26 Sep - 1 Oct 2011
Bochum, Germany
Conference Announcement SEMANTICS AND PHILOSOHPY IN EUROPE 4 26 September - 1 October, 2011 Ruhr University Bochum, Germany http://www.rub.de/phil-lang/spe4 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Jan Broersen (Utrecht) - Philippe de Brabanter (Paris) - Manuel Garcia-Carpintero (Barcelona) - Simone Duca (Bochum) - Andreas Herzig (Toulouse) - Katarzyna Jaszczolt (Cambridge) - Hannes Leitgeb (Munich) - Robert Matthews (Rutgers) - Friederike Moltmann (Paris) - Stephen Neale (New York) - Albert Newen (Bochum) - John Perry (Stanford) - Paul Saka (Texas) - Mark Richard (Harvard) - Robert van Rooij (Amsterdam) - Daniele van de Velde (Lille) - Heinrich Wansing (Bochum) - Markus Werning (Bochum) GENERAL ORGANIZATION Markus Werning and Heinrich Wansing It is with great pleasure that we announce the upcoming Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 4 conference. The conference will feature expert tutorials, symposia, roundtables, and a colloquium on the following topics: A) The Semantics and Pragmatics of Quotation B) The Semantics of Action Sentences C) The Semantics and Epistemology of Mental State Ascriptions D) Other (Poster only) The purpose of the SPE workshops is to enhance the dialogue between linguists and philosophers and to provide a new forum for presenting research in the interface between linguistic semantics and the related areas of philosophy (philosophy of language, logic, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, epistemology) . SPE takes place annually in different European cities. The previous meetings took place in Paris (SPE1, 2008), London (SPE2, 2009), and Paris (SPE3, 2010). CONTACT/ORGANIZATION Prof. Dr. Markus Werning/Prof. Dr. Heinrich Wansing Department of Philosophy II Ruhr University Bochum 44780 Bochum, Germany Please direct email inquiries to spe4@rub.de. LOCAL COORDINATION Simone Duca, Caroline Semmling, Tomoo Ueda. SPE4 ADVISORY BOARD Herman Cappelen (St. Andrews) - Thomas Hofweber (North Carolina) - Chris Kennedy (Chicago) - Peter Ludlow (Toronto) - Manuel Garcia-Carpintero (Barcelona) - Robert May (UC Davis) - Friederike Moltmann (Paris-Sorbonne) - Stephen Neale (CUNY) - Peter Pagin (Stockholm) - Zoltn Szab (Yale) - Markus Werning (Bochum) - Crispin Wright (NYU & Aberdeen) We thank you in advance for passing this on to anybody who might be interested.