MLK Conference 2006

One-day MLK Graduate Conference

Mind, Language, and Knowledge

January 16, 2006

WAG 316

Organized by Mark Sainsbury

Schedule

Speakers have 20 minutes, respondents 15 minutes, and general discussion 20 minutes.

10.00am Coffee

10.30 Substitution

Speaker: Aidan McGlynn "Is minimal Fregeanism too minimal?"

Response: Alex Baia

Chair: Enrico Grube

11.30 Natural kinds

Speaker: David Didion

"An empirical puzzle for causal theories of reference"

Response: Alex Moffett

Chair: Luis Salas

12.30pm Lunch

1.30 Two-dimensional semantics

Speaker: Tom Bogardus

"1-intensions and Fregean Sense"

Response: James Sherman

Chair: Leah Lasell

2.30 Descriptivism

Speaker: Kyle Dingman

Response: Kyoung-Hi Park

Chair: Dan Korman

3.30 Break

4.00 Fiction

Speaker: Briggs Wright

"Many, but almost Holmes"

Response: John Bengson

Chair: Tom Irish