2008 Laramie, WY    < top >

University of Wyoming, Laramie, May 13 - 18, 2008
Host: Marc Moffett <Conference Web Page>

• Emil Badici, LSU: On Truth, the T-schema and Definiendum-Sensitive Definitions.
• Joseph Baltimore, West Virginia: Non-reductive physicalism, substance dualism, and the piggyback argument.
• Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay & Mark Taper, Montana State University: The belief/evidence distinction: A fresh look at epistemology.
• James Beebe, University of Buffalo: A priori skepticism.
• Bryson Brown, University of Lethbridge: Freedom w/out metaphysics.
• Mark A Brown, Syracuse University: Acts and actions in branching time.
• Eric Carter, Ohio State: Realism, objectivity, and communication.
• Sara Rachel Chant, University of Missouri: Anscombe's 'knowledge without observation' in collective intention.
• Charles Cross, University of Georgia: Causal independence, the identity of indiscernibles, and the essentiality of origins.
• Anthony Dardis, Hofstra University: Supervenience, properties and mental causation.
• Walter Dean & Hidenori Kurokawa, CUNY: From the Knowability Paradox to the existence of proofs.
• Imogen Dickie, University of Toronto: How proper names refer.
• Patrick Dieveney, California State University, Long Beach: Everything is not enough.
• Joshua Earlenbaugh and Bernard Molyneux, University of California, Davis: Intuitions: Just inclinations to believe?.
• David Etlin, MIT: The problem of noncounterfactual conditionals.
• Markus Glodek, University of Texas: A new conception of nonexistent objects.
• Chris Hitchcock & Joshua Knobe, Cal Tech/University of North Carolina: Norms and causation.
• David Jehle, Rutgers University: Epistemic closure and Bayesian evidentialism.
• Michael Katz, Haifa: Infinity logic.
• Joshua Knobe & Chris Hitchcock, Cal Tech/University of North Carolina: Norms and causation.
• Dan Korman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne: Strange kinds, arbitrariness, and the case for robust particularism.
• Steven T Kuhn, Georgetown: Morality, social pressure and advocacy games.
• Hidenori Kurokawa & Walter Dean, CUNY: From the Knowability Paradox to the existence of proofs.
• Francois Lepage & Charles Morgan, University of Montreal/University of Victoria: Counterfactuals and conditional probabilities.
• Dustin Locke, University of Michigan: Ramsification and knowledge-which.
• Kirk Ludwig, University of Florida: Constitutive rules and institutions.
• Frederick Maier & Donald Nute, West Florida University/University of Georgia: Soundness and completeness results for the defeasible logic NDL.
• Charles Morgan & Francois Lepage, University of Montreal/University of Victoria: Counterfactuals and conditional probabilities.
• Michael Nelson, University of California, Riverside: Problems with contingent existents.
• Darko Sarenac, Colorado State University: The logic of dynamic positivism: On making knowledge public.
• Giacomo Sillari, University of Pennsylvania: Quantified logic of awareness and impossible possible worlds.
• Mark Taper & Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay, Montana State University: The belief/evidence distinction: A fresh look at epistemology.
• Chris Tillman, University of Manitoba: Necessarily, everything necessarily exists.
• Michael Tooley, University of Colorado: The probability of God.
• Nick Treanor, University of Toronto: The measure of knowledge.
• Jean-Paul Vessel, New Mexico State University: Supererogation for utilitarianism.
• Michael Walsh Pelczar, National University of Singapore: Must an appearance of succession involve a succession of appearances?.
• Paul Weirich, University of Missouri: Utility and framing.
• Malte Willer, University of Texas: New surprises for the Ramsey test.
• Nicole Wyatt, University of Calgary: Conventions for illocutionary silencing.

2007 Vancouver, BC    < top >

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, May 17 - 20, 2007
Host: Paul Bartha <Conference Web Page>

