In Contradiction Conference

12/12/2012 17:39

Back from Glasgow, I am working on a report from 25 Years In Contradiction conference that took place this weekend (7-9/12/2012) at the University of Glasgow. In the meantime, here is the schedule.

 

Friday, December 7th

13.00 – 14.30  Registration (Common room, ground floor, 67 Oakfield Avenue)

14.30 – 15.30  Keynote: Alan Weir (Glasgow) 'Rejection, Denial, Falsity: A negative appraisal of dialetheism'

15.30 – 16.00  Coffee Break

16.00 – 17.00 Ben Burgis (Miami) 'Liars with Curry: Why Dialetheists Violate the Principle of Uniform Solution'

17.05 – 18.05  Gareth Young (Glasgow) 'Dialetheism and Expressive Limitations'
Saturday, December 8th

09.30 – 10.30 Sebastiano Moruzzi (Bologna) 'Relativism in Contradiction?'

10.30 – 10.55  Coffee Break

10.55 – 11.55   Can Baskent (IHΦST, Paris 1) 'Dialetheism and a Game Theoretical Paradox'

12.00 – 13.00  Keynote: JC Beall (Connecticut) 'Free of detachment: logic, rationality, and gluts'

14.45 – 15.45  Karin Verelst (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) 'Zeno’s Paradoxes. A Cardinal Problem'

16.10 – 17.10   Franz Berto (Aberdeen) 'Exclusion vs. Explosion: Going Predicative?'

17.15 – 18.15   Keynote: Stewart Shapiro (Ohio State) 'Inconsistency and Incompleteness, revisited'

Sunday, December 9th

09.30 – 10.30 Aaron Cotnoir (St Andrews) 'Inconsistent Boundaries of Ordinary Objects: Towards a Paraconsistent Mereotopology’

10.55 – 11.55   Hitoshi Omori (Kobe/CUNY) 'Remarks on Naïve Set Theory Based on LP'

12.00 – 13.00  Kevin DeLapp (Converse) 'Deontic Dialetheism'

14.30 – 15.30  Diego Tajer (Buenos Aires)  'Dialetheism and the Curry-Validity Paradox'

15.35 – 16.35  Keynote: Graham Priest (CUNY/Melbourne) 'Contradiction, Language and the  World'

 

The organizers are grateful to the Scots Philosophical Association and the Analysis Trust for their support.
 

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