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.