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SUMMARY:Truthmaker Semantics
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LOCATION:Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 \, Hamburg\, Germany
DESCRIPTION:<p><em><strong>Truthmaker Semantics: Applications in Philosophy and Linguistics</strong><br>Conference Announcement and Call for Extended Abstracts</em><br><br>Kit Fine and the Emmy Noether Project&nbsp\;Relevance&nbsp\;are delighted to announce a conference on&nbsp\;truthmaker semantics and its applications in philosophy and linguistics\, to take place July 29-31\,&nbsp\;2019 at the University of Hamburg. The conference is generously funded by Prof Fine&rsquo\;s Anneliese&nbsp\;Maier Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation as well as by the DFG through Stephan&nbsp\;Kraemer's Emmy Noether grant (KR 4516/2-1).<br><br><strong>Topic.</strong>&nbsp\;Truthmaker semantics deviates from the familiar framework of possible world semantics in&nbsp\;two fundamental and related ways. First\, the notion of a possible world is replaced by a more&nbsp\;general notion of a state that applies to any fragment of a world. Second\, a sentence is taken to be&nbsp\;made true by a state only if every part of the state is involved in rendering the sentence true. A&nbsp\;significant advantage of truthmaker semantics over the possible worlds approach is that it connects&nbsp\;sentences with the worldly items that are directly&nbsp\;relevant&nbsp\;to their truth\, thereby allowing important&nbsp\;and intuitive hyperintensional distinctions to be drawn in a natural and formally elegant way. While&nbsp\;the framework was originally developed as a semantics for relevant entailment by van Fraassen in&nbsp\;the 1960s\, recent developments have demonstrated its wide applicability in logic (e.g.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;deontic&nbsp\;logic)\, metaphysics (e.g. ground)\, the philosophy of language and linguistics (e.g. subject matter\,&nbsp\;presupposition\, counterfactuals)\, the philosophy of science (e.g. confirmation)\, and epistemology&nbsp\;(e.g. belief revision).<br><br></p>\nThe conference will bring together leading experts on truthmaker semantics and junior researchers.&nbsp\;The confirmed keynote speakers are<br><br>-&nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Kit Fine (NYU)<br>-&nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Mark Jago (Nottingham)<br>-&nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Friederike Moltmann (CNRS Paris\, NYU)<br>-&nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Daniel Rothschild (UCL)<br>-&nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Steve Yablo (MIT)<br><br>More information is available at&nbsp\;<a href="https://relevanceproject.wordpress.com/events/tmsconference/">https://relevanceproject.wordpress.com/events/tmsconference/</a>.<br><br><strong>Call for Extended Abstracts.&nbsp\;</strong>Eight one-hour slots (up to 40 minutes for the talk\, followed by 20&nbsp\;minutes for discussion) are available for contributed papers on the topic of the conference. If you&nbsp\;would like to present a paper\, please submit a CV and an extended abstract of up to 2\,000 words\,&nbsp\;suitable for anonymous review\, to hamburgrelevance (at) gmail (dot) com by the deadline of 17 May.&nbsp\;Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by the end of May. We will cover the full accommodation&nbsp\;costs of successful applicants (four nights in a nearby hotel) as well as travel costs of up to 300&nbsp\;EUR per person.<br><br><strong>Student Bursaries.</strong>&nbsp\;Up to eight stipends\, each in the amount of 500 EUR\, will be available for&nbsp\;graduate students to help finance their visit to the workshop. To apply please send to&nbsp\;hamburgrelevance (at) gmail (dot) com by the deadline of 17 May a CV together with a cover page&nbsp\;including your name\, affiliation\, contact information\, and a brief statement of no more than 250&nbsp\;words explaining how your research would benefit from the workshop. Notifications of acceptance&nbsp\;will be sent out by the end of May.<br><br><strong>Hamburg Summer School on Truthmaker Semantics.&nbsp\;</strong>In the week before the conference\, from&nbsp\;22-26 July\, there will be a Summer School on the topic of Truthmaker Semantics taught by Kit Fine\,&nbsp\;Mark Jago\, Friederike Moltmann\, Johannes Korbmacher\, and Stephan Kr&auml\;mer. More information is&nbsp\;available at&nbsp\;<a href="https://hamburgersommerkurs.wordpress.com/">https://hamburgersommerkurs.wordpress.com</a>&nbsp\;\n<br><strong>Contact.</strong>&nbsp\;For any questions concerning the conference\, please write us at hamburgrelevance (at)&nbsp\;gmail (dot) com.
ORGANIZER;CN=Kit Fine;CN=Stephan Kraemer;CN=Stefan Roski:
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