Truth: Current Debates

Schedule

All talks will take place in Wilson Hall (South campus A).
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Schedule and abstracts (pdf)


Friday May 15

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4:00-4:15pm:		Opening remarks
4:15-5:30pm:		Max Kölbel (Birmingham)
		Title: "Should we be pluralists about truth?"
		Chair: Nikolaj Jang Pedersen (UC Los Angeles)
5:30-5:45pm:		Break
5:45-7:00pm:		Michael Lynch (UConn)
		Title: "The Unity and Diversity of Truth"
		Chair: Marcus Rossberg (UConn)
7:30-9:30pm:		Banquet (sign up required)

Saturday May 16

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9:30-10:15am:		Pascal Engel (Geneva)
		Title: "Alethic Functionalism and the Norm of Truth"
		Chair: Cory Wright (CSU Long Beach)
10:15-10:30am:		Break
10:30-12:00pm:		Marian David (Notre Dame)
		Title: "Lynch's Functionalist Theory of Truth"
		Chair: Crawford Elder (UConn)
12:00-1:30pm:		Lunch (A124 Wilson)
1:30-2:45pm:		Speaker: Gila Sher (UC San Diego)
		Title: "Unity & Diversity in the Field of Truth: Pluralism within the Bounds of Correspondence"
		Chair: Paul Bloomfield (UConn)
2:45-3:00pm		Break
3:00-4:15pm		Patrick Greenough (St. Andrews)
		Title: "Truth-Pluralism and Indeterminacy"
		Chair: Daniel Massey (UConn)
4:15-4:45pm:		Break
4:45-6:00pm:		Crispin Wright (NYU)
		Title: "Brandom, Truth, and Objective Content: still not Explicit?"
		Chair: Aaron Cotnoir (UConn)
6:30-9.30pm		Conference dinner and party

Sunday May 17

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10:30-11:45am:		JC Beall (UConn)
		Title: "Truth, Abnormal Worlds, and Necessity"
		Chair: Don Baxter (UConn)
11:45-12:00pm:		Break
12:00-1.15pm:		Vann McGee (MIT)
		Title: "The Margin-for-Error Paradox"
		Chair: Colin Claret (St. Andrews)
1:15-1:30pm:		Closing remarks