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8th Barcelona Workshop on Conditionals

26-28 June 2013
Barcelona, Spain

Programme 8th Barcelona Workshop on Conditionals:
Wednesday, 26th of June 2013.

9:00-9:30. Registration.
9:30-11:30. Dorothy Edgington (Birkbeck College London): TBA.
11:30-12:00. Coffee.
12:00-13:30. Arif Ahmed (University of Cambridge): Counterfactuals and the fourth condition.
13:30-15:30. Lunch.
15:30-17:00. Karolina Krzyzanowska, Sylvia Wenmackers, Igor Douven (University of Groningen):
Rethinking Gibbard's Riverboat Argument.
17:00-17:30. Coffee.
17:30-19:00. Daniel Dohrn (HU Berlin): Hunting Down Sobel Sequences.

Thursday, 27th of June 2013.

9:30-11:30. Kai von Fintel (MIT): TBA.
11:30-12:00. Coffee.
12:00-13:30. Brian Leahy (University of Konstanz): Counterfactual Antipresuppositions and local
maximize Presupposition.
13:30-15:30. Lunch.
15:30-17:00. John Mackay (University of Wisconsin - Madison): Tense and Presupposition in
Conditionals.
17:00-17:30. Coffee.
17:30-19:00. Alex Silk (University of Michigan): Deontic Conditionals: Weak and Strong.


Friday, 28th of June 2013.

9:30-11:30. Alan Hjek (ANU): Against Similarity Accounts of Counterfactuals.
11:30-12:00. Coffee.
12:00-13:30. Hanti Lin (Carnegie Mellon University, ANU): Conditionals and Actions:A Pragmatic
Argument for Adams? Logic of Indicative Conditionals.
13:30-15:30. Lunch.
15:30-17:00. Andrew Bacon (University of Southern California): In Defence Of A Nave Conditional
Epistemology.
17:00-17:30. Coffee.
17:30-19:00. Cory Nichols (Princeton University): Strict Conditional Accounts of Counterfactuals.

More information at http://www.ub.edu/logosbw/bw8/index.html.

Should you like to register (there is no registration fee), please send an e-mail to
barcelonaworkshop2013@gmail.com