ECAP III
Third European Congress for Analytic Philosophy
Maribor, 28 June-3 July 1999
Provisional Programme
Arrival and Registration
Tuesday 29th June 1999
9.00 - 10.00 Welcoming Addresses
10.00 - 10.30 Welcoming Address of the President of ESAP
10.30-12.00 Plenary Session
Elisabeth Pacherie: Action concepts
Lunch
15.00-18.55 Section Talks
Room 1.48 Epistemology
15.00-15.40 Luc Bovens (Konstanz): If it smells like an orange, it tastes like
an orange and it looks like
an orange, then must it really be an orange?
15.45-16.25 Dan Nesher (Pittsburgh): Putnam on truth: can we know the reality with a Big "R" with proved truths with small 't'?
16.30-17.10 Antoni Gomila (Laguna): Gnothi Sauthon
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 Gabriele de Anna (Padua): The simple view of colours and the references of perceptual terms
18.15-18.55 Stelios Virvidakis (Athens): Transcendental
philosophy in a guise
Room 1.43 Ethics
15.00-15.40 Monika Betzler (Göttingen): Values, reactive attitudes,
and practical reason
15.45-16.25 Wlodek Rabinowicz & Toni Ronnow-Rasmussen (Lund): A distinction in value - intrinsic or for its own sake?
16.30-17.10 Christine Tappolet (Montreal): Through thin and thick:
"good" and its determinates
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 Elvio Baccarini (Rijeka): On speciesism
18.15-18.55 Barbara de Mori (Padua): What concept of person for human
rights?
Room 1.41 Metaphysics
15.00-15.40 Max Kistler (Clermont-Ferrand): Armstrong on the
independence principle and natural
properties
15.45-16.25 Bojan Borstner (Maribor): A realistic approach to a causal relation
16.30-17.10 Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (Cambridge): What is the problem
of universals?
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 André Zdunek (Basel): Rethinking the Quinean criterion of ontology
18.15-18.55 Massimiliano Carrara (Padua) & Achille C. Varzi
(New York): A note on the ontological
reconstructivism
Room 1.38 Logic
15.00-15.40 Gianfranco Soldati (Tübingen): Inferences in the first
person
15.45-16.25 Enrico Moriconi (Pisa): How far to push Curry-Howard isomorphism?
16.30-17.10 iga Knap (Ljubljana): Where
do different kinds of logic come from?
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 Hanoch Ben-Yami (Tel Aviv): Why one grain is not a heap?
18.15-18.55 Francesco Paoli (Milano): A comparatively small heap
Room 1.36 Philosophy of Mind
15.00-15.40 David Pineda (Girona): The apriori character of
physicalism
15.45-16.25 Agustin Vicente (Donostia): Realization, determination and mental causation
16.30-17.10 Janez Bregant (Maribor): Psychology
and Autonomy
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 Pim Haselager (Nijmegen): Circular causality and the problem of epiphenomenalism
18.15-18.55 Bence Nanay (Budapest): Evolution, reduction, and the
mind-body problem
Room 1.33 Philosophy of Language
15.00-15.40 Sten Lindström (Umea): Horwich's minimalist conception
of truth: some logical
difficulties
15.45-16.25 Gregory B. Goutner (Moscow): Semantics of discourse
16.30-17.10 Pascal Ludwig (Paris): Variable characters and de re
communication
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 Claudia Bianchi (Vercelli): Varieties of contextual
dependence
Room 1.33 Teaching Philosophy
18.10-18.55 Rudi Kotnik (Maribor): Metaphilosophical
Search for Common Grounds in Teaching
Philosophy
19.30 Piano Concert at the University Hall (pianist
Jelena Tihomirović from Zagreb, Croatia) for details see the attached Programme
Wednesday 30th June 1999
10.00-12.00 - Roundtable on the NATO intervention and/on Kosovo
Lunch
15.00-18.55 Section Talks
Room 1.48 Epistemology
15.00-15.40 David Grünberg (Ankara): Wittgenstein's On Certainty
and analytic epistemology
15.45-16.25 Thomas Grundmann (Tübingen): The problem of normative epistemology
16.30-17.10 Stella R. Villarmea (Madrid): Wittgenstein and the limits
of scepticism
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 Olaf Müller (Göttingen): Does the Quine-Duhem thesis prevent us from defining analyticity?
18.15-18.55 Richard Dietz (Oxford): Fitch's proof and Tennant's
restriction of the principle of
knowability
Room 1.43 Ethics
15.00-15.40 Massimo Reichlin (Milano): Moral dilemmas
15.45-16.25 Roberto Mordacci (Milano): Internal to what? A critique of the internal/external distinction
16.30-17.10 Oscar L. González-Castán (Madrid): Ethics as convention.
A rejoinder to Professor
Harsanyi
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 Jordan H. Sobel (Toronto): Money pumps and cyclical preferences
18.15-18.55 Andrej Ule (Ljubljana): Principles of rationality and ethical reasoning in practical reasoning
Room 1.41 Metaphysics
15.00-15.40 Erdinç Sayan (Ankara): Motion and change of location
15.45-16.25 Marko Urič (Ljubljana): Some remarks on the "unreality of time"
16.30-17.10 Matja Potrč
(Ljubljana): Where is the book?
