Convention in Logic and Language

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Wednesday, June 1st

9:30-10:00 Welcome and Registration

10:00-11:00 Yemima Ben-Menahem (Hebrew University): Confronting Conventionalism: The Impact of Conventionalism on Twentieth Century Science and Philosophy

11:00-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-12:15 Erik Stei (Utrecht): Conventionalist Routes to Logical Pluralism

12:15-13:15 Teresa Kouri Kissel (Old Dominion): Cooperation and Determining when Merely Verbal Disputes are Worthwhile

13:15-14:45 Lunch break

14:45-15:45 Julien Murzi and Brett Topey (Salzburg): The omega rule and the Categoricity Problem

15:45-15:55 Coffee break

15:55-16:55 Stewart Shapiro (OSU): Semantics and Logic (remotely?)


Thursday, June 2nd

9:30-10:30 Johannes Stern (Bristol): Truth in Logic and Language

10:30-10:45 Coffee break

10:45-11:45 Rea Golan (Freie Universität Berlin): An Argument from Proof Theory against Implicit Conventionalism (remotely)

11:45-12:45 Brett Topey (Salzburg): Inferentialism and the Admissibility of Rules

12:45-14:15 Lunch break

14:15-15:15 Marco Ruffino (Campinas): Making Sense of Contingent A Priori Truths

15:15-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-16:30 Zeynep Soysal (Rochester): The Metalinguistic Construal of Mathematical Propositions (remotely)

16:30-17:30 Jack Woods (Leeds): Conventionalism without Constraints (remotely)