Papers Blog – May 12

The “papers blog”:http://opp.weatherson.org is posted with three new papers. There are also several conference announcements to pass on below the fold.

Reasons and Rationality Conference 23-25 June 2004 at ANU.

The conference covers a range of issues including the nature of reasons, the relationship between reasons and rationality, and the connections between reasons, rationality, freedom and responsibility. Speakers include Ruth Chang (Rutgers), Jonathan Dancy (Reading), Jeanette Kennett (Monash/CAPPE) and Steve Matthews (Charles Sturt), Niko Kolodny (Harvard/ANU), Jay Wallace (Berkeley), and Caroline West (Sydney). For more information please consult the “website”:http://philrsss.anu.edu.au/reasons.php3.

Truth and Realism Conference June 17th-20th 2004 at St Andrews

Main Speakers:
Robert Brandom: A Semantics Without Truth
Michael Devitt: Scientific Realism
Terence Horgan: Indirect Correspondence and Contextual Semantics
Paul Horwich: A World without Isms: Life after Realism, Fictionalism, Non-Cognitivism, Relativism, Reductionism, Revisionism, and so on
John McDowell: Dummett on Meaning and Truth-Conditions
Ernest Sosa: Truth in Epistemology
Michael Williams: Deflationism and Realism
Crispin Wright: Minimalism and Relativism

“Webpage”:http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~pmg2/TRUTHANDREALISM2004_Prelim.htm
“Registration page”:http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~pmg2/Regpage.htm
“Email”:mailto:tr2004@st-and.ac.uk

Please note that the deadline for residential registrations is now Thursday 27th May 2004. We cannot guarantee to take residential registrations after that date. (Please email the organisers for late booking information.) The deadline for non-residential registrations is 17th June. This date may be brought forward if we are over-subscribed, so book early (demand is VERY high indeed). Please note that late registration fees come into effect for registrations which are postmarked later than Saturday May 15th. So book this week to avoid payment of late registration fees.

*Australasian Association for Philosophy’s _Annual Conference_ for 2004, to be held at South Molle Island, July 4 to 9, 2004*

The 2004 meeting of the Australasian Association of Philosophy will be held at the Great Barrier Reef Resort at South Molle Island in the Whitsunday Passage, starting with the Presidential Address on the evening of Sunday July 4th, and running though to about lunchtime on Friday July 9th. The conference is open to philosophers from Australasia and anywhere else in the world. The resort can also accommodate persons accompanying those attending the conference. A meeting of the Australasian Association of Logic will be integrated into the conference. Meetings of other associations may also be integrated in the same way. More information “here”:http://www.philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/aap2004/