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 Ayhan Sol (Ankara): An analysis of the concept of physical trace
18.15-18.55 Andrei Rodin (New York): How to make places and times with
events?
Room 1.38 Logic
15.00-15.40 Silvio Pinto (Mexico): The justification of deduction
15.45-16.25 Josef Macia (Barcelona): On formalization, logical properties, and logical form
16.30-17.10 Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Copenhagen): Reasonable
question-begging arguments
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 István Bodnár (Budapest): Aristotle and logical principles
18.15-18.55
Room 1.36 Philosophy of Mind
15.00-15.40 Ingar Brinck (Lund): Person-consciousness
15.45-16.25 Frank Hofmann (Tübingen): The transparency of phenomenal consciousness
16.30-17.10 A. Garcia Rodriguez (Murcia): Consciousness and the natural world
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 Jordi Fernandez (Providence): Dretske's representational
theory of the mind on qualia and
self-knowledge
Room 1.33 Philosophy of Language
15.00-15.40 Teresa Marques (St. Andrews): Reference failure, singular
thought and truth-value gaps
15.45-16.25 Stephen Barker (Melbourne): Proper names, referential trees and speech acts
16.30-17.10 Carlo Penco (Genoa): Context and incomplete knowledge
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10
18.15-18.55
Thursday 1st July 1999
9.00-10.30 Plenary Session
Michael Devitt: A shocking idea about meaning
10.45-12.15 Plenary Session
John Bigelow: Omnivorous semantics
Lunch
15.00-18.10 Section Talks
Room 1.48 Epistemology
15.-15.40 Elisabeta Lalumera (Bologna): Remarks on the idea of a
theory of concepts
15.45-16.25 Marco Mazzone (Palermo): Naturalization of concepts, normativity of meaning
16.30-17.10 Mariann Solberg (Tromsoe): Conceptual schemes as
representations
17.10 - 17.30 Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 Halil Turan (Ankara): Descartes' realism: the deceiver and
the wax
Room 1.43 Ethics
15.00-15.40 Geoffrey Cupit (Waikato): Justice and partiality
15.45-16.25 Friderik Klampfer (Maribor): Where do the intrinsic value arguments for special obligations to conationals go wrong?
16.30-17.10 Markus Haller: Moral externalities and the provision of
public goods
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10
Room 1.41 Metaphysics
15.00-15.40 Maria Elisabeth Reicher (Graz): Modes of being and kinds
of things
15.45-16.25 Pierdaniele Giaretta (Padua): How certain ontological puzzles may depend on semantic ambiguity
16.30-17.10 Paul Burger (Basel): Cynthia MacDonald on tropes and other
things
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 Andrea Bottani (Bergamo): How can things change their
intrinsic properties? Six possible
anwers
Room 1.38 Philosophy of Science
15.00-15.40 Jose Manuel de Cozar (Laguna): Analysis of the
concept of efficiency
15.45-16.25 Sergio Cremaschi (Vercelli): Pragmatics and economics: a case-study and a few lessons on rhetoric and methodology in economics
16.30-17.10 Anouk Barberousse (Paris): Species as individuals? A
critical appraisal
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 Joan Pages (Girona): An immanentistic solution to the
inference problem
Room 1.36 Philosophy of Mind
15.00-15.40 Dunja Jutronić
(Maribor): Fodor on concepts: Is there a "third way" of concept
attainment?
15.45-16.25 Annalisa Coliva (St. Andrews): Where Fodor and cognitive science went wrong about concepts?
16.30-17.10 Ken Aizawa (Shreveport): Rethinking the systematicity
arguments
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 Gabor Forrai (Miskolc): On what intentional psychology can
deliver
Room 1.33 Philosophy of Language
15.00-15.40 Stefano Manfredi (Sheffield): Understanding incomplete
meaning
15.45-16.25 Eugen Fischer (München): Linguistic creativity: an underrated problem
16.30-17.10 Borut Cerkovnik (Ljubljana): The way how sentence
represents as a picture
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 Matthias Günther (Heidelberg): Common languages and open
societes - Donald
Davidson's
treatment of collective lingustic frameworks reconsidered
18.20-20.20 ESAP Assembly
Friday 2nd July 1999
9.00-10.30 Plenary Session
Ruth G. Millikan: Abilities
10.45-12.15 Plenary Session
Georg Meggle: Communicative understanding - a
research program
Lunch
15.00-18.55 Section Talks
Room 1.48 Epistemology
15.00-15.40 Peter Baumann (Göttingen): Moore's paradox and
self-knowledge
15.45-16.25 José A. Diez Calzada (Tarragona): Scientific realism revisited
16.30-17.10 Maxim Lebedev (Iowa): Coherence theory of truth and the
realist/antirealist controversy
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 Nenad Mičević (Maribor): Concepts and world
18.15-18.55 Steven D. Hales (Bloomsburg): The problem of intuition
Room 1.43 Political Philosophy
15.00-15.40 Magnus Jiborn (Lund): Cooperation, coercion, and the
problem of collective action
15.45-16.25 Scott C. Lowe (Bloomsburg): Fair play and social obligation: paying my debt to Bert & Ernie
16.30-17.10 William Klinger (Trieste): Ethnonationalism
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 Eleonora Boggio (Torino): Raz's argument for perfectionism
18.15-18.55
Room 1.41 Metaphysics
15.00-15.40 Igal Kvart (Jerusalem): Causal independence
15.45-16.25 Danilo uster
(Maribor): Arguments for incompatibilism and philosophical analysis
16.30-17.10 Neil A. Manson (Aberdeen): Why cosmic fine-tuning needs to be
explained
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 Winfried Löffler (Innsbruck): Swinburne could have proved much more
18.15-18.55 Kevin Mulligan (Geneva): Simple seeing - a relational
trope
Room 1.38 Philosophy of Science
15.00-15.40 Ferenc Huoranszki (Budapest): Intentionality and the
nature of laws
15.45-16.25 Ludger Jansen (Münster): Cartwright, causes, and capacities
16.30-17.10 Barry Loewer (Rutgers): Laws and induction
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 Miklav Vospernik (Cambridge): Can there be a common ontological bases for realism and non-realism in the philosophy of science?