• Peter Apostoli & Akira Kanda, University of Pretoria/Omega Mathematics Institute: The scope and limits of empiricism:  on the logical inconsistency of physical theories.
• Emil Badici, University of Florida: The Inexpressibility of Truth.
• Roberta Ballarin, University of British Columbia: Prior on the Logic and the Metaphysics of Time.
• Prasanta Bandyopadhyay, Montana State University: The Duhem-Quine Thesis: A Bayesian Perspective.
• Sorin Bangu, University of Toronto: On Numbers and Insects: Applying Mathematics to Evolutionary Biology.
• Bryson Brown, University of Lethbridge: Ambiguity Games and Preserving Ambiguity Measures.
• Douglas Cannon, University of Puget Sound: Digital Pictures.
• Fabrizio Cariani, University of California, Berkeley: Truth in a Corpus.
• Mark Colyvan, University of Sydney: What is the principle of uniform solution and why should we buy it?
• John Cook, St. Francis Xavier University: A Davidsonian Approach to Kripke's Puzzle.
• Phil Corkum, University of Alberta: Apriority and Logical Constancy.
• Joshua Earlenbaugh, University of Missouri, Kansas City: Sorting Things Out: Occasional Identity Between Different Sorts of Things.
• Justin Fisher, University of British Columbia: The Challenge of Syntactic Typing.
• Sergio Gallegos, CUNY-Graduate Centre: Reducing modality, reducing time?
• Brendan Gillon, McGill University: The paradox of implicit arguments.
• Lou Goble, Willamette University: Preemption, Future Mistakes and the Logic of 'Ought'.
• Richard Healey, University of Arizona: Empirical Symmetries.
• Christopher Hitchcock, California Institute of Technology: The Conserved Quantity Theory: Between Circularity and Redundancy.
• Jeff Horty, University of Maryland, College Park: Reasons as Defaults.
• Robert Hudson, University of Saskatchewan: Non-Disjunctivism and Visual Awareness.
• Mike Huemer, University of Colorado: Absolute Deontology and the Problem of Risk.
• Dale Jacquette, Penn State University: Burleigh's Paradox.
• David Jehle, Cornell University: The Logic and Epistemology of Implicit and Explicit Knowledge.
• Ray Jennings & Kam Sing Leung, Simon Fraser University: The logic of deontic residuation.
• Richard Johns, University of British Columbia: An Epistemic Theory of Objective Chance.
• Michael Katz, Haifa University: Approximately Exact Philosophy.
• Andrey Kuznetsov, University of Alberta: Matrix Modal Logic.
• Bernie Linsky, University of Alberta: Appendix B of the Second Edition of Principia Mathematica.
• Kirk Ludwig, University of Florida: Sententialism and Higher-order Attitude Attributions.
• Federico Marulanda, Columbia University: Future contingents and external negation.
• Storrs McCall, McGill University: New Foundations for Connexive Logic.
• Paul McCallion, University of St. Andrews: Has the Caesar Problem Gone Away?
• Mark Moffet, University of Wyoming: Epistemic Conservatism, Stability, and Self-Trust.
• Michael Nelson, University of California, Riverside: Temporary Truths.
• Dorian Nicholson, Simon Fraser University: The Logic of (In)Vacuity.
• Kent Peacock, University of Lethbridge: Definite and Indefinite Articles in Elementary Predicate Logic.
• Gurpreet Rattan, University of Toronto: Thinking about Demonstrative Thoughts".
• Greg Ray, University of Florida: The Significance of Tarski-Gödel for Truth.
• Jeff Russell, Rutgers University: The Structure of Gunk.
• Darko Sarenac, Stanford University: The Geometry of Knowledge.
• John Simpson, University of Alberta: Redeeming Sunk Cost Counting: Recasting an Old Fallacy as a New Heuristic.
• Jan Sprenger, London School of Economics: Falsificationist Confirmation: A New Account of Deductive Confirmation.
• Daniel Steel, Michigan State University: What if the Principle of Induction is Normative? Means-End Epistemology and Hume's Problem.
• John Symons, University of Texas, El Paso: Inquiry and Minimal Functionalism.
• Heidi Tiedke, University of Maryland, College Park: Fiction and the Character of Proper Names.
• Mike Titelbaum, University of California, Berkeley: The Relevance of Self-Locating Beliefs.
• Rafal Urbaniak, University of Calgary: Conditional Logics and Tooley's Example.
• Susan Vineberg, Wayne State University: The Success of Ramsay's Dutch Book Argument.
• Michael Walsh Pelczar, National University of Singapore: The Knowledge Argument, the Open Question Argument, and the Moral Problem.
• Steve Weinstein, University of Waterloo: Relativity and Backward Causation.
• Max Weiss, University of British Columbia: The Word Problem.
• Malte Willer, University of Texas, Austin: Negative Existentials and DRT.
• John Woods, University of British Columbia: Ignorance, Inference and Proof: Abductive Logic meets the Criminal Law.
• Audrey Yap, University of Victoria: Predicativity and Determinateness in Dedekind's Construction of the Reals.

2006 La Jolla, CA    < top >

University of California, San Diego, May 18 - 21, 2006
Hosts: Craig Callendar & Jonathan Cohen <Conference Web Page>

• Robert Axtell & Steve Kimbrough, The Brookings Institute & University of Pennsylvania: On Concepts of Rationality in Games.
• Andrew M. Bailey, Biola University: Some Unsound Arguments for Incompatibilism.
• Jonathan Bain, Humanities & Social Sciences Polytechnic University: Emergent Spacetime and Structural Realism.
• Derek Ball, University of Texas, Austin: Bound Variables and Monstrous Semantics.
• Bryson Brown, University of Lethbridge: Achilles, Van Fraassen and the Laws of Nature.
• Otávio Bueno, University of South Carolina: An Anti-Realist Account of the Application of Mathematics.
• Charles S. Chihara, University of California, Berkeley: Burgess' Scientific Arguments for the Existence of Mathematical Objects.
• Murray Clarke, Concordia University: A Solution to the Radical Concept Nativism Puzzle.
• Mark Colyvan, University of Queensland: Relative Expectation Theory.
• Gabriel Uzquiano Cruz, Ohio State University: What's in a Receptacle.
• Max Deutsch, East Carolina University: The One and Only Argument for Radical Millianism.
• Fred Dretske, Duke University: What Change Blindness Teaches About Conscious Experience.
• Branden Fitelson, University of California, Berkeley: Kim's Argument for the Unconfirmability of Disjunctive Laws.
• Roman Frigg & Carl Hoefer, London School of Economics & London School of Economics: Probability in Spontaneous Localisation Approaches to Quantum Mechanics.
• Nicholas Georgalis, East Carolina University: Before Twin Earth.
• Alan Hájek, Australian National University: A Puzzle About Degree of Belief.
• Charles M. Hermes , Florida State University: Defending Weak Centering.
• Carl Hoefer & Roman Frigg, London School of Economics & London School of Economics: Probability in Spontaneous Localisation Approaches to Quantum Mechanics.
• Sarah Hoffman, University of Saskatchewan: You Can't Mean That: Yablo's Figuralist Account of Mathematics.
• Franz Huber, California Institute of Technology: The Consistency Argument for Ranking Functions.
• Michael Huemer, University of Colorado: Weak Bayesian Coherentism.
• Steve Kimbrough & Robert Axtell, University of Pennsylvania & The Brookings Institute: On Concepts of Rationality in Games.
• Boris Kment, University of Michigan: The Similarity Account of Counterfactuals.
• François Lepage & Serge Lapierre, Université de Montréal & Collège de Bois-de-Boulogne: A Generalized Kleene 3-value Logic.
• Kirk Ludwig & Susan Schneider, University of Florida & Moravian College: Fodor's Challenge to the Classical Computational Theory of Mind.
• P.D. Magnus, University at Albany, SUNY: Eliminating Induction.
• Edwin Mares, Victoria University of Wellington: The Fact Semantics for Ramified Type Theory and the Axiom of Reducibility.
• Patricia Marino, University of Waterloo: Toward a Modest Correspondence Theory of Truth: Predicates and Properties.
• Robert K Meyer, Australian National University: AI, ME & LEWIS (Abelian implication, Material equivalence & C I Lewis 1920).
• Martin Montminy, University of Ottawa: Two Contextualist Fallacies.
• Michael Nelson, University of California, Riverside: Actuality and Counterparts.
• Shaun Nichols, University of Utah: Intuitions and Individual Differences: The Knobe Effect Revisited.
• Dilip Ninan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Illusions of Influence in Newcomb's Problem.
• Robert Northcott, University of Missouri, St. Louis: Natural-born determinists: Ex post versus ex ante judgments of probabilistic causation.
• Kenneth A. Presting, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: The Valuation of Choices.
• Gurpreet S. Rattan, University of Toronto: Sense, Analyticity, and Anti-Individualism: a New Choreography.
• Greg Ray, University of Florida: On the Independence of What Our Thoughts are About.
• Steven Savitt (Keynote), University of British Columbia: Time in the Special Theory of Relativity.
• Susan Schneider & Kirk Ludwig, Moravian College & University of Florida: Fodor's Challenge to the Classical Computational Theory of Mind.
• Brian Skyrms, Univeristy of California, Irvine: Signals: Evolution and Learning.
• Paul D. Thorn, University of Arizona: Rationality and Inconsistent Beliefs.
• Susan Vineberg, Wayne State University: Proof and Explanation in Mathematics.
• Charles Wallis, California State University, Long Beach: The Proper Role of Know How in Epistemology.
• Sarah Wright, University of Georgia: Epistemic Virtues and Reasoning about Probability.

