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The project in Philosophy of Language will focus on the problem of predication, on contextualism and minimalism in semantics and on whether the concept of truth requires a relativistic treatment.
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Roberta Ballarin - Origin and Constitution
Roberta Ballarin (University of British Columbia) will give talk on an analysis of origin and constitution alternative to Kripke's analysis.
Speaker: Roberta Ballarin (University of British Columbia)
Title: Origin and Constitution
Venue: Sala Rossa, III floor, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna
Date: 16/12/2011
Time: 10-13
Roberta Ballarin - Disjunctive Effects and the Logic of Causation
Roberta Ballarin (University of British Columbia) will give talk on the metaphysics of causation.
Speaker: Roberta Ballarin (University of British Columbia)
Title: Disjunctive Effects and the Logic of Causation
Venue: Sala Rossa, III floor, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna
Date: 15/12/2011
Time: 15-18
Abstract
Cogito Day 7
Venue: Aula Rossa, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna.
10,00-11,05: Federica Berdini (Bologna)
Speech Acts and Normativity: an Account within an Inferential Model of Linguistic Communication
Coffee break
11,20-12,25: Fernando Broncano-Berrocal (Logos - Girona)
Knowledge and Control
12,25-13,30: Filippo Ferrari (NIP - Aberdeen)
Moral and Aesthetic Disagreement: a Comparative Analysis
Lunch
Belleri on De Se Attitudes
Delia Belleri will present her work-in-progress paper
"On Whose Pants Are On Fire: De Se Attitudes in Communication".
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NB: Venue >>>> Aula Mondolfo, Dipartimento di FIlosofia, III piano, via Zamboni 38
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Abstract
Seminario di Joulia Smortchkova su "Rappresentazionalismo, coscienza e attenzione"
Data: 27/5/2011
Ora 11
Relatore: Joulia Smortchkova (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)
Titolo: "Rappresentazionalismo, coscienza e attenzione"
Luogo: Sala Rossa
Abstract allegato sotto.
Reading Burge VI: The Origins of Objectivity ch. 10 (second half) and 11
We will meet to discuss ch. 10 (second half) of Tyler Burge's "Origins of Objectivity", titled "Origins of some representational categories" and "Glimpses forward". Discussion leader: Andrea Marino
Venue: Sala Rossa, Discipline della comunicazione, V. Azzo Gardino 23, III° piano.
Reading Burge V: The Origins of Objectivity ch. 10 (first half)
We will meet to discuss ch. 10 (first half) of Tyler Burge's "Origins of Objectivity", titled "Origins of some representational categories". Discussion leader: Paolo Leonardi
Venue: Sala Rossa, Discipline della comunicazione, V. Azzo Gardino 23, III° piano.
Reading Burge IV: The Origins of Objectivity ch. 9
We will meet to discuss ch. 9 of Tyler Burge's "Origins of Objectivity", titled "Origins". Discussion leader: Sebastiano Moruzzi
Venue: Sala Rossa, Discipline della comunicazione, V. Azzo Gardino 23, III° piano.
Reading Burge III: The Origins of Objectivity ch. 8
We will meet to discuss ch. 8 of Tyler Burge's "Origins of Objectivity", titled "Biological and methodological backgrounds". Discussion leader: Carmen Granito Venue: Sala Rossa, Discipline della comunicazione, V. Azzo Gardino 23, III° piano.
Reading Burge II: The Origins of Objectivity ch. 7
We will meet to discuss ch. 7 of Tyler Burge's "Origins of Objectivity", titled "Language interpretation and individual representationalism: Quine and Davidson". Discussion leader: Michele Palmira
Venue: Studio di Paolo Leonardi, Discipline della comunicazione, V. Azzo Gardino 23, III° piano.
Relativism and Disagreement Workshop 1
20/5/2011
10.00-11.30 M. Carpintero (Barcelona, Logos): Relativism, the Open Future, and Propositional Truth
11.45-13.15 M. Palmira (Modena, Cogito): The epistemic view of faultless disagreement
15.30-17.00 S. Moruzzi (Bologna, Cogito) & A. Coliva (Modena, Cogito): Truth-relativism and disagreement
17.15-18.45 D. Belleri (Bologna, Cogito) Relative Truth, Lost Disagreement and Invariantism on Predicates of Personal Taste
21/5/2011
10.00-11.30 T. Marques (Lisbon, LanCog): Content Disagreement
11.45-13.15 C. Bagnoli (Modena&Reggio Emilia): Coherence and universality in ethics. The case of faultless disagreements
Venue: Sala Rossa, Dipartimento Discipline della comunicazione, V. Azzo gardino 23, III floor, Bologna
Elijah Millgram's talk on relativism
Prof. Elijah Millgram, University of Utah
"Relativism, Coherence and the Problems of Philosophy"
Venue: Sala Rossa, Dipartimento di Discipline della Comunicazione, V. Azzo Gardino 23, III° piano
Online paper: http://www.philosophy.utah.edu/Faculty/millgram/rel.pdf
Handout attached below.
