Please address any inquiry to agpc@uva.nl.
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AMSTERDAM GRADUATE PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE 2009
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Department of Philosophy -
Institute for Logic, Language and Information
Universiteit van Amsterdam
1-3 October 2009
Call for Papers
Theme: Meaning & Truth
The conference is dedicated to exploring new ideas on what has been
and remains a fundamental theme in the philosophy of language, namely,
the relation between meaning and truth. We invite papers from young
researchers who have an original contribution to make regarding the
role of truth in a theory of meaning, the role of meaning in a theory
of truth, or even the question of whether meaning and truth are
actually related in an interesting way.
The conference is motivated by the ongoing debates and discussions
that pose new challenges on how to conceive of meaning and of truth,
and the relation between them. Some areas of interest here include:
truth-functional vs. proof-theoretic semantics; semantic theories of
truth; the role of context in interpretation; semantic normativity;
deflationism; meaning as use; inferentialism; compositionality;
vagueness; the semantics-pragmatics interface; language evolution.
Confirmed Invited Speakers
- Kathrin Glüer-Pagin (Stockholm)
- Alex Miller (Birmingham)
- Peter Pagin (Stockholm)
- François Recanati (Paris / St Andrews)
- Martin Stokhof (Amsterdam)
Submission Information
We invite submissions in the form of short papers (not longer than
4000 words) accompanied by short abstracts (not longer than 500
words). The deadline for submission is June 10 and it should follow
the on-line submission form, available on the conference website.
Candidates eligible for submission are graduate students and those who
have completed a doctoral dissertation within the last three years.
Successful candidates will be allotted a 45-minute time slot,
comprising of a 25-minute presentation, a short commentary by an
appointed speaker and discussion with the audience. Candidates will be
notified by July 15 of whether their paper has been accepted for
presentation. The speakers will have the chance to send a revised
version of their paper, as well as a revised version of their abstract
for publication in the conference book of abstracts.
Please note that submitting an abstract does not automatically count
as registration for the conference. Those who wish to participate must
formally register for the conference; full details on how to do so can
be found on the conference website.
For further information, please visit the conference website
www.illc.uva.nl/agpc/agpc09, or contact agpc@uva.nl.
Important dates
Submission Deadline: 10 June 2009
Notification of Authors: 15 July 2009