2005 Toronto, ON    < top >

University of Toronto, May 19 - 22, 2005
Host: Philip Kremer <Conference Web Page Link>

• 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 H‡jek, 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 and 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 and Tara Nicholson, Simon Fraser University: The Mathematics of Family Resemblance.
• Sandra Lapointe, Concordia University: Individuating lexical types and ascribing mental states: Frege and Husserl.
• Fran�ois Lepage and Charles Morgan, UniversitŽ de MontrŽal 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 (presenting) and 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: AristotleÕs 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 and 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 and 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 VallŽe, UniversitŽ 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.

2004 College Park, MD    < top >

University of Maryland, May 13 - 16, 2004

Host: Michael Morreau

• Jamie Alexandre, Ray E. Jennings, and Tara Nicholson, Simon Fraser University: The Emergence of the Insufficiency 'If'
• Nicholas Asher, University of Texas at Austin: Might, Would and Could.
• Sorin Bangu, University of Toronto: Realism and the Common Cause Principle.
• Bryson Brown, University of Lethbridge: What's in a Law?
• Josh Dever, University of Texas at Austin: Unconditionals.
• Kit Fine, New York University: Necessity and Non-existence.
• Justin Fisher, University of Arizona: In Defence of A Disposition-Based Alternative To Causal Decision Theory.
• Anthony Gillies, Harvard: Conditionals.
• Stu Gluck, Philosophy Department, Johns Hopkins University: The Interpretation of Probability In Bohmian Quantum Mechanics.
• Lou Goble, Willamette University: Dilemmas in Deontic Logic.
• Alexander Guay, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh: Geometric Aspects of Local Gauge Symmetry.
• Andrew Hartline, Simon Fraser University: The Very Last Remnants of Meaning.
• Franz Huber, University of Constance: Confirmation and Theory Assessment: Their Logic.
• Ray E. Jennings and J. Maclean, Simon Fraser University: A Curious Thing About Cause.
• Kent Johnson, University of California, Irvine: Gold's Theorem and Cognitive Science.
• Hans Kamp, University of Stuttgart: Context and Fiction.
• Ruth Kastner, Philosophy Department, University of Maryland at College Park: Weak Values and Consistent Histories.
• Steven Kimbrough, University of Pennsylvania: A Note on Exploring Rationality in Games.
• Jeremy Kirby, Florida State University: Aristotle's Biology and the Ontology of Somatic Material.
• Jeremy Koons, American University of Beirut: Reduction Fails in Morality and Epistemology.
• Sotirios Kotsanis, University of Maryland at College Park: Counting and the Mass/Count Distinction.
• Francois Lepage, University of Montreal: The Functional Completeness of the Finitary Theory of Types.
• James Mattingly, Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University: Two Blind Demons: Fluctuations and Entropy, Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics.
• Timothy Maudlin, Rutgers University: Suggestions from Physics for Deep Metaphysics.
• Robert K. Meyer, Australian National University, J. Michael Dunn, Indiana University, Chris Mortensen, University of Adelaide, and Graham Priest, University of Melbourne: Must Arithmetic Be Consistent? Or, Little Green Numbers.
• Zac Myers, Philosophy Department, University of Maryland at College Park: How are Werner states to be understood in the context of quantum information theory.
• Charles Morgan, University of Victoria: Probability Theory and Infinite Valued Logic.
• Jay Newhard, University of Oklahoma: The Chrysippus Intuition and Contextual Theories of Truth.
• Tara Nicholson, Ray E. Jennings, and Jamie Alexandre, Simon Fraser University: The Biology of Hypergraphs
• Rohit Parikh, Eric Pacuit and Eva Cogan, CUNY: Knowledge-Based Obligation.
• Dan Parker, Philosophy Department, University of Maryland at College Park: Thermodynamic Irreversibility: Does the Big Bang Explain What it Purports to Explain?
• Jeff Pelletier and Bernard Linsky, Simon Fraser University and University of Alberta: What is FregeÕs Theory of Descriptions?
• Kenneth Presting, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Computability and NewcombÕs Problem.
• Rob Rynasiewicz, Johns Hopkins University: The Locus of Collective Reason: Premise- vs. Conclusion-Based Group Aggregation.
• Peter Schotch, Dalhousie University: What is the Logic of Necessity?
• Stewart Shapiro, Ohio State University and University of St. Andrews: Where in the (Word Wide) Web is the Law of Non-Contradiction?
• Scott Soames, Princeton University: The Rise and Fall of Ambitious Two-Dimensionalism.
• Paul Thorn, University of Arizona: Projectability and the Problem of the Reference Class.
• Kelly Trogdon, Ohio State University: Moral Imaginative Resistance.
• Dave Truncellito, George Washington University: An Epistemological Argument for Realism about Truth.
• Orlin Vakarelov, University of Arizona: Towards a Better Understanding of the Representational Role of Mathematics in the Physical Sciences..
• Linton Wang, University of Texas at Austin: Dynamics in Plurals.
• Paul Weirich, University of Missouri: Probabilities in Decision Rules.
• Sarah Wright, University of Arizona: Regret and Decision Making.

