Logic List Mailing Archive

AGPC 2011: Amsterdam Graduate Philosophy Conference, "Internalism vs Externalism"

16-17 December 2011
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

===========================================================================
AMSTERDAM GRADUATE PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE 2011
===========================================================================

Department of Philosophy
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
Universiteit van Amsterdam
16-17 December 2011

Second Call for Papers
Theme: Internalism versus Externalism

The 4th Amsterdam Graduate Philosophy Conference on "Internalism versus 
Externalism" is devoted to explore how this distinction relates to 
problems in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, epistemology, and 
philosophy of action. We invite submissions from young researchers who 
investigate the sides of this opposition, or its mere significance, in 
relation (but not restricted) to the following issues:

- competence vs. performance;
- meaning and reference;
- semantic normativity with respect to meaning, use, content, or context;
- the semantics-pragmatics distinction;
- mental content and causation;
- narrow and wide mental content;
- the extended mind hypothesis;
- knowledge, belief, and justification;
- reasons for action: justification vs. explanation.

We encourage contributions which try to bridge the gaps between 
linguistic, mental, epistemological, and action aspects of the issues 
mentioned above. Submissions that inform the discussion about internalism 
and externalism by offering a philosophical interpretation of results from 
other fields such as logic, decision theory, cognitive psychology, and 
linguistics, are also welcome.

Confirmed invited speakers

- Martin Kusch (Vienna)
- Jolle Proust (Paris)
- Michael Wheeler (Stirling)

Submission information

We invite submissions in the form of short papers (not longer than 4000 
words) accompanied by a short abstract (not longer than 150 words). Papers 
for submission should be prepared for anonymous refereeing. The deadline 
for submission is 30 September and it should follow the on-line submission 
form, available at the conference website. Candidates eligible for 
submission are graduate students and those who have completed a doctoral 
dissertation within the last three years.

Successful candidates will be allotted a 45-minute time slot, comprising a 
25-minute presentation, a short commentary by an appointed speaker, and 
discussion with the audience. Candidates will be notified by 31 October of 
whether their paper has been accepted for presentation. The speakers will 
have the chance to send a revised version of their paper, as well as a 
revised version of their abstract for publication in the conference book 
of abstracts.

Please note that submitting a paper does not automatically count as 
registration for the conference. Those who wish to participate must 
formally register for the conference; full details on how to do so can be 
found on the conference website.

Further information

Please visit the conference website at 
http://www.illc.uva.nl/agpc/agpc11/, or contact agpc[at]uva[dot]nl

Important dates

Submission deadline: 30 September 2011
Notification of authors: 31 October 2011