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Phlox Launch Workshop: "Philosophy and Logic of Explanation"

3-5 September 2008
Berlin, Germany

First Conference Announcement:

Phlox Launch Workshop on Current Issues in Metaphysics and the Philosophy
 
of Language (Berlin)

At the end of last year the research group Phlox (Philosophy and Logic of
 
Explanation) was born at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In order to 
celebrate this event we are organizing a launch workshop on current issues
 
in metaphysics and the philosophy of language.

Speakers include:
         * Stephen Barker (Nottingham)
         * Fabrice Correia (Geneva)
         * Katalin Farkas (Budapest)
         * Dan López de Sa (Barcelona)
         * Ofra Magidor (Oxford)
         * Sven Rosenkranz (Barcelona & Berlin)
         * Jason Stanley (Rutgers)
         * Elia Zardini (St. Andrews)

The workshop will take place in Berlin from the 3rd to the 5th of 
September this year and will be open to the public.

More information about the workshop and our research group (which is 
funded by the German Research Council, DFG) can be found at our website: 
eppe.wordpress.com Closer to the date, a workshop website will be launched
 
with all relevant information concerning the workshop at 
phloxshop.wordpress.com In case you would like to attend or have any 
questions concerning the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact us 
via email: justbecause (at) gmx (dot) de We do not arrange accommodation 
for non-speakers but would be happy to assist you in arranging your own 
(Berlin is a cheap place to stay and always worth a visit, especially in 
beautiful late summer).