2003 Vancouver, BC    < top >

Simon-Fraser University, May 23 - 26, 2003

Host: Ray Jennings

• Ana Maria Andrei, University of Florida: A New Account of Unbound Anaphora.
• Emil Badici, University of Florida: Logical Truth: A Defense of the Standard Account.
• Paul Bartha, University of British Columbia: Taking Stock of Infinite Value: Pascal's Wager and Relative Utilities.
• Jean Yves BÉziau, UniversitÉ de Neuchatel: New Light on the Square of Opposition and its Nameless Corner.
• Bryson Brown, University of Lethbridge: Refining Preservation.
• Otavio Bueno, University of South Carolina: Dissolving the Realism Issue in the Philosophy of Mathematics.
• William H. Calvin, University of Washington: The Evolution of Structured Thought.
• C. J. Cole [so-called], University of Arizona: Paradox, and the fictional philosophical composition: a helpful little solution to the paradox of reference and existence.
• Jim Delgrande, Simon Fraser University: Weak Conditional Logics of Normality.
• Raffaella de Rosa, University of South Carolina: Descartes on Sensory Misrepresentation.
• Vladan Djordjevic, University of Alberta: Similarity, Cotenability.
• Matti Eklund, University of Colorado at Boulder: Objects.
• Justin C. Fisher, University of Arizona: Does Simulation Theory Really Involve Simulation.
• Graeme Forbes, Tulane University: Depiction Verbs: The 'Languages of Art' Semantics.
• Steve Giambrone, University of Southwestern Louisiana: On Ordinality.
• Paul Gilmore, University of British Columbia: Logicism Renewed: Logical Foundations for Mathematics and Computer Science.
• Lou Goble, Willamette University: The Combination of the Universe - or Combinatory Logic and the Semantics of Substructural Logic.
• Francisco Gomez-Holtved, University of Toronto at Mississauga: Russell's Theory of Descriptions.
• Arvind Gupta, Simon Fraser University: Computational Phylogeny.
• Alan Hajek, California Institute of Technology: Scotching Dutch Books.
• Christopher Hitchcock, California Institute of Technology and Elliot Sober, University of Wisconsin: Prediction versus Accommodation and the Risk of Overrating.
• Franz Huber, University of Konstanz: Assessing Theories: the Problem of a Quantitative Theory of Confirmation.
• Kent Johnson, University of California, Irvine: Do We Actually Understand the Meaning of Our Own Sentences.
• David K. Johnston, University of Victoria: Propositions Ingurgitate by Pressure Differential.
• François LePage, UniversitÉ de MontrÉal and Charles G. Morgan, University of Victoria: A Probabilistic Semantics for Counterfactuals.
• Christopher Lepock, University of Alberta: Algebraic Tableaux for Prepositional Fuzzy Logic.
• Kam Sing Leung, Simon Fraser University: Proto-Accessibility and Deontic Logics in the Region of S1.
• Iain Martel, University of Konstanz: Indeterminism and the Causal Markov Connection.
• Genoveva Marti, Universitat de Barcelona: Substitution and Identity.
• Robert Maydole, Davidson College: On What is Really Possible.
• Storrs McCall, McGill University: How to make a decision.
• Casey N. McGinnis, University of Minnesota: Quandaries and Alethic-Deontic Logic.
• Charles G. Morgan, University of Victoria: How to Change Your Mind.
• Michael Morreau, University of Maryland: Good Arguments, Bad Ones, and Far-Fetched Possibilities.
• Michael Morreau, University of Maryland, symposiast: [In Defense of Vague Objects]
• Douglas Patterson, Kansas State University: Tarski on the Necessity Reading of Convention T.
• Jeff Pelletier, University of Alberta, and Robert Stainton, Carleton University: On "The denial of bivalence is absurd".
• Jeff Pelletier, University of Alberta, symposiast: [Against Vague Objects]
• Kenneth A. Presting, University of North Carolina, Cary: On the Representation of Decision Problems.
• Nathalie PrŽvost, Simon Fraser University: The Physics of Language Change: Toward a Phase-Transitional Account of Functionalization.
• Geoffrey Pullum, University of California, Santa Cruz: A New Look at What Languages Really Are.
• Diana Raffman, Ohio State University: Is Perceptual Indiscriminability Non-Transitive.
• Gurpreet Rattan, University of Toronto: An Argument Against Deflationism.
• Greg Ray, University of Florida: Chihara on Modality Without Worlds.
• Greg Ray, University of Florida, symposiast: Nothing Like the Sun.
• Victor Rodych, University of Lethbridge: Are Platonism and Pragmatism Compatible.
• Teresa Robertson, University of Kansas: Internalism,, Super) Fragile Reasons and the Conditional Fallacy.
• Darko Sarenac, Stanford University: Modal Logics for Product Topologies.
• Barbara C. Scholz, San JosŽ State University: Conceptions of Innateness in Cognitive Psychology and Linguistics.
• Peter Schotch, Dalhousie University: 3-Valued Logic: The Awful Truth.
• Oliver Schulte, Simon Fraser University: If you think that I think that you think that I wouldÉA Solution to Some Problems in Interactive Rationality.
• Charlie Silver, Memphis, Tennessee: Whatever-has-F-has-F.
• Rob Sinclair, Simon Fraser University: When Naturalized Epistemology Turns Normative: Quine.s Fragmentation of Epistemic Normativity.
• Jonathan Strand, Concordia University College of Alberta: Indicative Conditionals and the Principle of Charity.
• Eugenia Ternovska, Simon Fraser University: Modularity Theories for Non-Monotone Induction.
• Mariam Thalos, SUNY, Buffalo and University of Utah: The Natural History of Knowledge.
• Paul Thorn, University of Arizona and University of Konstanz: A Theory of Competing Reasons.
• Mary Tiles, University of Hawaii: Kant and Incompleteness: the Significance of the Move from General to Transcendental Logic.
• Brian van den Broek, McGill University: Brandom's inferentialism and the Account of Logical Validity.
• Susan Vineberg, Wayne State University: Remnants of the Indispensability Argument.
• Cory Wright, University of California, San Diego: On the Functionalization of Pluralist Approaches to the Nature of Truth.
• Sarah Wright, University of Arizona: Defending Anti-Humeanism about Motivation.
• Byeong-Uk Yi, University of Minnesota: Newcomb's Paradox and Priest's Principle of Rational Choice.
• Paul Weirich, University of Missouri: Intrinsic Utility.

