Issues in Contemporary Semantics and Ontology III
Proper Names: Current Positions in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics
Buenos Aires, September 12-14, 2016
10:30 - 11:00
Welcome coffee
11:00 - 12:00
Katarzyna Kijania-Placek (Jagiellonian University)
A Polysemous Account of Proper Names
12:00 - 13:00
Jaime Castillo Gamboa (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru)
A Millian Account of Predicative Uses of Proper Names
13:00 - 15:00
Lunch break
15:00 - 16:00
Nicolás Lo Guercio (University of Buenos Aires – CONICET)
Mental Files and Metafictive Utterances
16:00 - 17:00
Ramiro Caso (University of Buenos Aires – ANPCyT)
Fictionalism about Fictional Entities
17:00 - 17:30
Coffee break
17:30 - 19:00
Stefano Predelli (University of Nottingham)
Characters and their Names
14:00 - 15:00
Olga Poller (Jagiellonian University)
Descriptive Content of Names as Predicate Modifiers
15:00 - 16:00
Andrés Saab (University of Buenos Aires - CONICET)
No name: The Allosemy View
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30
Philip Atkins (Temple University)
Guises and Descriptions
17:30 - 18:00
Coffee break
18:00 - 19:30
Marco Ruffino (University of Campinas)
A Puzzle About Frege’s Singular Senses
14:00 - 15:00
Ludovic Soutif (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - CNPq)
Proper Names and Descriptive Names: A Critical Look at the Normative Construal of the Acquaintance Constraint on Singular Thought
15:00 - 16:00
Antonio Capuano (Auburn University)
In Defense of Donnellan on Proper Names
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30
Eduarda Calado Barbosa Abath (Federal University of Minas Gerais)
Presupposition and Objective Representation in the Semantics of Proper Names
17:30 - 18:00
Coffee break
18:00 - 19:30
Eduardo García Ramírez (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
On Rigidifying