Truth Be Told 2011

Conference Programme

The conference programme consists of eleven invited lectures and five contributed talks. Invited talks will be followed by short commentaries. In addition, Prof. Hartry Field will deliver the E.W. Beth Lecture on the evening of Wednesday the 23rd March 2011.

Wednesday
12.00-13.00	Registration
13.00-13.10	Opening
Afternoon Session	Chair: Michiel van Lambalgen
13.10-14.25	Invited talk: Hannes Leitgeb A Theory of Truth for Propositions Commentator: Markus Pantsar
14.30-15.45	Invited talk: Albert Visser Full Satisfaction Classes for Sequential Models Commentator: Volker Halbach
15.45-16.00	Break
16.00-17.15	Invited talk: Volker Halbach The Elusiveness of Disquotationalism Commentator: Riccardo Bruni
17.20-18.00	Contributed talk: Cezary Cieslinski T-Equivalences for Positive Sentences
Evening Session	Chair: Theo Kuipers
20.00-21.30	E.W. Beth lecture: Hartry Field Property Theory and the Foundations of Mathematics
Thursday
Morning Session	Chair: Frank Veltman
9.30-10.45	Invited talk: Jaakko Hintikka Who is afraid of Alfred Tarski? Commentator: Sean Walsh
10.45-11.00	Break
11.00-12.15	Invited talk: Michael Sheard Truth and Trustworthiness Commentator: Theodora Achourioti
12.20-13.00	Contributed talk: Pablo Cobreros, Paul Egré, Dave Ripley, Robert van Rooij Tolerant and Strict Truth
13.00-14.15	Lunch
Afternoon Session	Chair: Stephen Read
14.15-15.30	Invited talk: Hartry Field Naive Truth Theories Commentator: Jönne Speck
15.35-16.15	Contributed talk: Jose Martinez Fernandez Remarks on the Gupta-Belnap Fixed-Point Property for k-valued Clones
16.15-16.30	Break
16.30-18.00	Invited talk: Leon Horsten Understanding the Revision Theory of Truth Commentators: Kentaro Fujimoto & Henri Galinon
Friday
Morning Session	Chair: Thomas Müller
9.30-10.45	Invited talk: Wolfram Hinzen Deflationism, Truth, and Grammar Commentator: Monika Gruber
10.45-11.00	Break
11.00-12.15	Invited talk: John Collins Playing Old Harry with Truth (and Meaning) Commentator: Ulrich Reichard
12.20-13.00	Contributed talk: Stefan Wintein From Closure Games to Generalized Strong Kleene Theories of Truth
13.00-14.15	Lunch
Afternoon Session	Chair: Martin Stokhof
14.15-15.30	Invited talk: Pascal Engel Alethic Pluralism and the Norm of Truth Commentator: Timothy Chan
15.35-16.15	Contributed talk: Douglas Edwards Deflationism, Inflationism, Substantiveness, Sparseness
16.15-16.30	Break
16.30-18.00	Invited talk: Paul Horwich An Undermining Diagnosis of Relativism about Truth Commentators: David Liggins & Giulia Terzian