Venice Graduate Conference on Truth

Venice Graduate Conference on Truth
Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
17-19 September 2014

Keynote speakers: Pascal Engel, Paul Horwich, Max Kölbel


Wednesday 17th September


13.30 Opening Remarks

14.00–15.30 Graduate Talk 1
Insa Lawler (University of Bielefeld)
Non-declarative Sentences in Intensional Semantics – A Defense of a Lewisian Solution
Comment: Francesco Nappo (UNC Chapel Hill)

15.30–16.00 Coffee Break

16.00–17.30 Graduate Talk 2
Alexander Dinges (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Epistemic Relativism and Indirect Testimony
Comment: Michele Palmira (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and COGITO)

17.30–18.00 Coffee Break

18.00–19.30 Keynote Talk
Max Kölbel (University of Barcelona)
Can truth be explicitly defined?


Thursday 18th September

9.00–10.30 Graduate Talk 3
Filippo Ferrari (University of Aberdeen, NIP)
Disagreement about Taste and Alethic Suberogation
Comment: Claudia Picazo (University of Barcelona, LOGOS)

10.30–11.00 Coffee Break

11.00–12.30 Graduate Talk 4
Alex Skiles (University of Neuchâtel)
How Truth is Grounded in Reality (Really)
Comment: Daniel Brigham (University of Cambridge)

12.30–14.00 Lunch Break

14.00–15.30 Graduate Talk 5
Laura Delgado (University of Barcelona, LOGOS)
Making it Truly Tasty. Truthmakers for Relative Truths on Matters of Taste
Comment: Francesco Gallina (University of Padova)

16.00–17.30 Graduate Talk 6

Matthew Simpson (University of Cambridge)
Why Quasi-Realists don’t need Minimalism about Truth
Comment: Wouter Kalf (University of Bristol)

17.30–18.00 Coffee Break

18.00–19.30 Keynote Talk

Paul Horwich (NYU)
Is TRUTH a normative concept?

20.30 Conference Dinner


Friday 19th September

9.00–10.30 Graduate Talk 7
Sybren Heyndels (Freie University, Berlin)
Truth in Heidegger’s Ontology of the Work of Art
Comment: Giacomo Mancin (University of Ferrara)

10.30–11.00 Coffee Break

11.00–12.30 Graduate Talk 8
Valentina Braido (University of Padova)
The Duality Between a Paracomplete and a Paraconsistent Theory of Truth
Comment: Johan Gebo (University of Barcelona, LOGOS)

12.30–14.00 Lunch Break

14.00–15.30 Keynote Talk
Pascal Engel (University of Genève)
Further Thoughts On the Value of Truth