20-23 juin 2011 Paris (France)

Conference description

Philosophy of truth has grown in a variety of directions in recent decades, so much that it has now become difficult to embrace the whole field and its unity. The notion of truth is now a subject of its own in specialized subfields, from formal philosophical logic to epistemology and the philosophy of norms ; it has been scrutinized as a tool for semantics and put under semantical analysis itself ; philosophical inquiry into the notion of truth has been thought of as aiming at purely concetpual analysis or regimented as part of larger philosophical discussions and programs (such as the realist-antirealist debate in metaphysics, or programs of naturalization) ; it has been discussed from theoretical as well as historical and interpretive perspectives ; and there has been much discussion and disagreement on the significance of partial results in the subfields for our understanding of the overall role of the notion of truth in our conceptual scheme.
The motivation for this conference is to provide insights both in the various aspects of recent developments on the notion of truth, and in general and methodological questions raised by the variety of the current philosophical discussions in the field.

Speakers

List of speakers (abstracts here ) :
  • Theodora Achourioti (University of Amsterdam)
    • Title: "Truth in Natural Language"
  • Denis Bonnay (University of Paris-X, ENS)
    • Title : "Truth and dependance"
  • Julien Boyer (Université Paris-1)
    • Title : "Between Proof and Truth"
  • Paul Egré (IJN, Paris), David Ripley (University of Melbourne)
    • Title : "Tolerant Truth and permissive consequence"
  • Pascal Engel (University of Geneva)
    • Title : "Deflationism and the norm of truth"
  • Michael Glanzberg (University of California, Davis)
    • Title : "Complexity and Hierarchy in Truth Predicates"
  • Anil Gupta (University of Pittsburgh)
    • Title : "Remarks on Tarski's Convention T"
  • Volker Halbach (University of Oxford)
    • Title : "Disquotation"
  • Leon Horsten (University of Bristol)
    • Title : "Minimally adequate and more than minimally adequate truth theories"
  • Friederike Moltmann (IHPST, CNRS)
    • Title: " 'Truth Predicates' in Natural Language"
  • Douglas Patterson (Kansas State University)
    • Title : "Tarski on Truth : Theory, Definition and Concept in "Intuitionistic Formalism" "
  • Stephen Read (University of Saint-Andrews)
    • Title : "Truth, Signification and Paradox"
  • Philippe de Rouilhan (IHPST, CNRS)
    • Title : "Truth at Work : Generalizing and Solving Frege's Paradox"
  • Gabriel Sandu (University of Helsinki)
    • Title : "Indeterminacy and truth"
  • James R. Shaw   (Pittsburgh University)
    • Title : "Semantics for semantics"
  • Gila Sher (University of Californa, San Diego)
    • Title: "Composite Correspondence"
  • Shawn Standefer  (Pittsburgh University)
    • Title : "On Universality”
  • Luca Tranchini    (University of Tübingen)
    • Title : "Truth from a proof-theoretic perspective"
  • James Woodbridge (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
    • Title : "Revisiting Truth as a Pretense"
  • Stephen Wintein  (Tilburg University)
    • Title : "Modifying Kremer's Modified Gupta Belnap Desideratum"

Conference organisation

Organising committee : Pierre Wagner (Université Paris-1 - IHPST, Paris), Denis Bonnay (Université Paris-X -ENS), Henri Galinon (IHPST - ENS). Organisation coordinator : Henri Galinon. E-mail : henri.galinon at ens.fr .

Conference venue

20-23 June 2011, at the University of Paris-1 and the Ecole normale supérieure.

Monday 20th June :
The conference will start at 1 p.m. The conference will end at about 6.30 p.m.
The venue is :
Ecole normale supérieure, 24, rue Lhomond (75005 Paris)
Salle E 314

Tuesday 21st June :
The conference will start at 9 a.m. and will end at about 6.30 p.m.
The venue is :
Ecole normale supérieure, 24, rue Lhomond (75005 Paris)
Salle E 314

Wednesday 22st June :
The conference will start at 9 a.m. and will end at about 6.30 p.m.
The venue is :
Université Paris-1, Centre Panthéon, Place du Panthéon (75005 Paris)
Salle 1

Thursday 23rd June :
The conference will start at 9 a.m. and will end at about 1 p.m.
The venue is :
Université Paris-1, Centre Panthéon, Place du Panthéon (75005 Paris)
Salle 1

ENS, 24 rue Lhomond (map) :
20-23 June 2011, at the University of Paris-1 and the Ecole normale supérieure.

Details :

Monday 20th June :
The conference will start at 1 p.m. The conference will end at about 6.30 p.m.
The venue is :
Ecole normale supérieure, 24, rue Lhomond (75005 Paris)
Salle E 314

Thuesday 21st June :
The conference will start at 9 a.m. and will end at about 6.30 p.m.
The venue is :
Ecole normale supérieure, 24, rue Lhomond (75005 Paris)
Salle E 314

Wednesday 22st June :
The conference will start at 9 a.m. and will end at about 6.30 p.m.
The venue is :
Université Paris-1, Centre Panthéon, Place du Panthéon (75005 Paris)
Salle 1

Thursday 23rd June :
The conference will start at 9 a.m. and will end at about 1 p.m.
The venue is :
Université Paris-1, Centre Panthéon, Place du Panthéon (75005 Paris)
Salle 1


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Related events

Truth be told, a Workshop on Philosophical and Formal Theories of Truth,  Amsterdam, 23-25 March 2011 :
http://www.illc.uva.nl/truth/truth11/

Paradoxes of truth and denotation, Barcelona, 14-16 June 2011 :
http://www.ub.edu/logosbw/bw7/

Call for papers

Call for Paper - Closed -

We invite submissions on all topics relevant to the theme of the conference (see the conference description above), incuding :
-  contributions to current special topics in the philosophy of truth.
-  contribution to our understanding of the use of the notion of truth: what do we need the notion of truth for ? What theoretical or practical work is achieved by its use ? What are its scientific, philosophical, pragmatic, descriptive or normative fonctions ?
- contribution to methodological questions in philosophy of truth: What is to be expected from a philosophical analysis of the notion of truth ? What are the more pressing philosophical problems regarding the notion of truth in the contemporary debate ? How do current debates on truth relate to what had traditionaly been thought as the philosophical problems of truth in the ancient, modern  and more recent periods ? How do the various directions, topics  and methodologies taken by philosophers studiying the notion of truth connect to each other ?
- contribution to the study of established conceptions of truth: historical and theoretical discussion of various theories of truth to date (deflationnism, correspondance, coherence, epistemic etc. )
Submit a detailed abstract of no more than 2000 words before 15 th of March to: henri.galinon at ens.fr . Authors should include their name, the title of the paper, and contact information in the body of the email. The time slot will be 50 min per speaker (discussion included). Decisions of acceptance will be made by the end of April 2011.
    

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