Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference INPC
Truth and Meaning
March 24-26, 2000


= Conference Program =

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Friday, March 24: University of Idaho Commons

Session Times Crest Room Horizon Room Aurora Room Panorama Room Undergraduate Symposium
11:00 - 12:00 First Floor:  Gallery Reception: Truth and Meaning, Juried Exhibition

Fourth Floor: Conference Registration

12:00 - 1:10 Robin Jeshion


Comment: Leora Weitzman
Jeffrey Hershfield & Deborah Soles

Comment: Ron Wilburn

Herman Cappelen


Comment: Kent Bach
Lee Pike
1:20 - 2:30 Anne Bezuidenhout

Comment: Marga Reimer
Jan-Erik Jones

Comment: J. Mark Olsen
Jonathan Sutton

Comment: Corey Washington
Sarah Hamilton
2:40 - 3:50 Jason Stanley Barbara Hannan

Comment: Ann Levey
Michael Nelson

Comment: Robert Epperson
Mike Waters

Comment: Eileen McGovern
4:00 - 5:10 David Chalmers Kenneth Himma

Comment: Brian Butler
Bo Mou

Comment: Nick Gier
Curtis Franks

Comment: Lee Pike
5:10 - 7:30
Dinner Break

7:30 - 9:30 Public Forum: "Is Truth an Illusion?" 

Speakers: Barbara Couture, Robert Cummins, Nick Gier, Steve Kale, George Patsakos

Moscow Community Center, Moscow, ID

9:45 - 12:00
Reception at theUniversity Inn, Moscow, ID



Saturday, March 25: University of Idaho Commons

Session Times Crest Room Horizon Room Aurora Room Panorama Room
Learning For Life Colloquia
8:00 - 9:00
Continental Breakfast: Whitewater/Clearwater Room, UI Commons First Floor

9:00 - 10:10 Nathan Salmon

Comment: Teresa Robertson
Emma Borg

Comment: Peter Ludlow

Marian David

Comment: Andrew Cortens


Workshop on Philosophy


Nick Gier

10:20 - 11:30 Kent Bach

Comment: Rob Stainton

Charles Huenemann

Comment: James Edwards
Jay Newhard

Comment: Patricia Blanchette

11:30 - 1:00
Lunch Break:  Whitewater/Clearwater Room, UI Commons First Floor

1:00 - 2:10 Mark Johnson

Comment: Kelly Jolley

Symposium on Logical Empiricism

Gary Hardcastle
Alan Richardson

Comment: David Bullwinkle

Kirk Ludwig

Comment: Reinaldo Elugardo


Workshop on Truth and Meaning:

Joseph Keim-Campbell

2:20 - 3:30 Michael McKinsey Christopher Lubbers

Comment: Russell Wahl

3:40 - 4:50 Ernie Lepore

Comment: Howard Wettstein

Byron Clercx
Robert Epperson
Sanford Goldberg

Comment: Jonathan Westphal

 
4:50 - 7:00
Dinner Break: Whitewater/Clearwater Room, UI Commons First Floor

7:00 - 9:00 Keynote Address

Meanings

Stephen Schiffer, NYU

UI Law School Courtroom

9:00 - 9:30
Reception at the UI Law School



Sunday, March 26: Todd Hall, Washington State University


Session Times
Room 230 Room 234 Room 220
8:00 - 8:50
Continental Breakfast: Todd Hall 268

8:50 - 10:00 Robert Cummins Todd Jones

Comment: Mary Bloodsworth

Anthony Newman

Comment: Mark McCullagh

10:10 - 11:20 Corey Washington

Lenny Clapp

Comment: Andrew Botterell

Guy Longworth

Comment: Stephen Crowley

11:30 - 1:00 Issues in Linguistic Explanation: Semantics and Pragmatics

Speakers: Kent Bach, Anne Bezuidenhout, Nathan Salmon
Chair: David Shier

Todd Hall 268, Washington State University

 

Friday, March 24: University of Idaho Commons

 

12:00 - 1:10 Crest: Acquaintanceless De Re Belief
Robin Jeshion, University of Southern California
Comment: Leora Weitzman, University of New Mexico
Horizon: Escaping Charybdis: Truth as an Explanatory Concept
Jeffrey Hershfield & Deborah Soles, Wichita State University
Comment: Ron Wilburn, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Aurora: Saying, Implicating, and Cancelling
Herman Cappelen, Vassar College
Comment: Kent Bach, San Francisco State University
Panorama: Begging the Question, Objections, and Evidence
Lee Pike, University of Idaho
Comment:
1:20 - 2:30 Crest: Generalized Conversational Implicatures and Default Pragmatic Inferences
Anne Bezuidenhout, University of South Carolina
Comment: Marga Reimer, University of Arizona
Horizon: Truth in Putnam's Internal Realism
Jan-Erik Jones, Syracuse University
Comment: J. Mark Olsen, University of Utah
Aurora: Are T-Theories Excessively Modest?
Jonathan Sutton, Southern Methodist University
Comment: Corey Washington, University of Maryland, College Park
Panorama: Essay Under Erasure
Sarah Hamilton, University of British Columbia
Comment:
2:40 - 3:50 Crest: Nominal Restriction
Jason Stanley, Cornell University

