CFP: SIFA 1st National Graduate Conference

Language, Knowledge and Metaphysics

Padua, 10th-12th September 2007

Background and Rationale

In substitution for the mid-term thematic conferences hitherto organised by the Italian Society for Analytical Philosophy, the Society's Steering Committee proposes to further interaction among younger scholars and researchers in philosophy, both from Italy and elsewhere, by promoting the first in series of graduate conferences, in this instance to discuss topics in metaphysics, the philosophy of language and the theory of knowledge, all construed as broadly as possible. The keynote speakers in these three general areas are:

• Knowledge: Timothy Williamson (Oxford University)
• Metaphysics: Kevin Mulligan (University of Geneva)
• Language: Paolo Leonardi (University of Bologna)

With the aim of including as many contributions as possible, the conference will be structured around plenary sessions with the keynote speakers and pairs of parallel sessions dedicated to contributed papers. The intention is that contributed papers should last around 30 minutes and allow around 15 minutes for discussion.

The language of the conference is English.

Range of Topics

• Language: meaning; truth; truth-conditions and assertibility; sense and reference; semantics and syntax; form and content; the language of thought; metaphor...
• Knowledge: scepticism; foundationalism and coherentism; internalism and externalism; holism and indeterminacy; justification; the a priori; perception; memory; induction; other minds...
• Metaphysics: particular and universal; things, facts and events; mind and body; time, identity and cause; possible worlds; God...

Deadline **June 15th 2007**

Webpage of the conference: http://www.filosofia.lettere.unipd.it/analitica/grad-conf/