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| Truth and Meaning | |||
| March 24-26, 2000 | |||
Friday, March 24: University of Idaho Commons |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 9:45 - 12:00 | Reception at theUniversity Inn, Moscow, ID |
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Saturday, March 25: University of Idaho Commons |
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| 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 |
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| 9:00 - 10:10 | Nathan Salmon
Comment: Teresa Robertson |
Emma Borg Comment: Peter Ludlow |
Marian David Comment: Andrew Cortens |
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| 10:20 - 11:30 | Kent Bach Comment: Rob Stainton |
Charles Huenemann Comment: James Edwards |
Jay Newhard Comment: Patricia Blanchette |
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| 11:30 - 1:00 | Lunch Break: Whitewater/Clearwater Room, UI Commons First Floor |
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| 1:00 - 2:10 | Mark Johnson Comment: Kelly Jolley |
Symposium on Logical Empiricism
Gary Hardcastle Comment: David Bullwinkle |
Kirk Ludwig Comment: Reinaldo Elugardo |
Joseph Keim-Campbell |
| 2:20 - 3:30 | Michael McKinsey | Christopher Lubbers Comment: Russell Wahl |
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| 3:40 - 4:50 | Ernie Lepore Comment: Howard Wettstein |
Byron Clercx Robert Epperson |
Sanford Goldberg Comment: Jonathan Westphal |
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| 4:50 - 7:00 | Dinner Break: Whitewater/Clearwater Room, UI Commons First Floor |
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| 7:00 - 9:00 | Keynote Address
Stephen Schiffer, NYU UI Law School Courtroom |
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| 9:00 - 9:30 | Reception at the UI Law School |
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Sunday, March 26: Todd Hall, Washington State University |
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Session Times |
Room 230 | Room 234 | Room 220 |
| 8:00 - 8:50 | Continental Breakfast: Todd Hall 268 |
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| 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 Todd Hall 268, Washington State University |
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Friday, March 24: University of Idaho Commons
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| 12:00 - 1:10 | Crest: | Acquaintanceless De Re Belief Robin Jeshion, University of Southern California |
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| Comment: Leora
Weitzman, University of New Mexico |
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| Horizon: | Escaping Charybdis: Truth as an Explanatory Concept Jeffrey Hershfield & Deborah Soles, Wichita State University |
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| Comment: Ron Wilburn,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
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| Aurora: | Saying, Implicating, and Cancelling Herman Cappelen, Vassar College |
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| Comment: Kent Bach, San
Francisco State University |
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| Panorama: | Begging the Question, Objections, and Evidence Lee Pike, University of Idaho |
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| 1:20 - 2:30 | Crest: | Generalized Conversational
Implicatures and Default Pragmatic Inferences Anne Bezuidenhout, University of South Carolina |
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| Comment: Marga Reimer,
University of Arizona |
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| Horizon: | Truth in Putnam's Internal Realism Jan-Erik Jones, Syracuse University |
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| Comment: J. Mark Olsen,
University of Utah |
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| Aurora: | Are T-Theories Excessively Modest? Jonathan Sutton, Southern Methodist University |
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| Comment: Corey
Washington, University of Maryland, College Park |
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| Panorama: | Essay
Under Erasure Sarah Hamilton, University of British Columbia |
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| 2:40 - 3:50 | Crest: | Nominal Restriction Jason Stanley, Cornell University |
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| Horizon: | Truth, Autonomy, and the Value of Psychoanalysis Barbara Hannan, University of New Mexico |
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| Comment: Ann Levey,
University of Calgary |
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| Aurora: | Let Me Tell You What You Believe: The
Semantics of Belief Reports Michael Nelson, Princeton University |
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| Comment: Robert
Epperson, University of Idaho |
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| Panorama: | Two Conceptions of Analyticity Mike Waters, University of British Columbia |
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| Comment: Eileen
McGovern, University of Idaho |
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| 4:00 - 5:10 | Crest: | The Tyranny of the Subjunctive David Chalmers, University of Arizona |
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| Horizon: | Does Law Necessarily Claim Authority? Kenneth Himma, University of Washington |
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| Comment: Brian Butler,
University of Chicago |
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| Aurora: | What is Philosophical Concern With Truth? Bo Mou, University of California, Berkeley |
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| Comment: Nick Gier,
University of Idaho |
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| Panorama: | Incompleteness and Mathematical Truth Curtis Franks, Rice University |
