Summer School Bamberg 2016 with Nathan Salmon in Bamberg, Germany

From July 14 until July 16, 2016, the University of Bamberg philosophy department hosts its third international Summer School in cooperation with the department for German linguistics at the University of Bamberg and the Forum Theoretical Philosophy. We are happy to announce that Nathan Salmon (UC Santa Barbara) will present and discuss his recent work in the philosophy of language.
Professor Salmon is one of the most distinguished scholars in contemporary analytic philosophy. His work mainly focusses on reference theory and the related problems of intensionality and the existence of fictional objects, but he also made significant contributions to the on-going debates on the distinction of pragmatics and semantics, identity theory and the renaissance of Aristotelian essentialism in contemporary philosophy. Professor Salmon studied with Alonzo Church, Keith Donnellan, David Kaplan and Saul Kripke (among others), and is Distinguished Professor of philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he has been teaching since 1984.
With our Summer School, we want to create an intensive philosophical experience for young academics who want to discuss current issues in philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics with one of the most important experts in the field. There will be three days of high-level discussion. Participants will receive a certificate listing the exact content of the
course which they might hand in for credit at their home universities.
We invite graduate students from all departments and universities to apply. The deadline for registration is June 1, 2016. If you are interested in participating, please send a short letter of motivation together with details about your University affiliation to [email protected]

Admission to the Summer School is competitive and entirely merit based. There will be a small participation fee of 120 Euros which covers tuition for the course, hot lunch and light snacks during class. Travel, room and board are not included: However, we will provide a list of affordable accommodations in Bamberg and share contact details with Bamberg students willing to offer private accommodation for the duration of the course.

Fore more information, see
www.summerschool-bamberg.de