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"Truthmaker Semantics"

29-31 Jul 2019
Hamburg, Germany

Truthmaker Semantics: Applications in Philosophy and Linguistics
Conference Announcement and Call for Extended Abstracts

Kit Fine and the Emmy Noether Project Relevance are delighted to announce 
a conference on truthmaker semantics and its applications in philosophy 
and linguistics, to take place July 29-31, 2019 at the University of 
Hamburg. The conference is generously funded by Prof Fine?s Anneliese 
Maier Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation as well as by the 
DFG through Stephan Kraemer's Emmy Noether grant (KR 4516/2-1).

Topic. Truthmaker semantics deviates from the familiar framework of 
possible world semantics in two fundamental and related ways. First, the 
notion of a possible world is replaced by a more general notion of a state 
that applies to any fragment of a world. Second, a sentence is taken to be 
made true by a state only if every part of the state is involved in 
rendering the sentence true. A significant advantage of truthmaker 
semantics over the possible worlds approach is that it connects sentences 
with the worldly items that are directly relevant to their truth, thereby 
allowing important and intuitive hyperintensional distinctions to be drawn 
in a natural and formally elegant way. While the framework was originally 
developed as a semantics for relevant entailment by van Fraassen in the 
1960s, recent developments have demonstrated its wide applicability in 
logic (e.g. deontic logic), metaphysics (e.g. ground), the philosophy of 
language and linguistics (e.g. subject matter, presupposition, 
counterfactuals), the philosophy of science (e.g. confirmation), and 
epistemology (e.g. belief revision).

The conference will bring together leading experts on truthmaker semantics 
and junior researchers. The confirmed keynote speakers are

- Kit Fine (NYU)
- Mark Jago (Nottingham)
- Friederike Moltmann (CNRS Paris, NYU)
- Daniel Rothschild (UCL)
- Steve Yablo (MIT)

More information is available 
at https://relevanceproject.wordpress.com/events/tmsconference/.

Call for Extended Abstracts. Eight one-hour slots (up to 40 minutes for 
the talk, followed by 20 minutes for discussion) are available for 
contributed papers on the topic of the conference. If you would like to 
present a paper, please submit a CV and an extended abstract of up to 
2,000 words, suitable for anonymous review, to hamburgrelevance (at) gmail 
(dot) com by the deadline of 17 May. Notifications of acceptance will be 
sent out by the end of May. We will cover the full accommodation costs of 
successful applicants (four nights in a nearby hotel) as well as travel 
costs of up to 300 EUR per person.

Student Bursaries. Up to eight stipends, each in the amount of 500 EUR, 
will be available for graduate students to help finance their visit to the 
workshop. To apply please send to hamburgrelevance (at) gmail (dot) com by 
the deadline of 17 May a CV together with a cover page including your 
name, affiliation, contact information, and a brief statement of no more 
than 250 words explaining how your research would benefit from the 
workshop. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by the end of May.

Hamburg Summer School on Truthmaker Semantics. In the week before the 
conference, from 22-26 July, there will be a Summer School on the topic of 
Truthmaker Semantics taught by Kit Fine, Mark Jago, Friederike Moltmann, 
Johannes Korbmacher, and Stephan Krämer. More information is available 
at https://hamburgersommerkurs.wordpress.com

Contact. For any questions concerning the conference, please write us at 
hamburgrelevance (at) gmail (dot) com.
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