We had a terrific meeting, thanks to our special guests, Kit fine, Timothy Maudlin, and Scott Soames, and a great line-up of interesting talks. A special thanks to all those members not on the schedule who came to the meeting and raised the level of our discussions by their involvement.
Planning Your Stay:
Thursday, May 13th is primarily an arrival day. A welcoming reception will be scheduled for that evening. Scheduled talks will begin Friday morning, the 14th. The last scheduled talks will end in the early afternoon (1pm) on Sunday, the 16th.
Talks will be held in the Stamp Student Union on the campus of the University of Maryland. Maps, parking information, and so on can be found on the UM visitor information pages.
How to Get There:
The College Park Campus of the University of Maryland is located inside the Capital Beltway, just to the north of Washington DC. The area is served by three main airports: BWI, DCA and IAD. For further information see the visitor's page.
Where to Stay:
The Best Western and Holiday Inn hotels of College Park are offering SEP
delegates rooms at a reduced rate. Both hotels are about a mile north of the
UMCP campus, where the meetings will take place. From there you can easily
walk to the campus or take a bus. The Best Western advertises a free shuttle
to UMCP and the Metro System.
The rooms will be held at the reduced rate until April 20. After that, rooms
can be reserved on a space available basis.
To make a reservation, call the hotel directly and give them our group code.
Best Western: 800-442-1644, Group Rate $75 per night. (Group code: 1101)
Quality Inn: 301-276-1000, Group Rate $75 per night. (Group code: 2018)
For details on these and other local hotels, go to the
local hotels page.
Annual Banquet Registration
Pre-registration is needed for the banquet. If you have not pre-registered, you should email the Secretary right away. Instructions on how to pre-register are below.
Location-- The annual banquet is scheduled for the evening of Saturday, May 15th at the 94th Aero Squadron Restaurant which is located on the grounds of the historic College Park Airport--built for the Wright Brothers for flight training (1909), and the birth place of Air Mail postal delivery (1918). Banquet menu choices will be: 1) beef1 - New York Strip Steak with Scampi, 2) beef2 - Prime Rib, 3) fish - Flounder Stuffed with Crab, 4) vegetarian - Stuffed Portabello Mushroom
To register for the banquet, send an email to the Secretary <sep> indicating your intent to attend the banquet, how many will be in your party, and what (among the four choices given above) are the menu choices of each.
We aim to have compiled this information by Friday (April 30th), but even if this date is now past, send to the Secretary your pre-registration info and we will do what we can.
Conference & Banquet Fees
The schedule of fees for the conference and banquet will be as follows:
- Conference w/ Banquet for Non-Student= $65
- Conference w/o Banquet for Non-Student= $15
- Conference w/ Banquet for Student= $20
- Conference w/o Banquet for Student= free
Payment of fees will be taken on the first day of the meeting. Dues payments ($5) will also be graciously accepted at that time.
Conference Schedule (Updated 5/6)
All meetings will take place in the Stamp Student Union, on the campus of the University of Maryland at College Park.
Thursday, May 13
Prince GeorgesÕ Room
- 8:00pm - 11:00pm Welcoming Reception & Registration.
Friday, May 14
Plenary Sessions
Prince GeorgesÕ Room
- 8:00am - 9:00: Registration
- 9:00- 10:00: Kent Johnson, University of California, Irvine:
ÒGoldÕs Theorem and Cognitive ScienceÓ - 10:00 Ð 11:00: Franz Huber, University of Constance:
ÒConfirmation and Theory Assessment: Their LogicÓ - 11:00 Ð 11:30: Coffee
- 11:30-12:30pm: Charles Morgan, University of Victoria:
ÒProbability Theory and Infinite Valued LogicÓ - 12:30 Ð 2:00: Lunch
- 2:00 Ð 3:00: Stewart Shapiro, Ohio State University and University of St. Andrews:
ÒWhere in the (Word Wide) Web is the Law of Non-Contradiction?Ó - 3:00 Ð 4:00: Robert K. Meyer, Australian National University, J. Michael Dunn, Indiana University, Chris Mortensen, University of Adelaide, and Graham Priest, University of Melbourne:
ÒMust Arithmetic Be Consistent? Or, Little Green NumbersÓ - 4:00 Ð 4:30: Coffee
- 4:30 Ð 5:30: Francois Lepage, University of Montreal:
ÒThe Functional Completeness of the Finitary Theory of TypesÓ - 5:30Ð 7:30: Guest Speaker: Scott Soames, Princeton University:
"The Rise and Fall of Ambitious Two-Dimensionalism"
Saturday May 15
Plenary Sessions
Prince GeorgesÕ Room
- 8:00- 9:00: Jeff Pelletier and Bernard Linsky, Simon Fraser University and University of Alberta:
ÒWhat is FregeÕs Theory of Descriptions?Ó - 9:00 Ð 10:00: Hans Kamp, University of Stuttgart:
ÒContext and FictionÓ - 10-10:30: Coffee
- 10:30 Ð 11:30: Kelly Trogdon, Ohio State University:
ÒMoral Imaginative ResistanceÓ - 11:30 Ð 1:30: Guest Speaker: Kit Fine, New York University
ÒNecessity and Non-existenceÓ - 1:30- 2:30: Lunch
Parallel Track I: Physics
Pyon Su Room
- Chair: Jeffrey Bub, Philosophy Department, University of Maryland at College Park
- 2:30-3:15: Stu Gluck, Philosophy Department, Johns Hopkins University:
ÒThe Interpretation of Probability In Bohmian Quantum MechanicsÓ - 3:15-4:00: Alexander Guay, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh:
ÒGeometric Aspects of Local Gauge SymmetryÓ - 4:00-4:45: Ruth Kastner, Philosophy Department, University of Maryland at College Park:
ÒWeak Values and Consistent HistoriesÓ - 4:45-5:00: Coffee
- 5:00-5:45: Zac Myers, Philosophy Department, University of Maryland at College Park:
ÒHow are Werner states to be understood in the context of quantum information theoryÓ
Parallel Track II: Games and Decisions
Prince Georges' Room
- Chair: Allen Stairs, University of Maryland at College Park
- 2:30-3:15: Steven Kimbrough, University of Pennsylvania:
ÒA Note on Exploring Rationality in GamesÓ - 3:15-4:00: Justin Fisher, University of Arizona:
ÒIn Defence of A Disposition-Based Alternative To Causal Decision TheoryÓ - 4:00-4:45: Sarah Wright, University of Arizona:
ÒRegret and Decision MakingÓ - 4:45-5:00: Coffee
- 5:00-5:45: Kenneth Presting, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:
ÒComputability and NewcombÕs ProblemÓ - 5:45-6:30: Paul Weirich, University of Missouri:
ÒProbabilities in Decision RulesÓ - 6:30-7:15:Rob Rynasiewicz, Johns Hopkins University:
"The Locus of Collective Reason: Premise- vs. Conclusion-Based Group Aggregation"
Parallel Track III: Language
Margaret Brent Room
- Chair: Paul Pietroski, University of Maryland at College Park
- 2:30-3:15: Anthony Gillies, Harvard:
ÒConditionalsÓ - 2:30-3:15: Josh Dever, University of Texas at Austin:
ÒUnconditionalsÓ - 4:00-4:45: Linton Wang, University of Texas at Austin:
ÒDynamics in PluralsÓ - 4:45-5:00: Coffee
- 5:00-5:45: Nicholas Asher, University of Texas at Austin:
ÒMight, Would and CouldÓ - 5:45-6:30: Sotirios Kotsanis, University of Maryland at College Park:
ÒCounting and the Mass/Count DistinctionÓ
Parallel Track IV. Metaphysics
Thurgood Marshall Room
- Chair: Greg Ray, University of Florida
- 2:30-3:15: Dave Truncellito, George Washington University:
ÒAn Epistemological Argument for Realism about TruthÓ - 3:15-4:00: Jay Newhard, University of Oklahoma:
"The Chrysippus Intuition and Contextual Theories of Truth" - 4:00-4:45: Sorin Bangu, University of Toronto:
ÒRealism and the Common Cause PrincipleÓ - 4:45-5:00: Coffee
- 5:00-5:45: Jeremy Koons, American University of Beirut:
"Reduction Fails in Morality and Epistemology" - 5:45-6:30: Jeremy Kirby, Florida State University:
ÒAristotleÕs Biology and the Ontology of Somatic MaterialÓ - 6:30Ð7:15: Bryson Brown, University of Lethbridge:
ÒWhatÕs in a Law?Ó - Banquet: 94th Aero Squadron Mess, 8:00pm Ð 11:00pm
Sunday May 16
Parallel Track I: Obligation
Prince GeorgesÕ Room
- 9:00 Ð 10:00: Rohit Parikh, Eric Pacuit and Eva Cogan, CUNY:
ÒKnowledge-Based ObligationÓ - 10:00 Ð 11:00: Lou Goble, Willamette University:
ÒDilemmas in Deontic LogicÓ
Parallel Track II: Physics
Pyon Su Room
- Chair: Rob Rynasiewicz, Department of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University
- 9:00-9:45: James Mattingly, Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University:
ÒTwo Blind Demons: Fluctuations and Entropy, Statistical Mechanics and ThermodynamicsÓ - 9:45-10:30: Dan Parker, Philosophy Department, University of Maryland at College Park:
ÒThermodynamic Irreversibility: Does the Big Bang Explain What it Purports to Explain?Ó - 10:30-11:15: Orlin Vakarelov, University of Arizona:
ÒTowards a Better Understanding of the Representational Role of Mathematics in the Physical Sciences.Ó
Parallel Track III: Language
Margaret Brent Room
- 9:00-9:45: Ray Jennings and J. Maclean, Simon Fraser University:
ÒA Curious Thing About CauseÓ - 9:45-10:30: Andrew Hartline, Simon Fraser University:
ÒThe Very Last Remnants of MeaningÓ - 10:30-11:15: Peter Schotch, Dalhousie University:
ÒWhat is the Logic of Necessity?Ó
Plenary Sessions
Prince George's Room
- 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
- 11:30- 12:30: Paul Thorn, University of Arizona:
ÒProjectability and the Problem of the Reference ClassÓ - 12:30 Ð 1:30 pm: Guest Speaker: Tim Maudlin, Rutgers University
ÒSuggestions from Physics for Deep MetaphysicsÓ
Program ends at 1:30 pm.