2002 St.Louis, MO    < top >

Washington University, May 23 - 26, 2002

Host: Ronald P. Loui

• Rani Lill Anjum, University of Tromsoe and Simon Fraser University: A Solution to the Paradox of Indicative Conditionals.
• Otavio Bueno, Cal State Fresno: An Easy Road to Nominalism.
• Max Deutsch, University of Hong Kong: A Reductio of Millianism.
• Vladan Djordjevic, University of Alberta: Similarity, Cotenability.
• Graeme Forbes, Tulane University: Disjunctive Attitudes.
• R. E. Jennings, Simon Fraser University: Function and Pleiotropy.
• Kent Johnson, UC Irvine: How Systematic are Language and Thought.
• Takayuki Dan Kimura, Washington University, [Comments on Teaching the Riles of Exponents].
• Jeremy Koons, American University of Beirut: Reconciling Internalism and Externalism in Epistemology.
• Henry Kyburg, University of Rochester: Probabilistic Epistemology.
• Francois Lepage, Universite de Montreal: What is a Feasible Act.
• Bernard Linsky, University of Alberta: Classes of Classes and Classes of Functions in Principia Mathematica.
• Sherry May, Memorial University of Newfoundland: Teaching the Rules of Exponents: A Resource Based Approach.
• Michael Morreau, University of Maryland: What Vague Objects are Like.
• Tara Nicholson, Simon Fraser University: Cooperation and Defection in a Generalized Modal Setting.
• Donald Nute, University of Georgia: An Epistemology for Defeasible Reasoners.
• Timothy O'Connor, Indiana University: The Metaphysics of Emergence.
• Diana Raffman, Ohio State University: Borderline Cases and Classical Logic.
• Greg Ray, University of Florida: On the Matter of Essential Richness.
• Peter K. Schotch, Dalhousie University: Background to the Logic of Rules.
• Todd M. Stewart, University of Arizona: Ethical Disagreement: The Epistemological Problem.
• Jonathan Strand, Concordia University College of Alberta: On Behalf of a Non-Transitive Consequence Relation.
• Kelly Trogdon, University of Florida: A Defense of the Principle of Identity of Indiscernibles and the Principle of Sufficient Reason.
• Alasdair Urquhart, University of Toronto: The Complexity of Propositional Proofs with the Substitution Rule.
• Hong Yu Wong, Rutgers University: Epiphenomenal Emergents.