18.15-18.55 Francesco Orilia (Macerata) & Mauro Dorato
(Rome): Folk realism and scientific
realism
Room 1.36 Philosophy of Mind
15.00-15.40 Filip Buekens (Tilburg): Chalmers, replica and the
logical possibility of zombies
15.45-16.25 Joëlle Proust (Paris): Mindreading and simulation in non-human animals
16.30-17.10 Olča Markič (Ljubljana):
Emergence or reduction: a connectionist proposal
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 Geert Keil (Berlin): How do we ever get up?
Room 1.33 Philosophy of Language
15.00-15.40 Raffaela Giovagnoli (Rome): The relationship
between "translatability" and "competence"
15.45-16.25 Kathrin Glüer (Berlin) & Peter Pagin (Stockholm): Autism and meaning theory
16.30-17.10 Andrea Iacona (Vercelli) & Bernardino Sassoli
(New York): Relative
language-independence
for proposition
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 Alex Barber (Sheffield): Idiolectal error
18.15-18.55 Marina Sbisa' (Trieste): Rationality and the subjectivity
in the philosophy of P. Grice
Saturday 3rd July 1999
10.00-11.30 Plenary Session
Peter Gärdenfors: Conceptual spaces: on the geometry of thought
Lunch
15.00-18.55 Section Talks
Room 1.48 Epistemology
15.00-15.40 Alfredo Paternoster (Vercelli): Some reflections
on externalism
15.45-16.25 Michael Esfeld (Konstanz): Rule-following, response-dependence, and realism
16.30-17.10 Tracy Bowell (Waikato): Of lions and aliens: Wittgenstein,
forms of life and relativism
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 Kathleen Coessens ((Brussel): A search for the hidden holism behind our acts of knowledge and belief
18.15-18.55 Simone Gozzano (Rome): Semantic holism and reflective
equilibrium
Room 1.43 History of Philosophy
15.00-15.40 Boris Vezjak (Maribor): Self-predication
of forms in Plato
15.45-16.25 Sandra Lapointe (Leeds): Why are analytic propositions necessary? Kant, Bolzano and Carnap
16.30-17.10 Boran Berčić (Rijeka):
On the logical status of the principle of verifiability
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 Lena Lissaniouk (Saint-Petersburg): Searching for ideal language
18.15-18.55 Arto Repo & Timo Kajamies
(Turku): The problem of appearance and reality in early
modern
philosophy: two controversies
Room 1.41 Philosophy of Art
15.00-15.40 Boidar Kante (Maribor): Are judments of taste perceptual or experiential?
15.45-16.25 David Davies (Montreal): Provenance, modality, and the identity of artwork
16.30-17.10 Jérôme Pelletier (Brest): The limits of pretense
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10
18.15-18.55
Room 1.38 Epistemology
15.00-15.40 Carlo Nizzo (Torino): Cats, bachelors, and witches:
natural kinds and pseudo-natural
kinds
15.45-16.25 Wan-Chuan Fang (Taipei): In unmediated touch with the world
16.30-17.10 Marta Ujvari (Budapest): Deductive closure,
underdetermination and skepticism
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 Herbert Hrachovec (Vienna): Holistic reductionism. The case against the case against Carnap
18.15-18.55 Arto Siitonen (Helsinki): On the question of redundancy of
"is true"
Room 1.36 Philosophy of Mind
15.00-15.40 Adriano Palma (Paris): Naturalisms
15.40-16.25 Massimo Grassia (New York): From knowing to acting: new
explanations of first-person
authority
16.30-17.10 Fred Adams (Delaware): Emphaty, neural imaging, and theory of mind/simulation debate
17.10-17.30 - Coffee Break
17.30-18.10 Alberto Voltolini (Vercelli): Innaturalizable aboutness
18.15-18.55 Bojan alec (Ljubljana): Direct realism - a defense
19.00 End of Conference