11-12 November 2011

This workshop is an organized broadly around issues in epistemology and the philosophy of language, and the relationship betwen them. The workshop is co-organized with members of the phlox group and the Nominalizations group at the University of Hamburg, and will take place in Hamburg. More information is available here.

Friday November 11

15:00-16:30 Daniele Sgaravatti (Köln)

“Names are Ambiguous Predicates”

17:00-18:30 Nathan Wildman (Hamburg)

“Substantial Problems with Mackie’s Minimalist Essentialism”

Saturday November 12

10:00-11:30 Katharina Felka (Hamburg)

“Nominalisierung als Betonung?”

11:45 – 13:15 Joachim Horvath (Köln)

“Understanding as a Source of Justification”

15:00-16:30 Moritz Schulz (Barcelona)

“The Inference to the Best Explanation Revisited”

17:00-18:30 Brendan and Magdalena Balcerak Jackson (Köln)

“Two Types of Inference”