BCAP 2015 - Bucharest Colloquium in Analytic Philosophy 2015 – Meaning & Reference

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

BCAP 2015 - Bucharest Colloquium in Analytic Philosophy 2015 – Meaning & Reference

University of Bucharest, 19-21 June 2015

Organized by:

Romanian Society for Analytic Philosophy

Center for Logic, History and Philosophy of Science
Department of Theoretical Philosophy
University of Bucharest

Invited speakers:

Michael Devitt (City University of New York) – Should there still be a problem about the meaning of proper names?

Manuel Garcia-Carpintero (University of Barcelona) - Predicativism and the Presuppositional View of Proper Names

Diego Marconi (University of Turin) - Discoveries about artifacts and the meaning of artifactual terms

Genoveva Marti (University of Western Ontario) – Ambiguity, Hybrid Theories of Meaning and Empirical Data

Benjamir Schnieder (University of Hamburg) - Talking about Properties

Marian Zouhar (Slovak Academy of Sciences)) - Mathematical Singular Terms and the Myth of Rigidity

We are looking for high-quality contributions in philosophy of language, especially for those focusing on issues related to meaning and reference.

Presentations will be 30 minutes, followed by 15 minutes for discussion. Please send a 1000 word abstract, prepared for blind review, to [email protected]

Registration fee: 50 €

Deadline for submission is March 25th, 2015.
Notification of acceptance is expected by April 15th, 2015.

For more information, please contact:
Sorin Costreie
[email protected]