21-26 August 2008
Krakow, Poland
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It is my pleasure to announce the Sixth European Congress of Analytic
Philosophy to be held in Krakow, Poland on 21-26 August 2008. I sincerely
hope that you will be able to attend.
Organized every three years since 1993 by the European Society for
Analytic Philosophy, ESAP, these meetings aim at establishing contacts
and encouraging collaboration among European analytic philosophers.
The forthcoming Congress is locally organized by the Institute of
Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University and the Polish Association of
Logic and Philosophy of Science. Its site, Krakow, is widely regarded to
be one of the most important European must see places with a unique
atmosphere.
I kindly encourage you to visit the official website of the Congress
at
http://ecap.phils.uj.edu.pl/ where you can obtain detailed information
and fill out the registration form. If you wish to learn more about
Krakow, please visit the following website at www.krakow.pl/en/.
Plenary Speakers:
Andrea Bottani (University of Bergamo) - the Dialectica Lecturer
Dorothy Edgington (Oxford University)
Zoltan Gendler Szabo (Yale University)
Invited Speakers:
Section 1: History of Philosophy
Kristof Nyiri (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)
Section 2: Logic and Computation
Gabriel Sandu (University of Helsinki)
Section 3: Philosophy of Language
Genoveva Marti (University of Barcelona)
Section 4: Epistemology
Mike Martin (University of London)
Section 5: Metaphysics
Achille Varzi (Columbia University, New York)
Section 6: Philosophy of Science
Tomasz Placek (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)
Section 7: Philosophy of Mind
Katalin Farkas (Central European University, Budapest)
Section 8: Ethics, Aesthetic and Action Theory
Robert Hopkins (University of Sheffield)
Section 9: Social Philosophy, Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law
Peter Koller (University of Graz)
Workshops:
Formal Methods in Philosophy — organized by Stephan Hartmann
(Tilburg University) and Hannes Leitgeb (University of Salzburg)
speakers: Igor Douven, Wlodek Rabinowicz, Hannes Leitgeb, Stephan Hartmann
Structured Meanings and Concepts — organized by Pavel Materna
(Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; Masaryk University in Brno)
and Marie Du??? (VSB-Technical University of Ostrava)
speakers: Bjorn Jespersen, Marian Zouhar, Peter Pagin, Peter
Schroeder-Heister
Beyond Minimalism - organized by Filip Buekens (Tilburg University/TILPS)
speakers: Leon Horsten, Filip Buekens, Martin Fischer
Registered participants are invited to contribute papers to the Congress.
A one-page abstract, written according to the guidelines specified on the
website, must be uploaded to the registration form by February 29th 2008.
Please note that abstract submission is online only.
Following this http://ecap.phils.uj.edu.pl/ECAP6poster.pdf
link, you can find a poster of ECAP 6. We kindly request that you use it
for the promotion of this event.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee I extend to you a warm invitation
and look forward to welcoming you to Krakow.
Yours Sincerely,
Prof. dr hab Jan Wolenski, President of the ESAP Steering Committee