2001 Montreal, Quebec    < top >

University of Montreal, May 11 - 14, 2001

Host: François Lepage

• M. Allen, Pittsburgh & Simon Fraser: Preservationist Logics and Nonmonotonic Logics.
• Peter Alward, Lethbridge: A Neo-Hintikkan Solution to Kripke's Puzzle.
• Nuel Belnap, Pittsburgh: Double Time References: Speech Acts in an Indeterminist Setting.
• Jean-Yves Béziau, Stanford: Sentence, Proposition and Identity.
• Luc Bovens, Boulder) & S Hartmann, Pittsburgh: The Import of Auxiliary Theories of the Instrument: A Bayesian-Network Approach.
• Brian van den Broek, McGill: How to Save Frege from Dummett.
• Bryson Brown, Lethbridge) & Graham Priest, Melbourne: Chunk and Permeate.
• Otávio Bueno, Calif State, Fresno) & J.C. Beall, Connecticut: Truth, the Liar Paradox, and the Operator 'Solution'.
• Otávio Bueno, CSU, Fresno: The Truth about Truth.
• Mario Bunge, McGill: Possibility and Likelihood, Probability and Frequency, Plausibility and Partial Truth.
• Ben Caplan, UCLA: Empty Names and Gappy Propositions.
• Marc Colyvan, Tasmania: Mathematics and Aesthetic Considerations in Science.
• Charles B. Cross, Georgia: Nonmonotonic Inconsistency.
• Vanderveken Daniel, Québec à Trois-Rivières: The Basic Logic of Action.
• Charles B. Daniels: Ought We Prevent Preventable Evils.
• Steven Davis, Simon Fraser: Conversation, Epistemology and Norms.
• Stephen Fagan, Simon Fraser: Ray E. Jennings, Simon Fraser: The Deontology of Inference.
• Yvon Gauthier, Montréal: Modular Logic. A Unified Calculus for all Logics.
• Michael Glanzberg, MIT: The Theory of Truth and the Theory of Sets.
• Alexandre Guay, Montréal: To be or not to be a gauge field.
• R.D. Gumb, U Mass, Lowell: An Extended Joint Consistency Theorem for a Nonconstructive Logic of Partial Terms with Definite Descriptions.
• Allen Habib, Arizona: Troubles with deflationism: Self-Referential Sentences and the Truth Schema.
• Alan Hájek, CIT: Conditional Probability is the Guide to Life.
• Benoît Hardy-Vallée, UQAM: Representation and Dynamical Cognition.
• Stephan Hartmann, Pittsburgh) & L. Bovens, Boulder: Solving the Riddle of Coherence.
• James Hawthorne, Oklahoma: Degree of Belief and Degree of Support: Why Bayesians Need Both Notions.
• Christopher Hitchcock, CIT: Beauty and the Bets.
• Ólafur Páll Jónsson, MIT: Vagueness and the Problem of the Many.
• Daniel Laurier, Montréal: Pragmatics, Pittsburgh Style : Between Phenomenalism and Objectivism.
• Ernest Lepore, Rutgers) & Herman Cappelen: Radical and Moderate Pragmatics: Does Meaning Determine Truth Conditions.
• Kirk Ludwig, Florida) & Ernest Lepore, Rutgers: Ontology and the Theory of Meaning.
• Edwin D. Mares, Victoria, Wellington: A Paraconsistent Theory of Belief Revision.
• Jean-Pierre Marquis, Montréal: Categories, Sets and the Nature of Mathematical entities.
• Robert Maydole, Davidson: Metaphysical Misuses of Bayes's Theorem.
• Storrs McCall, McGill: A True but Unprovable Sentence.
• Matthew McKeon, Michigan State: Field vs. Kripke on Logical Truth in Modal Logic.
• Robert K. Meyer, Australian National),Viviana Bono, & Yoko Motohama, Torino: Truth Translations of Basic Relevant Logics.
• Martin Montminy, Ottawa: Meaning Scepticism and Norms.
• Charles Morgan, Victoria: Higher Order Probability Theory and Defeasible Reasoning.
• Tara Nicholson, Simon Fraser: Chromatic-Number Preserving Contractions of Hypergraphs.
• Donald Nute & Sam Donnely, Georgia: Thin, Compliant Heads.
• Sandra Lapointe, UQAM: Analycity, Universality and Quantification in Bolzano.
• Kent A. Peacock, Lethbridge: Are There Really Any Laws of Nature.
• Diana Raffman, Ohio State: A New 'Hard Problem' about Consciousness.
• Greg Ray, Florida: An Unresolved Tension in Tarski.
• Paul D. Raymont, Calgary: Kim on Closure, Exclusion, and Nonreductive Physicalism.
• Victor Rodych, Lethbridge: Gödel's 'Disproof' of the Syntactical Viewpoint.
• Peter Roeper, Australian National: Paradox and the Definition of Truth.
• Darko Sarenac, Stanford) & Ray E. Jennings, Simon Fraser: The Preservation of Truth.
• Darko Sarenac, Stanford: The Preservation of Relevance.
• Peter Schotch, Dalhousie) & Mary MacLeod, Colgate: Remarks on the Modal Logic of Henry Bradford Smith.
• Oliver Schulte, Alberta: How do the Harper and Levi Identities constrain Belief Change.
• Gila Sher, UC San Diego: The Formal-Structural View of Logical Consequence.
• Jonathan Strand, Concordia: If a Contradiction Were True.
• Arthur Sullivan, Queen's: Shareability and Objectivity.
• Mariam Thalos, SUNY Buffalo: Judgment and Distinction.
• Alasdair Urquhart, Toronto) & F.J. Pelletier, Alberta: Synonymous Logics.
• Susan Vineberg, Wayne State: Nominalism and Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics.

