Amsterdam Graduate Philosophy Conference 2010

Amsterdam Graduate Philosophy Conference 2010: Conference Programme

Book of abstracts

The book of abstracts for the talks can be downloaded here.

Conference Programme

The conference programme consists of five keynote speeches and eleven graduate talks. The confirmed keynote speakers are Paul Egré (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS), Jeroen Groenendijk (Amsterdam), Max Kölbel (Barcelona), Hannes Leitgeb (Bristol), and Åsa Wikforss (Stockholm).

The venue for all sessions is the Allard Pierson Museum (Oude Turfmarkt 127, 1012 GC, Amsterdam). (Street view)


You can download here PDF version of the programme.

Thursday, 30 September 2010



09:00-10:00

Welcome and registration

10:00-10:15

Opening note of the conference

by steering committee and Martin Stokhof

Morning session — Chair: Martin Stokhof

10:15-11:15

Keynote speech

Hannes Leitgeb

Title: Reducing Belief Simpliciter to Degrees of Belief. On the Unification of Two Standards of Normativity

11:15-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-12:10

Graduate talk

Jönne Speck

Title: Note on Horsten's Argument for Inferentialist Deflationism

Commentator: Leon Horsten

12:15-12:55

Graduate talk

Monika Gruber

Title: Tarski's critique regarding the Redundancy Theory applied to all Deflationary Theories of Truth

Commentator: Dora Achourioti

13:00-15:00

Lunch break & coffee

Afternoon session — Chair: Dora Achourioti

15:00-15:40

Graduate talk

Arlette Frederik

Title: Truthmaking and Correspondence: Reflections on Relations and Aims

Commentator: Frank Veltman

15:45-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-17:00

Keynote speech

Max Kölbel

Title: An empirical basis for natural language semantics

17:15-18-45

Opening reception at Kapitein Zeppos



Friday, 1 October 2010

 

09:30-10:00

Coffee

Morning Session — Chair: Katrin Schulz

10:00-10:40

Graduate talk

Rhys McKinnon

Title: Giving Warrant Credit in Warranted Assertibility: Against Wright's Inflationary Argument

Commentator: Catarina Dutilh-Novaes

10:45-11:25

Graduate talk

Pedro Múrias

Title: An example for sentence meaning

Commentator: Sara Uckelman

11:30-11:45

Coffee break

11:45-12:25

Graduate talk

Miguel Hoeltje

Title: Failure, Yet Again

Commentator: Robert van Rooij

12:30-14:15

Lunch break & coffee

Afternoon session — Chair: Catarina Dutilh-Novaes

14:15-14:55

Graduate talk

Delia Belleri

Title: Relative Truth, Lost Disagreement and Invariantism on Predicates of Personal Taste

Commentator: Floris Roelofsen

15:00-15:40

Graduate talk

Alex Steinberg

Title: Pleonastic Possible Worlds

Commentator: Paul Dekker

15:45-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-17:00

Keynote speech

Paul Egré

Title: Intentional action, normative expectations and the semantics of gradability




Saturday, 2 October 2010

 

09:30-10:00

Coffee

Morning Session — Chair: Michiel van Lambalgen

10:00-11:00

Keynote speech

Åsa Wikforss

Title: Skepticism, Normativity and Meaning
Determination

11:00-11:15

Coffee break

11:15-11:55

Graduate talk

Jan Willem Wieland

Title Regresses Against Content Normativity

Commentator: Marc Staudacher

12:00-12:45

Graduate talk

Michael Hannon

Title: If I know, I can't be wrong

Commentator: Maria Aloni

12:50-14:15

Lunch break & coffee

Afternoon session — Chair: Marc Staudacher

14:15-14:55

Graduate talk

Lars Dänzer

Title: Why Linguistic Understanding Ain't in the Head

Commentator: Elsbeth Brouwer

15:00-15:40

Graduate talk

Giacomo Turbanti

Title: Modality in Brandom's Incompatibility Semantics

Commentator: Daniele Porello

15:45-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-17:00

Keynote speech

Jeroen Groenendijk

Title: Truth, meaning, and normativity in inquisitive semantics.

17:15-18:45

Conference boat trip

19:00-22:00

Conference dinner at Kapitein Zeppos