LAUGIER (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), Ethics, Importance, and Expressivity
Piergiorgio DONATELLI (Sapienza Università di Roma), The Life of Words – Reshaping Ethics After Wittgenstein
Martin GUSTAFFSON (Åbo Akademi University ), The Ethics of Philosophical Language – Two Examples from Berkeley and Wittgenstein
Katalin NEUMER (Institut der Ungarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften), Die Sprachspiele der Philosophie, der Ethik und Ästhetik beim späten Wittgenstein

(Rovereto (Italy)) Rovereto Attention Workshop

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:13:31 +0100

(Wellington (New Zeland)) The Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Logic

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:56:13 +0100

(Donostia (Spain)) Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:53:36 +0100

(Delmenhorst (Germany)) Levels and Causation in Neuroscience

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:48:15 +0100

(Ghent (Belgium)) First Annual Ghent Metaphysics, Methodology and Science

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:44:41 +0100

(MIlano (Italy)) Milan-Paris Workshop on Mind and Language

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:41:19 +0100

(St. Louis, MO (USA)) The 2011 Central States Philosophical Association Meeting

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:21:58 +0100

Contact: weirichp@missouri.edu

(Barcelona (Spain)) XIV Taller d'Investigaciò en Filosofia

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:23:20 +0100

Contact: 14tifUAB@gmail.com

(Barcelona (Spain)) XIV Taller D'Investigaciò en Filsosofia

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:20:44 +0100

(Pavia (Italy)) Law&Science Young Scholars Informal Symposium

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:06:05 +0100

2011 Law&Science
Young Scholars informal Symposium

June 10th, 2011
Aula Scarpa - Facoltà di Giurisprudenza
Strada Nuova, 65 - 27100 Pavia

h. 9.00 Welcome addresses: Angiolino Stella (Rector), Ettore Dezza (Dean of Faculty of Law), Amedeo Santosuosso (President of the ECLT)

Chair: Ian Carter

9.15 a.m. Opening lecture
John Searle
Language and the Social Reality

10.45 – 13.00 Young Scholars Papers

Muhammad Nizam Awang
"Risk Regulation, Safety and Emerging Paradigms in Food Regime: What's Next for Nano-Food Sector?"
Sara Azzini
"Multilingualism in the field of science and the law: the challenge of the century"
Barbara Bottalico, Tommaso Bruni
"Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Neuroscience, and the Law"
Jan Christoph Bublitz
"Freedom of Thought in the Age of Neuroscience"
Patrizio D'andrea
"Genetic tests direct-to-consumer. From «informed consent» to «informed will»"
Matteo Dragoni
"Biosimilars regulation between safety and economic concerns: a comparative analysis"
Rossana Ducato
"Biobanks between Law and Technology: how to promote data sharing in the digital era"

14.30 Chair: Silvia Garagna
Prof. Orsetta Zuffardi
Genetic diagnosis: the first tier investigation?

15.15 – 17.30 Young Scholars Papers

Matteo Macilotti
"Human tissues in three dimensions: material, informational and ethical"
Sara Quiriconi
"Drug Courts between Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Neurolaw. Some remarks on the disease model of addiction from a legal perspective."
Daniele Ruggiu
"Synthetic biology and human rights in Europe"
Katrina Sifferd
"Changing the Criminal Character: Nanotechnology and Criminal Punishment"
Vishal Vijayvargiya
"Bio Banks, Patents, Intellectual Property Rights in a comparative study between USA, Europe & India"
Cecilia Zorzoli
"Cryopreservation of embryos: the Italian situation in a European perspective"

h. 17.30 Fondazione Maugeri Prizes: Prizegiving

h 17.45 Closing Greetings: Amedeo Santosuosso

(Reggio (Emilia)) Dimensioni della Coscienza

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:00:52 +0100

Programma

13 giugno

Ore 15: Coscienza e identità personale (introduce Alfredo Paternoster).
Ore 17: Coscienza e responsabilità giuridica (introduce Amedeo Santosuosso).

14 giugno
Ore 9:00: Coscienza e responsabilità morale (introduce Antonio Da Re)
Ore 11:00: Coscienza e autocoscienza (introduce Pietro Perconti).

A tutte le relazioni introduttive seguirà una discussione libera.

Partecipano alla discussione: Carla Bagnoli, Clotilde Calabi,Mario De Caro,
Michele Di Francesco, Adriano Fabris, Luca Fonnesu, Carlo Gabbani, Simone
Gozzano, Andrea Lavazza, Tito Magri, Diego Marconi, Massimo Marraffa, Armando
Massarenti, Roberto Mordacci, Sandro Nannini, Stefano Poggi.