Abstract:
Why is relativism respectable in some academic disciplines but not in
others? Relativism is taken seriously in philosophy, and some
philosophers are relativists; but many, perhaps most, are not. Why is
philosophy a mixed case? I will argue that the different academic
CFP Graduate Conference on "Contexts, Perspectives and Relative Truth" - Bonn 11 june 2011
Bonn Graduate Conference
11 June 2011
Bonn, Germany
The Bonn Graduate Conference is part of the "Rhine Valley Philosophy
Summer" http://rvps2011.net/ , a series of events independently
organized by philosophers in Bonn and Cologne. Its aim is to give
graduate students the opportunity to present their work to leading
researchers in philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics.
We invite applications for presentations at the Bonn Graduate
CFP The Epistemology of Philosophy - Cologne 13-17 June 2011
Final Call for Papers:
The Epistemology of Philosophy
University of Cologne
13-17 June 2011
http://rvps2011.net/
Despite various challenges to “armchair philosophy,” the fact
remains that many central philosophical questions are still investigated
from the armchair – questions in metaphysics, in the philosophy of
[Philosophy of Language Seminar] Claudia Bianchi 's talk "Impliciti, intenzioni e raccomandazioni"
Claudia Bianchi (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan) will give a talk.
Speraker: Claudia Bianchi
Title: "Impliciti, intenzioni e raccomandazioni"
Date: 16/2/2011
Venue: Sala Rossa, Dipartimento Discipline della COmunicazione, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna.
Time: 15-18
[ISA Talks] A. Kenny "The human mind: an understandable machinery, an unsolvable mistery or.... whatever works? " part 2
SA Talks
Speaker: Sir Anthony Kenny (Oxford)
Title: The human mind: an understandable machinery, an unsolvable mistery or.... whatever works? part 2
Venue: tba
Time: 16
[ISA Talks] A. Kenny "The human mind: an understandable machinery, an unsolvable mistery or.... whatever works? " part 1
ISA Talks
Speaker: Sir Anthony Kenny (Oxford)
Title: The human mind: an understandable machinery, an unsolvable mistery or.... whatever works? part 1
Venue: tba
Time: tba
COGITO DAY V
COGITO DAY V
Venue: Dipartimento di Discipline della Comunicazione, Sala Rossa, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna.
10.45-12.15 Carla Bagnoli (Modena & University Wisconsin-Milwaukee) "The claim of objectivity and the misrepresentation of moral experience"
12.15-13.15 Delia Belleri (Bologna & COGITO) "What is semantic under-determinacy?".
15.00-16.30 Annalisa Coliva (Modena & COGITO) "One Variety of Self-Knowledge: Constitutivism as Constructivism"
The Nature of Belief - conference in Odense (DK)
Keynote Speakers: Robert Audi, Daniel Hutto, Tim Bayne.
- Belief, its phenomenology and subjective nature. Speakers: Søren Harnow Klausen, Elisabetta Sacchi, Dale Jacquette.
- The logic and semantics of belief ascriptions. Speakers: Mark Alfano, Manuel Bremer, David Liggins.
-The normativity of belief. Speakers: Davide Fassio, Anandi Hattiangadi, Conor McHugh.
- Belief and other doxastic attitudes. Speakers: Jane Friedman, Elisabetta Lalumera, Nikolaj Nottelmann
-Expressivism and disjunctivism about belief. Speakers Timothy Chan, Christine Tiefensee, John Michael.
Principle on Non-Contradiction: theory and history * Bologna, September 30 - October 1 2010
**Principle on Non-Contradiction: theory and history**
Bologna, September 30 - October 1 2010
Jonathan Barnes - Against Aristotle?)
Enrico Berti - Hegel e il PNC
Francesco Berto tba
Mirella Capozzi - Kant e il PNC
Walter Cavini - For Aristotle?
Franca D'Agostini tba
Mauro Nasti tba
Graham Priest tba
Gerhard Seel -On Pragmatic Self-Contradiction
Sebastiano Moruzzi & Annalisa Coliva - Relativism and Contradiction
Organisation: Walter Cavini
