Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA) www.sifa.unige.it
Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy – University of Cagliari
3rd SIFA Graduate Conference: “Language, Logic and Mind”
Comune di Cagliari – September 16-18, 2013
http://people.unica.it/sifa2013gradconf/
Program:
Monday 16th September 2013
Aula Motzo, first floor
10:00-10:45 Registration and coffee
10:45-11:00 Welcome and Introduction
11:00-12:15 Language – Keynote speaker: Emma Borg (University of Reading), The Empirical Evidence for Semantics: What Can it Tell Us and Why?
12:15-14:30 Lunch
Session A, Aula Motzo – Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics
14:30-15:15 Mark Pinder (University of Bristol), Borg’s Minimalism and the Liar Paradox
15:15-16:00 Diana Mazzarella (University College London), “Optimal Relevance” as a Pragmatic Criterion. The Role of Epistemic Vigilance
Session B, Aula 6 – Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind
14:30-15:15 Davide Bordini (University of Milan), Phenomenal Intentionality: Transparency Is not Enough
15:15-16:00 François Kammerer (Université Paris-Sorbonne), Conscious Experiences as Ultimate Seemings: Renewing the Phenomenal Concept Strategy
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
Session A, Aula Motzo – Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics
16:30-17:15 Serena Maria Nicoli (University of Turin), Williamson on the Psychological View. A Criticism
17:15-18:00 Dan Zeman (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris), Temporalism in an Extensional Framework
Session B, Aula 6 – Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind
16:30-17:15 Giacomo Melis (Northern Institute of Philosophy, Aberdeen), Understanding Undermining Defeat
17:15-18:00 Takuya Niikawa (Hokkaido University, Sapporo), Naive Realism and Demonstrative Thought
Tuesday 17th September 2013
Aula Motzo, first floor
9:30-10:45 Logic – Keynote speaker: J.C. Beall (University of Connecticut & University of Aberdeen), The Knower Paradox as Spandrel of Truth
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
Session A, Aula Motzo – Logic and Philosophy of Science
11:15-12:00 Fabio Corpina (University of Cagliari), The Ancient Master Argument and Two Examples of Contemporary Tense Logic
12:00-12:45 Laura Celani (University of St. Andrews), Epistemic Paradoxes and Bridge Principles
Session B, Aula 6 – Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics
11:15-12:00 Giulia Felappi (King’s College, London), Propositional Attitudes and Deferred Reference
12:00-12:45 Samuele Iaquinto (University of Milan), On the Semantic Evaluation in Gettier Cases
12:45-14:45 Lunch
14:45-16:00 Mind – Keynote speaker: Sarah Sawyer (University of Sussex), Minds and Morals
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
Session A, Aula Motzo – Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind
16:30-17:15 Davide Costa (University of Turin), Is Loar’s Case a Threat for Social Externalism?
17:15-18:00 Gabriele Ferretti (University of Urbino), Externalism, Enactive Approach and Canonic Neurons
Session B, Aula 6 – Logic and Philosophy of Science
16:30-17:15 Gaetano Albergo (University of Catania), There is no Such a Thing as A Priori Knowledge that is Certain Knowledge of Incompatibilities
17:15-18:00 Filippo Ferrari (Northern Institute of Philosophy, Aberdeen), The Value of Deflationary Truth
21:00 Social Dinner
Wednesday 18th September 2013
Session A, Aula Motzo – Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind
9:30-10:15 Sumesh Mk (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay), When the Push of Derivations Come to the Shove of Representations: a Case for Derivational Framework of Cognition
10:15-11:00 Susana Monsò (UNED, Madrid), Does Empathy Require a Theory of Mind?
Session B, Aula 6 – Logic and Philosophy of Science
9:30-10:15 Andreas Fjellstad (Northern Institute of Philosophy, Aberdeen), Tonking Around: An Exercise in Conceptual Economy
10:15-11:00 Vasil Penchev (Institute for Philosophical Research, Sofia), Quantum Computer on a Turing Machine
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
Session A, Aula Motzo – Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind
11:30-12:15 Francesco Marchi (Ruhr Universität Bochum), Top-down Processes in Visual Object Perception: an Extended Version of the Intermediate Level Hypothesis
Session B, Aula 6 – Logic and Philosophy of Science
11:30-12:15 Emilia Barile (Università San Raffaele, Milan), The Puzzling Concept of “Representation” in Neuroscience
12:15-12:30 Greetings
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