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Workshop EpiConFor
EpiConFor. Epistemology, Context, Formalism.
November 12-14, 2009, MSH de Lorraine (Nancy)
Presentation
The purpose of the workshop is to tighten and strengthen the connections between current researches bearing on the following three pairs of topics:
- Context and Epistemology. In the last decades epistemology has seen a major “linguistic turn”, through the increased reliance, in contemporary debates, on syntactic, semantic and pragmatic “evidence” about ordinary (uses of) linguistic constructions in terms of “know”, most notably as a result of the flourishing discussions over the epistemological relevance of various notions of context (of inquiry, of attribution, of assessment, etc.).
- Epistemology and Logic. In addition to its “linguistic turn” epistemology has also seen a “logical turn”, through the recently revived and rising conviction that discussions in mainstream epistemology may benefit from formal epistemology (epistemic logic, formal learning theory, belief revision, and so on) which, however, has had close to nothing to say about context (modulo a few exceptions).
- Logic and Context. While well-known approaches to context can be found in natural language semantics and pragmatics, the only logics of context properly speaking are to be found in theoretical computer science where, however, the main logical treatments of context owe nothing or so to philosophy (again, modulo a few exceptions).
The workshop is thus intended as an occasion to bring together researchers working on either one of the above intersections, or at the intersection of the three topics.
Although all the papers presented on that occasion are expected to bear importantly on properly philosophical issues, as part of the MSH Lorraine-based DiaRaFor research project, special emphasis shall be put on specific formal epistemological accounts. The workshop will set the stage for a projected volume of collected papers dedicated to the topic(s).
Programme
Updated version: Nov. 9
Downloadable pdf version.
Thursday, Nov. 12
Chair: Gerhard Heinzmann
- 10.20: Opening
- 10.30-11.20:
Peter Baumann (Swarthmore College)
"A Contradiction for Contextualism?" - 11.30-12.20:
Erich Rast (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
"Contexts as Assumptions"
Chair: Hans Kamp
- 14.30-15.20:
Brad Armendt (Arizona State University)
"Pragmatic Interests and the Strength of Belief" - 15.30-17.00: Invited talk
Richmond Thomason (University of Michigan)
"Loosening up agents and their propositional attitudes"
Friday, Nov. 13
Chair: Vincent Hendricks
- 10.00-11.30: Invited talk
Johan van Benthem (ILLC, Amsterdam & Stanford University)
"Logics of Agency in the Foundations of Mathematics: information flow, belief revision, and social dynamics" - 11.40-12.30:
Julien Dutant (University of Geneva)
"Methods-based models for knowledge"
Chair: Johan van Benthem
- 14.30-15.20:
Roger Clarke (University of British Columbia)
"Contextualizing Degrees of Belief"
- 15.30-16.20:
Dylan Dodd (University of St. Andrews)
"Knowledge and belief: eliminating the possibilities" - 16.30-18.00: Invited talk
Vincent Hendricks (University of Copenhagen & Columbia University)
"General Dynamics: Agents and Agendas"
Saturday, Nov. 14
Chair: Richmond Thomason
- 10.00-11.30: Invited talk
Hans Kamp (Universität Stuttgart)
"Referring and Describing: The Referential-Attributive Distinction from a twenty first Century Perspective" - 11.40-12.30:
Paula Sweeney (University of Aberdeen)
"Epistemic Modals and Content-relativism"
Chair: Paul Gochet
- 14.30-15.20:
Giacomo Sillari (University of Pennsylvania)
"The Circumstances of Disagreement" - 15.30-17.00: Invited talk
John Hawthorne (University of Oxford)
"Contextualism revisited"
NB: Crispin Wright (Arché, The University of St Andrews) and Robert van Rooij (ILLC, Amsterdam) cancelled their talks.
Abstracts
Downloadable pdf version
Registration
The conference fee will be 30 euros (10 euros for unemployed and students). It covers the conference kit and lunches. It is payable upon arrival.
Pre-registration is obligatory. Please use the online form. [disabled]
Travel & accomodation
Travel information
The Railway Station is ten minutes walk from the University of Nancy 2. With the TGV Nancy is reachable from Paris in one hour and a half. There are many trains going to other major cities in France and elsewhere in Europe.
By plane. Metz-Nancy-Lorraine Airport is 22 miles from Nancy by the motorway/superhighway. There are direct links to Paris and to all main cities in France. Buses drive to Nancy (4,20 euros).
By road. The A31 motorway runs from the Benelux countries in the north to Spain in the south. The A4 from Nancy serves Strasbourg and Paris.
For more detailed information and for maps, please follow this link.
Accomodation information
Useful information about accommodation is available on the Hotel Search Page of the Office de tourisme de Nancy.
Call for papers
We invite submissions of proposals for 45 minute talks in English (30 minutes for presentation, 15 minutes for discussion). Each submission should consist of a two-page abstract, including references, prepared for blind- refeering (first name, last name, affiliation and status on a separate cover page, no identifying reference in the abstract itself), sent by email in DOC, RTF, or PDF format to the following address: epiconfor@univ-nancy2.fr
Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail. All submissions will be blind-refereed. The closing date for submission is March 15, 2009. Notification of acceptance will be sent by April 30, 2009.
Programme Committee
- Denis Bonnay (Paris 10)
- Paul Egré (Paris)
- Pascal Engel (Genève)
- Paul Gochet (Liège)
- Gerhard Heinzmann (Nancy 2)
- Hans Kamp (Stuttgart)
- Roger Pouivet (Nancy 2)
- Shahid Rahman (Lille 3)
- Helge Rückert (Mannheim)
- Richmond Thomason (Univ. of Michigan)
- Claudine Tiercelin (Paris 12)
Local Organizing Committee
- Yannick Chin
- Katarzyna Gan-Krzywoszynska
- Jules-Henri Greber
- Franck Lihoreau
- Michel Musiol
- Manuel Rebuschi
- Marion Renauld
- Fabien Schang.
Schedule: important dates
- January 2009: call for papers
- March 15: deadline for submission of abstracts
- April 30: notification of acceptance
- May 31: final version of abstracts
- July: call for participation
- November 12-14: workshop
NB: The Workshop language is English.
Organization
LHSP - Archives H. Poincaré (UMR 7117 CNRS), Nancy-Université (Université Nancy 2), DiaRaFor Project (MSH Lorraine, USR 3261)
Organizers: Manuel Rebuschi (LHSP-AHP) & Franck Lihoreau (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
SUPPORT
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS
Région Lorraine
Université Nancy 2
MSH de Lorraine
Contact
Email: epiconfor@univ-nancy2.fr