II Workshop on Vagueness and Metaphysics

21-22 January 2010

 

Organized by Dan López de Sa, with the auspices of LOGOS.
Sponsored by MICINN and UB.
Residčncia d’Investigadors CSIC (c/Hospital, 64 - 08001 Barcelona)

 

Provisional Program - download pdf

Thursday 21 January

10.00-11.30 Kristie Miller (Sydney): 'Ontic Vagueness and Ontology'
11.30-12.00 Break
12.00-13.30 Sven Rosenkranz (ICREA-LOGOS) & Fabrice Correia (eidos): ‘Maybe Doomsday, Maybe Not: The Open Future Reconceived’
13.30-15.00 Light Lunch
15.00-16.30 Elia Zardini (Arché): ‘Luminosity and Vagueness’
16.30-17.00 Break
17.00-18.30 Brian Weatherson (Rutgers): 'Vague Composition and the Problem of the Many'

 

Friday 22 January

10.00-11.30 Rosanna Keefe (Sheffield): 'Modelling Vagueness: What Can We Ignore?'
11.30-12.00 Break
12.00-13.30 Paul Égré (Jean Nicod): 'Vague Predicates, Tolerance and Contradictions'. Joint work with Pablo Cobreros (U. Navarra), David Ripley (IJN, Paris) and Robert van Rooij (ILLC, Amsterdam)
13.30-15.00 Light Lunch
15.00-16.30 Irem Kurtsal Steen (Missouri, St Louis): ‘Benign Vague Objects’
16.30-17.00 Break
17.00-18.30 J. Robert G. Williams (Leeds): ‘Supervaluations and the Cognitive Role of Indeterminacy’

 

No registration fee, but if interested in attending, please contact dlopezdesa AT ub.edu.

               
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
     

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