2000 Gainesville, Florida    < top >

University of Florida, March 9 - 12, 2000

Host: Greg Ray

• Martin Allen, Pittsburgh: Logical Preservation and Models of Reasoning.
• Peter Apostoli, Toronto: Approximation spaces of type-free sets.
• Paul Bartha, British Columbia: Infinitesimals and Experimental Realism in Mathematics; or, Do We See through a Mathematical Microscope?
• Daniel Boisvert, Florida: Pragmatics and Semantics of Mixed Sentential Mood Sentences.
• Bryson Brown, Lethbridge: Consequences, Inference and Rationality.
• André Chapuis, Indiana: Rational Decisions and the Liar.
• Charles B. Cross, Georgia: The Paradox of the Knower Without Epistemic Closure.
• Anthony Dardis, Hofstra: Levels and Causation.
• Harry Deutsch, Illinois State: Fiction and Make Believe.
• Max Deutsch, Rutgers: Subjective Physical Facts.
• Curtis Franks, Rice: Incompleteness and Mathematical Truth.
• Steve Giambrone, Louisiana: A Full Logic of Inference Tickets and its Intensional Fragments.
• Anil Gupta, Indiana: The Concept of Rational Choice.
• Christopher Hitchcock, CIT: Intransitivity of Causation Revealed in Equations and Graphs.
• Henry Jackman, York: Indeterminacy and Assertion.
• Ray E.Jennings, Simon Fraser: Language, Truth and, Paraconsistent) Logic.
• Fred Johnson, Colorado State: Shefferizable Post Systems.
• Kathrin Koslicki, Florida: Constitution, Parthood and Dependence.
• Henry Kyburg, Rochester: Probability as a Guide to Life.
• J. Karel Lambert, Irvine: A Slogan, an Intuition, and a Revelation.
• Noa Latham, Rutgers: Can Local Reduction or Identity Save Mental Causation?
• Francois LePage, Montreal) & Charles Morgan, Victoria: Probabilistic Canonical Models for Partial Logics.
• Chuang Liu & Gerard Emch, Florida: On Microreduction and the Constitution of Matter.
• Christopher M. Lubbers, Florida: A Challenge to Contemporary Theories of Meaning from Russell's Gray's Elegy Argument.
• Kirk Ludwig, Florida: A conservative modal semantics with applications to de re necessities and arguments for coincident entities.
• Bob Maydole, Davidson College: A Temporal Contingency Proof of God.
• Vann McGee, MIT: Ramsey's Dialethism.
• Matthew McKeon, North Dakota: Truth Simpliciter and Logical Consequence.
• Paul McNamara, New Hampshire: Toward an Integrated Agential and Aretaic Framework.
• Chris Menzel, Texas A&M: Modal Particularism and the Ground of Modal Truth.
• T. Nicholson, Simon Fraser: Dualizing chromaticity: an application to Hadwiger's conjecture.
• J. Piers Rawling, U Missouri-St.Louis: Decision Theory and Semantic Structure.
• Darko Sarenac, Simon Fraser: Modal logics of n-ary relational frames: a new axiomatization.
• Peter K. Schotch, Dalhousie: Remarks on 'Copenhagen Semantics'.
• Charles Siewert, Miami: Blindsight, Consciousness Neglect, and Indexical Belief.
• Quentin Smith, Western Michigan: Tense Logic and Truth as Corresponence.
• Howard Sobel, Toronto: Money Pumps.
• Jonathan Strand, Concordia: Conditional Modality.
• Alasdair Urquhart, Toronto: Four Variables Suffice.
• Gabriel Uzquiano, Rochester) & Agustin Rayo, MIT: Toward a theory of second-order validity and logical consequence.
• Susan Vineberg, Wayne State: Bayesianism Versus Mayo: Searching for Objectivity in Theory Confirmation.
• Roger Wertheimer, Irvine: Sentence Meaning.
• D. Gene Witmer, Florida: From Supervenience to Law Entailment: An Argument for Reductionism.
• Byeong-Uk Yi, Glasgow: Burge on Truth and Paradox.

1999 Lethbridge, Alberta    < top >

University of Lethbridge, May 27 - 30, 1999

Host: Bryson Brown

• Peter J. Apostoli, Toronto: The Square of Opposition.
• Pransanta S. Bandyopadhyay & Gordon Brittan Jr.,, Montana State: Logical Consequence and Beyond.
• Charles B. Daniels, Victoria: Does Truth Exist?
• Scott DeVito, SUNY Buffalo: Underdetermining Anti-Realism.
• Dov Gabbay, King's College: [title data missing]
• Steve Giambrone, SW Louisiana: Ticket Entailment: A New, and Better) Approach.
• Lou Goble, Willamette: The Andersonian Reduction in Relevant Deontic Logic.
• Veronica Gventsadze, Chicago: Two Approaches to Mind and Will in Epicurean Atomism.
• Gary Hardegree, Massachusetts: Completeness and Supervaluations.
• Christopher Hitchcock, CIT: Contrastive Explanation and the Demons of Determinism.
• Ray E. Jennings & C. Batty, Simon Fraser: A Stoically Plausible Semantics for Connexivist Inference on Preservationist Principles.
• James King, Lethbridge: A Proof that P.
• Igal Kvart, Hebrew Univ: Causal Independence.
• Henry Kyburg, Rochester: Choosing Among Approaches to Probability.
• François Lepage, Montréal: A Problem for Jeffrey's Approach to Bayesianism.
• Kirk Ludwig, U Florida) & Ernest Lepore, Rutgers: Logical Form.
• Jean-Pierre Marquis & Professeur Agrégé, Montréal: Three Kinds of Universals in Mathematics.
• Storrs McCall, McGill: Can a Turing Machine Know that the Godel Sentence is True.
• Matthew McKeon, North Dakota: Models, Validity and Possible Worlds.
• Robert K. Meyer, Australian National U: The Key to the Universe.
• Charles Morgan, U Victoria: Paraconsistent Probability.
• Kent Peacock, U Lethbridge: Begging the Signaling Question: A Critical Examination of No-Signaling Proofs.
• F.J.Pelletier, U Alberta: A Brief History of Natural Deduction.
• John Peoples, U Florida: A New Theory of Counterfactual Conditionals.
• R.Dennis Potter, U Notre Dame: The Standard Argument Against Diagrams.
• Graham Priest, Queensland: [title data missing]
• Greg Ray & Kirk Ludwig, U Florida: Is There a Problem About Vagueness.
• Greg Restall, Macquarie) & J.C. Beall, Tasmania: Logical Pluralism.
• D. Sarenac, Simon Fraser: The Preservation of Meta-valuational Properties and the Meta-valuational Properties of Implication.
• Peter K. Schotch, Dalhousie: Social Choice and Individual Values.
• O. Schulte, Alberta: Minimum Theory Change and the Pareto Principle.
• Gila Sher, UC San Diego: Is Logic a Theory of the Obvious?
• Charles Silver, Smith: Making Existential Instantiation Valid.
• Jonathan Strand, Concordia U Alberta: Arguing for English Conditionals.
• Mariam Thalos, SUNY Buffalo: Paradox and Its Undoing.
• Richmond H. Thomason, Pittsburgh: The Logic of Defeasible Action.
• Paul Thorn, Arizona: Epistemic Applications for Paraconsistent Consequence Relations.
• Alasdair Urquhart, Toronto: The Complexity of Decision Procedures in Relevance Logic II.
• Bas C. van Fraassen, Princeton: [title data missing]
• André Vellino, Nortel Networks: Toward a Methodology of Rational System Design.
• Paul Viminitz, Lethbridge: Simultaneous Invasion in Artificial Prudence.
• Susan Vineberg, Wayne State: The Representational Use of Mathematics and Indispensability Arguments.
• Greg Wheeler, Rochester: The Partition Problem: A reply to Mayo.
• John Woods, Lethbridge: Resolving Conflict Over Logical Consequence.

