Fictionalism

Venue:
Central European University
1051 Budapest Nador u. 11.
Groundfloor, Room 004

 
4th of April

14:45 - Opening
15:00 -17:15
Emily Caddick Bourne (Cambridge & London): "True to Fictionalism"
Gábor Bács (Kaposvár): "Fictionalism - What for?"
Gabriel Sandu (Helsinki): "Fictional Entities in the Formal Semantics of Natural Language"

17:30 -18:30
Simon Blackburn (Cambridge): "Is there a Problem between Pragmatism and Representation?"

5th of April
9:00-10:00
Daniel Hutto (Wollongong): "Mental Fictionalism and the Hard Problem of Content"

10:30 -12:45
Mircea Dumitru (Bucharest): "Remarks on Modal Fictionalism"
Miklós Marton (Budapest) & János Tőzsér (Kaposvár): "Mental Fictionalism and the Problem of Other Minds"
Gheorghe Stefanov (Bucharest): "Force Fictionalism - Morals from Speech Act Theory"

13:00 -14:30 - Lunch

15:00-17:15
Jessica Carter (Odense): "Fictionalism in Mathematics? Representation and Context"
Sorin Costreie (Bucharest): "Frege's Puzzle against Fictionalism"
László Kocsis (Pécs): "Mathematical Fictionalism and Non-Causal Scientiflc Explanations"

17:30-18:30
Matti Eklund (Uppsala): "Fictionalism and Ontological Denationism"

Tamas Demeter [email protected]