1-3 Oct 2009
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Amsterdam Graduate Philosophy Conference 2009 Department of Philosophy --- ILLC Universiteit van Amsterdam October 1-3, 2009 Theme: Meaning and Truth *** Thusday, October 1st *** 9:00-10:00 Registration 10:00-10:15 Opening Note of the Conference Committee Morning Session Chair: Marc Staudacher 10:15-11:15 Keynote Speech: Martin Stokhof --- Abstraction and Construction 11:15-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-12:10 David Ripley --- Contradictions at the Borders Commentator: Robert van Rooij 12:15-12:55 Carlos Marquez and David Rey --- Do we still need compositional ity in a contextualist framework? Some Remarks on Recanati's Contextualism Commentator: Maria Aloni 13:00-15:00 Lunch break Afternoon Session Chair: Angelika Port 15:00-15:40 David Lwenstein --- Anaphoric Deflationism and Theories of M eaning Commentator: David Hunter 15:40-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-17:00 Keynote Speech: Katrin Gler-Pagin --- Empty Names in Switche r Semantics 17:00 Opening Reception *** Friday, October 2nd *** Morning Session Chair: Dora Achourioti 10:00-10:40 Julien Murzi --- Carnap's categoricity problem and the meaning of the logical constants Commentator: Dick de Jongh 10:45-11:25 Stefan Wintein --- The computational power of self-referential truth Commentator: Frank Veltman 11:30-12:10 Florian Demont --- Against Crude Semantic Realism Commentator: Martin Stokhof 12:15-14:15 Lunch Afternoon Session Chair: Michael Franke 14:15-14:55 Dan Cristian Zeman --- Meteorological Sentences, Unarticulated Constituents and Relativism Commentator: Katrin Schultz 15:00-15:40 Craig French --- Is Simplicity of a Theory of Meaning an Alethi c Virtue? Commentator: Catarina Dutilh Novaes 15:40-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-17:00 Keynote Speech: Alex Miller --- Meaning, Truth-Conditions and K ripke's Wittgenstein 17:15-18:45 Conference Boat Trip *** Saturday, October 3rd *** Morning Session Chair: Lucian Zagan 10:15-11:15 Keynote Speech: Peter Pagin --- Assertion and Actuality 11:15-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-12:10 Markus Kneer --- Meaning Hidden under the Surface Commentator: Wolfram Hinzen 12:15-12:55 Miguel Hoeltje --- Truth, Meaning, Triviality? Commentator: Paul Dekker 13:00-15:00 Lunch Afternoon Session Chair: Edgar Andrade 15:00-15:40 Meredith Plug --- HOT theories of thought, autistic speakers an d the concept of truth and falsity Commentator: Michiel van Lambalgen 15:40-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-17:00 Keynote Speech: Franois Recanati --- Varieties of Contextua lism 19:00-22:00 Conference Dinner For more information you can visit the conference website www.illc.uva.nl/a gpc/agpc09 or contact the organisers at agpc@uva.nl