Comitato organizzatore: Mario De Caro, Michele Di Francesco, Diego Marconi,
Massimo Marraffa, Stefano Poggi.
Con il patrocinio della Società Filosofica Italiana e della Società Italiana di
Filosofia Analitica

Reggio Emilia, Hotel Posta, Piazza del Monte 2

(Salzburg (Austria)) Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy: SOPhiA 2011

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:57:53 +0100

(Madison, WI (USA)) Philosophy of Biology

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:54:15 +0100

(Bergamo (Italy)) Confutazioni e fallacie

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:51:19 +0100

14 giugno 2001
ex-cappella di via Pignolo 123, Bergamo

Le Confutazioni sofistiche di Aristotele
10,30 Paolo Fait (UniversitÃ di Padova)
   Due tesi aristoteliche sui paralogismi
11,15 Discussione

11,45 Maddalena Bonelli (UniversitÃ di Bergamo)
   La premessa falsa validante
12,30 Discussione

13,00 Pranzo

La dottrina delle fallacie nella logica moderna
14,30 Andrea Iacona (UniversitÃ dellâ€™Aquila)
   La forma non Ã¨ tutto
15,15 Discussione

15,45 Richard Davies (UniversitÃ di Bergamo)
   Lâ€™autoconfutazione della confutazione per analogia
16,30 Discussione

Tutti gli interessati sono cordialmente invitati a partecipare

Per ulteriori informazioni: richard.davies@unibg.it

(London (UK)) Perception in Social Interaction

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:48:31 +0100

(Hatfield (UK)) Phenomenal Qualities: Metaphysics and Ontology

Tue, 31 May 2011 16:18:56 +0100

Contact: S.Coleman@herts.ac.uk

(Genoa (Italy)) Il rapporto mente-mondo e il 'Mito del dato'

Tue, 31 May 2011 16:15:45 +0100

(Madrid (Spain)) Statistics and Scientific Method I: The Controversy About Hypothesis Testing

Tue, 31 May 2011 16:13:02 +0100

(Karlsruhe (Germany)) 6th International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing

Tue, 31 May 2011 16:11:42 +0100

(Konstanz (Germany)) Fourth Formal Epistemology Festival

Tue, 31 May 2011 16:10:24 +0100

Contact: formal.epistemology@uni-konstanz.de

(Sheffield (UK)) Metaphysics, Modality and Mathematics - Themes from the work of Bob Hale

Tue, 31 May 2011 16:08:11 +0100

(Bologna (Italy)) Philosophy of Mathematics and Philosophy of Logic

Tue, 24 May 2011 13:22:21 +0100

(Cologne (Germany)) Social and Cultural Cognition. An Interdisciplinary Investigation

Tue, 24 May 2011 10:37:21 +0100

(Tartu (Estonia)) Gottlob Frege Lectures in Theoretical Philosophy: David Papineau on ...

Mon, 23 May 2011 13:11:04 +0100

(Barcelona (Spain)) First PERSP Metaphysics Workshop

Mon, 23 May 2011 13:07:54 +0100

(Bucharest (Romania)) Frege's philosophy of mathematics and language

Mon, 23 May 2011 13:04:44 +0100

Bucharest Colloquium in Analytic Philosophy

Fregeâ€™s Philosophy of Mathematics and Language

University of Bucharest

Department of Philosophy

Saturday, May 28^th

Chair: Mircea Dumitru

09:00 - 10:00 â€“ Michael Potter: Sometimes I seem to see a difficulty: Frege's conception of self-subsistence

10:00 - 11:00 â€“ Danielle Machbeth: Seeing How It Goes: The Peculiar Role of Writing in Mathematical Reasoning

11:00 - 11:30 - Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30 â€“ Katherine Dunlop: Frege on definitions

12:30 - 13:30 â€“ Greg Lavers: Frege and philosophical analysis

13:30 - 15:00 - Lunch Break

15:00 - 16:00 â€“ Elina Nurni: Theory of Meaning in the Begriffsschrift -- Two Misconceptions

16:00 - 17:00 â€“ Sorin Costreie: Frege on sense and contentful mathematics

Sunday, May 29^th

Chair: Norma Goethe

09:00 - 10:00 â€“ Matthias Schirn: Fregeâ€™s philosophy of geometry

10:00 - 11:00 â€“ Oystein Linnebo: Grounded abstraction

11:00 - 11:30 - Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30 â€“ Gabriel Sandu: Logicism and the notion of arbitrary function

12:30 â€“ 13:30 â€“ Markus Pantsar: Arithmetical truth after Frege

13:30 - 15:00 - Lunch Break

15:00 - 16:00 â€“ Erich Reck: Frege, Dedekind, and the Origins of Logicism

16:00 - 17:00 â€“ Philip Ebert & Marcus Rossberg: Platonism in Fregeâ€™s Grundgesetze?

