***Please notice: There have been some last-minute changes to the programme of the graduate conference. See updated programme below.***
The following talks have been accepted for presentation at the graduate conference:
- Shane Babcock (State University of New York at Buffalo): “An Argument Against Actualist Accounts of Possible Worlds as Truthmakers for Modal Claims”
- Peter Fritz (ILLC, University of Amsterdam): “Are Some Truths Possibly Both A Priori and False?”
- Deke Gould (Syracuse University): “Understanding, Intuitions and Bealer’s Modal Reliabilist Theory of A Priori Knowledge”
- Sergi Oms (University of Barcelona): “Truth-functional and Penumbral Intuitions”
- Alexander Reutlinger (University of Münster): “Non-Reductive Conceptual Analysis and Causation”
- Raphael van Riel (University of Bochum): “Cognitive Significance and Epistemic Intensions”
- Daniele Sgaravatti (Arché, University of St Andrews): “A Priori, A Posteriori: Doubting a Distinction”
- Assaf Weksler (Tel Aviv University): “Peacocke’s Sensational Properties and the Contingent A Priori”
The following talks have been selected for the research workshop:
- Dr. Brendan Balcerak Jackson (University of Cologne): “Are Natural Kind Terms a Semantic Natural Kind?”
- Robert Michels (University of Konstanz): “Soames’ Critique of Strong Two-Dimensionalism”
- Dr. Michael Nelson (UC Riverside): “Truth, at a World and at a Time”
- Dr. Tuomas E. Tahko (University of Durham): “The Metaphysical Status of Modal Statements”
The morning sessions of the research workshop will be devoted to discussion of two chapters of Soames’ forthcoming book Philosophy of Language (Princeton University Press), which Soames will kindly make available to us in advance of the workshop. The two chapters are entitled “The Metaphysics of Meaning: Propositions and Possible Worlds” and “Apriority, Aposteriority, and Actuality” respectively.
Below you find the schedules for the graduate conference and the research workshop.
Graduate Conference
Location: The graduate conference will take place in the Neuer Senatssaal, main building, University of Cologne, Albertus-Magnus-Platz 1, 50931 Cologne.
Graduate Conference Schedule
Monday 17 May
09:00 – 09:30 Registration
09:30 – 09:40 Opening
09:40 – 11:00 Peter Fritz (ILLC, University of Amsterdam): “Are Some Truths Possibly Both A Priori and False?”
Comment: Florian Fischer (University of Bonn)
11:00 – 11.20 Coffee break
11:20 – 12:40 ***cancelled*** Raphael van Riel: “Cognitive Significance and Epistemic Intensions”
***cancelled*** Comment: Erik Stei (University of Bonn)
12:40 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:20 Sergi Oms (University of Barcelona): “Truth-functional and Penumbral Intuitions”
Comment: David Lanius (LMU Munich)
15:20 – 15:40 Coffee break
15:40 – 17:00 Daniele Sgaravatti (Arché, University of St Andrews): “A Priori, A Posteriori: Doubting a Distinction”
Comment: Max Seeger (University of Bielefeld)
17:00 – 17:30 Break
17:30 – 19:00 Keynote Lecture by Scott Soames (University of Southern California): “Truth, Propositions, and Possible World States”
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Tuesday 18 May
10:00 – 11:20 Alexander Reutlinger (University of Münster): “Non-Reductive Conceptual Analysis and Causation”
Comment: Dirk Kindermann (Arché, University of St Andrews)
11:20 – 11:40 Coffee break
11:40 – 13:00 Assaf Weksler (Tel Aviv University): “Peacocke’s Sensational Properties and the Contingent A Priori”
Comment: Eva Schmidt (Saarland University)
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:50 Deke Gould (Syracuse University): “Understanding, Intuitions and Bealer’s Modal Reliabilist Theory of A Priori Knowledge”
Comment: Julia Langkau (Arché, University of St Andrews)
15:50 – 16:10 Coffee break
16:10 – 17:30 Shane Babcock (State University of New York at Buffalo): “An Argument Against Actualist Accounts of Possible Worlds as Truthmakers for Modal Claims”
Comment: Robert Michels (University of Konstanz)
19:30 Conference dinner (optional): Ristorante Palermo, Aachener Straße 34, 50674 Cologne
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Research Workshop
Location: The research workshop will take place in the Repräsentationssaal of the University of Cologne, Klosterstraße 79b, 50931 Cologne.
Workshop Schedule
Wednesday May 19
09:00 – 09:30 Registration
09:30 – 11:00 Discussion: The Nature of Propositions (chapters 5.1 & 5.2 of Soames (forthcoming) Philosophy of Language and chapters 5 – 7 of Soames (forthcoming) What is Meaning?)
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:30 Discussion continued
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Dr. Tuomas E. Tahko (University of Durham): “The Metaphysical Status of Modal Statements”
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30 Dr. Michael Nelson (UC Riverside): “Truth, at a World and at a Time”
19:30 Workshop Dinner (optional): Die Zeit der Kirschen, Venloer Straße 399, 50825 Cologne
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Thursday May 20
09:30 – 11:00 Discussion: Possible Worlds, Apriority and Actuality (chapters 5.3 and 6 of Soames (forthcoming) Philosophy of Language and Soames (2007) “Actually”, PAC Supplementary Volume 81)
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:30 Discussion continued
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Robert Michels (University of Konstanz): “Soames’ Critique of Strong Two-Dimensionalism”
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30 Dr. Brendan Balcerak Jackson (University of Cologne): “Are Natural Kind Terms a Semantic Natural Kind?”
