Registration is open for the ***2010 Logic and Language Conference*** Aberdeen, Friday 24th September - Sunday 26th September,

Registration is open for the

***2010 Logic and Language Conference***

Aberdeen, Friday 24th September - Sunday 26th September, 2010
University of Aberdeen, Northern Institute of Philosophy

The registration web site:

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/philosophy/nip/ll2010/registration.php

The 2010 Logic and Language Conference is the first of a series of
conferences co-organized by the Northern Institute of Philosophy at the
University of Aberdeen, and by the Centre for Logic and Language of the
Institute of Philosophy at the School of Advanced Study, University of
London.
Staged every two years, alternating location between Aberdeen and London,
this workshop aims at resurrecting the traditional UK Logic and Language
conference series and at becoming a prominent feature in the British
philosophical calendar.
The Conference is meant primarily as a showcase for young philosophers to
present and discuss their best work, but will host keynote speakers as well.
This year’s keynote speakers are JC Beall (Connecticut), Manuel
Garcia-Carpintero (Barcelona/Logos), Graham Priest (Melbourne and CUNY),
Greg Restall (Melbourne), Mark Sainsbury (Texas, Austin).

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**Preliminary Program**

*Friday, September 24*

Greg Restall (University of Melbourne)
"Assertion, Denial and the Logic of Definedness"

Simon Hewitt (Birkbeck College, London)
"The Logic of Finite Order"

William Bynoe (Institute of Philosophy, London)
"Kit Fine on the Timeless and the Temporary"

Julien Murzi (University of Sheffield)
"Inferentialism and Incompleteness"

Nat Hansen (University of Chicago)
"A Slugfest of Intuitions: Contextualism and Experimental Design"

*Saturday, September 25*

Mark Sainsbury (University of Texas, Austin)
"Varieties of Fiction Operator"

Frederique Janssen-Lauret (University of St Andrews)
"Consequence and the Fiction Operator"

Gerry Hough (University of Aberdeen – NIP)
"Kripke's Puzzle and the Semantics/Pragmatics Divide"

Seyed N. Mousavian (University of Alberta)
"Millianism, Empty Names, and Pragmatics"

Alessandro Torza (Boston University)
"Identity and Counterfactuals"

Alberto Voltolini (University of Turin)
"Meinongian Empty Singular Terms"

Gunnar Björnsson and Alexander Almér (University of Gothenburg)
"The Pragmatics of Insensitive Assessments"

Graham Priest (University of Melbourne and CUNY Graduate Centre)
"The Self as a Non-Existent Object"

*Sunday, September 26*

JC Beall (University of Connecticut)
"Open Worlds as Fictions Within Fiction"

Aldo Antonelli (UC Davis)
"Non-Reductive Logicism and the Nature of Abstraction"

Lee Walters (Institute of Philosophy, London)
"Fictional Characters, Syllepsis and Systematic Polysemy"

Fredrik Haraldsen (University of Miami)
"Definite Descriptions, Selection & Rigidity"

David Etlin (University of Leuven)
"Vague Desire: The Sorites and the Money Pump"

Manuel-Garcia Carpintero (University of Barcelona/Logos)
"Pretending to Refer: Internal and External Perspectives"