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
Friday, June 19th
Chair: Marian Zouhar
10:00 - 10:45 - Dolf Rami - Names and the pluralist determination of their reference
10:45 - 11:30 - Adrian Ziółkowski - Do x-phi studies concerning reference of proper names succeed in revealing folk semantic intuitions?
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:00 - Manuel Garcia-Carpintero - Predicativism and the Presuppositional View of Proper Names
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Chair: Manuel Garcia-Carpintero
14:00 - 14:45 - Matthew Cameron - Speakers' Intentions and the Formal Representation of Context
14:45 - 15:30 - Murali Ramachandran - The Mixed-Designation Phenomenon
15:30 -16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 - Marian Zouhar - Rigidity in Mathematical Discourse
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee Break
17:30 - 18:15 - Miljana Milojevic - Frege's Principle of Differential Dubitability and Anti-Individualism
18:15 - 19:00 - Craita Florescu - Truth, Reference and Compositionality. The Case of Frege
20:30 - Welcome Buffet - University House – Str. Dionisie Lupu 46
Saturday, June 20th
Chair: Diego Marconi
10:00 - 10:45 - Jack Marley-Payne - Reference and Practical Interests
10:45 - 11:30 - Ana-Maria Cretu - What Good is Realism about Kinds?
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:00 - Genoveva Marti - Ambiguity, Hybrid Theories of Meaning and Empirical Data
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Chair: Genoveva Marti
14:00 - 14:45 - Gheorghe Ştefanov - Ostension and Demonstrative Reference
14:45 - 15:30 - Mark Pinder -
15:30 -16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 - Benjamir Schnieder - Talking about Properties
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee Break
17:30 - 18:15 - Marilynn Johnson - Reference through Instruments
18:15 - 19:00 - Matthew Mandelkern - Knowledge of Possibility
20:30 - Dinner - Vatra – Str. Brezoianu 19
Sunday, June 21st
Chair: Benjamir Schnieder
10:00 - 10:45 - Fredrik Haraldsen - Proper Names: A Plea for Pluralism
10:45 - 11:30 - Mieszko Tałasiewicz - Singularism, Descriptivism and Mental Files
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:00 - Michael Devitt - Should there still be a problem about the meaning of proper names?
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Chair: Michael Devitt
14:00 - 14:45 - Andrew McFarland (Kansas State) - Is 'Knowledge' a Rigid Designator?
14:45 - 15:30 - Vojislav Bozickovic - Anti-Individualism, Confused Thoughts, and the Subject's Perspective
15:30 -16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 - Diego Marconi - Discoveries about artifacts and the meaning of artifactual terms
20:30 - Dinner - Casa – Str. Intrarea Spӑtarului 4
Participants BCAP2015
Vojislav Bozickovic (Belgrade)
Matthew Cameron (Arché, St. Andrews)
Ana-Maria Cretu (Edinburgh)
Michael Devitt (CUNY)
Craita Florescu (Iasi)
Manuel Garcia-Carpintero (LOGOS, Barcelona)
Fredrik Haraldsen (Alabama, Tuscaloosa)
Marilynn Johnson (CUNY)
Matthew Mandelkern (MIT)
Diego Marconi (Turin)
Jack Marley-Payne (MIT)
Genoveva Marti (LOGOS, ICREA, Barcelona)
Andrew McFarland (Kansas State)
Miljana Milojevic (Belgrade)
Mark Pinder (Reading)
Murali Ramachandran (Witwatersrand)
Dolf Rami (Göttingen)
Benjamir Schnieder (Hamburg)
Gheorghe Ştefanov (Bucharest)
Mieszko Tałasiewicz (Warsaw)
Adrian Ziółkowski (Warsaw)
Marian Zouhar (Slovak Academy)
The Colloquium will be held at the Department of Theoretical Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, 204 Splaiul Independentei, Bucharest in Room Mircea Florian.
Useful documents regarding BCAP 2015 (.pdf format):
For more information, please contact:
Sorin Costreie
sorin.costreie@filosofie.unibuc.ro
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