Horizon: Truth, Autonomy, and the Value of Psychoanalysis
Barbara Hannan, University of New Mexico
Comment: Ann Levey, University of Calgary
Aurora: Let Me Tell You What You Believe: The Semantics of Belief Reports
Michael Nelson, Princeton University
Comment: Robert Epperson, University of Idaho
Panorama: Two Conceptions of Analyticity
Mike Waters, University of British Columbia
Comment: Eileen McGovern, University of Idaho
4:00 - 5:10 Crest: The Tyranny of the Subjunctive
David Chalmers, University of Arizona
Horizon: Does Law Necessarily Claim Authority?
Kenneth Himma, University of Washington
Comment: Brian Butler, University of Chicago
Aurora: What is Philosophical Concern With Truth?
Bo Mou, University of California, Berkeley
Comment: Nick Gier, University of Idaho
Panorama: Incompleteness and Mathematical Truth
Curtis Franks, Rice University
Comment: Lee Pike
 

5:10 - 7:30

 

Dinner Break
7:30 - 9:30
Public Forum on Truth and Meaning: "Is Truth an Illusion?"
Speakers:

Barbara Couture, Washington State University
Robert Cummins, University of California, Davis Philosophy
Nick Gier, University of Idaho Religious Studies
Steve Kale, Washington State University History
George Patsakos, University of Idaho Physics
Moscow Community Center, 3rd & Washington, Moscow, ID
 

9:45 - 12:00

 

Reception at the University Inn, Moscow, ID


Saturday, March 25: University of Idaho Commons

 

8:00 - 9:00

 

Continental Breakfast: Whitewater/Clearwater Room, UI Commons First Floor
9:00 - 10:10 Crest: Mythical Objects
Nathan Salmon, University of California, Santa Barbara
Comment: Teresa Robertson, University of Kansas
Horizon: Deferred Demonstratives
Emma Borg, University of Reading
Comment: Peter Ludlow, SUNY-Stony Brook
Aurora: Truth and Identity
Marian David, University of Notre Dame
Comment: Andrew Cortens, Boise State University
Panorama: Learning for Life Colloquia: Workshop on Philosophy
Nick Gier, University of Idaho
10:20 - 11:30 Crest: Misdirected Intuitions About Meaning
Kent Bach, San Francisco State University
Comment: Rob Stainton, Carleton University
Horizon: Truth in Philosophy
Charles Huenemann, Utah State University
Comment: James Edwards, University of Redlands
Aurora: Kripke's Theory of Truth, and the Liar Paradox
Jay Newhard, Brown University
Comment: Patricia Blanchette, University of Notre Dame
Panorama: Learning for Life Colloquia: Workshop on Philosophy (cont.)
 

11:30 - 1:00

 

Lunch BreakWhitewater/Clearwater Room, UI Commons First Floor
1:00 - 2:10 Crest: Embodied Truth
Mark Johnson, University of Oregon
Comment: Kelly Jolley, Auburn University
Horizon: Symposium on Logical Empiricism

C.I. Lewis' A Priori --- Gary Hardcastle, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
Logic and Carnapian Truth --- Alan Richardson, University of British Columbia

Comment: David Bullwinkle, Northwestern University
Aurora: What is the Role of a Truth Theory in a Meaning Theory?
Kirk Ludwig, University of Florida
Comment: Reinaldo Elugardo, University of Oklahoma
Panorama: Learning for Life Colloquia: Workshop on Truth and Meaning
Joseph Keim-Campbell, Washington State University
2:20 - 3:30 Crest: The Semantic Basis of Externalism
Michael McKinsey, Wayne State University
Horizon: Symposium on Logical Empiricism (cont.)
Aurora: A Challenge to Contemporary Theories of Meaning from Russell's Gray's Elegy Argument
Christopher Lubbers, University of Florida
Comment: Russell Wahl, Idaho State University
Panorama: Learning for Life Colloquia: Workshop on Truth and Meaning (cont.)
3:40 - 4:50 Crest: Is there a Problem with Incomplete Definite Descriptions?
Ernie Lepore, Rutgers University
Comment: Howard Wettstein, University of California, Riverside
Horizon: Symposium on Truth in Art

Byron Clercx, University of Idaho
Robert Epperson, University of Idaho

Aurora: Semantic Intentions and the Ascription of Meaning and Truth-Conditions to Utterances
Sanford Goldberg, University of Kentucky
Comment: Jonathan Westphal, Idaho State University
4:50 - 7:00 Dinner Break: Whitewater/Clearwater Room, UI Commons First Floor
7:00 - 9:00 Keynote Address:

Meanings
Stephen Schiffer, New York University

University of Idaho Law School Courtroom
 

9:00 - 9:30

 

Reception at the UI Law School

 

Sunday, March 26: Todd Hall, Washington State University

 

8:00 - 8:50

 

Continental Breakfast: Todd Hall 268
8:50 - 10:00 Room 230: Representation, Meaning and Truth
Robert Cummins, University of California, Davis
Room 234: Uncovering 'Cultural Meaning': Problems and Solutions
Todd Jones, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Comment: Mary Bloodsworth, Washington State University
Room 220: Concrete Propositions: An Argument from Internalism to Psychologism
Anthony Newman, MIT
Comment: Mark McCullagh, Southern Methodist University
10:10 - 11:20 Room 230: The Neurobiological Basis of Meaning
Corey Washington, University of Maryland, College Park
Room 234: What Unarticulated Constituents Could Not Be
Lenny Clapp, Illinois Wesleyan University
Comment: Andrew Botterell, Sonoma State University
Room 220: Demystifying Meaning: A Note on Horwich's Meaning
Guy Longworth, Birkbeck College
Comment: Stephen Crowley
11:30 - 1:00 Issues in Linguistic Explanation: Semantics and Pragmatics
Speakers: Kent Bach, San Francisco State University
Anne Bezuidenhout, University of South Carolina
Nathan Salmon, University of California, Santa Barbara
Chair: David Shier, Washington State University
Todd Hall 268, Washington State University