Monday, May 30^th

Special honorary session at the rectorate of the University of Bucharest

Chair: Ioan Panzaru

10:00 - Saul Kripke - Doctor Honoris Causa

Chair: Gabriel Sandu

12:30 - 13:30 â€“ Saul Kripke: Frege and Others on the First Person

13:30 - 15:00 - Lunch Break

15:00 - 16:00 â€“ Graeme Forbes: The Problem of Factives for Sense Theories

16:00 - 17:00 â€“ Mircea Dumitru: Fregeâ€™s Puzzle. New approaches

17:00 - 17:30 - Coffee Break

17:30 â€“ 18:30 â€“ Kit Fine: TBA

(Barcelona (Spain)) Fiction and Fictionalism Workshop

Mon, 23 May 2011 12:49:35 +0100

Contact: persp.management@gmail.com

(Belgrade (Serbia)) Social Ontology: From Intentionality to Documentality

Mon, 23 May 2011 12:47:52 +0100

International Conference

Social Ontology: From Intentionality to Documentality

May 31 - June 01, 2011, Belgrade

Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Center for Ethics, Law and Applied Philosophy, Belgrade, Labont – Laboratory for Ontology, University Of Turin

Venue: Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Kraljice Natalije, 45, Belgrade

(Berlin (Germany)) Abilities, Agency, Freedom

Mon, 23 May 2011 12:43:58 +0100

(Geneva (Switzerland)) Workshop in honor of Keith Lehrer: The Epistemology of Common Sense

Mon, 23 May 2011 12:42:27 +0100

(New York, NY (USA)) Progic 2011

Sat, 14 May 2011 13:29:40 +0100

(Corfu (Greece)) Music and Philosophy Conference

Sat, 14 May 2011 08:03:07 +0100

Contact: Petros Andriotis pandriot@ionio.gr

(Siena (Italy)) Can the Mind be naturalized?

Sat, 14 May 2011 08:01:02 +0100

(Lisbon (Portugal)) 6th Latin Meeting in Analytic Philosophy

Sat, 14 May 2011 07:56:02 +0100

(Berlin (Germany)) Contradictions. Logic, History, Actuality

Sat, 14 May 2011 07:52:46 +0100

(Bochum (Germany)) Understanding Other Minds

Fri, 13 May 2011 10:43:39 +0100

(Paris (France)) What Makes Modern Mathematics Different from Classical Mathematics?

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:11:19 +0100

Contact: marco.panza@univ-paris1.fr

Monday, December 12th
(IHPST, 13 rue Du Four, 75006, Paris; Grande Salle)

9h15-10h30 Andrew Arana (Kansas State),
   The transformation of the geometrical from the classical to the modern era
10h45-12h00 Sébastien Maronne & David Rabouin (REHSEIS, Paris 7)
   The stabilization of the Cartesian style
12h15-13h30 Carlos Alvarez (UNAM)
   Ancient, Classical and Modern in Projective Geometry

15h00-16h15 Jacques Dubucs (IHPST, Paris 1)
   Intended Structures, before and after Pasch
16h30-17h45 Ken Manders (Pittsbourg)
   Calculation vs concepts. From Gauss to Dedekind
18h00-19h15 Leny Oumraou (IHPST, Paris 1)
   Foundational mathematics and the "common practice"

Tuesday, December 13thn
(Maison Internationale de Paris 1, 58, Bd. Arago, 75013, Paris; Salle de Reunions)

9h30-10h45 Jeremy Gray (London)
   Is complex analysis necessarily modern?
11h00-12h15 Jamie Tappenden (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
   The Originality of Dedekind as interpreter of Riemann

14h30-15h45 Jesper Lützen (Copenhague)
   Is mathematical impossibility modern?
16h00-17h15 Hourya Benis-Sinaceur (IHPST, Paris 1)
   What 'abstract' does mean?
17h30-18h45 Jean-Michel Salanskis (Paris X)
   Modernism: the case of mathematics

(Braga & Guimaraes (Portugal)) Annual Conference of the European Society for Aesthetics 2012

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:16:22 +0100

(Duesseldorf (Germany)) Explanation, Causality and Unification

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:22:05 +0100