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"Nothing but the Truth": 1st WFAP Graduate Conference

9-11 March 2012
Vienna, Austria

1st WFAP Graduate Conference 2012: "Nothing but the Truth"
Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy
University of Vienna
Date: March 9-11, 2012
Topic: Truth

  Confirmed keynote speakers:
Prof. Leon Horsten (Bristol)
Prof. Paul Horwich (New York University)
Prof. Jeffrey Ketland (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy)

  The Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy, a student society for
philosophical research in the analytic tradition at the Department of
Philosophy of the University of Vienna, dedicates its first Graduate
Conference in March 2012 to the topic of truth.
We invite high-quality papers from graduate students on formal as well
as classical issues concerning truth in analytic philosophy. In
particular we welcome contributions on the following topics:

  - Axiomatic theories of truth
- Deflationism
- Truth and ordinary language
- Truth in the history of Analytic Philosophy

  Submission Information:
Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 15, 2011
Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2012
Extended abstracts of approximately 800 words should be prepared for
blind review and submitted in PDF, RTF, ODT or DOC format to 
wfap.submissions@gmx.at.
All abstracts will be reviewed by members of the Vienna Forum for
Analytic Philosophy and faculty members of the Department of Philosophy
of the University of Vienna.
Accepted papers should be suitable for a 30-minute presentation (approx.
  3000 words) and will be published online on the website of the Vienna
Forum for Analytic Philosophy.

  Registration:
Attendance to the conference is free, but registration is requested by e-mail 
to wfap@gmx.at.
For further information about the Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy, please 
visit our website: http://wfap.philo.at

  This event is kindly supported by the research group "Philosophie der
Sprache, Symbole und Medien" at the Department of Philosophy of the
University of Vienna.