Logic, Language and Cognition Research Group

LOGOS Colloquium

Unless otherwise specified, sessions will take place from 15:30 to 17:30 (until January) and from 15:00 to 17:00 (since February) at the Seminari de Filosofia UB.

Contagious Underdetermination
Olaf Müller (Humboldt Universität)
07 October 2009
Causation Isn’t Contrastive – It’s Contextual
Julian Reiss (Erasmus University)
28 October 2009
Special time: 15:00
Modal Knowledge without Possible Worlds
Anand Vaidya (San Jose State U.)
25 November 2009
Girona (+ info )
The Williamson-Kment tandem: naturalism and the epistemology of modality
25 November 2009
Girona (+ info )
Language & Thought: Problems, Prospects, and Puzzles
Cedric Boeckx (ICREA-UAB)
09 December 2009
Extra session.
The Given
Tim Crane (U. Cambridge)
16 December 2009
What Frege got wrong
Jerry Fodor (Rutgers University)
13 January 2010
Barcelona (+ info )
Semantic Possibility
Dave Ripley (Institut Jean Nicod)
10 February 2010
Is there a place for causal reasoning in physics?
Mathias Frisch (U. Maryland)
24 February 2010
Extra session.
'True for' again
Diego Marconi (U. Torino)
03 March 2010
Extra session.
Pragmatism, Then and Now
Susan Haack (U. Miami)
15 March 2010
Extra session.
Special time: 16:30
What's so scientific about scientific essentialism?
Helen Beebee (U. Birmingham)
24 March 2010
Anti-Nominalistic Scientific Realism: a Defence
Stathis Psillos (U. Athens)
07 April 2010
T-theories: competence and computation
Peter Pagin (U. Stockholm)
08 April 2010
Extra session
Necessitism, Contingentism and Plural Quantification
Timothy Williamson (U. Oxford)
14 April 2010
TBA
Helen Steward (U. Leeds)
19 May 2010