Programme L 2003


L o g i c a  2 0 0 3 - Programme

Tuesday, June 17
>> afternoon session

Hartry Field

Reflections on Russell's Theory of Descriptions

Giuseppina Ronzitti 

Rethinking Enumerability

M. Dumitru

 Fictional Objects and Free Descriptions

 Bjørn Jespersen 

Aussonderung as Procedure

Susan Vineberg 

Existence and Mathematical Practice

Emil Badici 

Logical Truth: A Defense of the Standard Account

Richard Grandy 

Proxy Functions and Ontology


Wednesday,  June 18
>> morning session

Graeme Forbes 

Depiction Verbs: The "Languages of Art" Semantics

Joan Weiner 

Semantic Descent

Marie Duží 

Do We Have to Deal with Partiality? 

John Kearns

 An Illocutionary Analysis of Conditional Assertions 

Kevin Krein 

Solving the Specificity Problem: Possible Worlds and the Attribution of Beliefs to Non-Language-Using Animals 


>> afternoon session

Jaroslav Peregrin 

Logic as “Making It Explicit” 

Victor Rodych 

Are Platonism and Pragmatism Compatible?

Hanoch Ben-Yami 

Logic and Natural Language

Janne Hiipakka 

 Analyticity vs. Logicality

Marian Zouhar 

Unbound Anaphora and Anaphoric Meaning of “The”

  Jean-Yves Beziau 

On the Relations and Confusions between the Principles of Bivalence, Excluded Middle and Contradiction 

Hartley Slater 

Hilbert and Gödel vs. Turing and Penrose

Catherine Womack   

 Computer Procedures and Empiricism 


Thursday,  June 19
>> morning session

Bob Hale

The Necessity of Identity

Douglas Cannon 

Consistency as Truth with Respect to a Situation

Douglas Patterson 

Tarski on the Necessity Reading of Convention

James Woodbridge 

 Deflationism and the Generalization Problem

 Tomis Kapitan 

Indexical Inferences and Direct Reference 

 Sandra Lapointe 

Why Frege Never Read Bolzano 


Friday,  June 20
>> morning session

Wilfrid Hodges

Formal Correctness of Definitions of Meaning

David Boutillier 

Peacocke, Boghossian, and Hale on the Possibility of Basic Logical Knowledge

Roy Cook 

God and Gödel's (Other) Proof

Tero Tulenheimo 

With or without Tense Operators?

Catarina Dutilh Novaes 

A Medieval Reformulation of the de Dicto / de Re Distinction

 Howard Sobel 

 On Nearly Believable Liars