Volumul Metaphysics, meaning, and modality: themes from Kit Fine, apărut anul trecut la Oxford University Press, editat de Prof. Univ. Dr. Mircea Dumitru, a fost recenzat în prestigioasa revistă Metascience
Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality.
Themes from Kit Fine
Place – The Scientific Research Center of the University of Bucharest in Cumpatu-Sinaia, Romania
Thursday, May 24
Chair: Mircea Dumitru
14:00 – 14: 50 Kit Fine (NYU), Truthmaker semantics
15:00 – 15:50 Graeme Forbes (University of Colorado Boulder), On Fine’s truthmaker semantics
15:50 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:20 Fabrice Correia (Geneva), How to reduce modality to essence
17:30 – 18:20 Scott Shalkowski (University of Leeds), Essence and nominalism
Friday, May 25
The morning session
Chair: Graeme Forbes
9:30 – 10:20 Paul Horwich (NYU), The nature of necessity
10:30 – 11:20 Bob Hale (University of Sheffield), The problem of De Re modality
11:30 – 12:20 Friederike Moltman (CNRS, Paris), Variable Objects
12:30 – 13:20 Alasdair Urquhart (University of Toronto), Fine on arbitrary objects
The afternoon session
Chair: Bob Hale
15:00 – 15:50 Philip Percival (University of Nottingham), Branching worlds or beyond reality
16:00 – 16:50 Gabriel Rabin (UCLA), Well-founding grounding grounding
17:00 – 17:50 Steve Kuhn (Georgetown University), Necessary, Transcendental & Universal Truth
18:00 – 18:50 Mircea Dumitru (University of Bucharest), Fine’s semantic relationist approach to Frege’s puzzle and opacity
List of Participants
1. Kit Fine (NYU)
2. Fabrice Correia (Geneva)
3. Mircea Dumitru (University of Bucharest)
4. Graeme Forbes (University of Colorado Boulder)
5. Bob Hale (University of Sheffield)
6. Paul Horwich (NYU)
7. Steve Kuhn (Georgetown University)
8. Friederike Moltman (CNRS, Paris)
9. Philip Percival (University of Nottingham)
10. Gabriel Rabin (UCLA)
11. Scott Shalkowski (University of Leeds)
12. Alasdair Urquhart (University of Toronto)
Place: The Scientific Research Center of the University of Bucharest, Cumpatu-Sinaia, Romania Time: May 24-26, 2012
Bucharest Colloquium in Analytic Philosophy
Frege’s Philosophy of Mathematics and Language
University of Bucharest
Department of Philosophy
Saturday, May 28th
Chair: Mircea Dumitru
09:00 – 10:00 – Michael Potter: Sometimes I seem to see a difficulty: Frege’s conception of self-subsistence
10:00 – 11:00 – Danielle Machbeth: Seeing How It Goes: The Peculiar Role of Writing in Mathematical Reasoning
11:00 – 11:30 – Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 – Katherine Dunlop: Frege on definitions
12:30 – 13:30 – Greg Lavers: Frege and philosophical analysis
13:30 – 15:00 – Lunch Break
15:00 – 16:00 – Elina Nurmi: Theory of Meaning in the Begriffsschrift – Two Misconceptions
16:00 – 17:00 – Sorin Costreie: Frege on sense and contentful mathematics
Sunday, May 29th
Chair: Norma Goethe
09:00 – 10:00 – Matthias Schirn: Frege’s philosophy of geometry
10:00 – 11:00 – Oystein Linnebo: Grounded abstraction
11:00 – 11:30 – Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 – Gabriel Sandu: Logicism and the notion of arbitrary function
12:30 – 13:30 – Markus Pantsar: Arithmetical truth after Frege
13:30 – 15:00 – Lunch Break
15:00 – 16:00 – Erich Reck: Frege, Dedekind, and the Origins of Logicism
16:00 – 17:00 – Philip Ebert & Marcus Rossberg: Platonism in Frege’s Grundgesetze?
Monday, May 30th
Special honorary session at the rectorate of the University of Bucharest
Chair: Ioan Panzaru
10:00 – Saul Kripke – Doctor Honoris Causa
Chair: Gabriel Sandu
12:30 – 13:30 – Saul Kripke: Frege and Others on the First Person
13:30 – 15:00 – Lunch Break
15:00 – 16:00 – Graeme Forbes: The Problem of Factives for Sense Theories
16:00 – 17:00 – Mircea Dumitru: Frege’s Puzzle. New approaches
17:00 – 17:30 – Coffee Break
17:30 – 18:30 – Kit Fine: TBA
Miercuri, 2 martie, la ora 18:00 va avea loc seminarul departamentului de filosofie teoretica. Invitat, prof. Mircea Dumitru va tine o conferinta cu titlul: A Finean Semantic-Relationist Approach to Opacity.
Rezumatul conferintei:
A FINEAN SEMANTIC-RELATIONIST APPROACH TO OPACITY
Mircea Dumitru
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest
mirdumitru@yahoo.com
mircea.dumitru@unibuc.eu
In his book, Semantic Relationism, Kit Fine argues in favor of a fundamentally new view of meaning, which he calls “Semantic Relationism”. What is the main idea behind this approach? Fine’s view is that there may be irreducible semantical or representational relationships between expressions or elements of thought, ones that are not reducible to the intrinsic semantic features of the expressions or elements of thought themselves between which they hold. This semantic approach leads naturally to a novel view on representation in both language and thought. The explanatory job Fine does is twofold. He shows how this view can be articulated to offer solutions to persistent and intriguing puzzles in philosophical logic and philosophy of language, such as Frege’s identity puzzle, Russell’s antinomy of the variable, Moore’s paradox of analysis, Kripke’s puzzle about belief. And he also uses his new doctrine to ground a more defensible form of direct reference theory, one which can successfully meet the criticism that Fregeans have recently mounted against it.