Amsterdam Graduate Philosophy Conference 2009

Amsterdam Graduate Philosophy Conference 2009: Conference Programme

Book of Abstracts

The book of abstracts for the talks can be downloaded here.

Conference Programme

The conference programme consists of five keynote speeches and eleven graduate talks. The confirmed keynote speakers are Kathrin Glüer-Pagin (Stockholm);  Alexander Miller (Birmingham); Peter Pagin (Stockholm)François Recanati (Paris & St. Andrews); and Martin Stokhof (Amsterdam).

 

The schedule for Thursday, Friday and Saturday is:

 

Schedule for Thursday

Venue: VOC-Zaal, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX, Amsterdam (Street view)

09:00-10:00

Welcome and Registration

10:00-10:15

Opening Note of the Conference Committee

Morning Session --- Chair: Marc Staudacher

10:15-11:15

Keynote Speech

Martin Stokhof

Title: Abstraction and Construction

11:15-11:30

Coffee Break

11:30-12:10

Graduate Talk

David Ripley

Title: Contradictions at the Borders

Commentator: Robert van Rooij

12:15-12:55

Graduate Talk

Carlos Marquez and David Rey 

Title: Do we still need compositionality in a contextualist framework? Some remarks on Recanati's contextualism

Commentator: Maria Aloni

13:00-15:00

Lunch

Afternoon Session --- Chair: Angelika Port

15:00-15:40

Graduate Talk

David Löwenstein

Title: Anaphoric Deflationism and Theories of Meaning

Commentator: David Hunter

15:40-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-17:00

Keynote Speech

Kathrin Glüer-Pagin

Title: Empty Names in Switcher Semantics

17:00-18:30

Opening Reception




Schedule for Friday

Venue: VOC-Zaal, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX, Amsterdam (Street view)

Morning Session --- Chair: Dora Achourioti

10:00-10:40

Graduate Talk

Julien Murzi

Title: Carnap's categoricity problem and the meaning of the logical constants

Commentator: Dick de Jongh

10:45-11:25

Graduate Talk

Stefan Wintein

Title: The computational power of self-referential truth

Commentator: Frank Veltman

11:30-12:10

Graduate Talk

Florian Demont

Title: Against Crude Semantic Realism

Commentator: Martin Stokhof

12:15-14:15

Lunch

Afternoon Session --- Chair: Michael Franke

14:15-14:55

Graduate Talk

Dan Cristian Zeman

Title: Meteorological Sentences, Unarticulated Constituents and Relativism

Commentator: Katrin Schultz

15:00-15:40

Graduate Talk

Craig French

Title: Is Simplicity of a Theory of Meaning an Alethic Virtue?

Commentator: Catarina Dutilh Novaes

15:40-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-17:00

Keynote Speech

Alexander Miller

Title: Meaning, Truth-Conditions and Kripke's Wittgenstein

17:00-18:30

Conference Boat Trip



 

Schedule for Saturday

Venue: Doelenzaal, Singel 425, 1012 WP, Amsterdam (Street view)

Morning Session --- Chair: Lucian Zagan

10:15-11:15

 Keynote Speech

Peter Pagin

Title: Assertion and Actuality

11:15-11:30

Coffee Break

11:30-12:10

Graduate Talk

Markus Kneer

Title: Meaning Hidden under the Surface

Commentator: Wolfram Hinzen

12:15-12:55

Graduate Talk

Miguel Hoeltje

Title: Truth, Meaning, Triviality?

Commentator: Paul Dekker

13:00-15:00

Lunch

Afternoon Session --- Chair: Edgar Andrade

15:00-15:40

Graduate Talk

Meredith Plug

Title: HOT theories of thought, autistic speakers and the concept of truth and falsity

Commentator: Michiel van Lambalgen

15:40-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-17:00

Keynote Speech

François Recanati

Title: Varieties of Contextualism

19:00-22:00

Conference Dinner