The 33rd annual meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy was held at the University of Toronto, May 19-22, 2005.
Talks & Links:
The roster of papers presented at the conference is as follows. You will find links here to some of the papers (or other source materials associated with the talks).
- Marshall Abrams, Duke University:
Biological Fitness as a Function of Interval-Valued Mechanistic Probabilities. - David Boutillier, University of Western Ontario:
Logic and Entitlement. - Jason Brennan, University of Arizona:
Free Will in the Block Universe. - Bryson Brown, University of Lethbridge:
Wild-Card Valuations. - Ariel Cohen, Ben-Gurion University:
Vagueness and Indiscriminability by Failure. - Charles B. Cross, University of Georgia:
Tooley and Noordhof on Stalnaker-Lewis Conditionals. - Imogen Dickie, University of Toronto:
Reference and Generality. - Patrick Dieveney, University of Arizona:
Dispensability in the Indispensability Argument. - Justin C. Fisher, University of Arizona:
On Higher-Order and Free-Floating Chances. - Michael Glanzberg, UC Davis:
Context and Unrestricted Quantification. - Lou Goble, Williamette University:
Natural Deduction for Substructural Logics. - Alan Hjek, Australian National University:
Symmetry is the Very Guide of Life. - Stephan Hartmann & Luc Bovens, London School of Economics and Political Science:
Why There Cannot Be a Single Probabilistic Measure of Coherence? - Jussi Haukioja, University of Turku:
Martians and Methods: Is Linguistics a Subfield of Psychology? - Jesse Hughes, Peter Kroes & Sjoerd Zwart, Technical University of Eindhoven, Technical Univ. of Delft, & Technical Univ. of Eindhoven:
A Semantics for Means-End Relations. - Dale Jacquette, Pennsylvania State University:
Truth-breakers. - R.E. Jennings & Tara Nicholson, Simon Fraser University:
The Mathematics of Family Resemblance. - Sandra Lapointe, Concordia University:
Individuating lexical types and ascribing mental states: Frege and Husserl. - Franois Lepage & Charles Morgan, Universit de Montral and University of Victoria:
There is no Non-trivial Conditional Probabilistic Interpretation of Counterfactuals by Imaging. - Ernie Lepore, Rutgers University:
Shared Content. - Martin Lin, University of Toronto:
Against Wide Causation. - Bernard Linsky, University of Alberta:
Bertrand Russell's Notes on Frege's Grundgesetze. - Luca Moretti & Ken Akiba, University of Konstanz and Virginia Commonwealth University:
Probabilistic Measures of Coherence and the Problem of Belief Individuation. - Charles Morgan, Alex Hertel, & Philipp Hertel, University of Victoria, University of Toronto, & U of Toronto:
A Sound and Complete Proof Theory for Logical Contingencies in the Propositional Calculus. - Peter Murphy, University of Tennessee-Knoxville:
Epistemic Closure Failures - David Nicolas, Institut Jean Nicod (CNRS/EHESS/ENS):
The Semantics of Mass Expressions Derived from Gradable Verbal Expressions. - Douglas Patterson, Kansas State University:
Understanding the Liar. - Kent Peacock, University of Lethbridge:
Aristotles Sea Battle and the Kochen-Specker Theorem. - Jeff Pelletier, Simon Fraser University:
A Step Towards Making It Work. - Chris Pincock, Purdue University:
An Investigation of the Derivation and Application Conditions of the One-Dimensional Heat Equation. - Ken Presting & Christopher A. Pynes, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Tennessee at Knoxville:
Non-Trivial Conditional Probability. - Alex Radulescu, University and Toronto:
Blue Ink and Compositionality. - Greg Ray & Ivana Simic, University of Florida:
A Decisive Refutation of Epistemicism. - Elka Shortsleeve, University of Florida:
Knowledge and Certainty: A Speech-Act Contextualist Account. - Jason Stanley, Rutgers University:
Semantics in Context. - Katie Steele, University of Queensland:
Attitudes Towards Risky Probabilities. - Kelly Trogdon, Ohio State University:
BonJour on Consciousness and Direct Apprehension. - Richard Valle, Universit de Moncton:
Conventional Implicature Revisited. - Susan Vineberg, Wayne State University:
Beauty's Cautionary Tale. - Roger Wertheimer, Agnes Scott College:
Signs of Speech. - James A. Woodbridge & Bradley Armour-Garb, University of Michigan & The University at Albany (SUNY):
The Pathology of Validity. - Sarah Wright, University of Arizona:
In Defense of an Interpretivist Theory of Mindreading. - Byeong-Uk Yi, University of Minnesota:
On Priest's Version of Zeno's Paradox. - Richard Zach, University of Calgary:
Algebraic Semantics for Logics of Vagueness.
Schedule & Events:
Meeting Schedule (pdf). Registration is $20 CDN ($10 for students). Dues $5. Events to note: i) Thurs, May 19, 7pm: Registration and Welcoming Reception. ii) Saturday evening, May 21st, Annual Banquet. Cost of banquet: $37.50 CDN. Custom Local Map (pdf).
Planning Your Stay:
Thursday, May 19th is primarily an arrival day. A welcoming reception will be scheduled for that evening. Scheduled talks will begin Friday morning, the 20th. Please note that Sunday the 22nd is a full conference day --with that day's sessions ending about 6pm.
Where to Stay:
The Quality Hotel - Midtown is offering rooms at a reduced rate for SEP conferees. Phone (416) 968-0010 for reservations, and use Group ID #102625, Group name "Society Exact Philosophy Conference". To obtain the conference rate, you must make your reservations by April 19th. The conference rate can be obtained for the following nights: 19th, 20th, 21st.
Conference Room Rates:
- Standard, 1 bed, 1 person: $109.99 Canadian dollars
- Double, 1 bed, 2 persons: $119.99 Canadian dollars
- Double, 2 beds, 2 persons: $119.99 Canadian dollars
- Triple/Quad, 2 beds, 3/4 persons: $119.99 Canadian dollars
- (Add 7% federal tax, 5% provincial tax, and 3% destination marketing fee)
Check-In Time: 3pm. Check-Out Time: Noon.
Parking:
Underground parking for cars and mini-vans is available at a cost of $15.00 per day plus taxes (subject to change). The hotel does not have bus-parking facilities.
Other Hotels
Some information on alternative hotel accomodations can be found from the UT Visitor's Info page.
Sister Conference
The year 2005 is the 100th anniversary of Bertrand Russell's 'On Denoting'. The Bertrand Russell Research Centre is organizing a retrospective conference for the occasion, 'Russell versus Meinong', which will be held at McMaster University in nearby Hamilton, Ontario on May 14-18, 2005. The organizers of both conferences hope that the dovetailing of our conference dates will create a unique conference synergy and an academic opportunity for many conferees.
Submission Instructions
The paper submission period is closed.
