Issues in Contemporary Semantics and Ontology I

Predicates and Properties

Buenos Aires, August 26-28, 2009

August 26

10:00 - 10:30

Welcome coffee

10:30 - 11:55

Berit Brogaard (University of Missouri and Australian National University)

Kaplan's Paradox and the Semantic Values of Predicates

11:55 - 12:10

Coffee Break

12:10 - 13:35

Ezequiel Zerbudis (University of Buenos Aires)

Are Predicative Expressions Trivially Rigid?

13:35 - 15:30

Lunch Break

15:30 - 16:55

Derek Ball (University of St. Andrews)

Property Identities and Modal Arguments

16:55 - 17:15

Coffee Break

17:15 - 18:40

Juan Rodríguez-Larreta (SADAF)

The Bundle Theory, the Identity of Indiscernibles, and Differentiation via Relations

August 27

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee

10:30 - 11:55

Maite Ezcurdia (UNAM)

Incomplete Predicates

11:55 - 12:10

Coffee Break

12:10 - 13:35

Salvatore Florio (Ohio State University)

Is Two a Property?

13:35 - 15:30

Lunch Break

15:30 - 16:55

Ghislain Guigon (Université de Gèneve)

The Arity of Resemblance

16:55 - 17:15

Coffee Break

17:15 - 18:40

Benjamin Schineder (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)

Properties without Paradox?

August 28

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee

10:30 - 11:55

Philipp Keller (Université de Gèneve)

An Adverbialist Solution to the Problem of Temporary Intrinsics

11:55 - 12:10

Coffee Break

12:10 - 13:35

Arvid Bave (NYU)

Deflationism about Properties

13:35 - 15:30

Lunch Break

15:30 - 16:55

Nathaniel Hansen and Zed Adams (University of Chicago and New School for Social Research)

Colour Adjectives, Radical Contextualism, and the Metaphysics of Colour

16:55 - 17:15

Coffee Break

17:15 - 18:40

Marco Ruffino (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

Context and Quantifier Domain