Professor Kit Fine will use his Anneliese Maier Research Prize of the German Humboldt Foundation to finance a series of workshops on truthmaker semantics and related topics. The workshops will be organized by the \;Phlox \;research group under the auspices of Professor Benjamin Schnieder.
\nModality and Truthmaking\, the third instalment of the series\, will take place at the University of Augsburg on July 28th and 29th 2017. \;
\nAttendance will be free but participants are asked to register with the organizers.
\nInformation concerning e.g. the titles of the talks and the event's schedule will be publicised once it becomes available.
\nStudent Bursaries
\nA number of stipends\, each in the amount of 400 Euro\, will be available for graduate students to help finance their visit of the workshop.
\nIn order to apply\, please send a CV as well as cover page including your name\, affiliation\, contact information\, and a brief statement of no more than 250 words\, briefly explaining how your research would benefit from attending the workshop\, to \;robert.schwartzkopff@uni-hamburg.de.
\nThe application deadline is March 31st 2017. We aim to arrive at decisions no later than April 30th 2017.
\nProvisional Schedule
\nJuly 28th
\n10.30 - 12.30: Ian Rumfitt - \;Truth and presupposition
\n14.00 - 16.00: Wesley Holliday - \;Possibilities for Modal Logic
\n16.30 - 18.30: Marko Malink - \;Aristotle on Necessity-Makers
\nJuly 29th
\n10.30 - 12.30: Bob Hale - \;What makes true universal statements true?
\n14.00 - 16.00: Jon Litland - \;Exact Modality
\n16.30 - 18.30: Kit Fine - \;Compatibility
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