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| Comment: Lee Pike |
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Dinner Break | ||
| 7:30 - 9:30 |
Public Forum on Truth and Meaning: "Is Truth an
Illusion?" |
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| 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 |
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| Moscow Community Center, 3rd & Washington, Moscow, ID | |||
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Reception at the University Inn, Moscow, ID | ||
Saturday, March 25: University of Idaho Commons |
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Continental Breakfast: Whitewater/Clearwater Room, UI Commons First Floor | ||
| 9:00 - 10:10 | Crest: | Mythical Objects Nathan Salmon, University of California, Santa Barbara |
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| Comment: Teresa
Robertson, University of Kansas |
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| Horizon: | Deferred Demonstratives Emma Borg, University of Reading |
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| Comment:
Peter Ludlow, SUNY-Stony Brook |
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| Aurora: | Truth and Identity Marian David, University of Notre Dame |
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| Comment: Andrew
Cortens, Boise State University |
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| Panorama: | Learning for Life Colloquia: Workshop on Philosophy | ||
| Nick Gier,
University of Idaho |
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| 10:20 - 11:30 | Crest: | Misdirected Intuitions About Meaning Kent Bach, San Francisco State University |
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| Comment: Rob Stainton,
Carleton University |
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| Horizon: | Truth in Philosophy Charles Huenemann, Utah State University |
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| Comment: James Edwards,
University of Redlands |
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| Aurora: | Kripke's Theory of Truth, and the Liar Paradox Jay Newhard, Brown University |
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| Comment: Patricia
Blanchette, University of Notre Dame |
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| Panorama: | Learning for Life Colloquia: Workshop on Philosophy (cont.) | ||
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Lunch Break: Whitewater/Clearwater Room, UI Commons First Floor | ||
| 1:00 - 2:10 | Crest: | Embodied Truth Mark Johnson, University of Oregon |
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| Comment: Kelly
Jolley, Auburn University |
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| Horizon: | Symposium
on Logical Empiricism C.I. Lewis' A Priori --- Gary Hardcastle,
University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point |
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| Comment: David
Bullwinkle, Northwestern University |
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| Aurora: | What is the Role of a Truth Theory in a Meaning Theory? Kirk Ludwig, University of Florida |
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| Comment: Reinaldo
Elugardo, University of Oklahoma |
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| Panorama: | Learning for Life Colloquia: Workshop on Truth and Meaning | ||
| Joseph Keim-Campbell, Washington
State University |
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| 2:20 - 3:30 | Crest: | The Semantic Basis of Externalism Michael McKinsey, Wayne State University |
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| 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 |
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| Comment: Russell
Wahl, Idaho State University |
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| 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 |
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| Comment: Howard
Wettstein, University of California, Riverside |
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| Horizon: | Symposium
on Truth in Art Byron Clercx, University of
Idaho |
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| Aurora: | Semantic Intentions and the Ascription of Meaning and
Truth-Conditions to Utterances Sanford Goldberg, University of Kentucky |
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| Comment:
Jonathan Westphal, Idaho State University |
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| 4:50 - 7:00 | Dinner Break: Whitewater/Clearwater Room, UI Commons First Floor | ||
| 7:00 - 9:00 | Keynote Address: |
Meanings |
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| University of Idaho Law School Courtroom | |||
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Reception at the UI Law School | ||
Sunday, March 26: Todd Hall, Washington State University
Continental Breakfast: Todd Hall 268 8:50 - 10:00 Room 230: Representation, Meaning and Truth
Robert Cummins, University of California, DavisRoom 234: Uncovering 'Cultural Meaning': Problems and Solutions
Todd Jones, University of Nevada, Las VegasComment: Mary Bloodsworth, Washington State University
Room 220: Concrete Propositions: An Argument from Internalism to Psychologism
Anthony Newman, MITComment: Mark McCullagh, Southern Methodist University
10:10 - 11:20 Room 230: The Neurobiological Basis of Meaning
Corey Washington, University of Maryland, College ParkRoom 234: What Unarticulated Constituents Could Not Be
Lenny Clapp, Illinois Wesleyan UniversityComment: Andrew Botterell, Sonoma State University
Room 220: Demystifying Meaning: A Note on Horwich's Meaning
Guy Longworth, Birkbeck CollegeComment: 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 BarbaraChair: David Shier, Washington State University
Todd Hall 268, Washington State University