Issues in Contemporary Semantics and Ontology III

Proper Names: Current Positions in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics

Buenos Aires, September 12-14, 2016

September 12

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

September 13

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

September 14

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