2015

2015 USC-UCLA Conference

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.    Bernhard Salow (MIT)

                                             What Can Stability Teach us About the Conflict between Closure and the 

                                            Lockean Thesis?

                                                Chair: Kim Johnston (UCLA)

                                                Commenter: Jonathan Wright (USC)

11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.     Chris Howard (University of Arizona)

                                             In Defense of the Wrong Kind of Reasons

                                               Chair: Andrew Jewell (UCLA)

                                               Commenter: Greg Antill (UCLA)

12:15 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.  Lunch

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.     Una Stojnic (Rutgers University)

                                          Classical Logic and Modal Semantics

                                            Chair: Andrew Lavin (UCLA)

                                            Commenter: Nathan Howard (USC)

2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.     Jeremy Goodman (New York University)

                                          Consequences of Excluded Middle

                                            Chair: Will Reckner (UCLA)

                                            Commenter: Matt Babb (USC)

4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.    Barbara Partee (University of Massachusetts, Amherst )

                                          Logic and Language: A History of Ideas and Controversies

                                            Chair: Tanya Kostochka (USC)