16-118 Sep 2013
Cagliari, Italy
2nd Call for papers Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA) www.sifa.unige.it *3rd SIFA Graduate Conference: ?Language, Logic and Mind?* University of Cagliari Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy Cagliari, 16th-18th September 2013 The third Italian graduate conference in analytic philosophy, promoted by the SIFA Steering Committee, aims at improving the interaction among young scholars and researchers in philosophy, both from Italy and elsewhere, to discuss the new trends in the following areas: Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics, Logic and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind and Epistemology. The keynote speakers in these three general areas are: *Language*: Emma Borg (University of Reading) *Logic*: Greg Restall (University of Melbourne) *Mind*: Sarah Sawyer (University of Sussex) With the aim of including as many contributions as possible, the conference will be structured around plenary sessions with keynote speakers and the contributed papers selected by double blind review. The contributed papers should last around 45 minutes (presentation + discussion). The language of the conference is English. Abstracts of about 6,000 characters (roughly 1000 words) are invited on any topic in the broad areas indicated. The abstracts, prepared for blind refereeing, should be submitted electronically using the EasyChair submission page at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sifagc2013 *Deadline: May 20th, 2013* Acceptances will be notified by June 20th, 2013. Accepted abstracts will be available at the conference in booklet form and also available online before the conference. Selected full papers of the conference may be published in the proceedings. *Scientific Committee*: Cristina Amoretti Carla Bagnoli Massimiliano Carrara Mario De Caro Massimo Dell?Utri Michele Di Francesco Francesca Ervas Marco Giunti Roberto Giuntini Elisabetta Gola Simone Gozzano Alison Hall Guy Longworth Josep Maci ??ristina Meini Francesco Paoli Adriana Silva Graça Isidora Stojanovic Pietro Storari Chiara Testino Jesus Vega Encabo *Organising Committee*: Cristina Amoretti Francesca Ervas Valentina Favrin José Gil Férez Antonio Ledda Maria Grazia Rossi Giuseppe Sergioli Giuliano Vivanet *Further Information*: In addition to the SIFA, the conference is supported by the Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy, the Doctoral Program in History, Philosophy and Didactics of Science, the research groups ?Linguisticamente? and ?ALoPHiS? of the University of Cagliari. The organisers hope to be able to provide selected speakers with support for meals or accommodation in Cagliari, but encourage participants to apply for travel bursaries etc. from their home institutions, and will be happy to provide accreditation to the conference in support of such applications. For further information, please contact ervas@unica.it or visit the website at http://people.unica.it/sifa2013gradconf