1998 Athens, Georgia    < top >

University of Georgia, May 14-16, 1998

Host: Donald Nute

• P. Bandyopadhyay, Montana: Many Faces of Epistemology: From Logical Reliability to Bayesian Rationality.
• P. Bartha and C. Hitchcock, Rice: The Shooting-Room Paradox and Conditionalizing on 'Measurably Challenged' Sets.
• D. Boisvert, U Florida) and Chris Lubbers, U Florida: Frege's Commitment to an Infinite Heirarchy of Senses.
• B. Brown, Lethbridge: Yes, Virgina, there really are paraconsistent logics.
• H. Deutsch, Illinois State: Williamson's Margin for Error Principles.
• S. Giambrone, SW Louisiana: Inference Tickets and Relevance.
• L. Goble, Willamette: An Incomplete Relevant Modal Logic.
• G. M. Hardegree, Amherst: An Axiomatic Theory of Truth.
• P. Hayes, West Florida: The Irish Problem.
• R. Jennings, Simon Fraser: The Evolution of Connective Vocabulary in Natural Language.
• R. C. Koons, Austin: A Causal Theory of Logical and Mathematical Knowledge.
• K. Koslicki, New Orleans: The Semantics of Mass Predicates.
• H. E. Kyburg, Rochester: Induction and Consistency.
• E. Lepore, Rutgers) and Kirk Ludwig, U Florida: Compex Demonstratives.
• K. J. Lambert, UC Irvine: From Predication to Programming.
• F. Lepage, Montreal) and S. Lapierre, Montreal: Partial Logic and the Dynamics of Epistemic States.
• W. MacCaull, Francis Xavier: Grammar Logics and Deduction.
• S. May, Memorial U: Bridging the Gap: An Individualized Mathematics Intervention Program for Post-Secondary Bound Individuals.
• C. Morgan, Victoria: The Nature of Nonmonotonic Reasoning.
• R. Loui, Washington University: Some Philosophical Reflections on The Foundations of Computing.
• S. McCall, McGill: Individual Outcomes in Quantum Mechanics.
• J. Pelham, York: Carnap and Analyticity.
• P. Rawling, U Missouri - St. Louis: O. J. Simpson and the Presumption of Innocence: The Case of the Bayesian Juror.
• G. Ray, U Florida: Tarski's Lost Theory of Truth.
• E. Saidel: Teleosemantics from an Evolutionary Point of View.
• K. Segerberg, Uppsala: Belief dynamics and dynamic doxastic logic.
• S. Shapiro, Ohio State: Incompleteness, Mechanism, and Optimism.
• I. Berkeley, SW Louisiana: Connectionism Reconsidered: Minds, Machines, and Models.
• M. Thalos, SUNY - Buffalo: Physical Explanation.
• J. Vidal-Rosset, Bourgogne: Is God an Ultimate Class.
• S. Vineberg, Wayne State: Indispensibility and Scientific Reasoning.
• G-Q. Zhang, Georgia: Domain Theory, Logic Programming, and Nonmonotonic Reasoning.

1997 Montreal, Quebec    < top >

McGill University, May 16-18, 1997

Host: Storrs McCall

• P. Apostoli, Toronto) & A. Kanda: Regaining the lost paradise.
• P. Bandyopadhyay, Montana State) & J. Bennett, Rochester: Pragmatic bayesianism and underdetermination.
• P. Bartha, British Columbia: Moral preference, contrary-to-duty obligation and defeasible oughts.
• I. Berkeley, Southwest Louisiana: What the #$*%! is a subsymbol.
• P. Blanchette, Notre Dame: Models and modality.
• L. Bovens, Boulder: Sequential counterfactuals, cotenability and temporal becoming.
• B. Brown, Lethbridge: How to avoid getting the run-around from decision theory.
• P. Churchland, San Diego: Measuring conceptual similarity across sensory and neural diversity: The Fodor/Lepore challenge answered.
• C. B. Daniels, Victoria: A caution to the anti-realist.
• S. DeVito, Pittsburgh: Probabilistic causality without propensities.
• M. Dunn, Indiana: Is existence a, relevant) predicate.
• S. Giambrone, Southwestern Louisiana: On the equivalence of two substructural relevant logics.
• L. Goble, Willamete: Making deontic logic relevant.
• R. Gumb, U Massachusetts) Lambert, UC Irvine: Definitions in nonstrict positive free logic.
• C. Hitchcock, Rice: Exactness and pseudoexactness in historical linguistics.
• R. C. Koons, Austin: A mereological theory of causation.
• K. Ludwig, U Florida: The truth about moods.
• R. K. Meyer, Austr National) & M. Dezani-Ciancaglini, Torino: The semantics of entailment omega.
• C. Morgan, Victoria: Conditionals, comparative probability, and triviality.
• J. Pelham, York: Russell, Frege, and the nature of implication.
• G. Priest, Queensland: Sylvan's box: a short story and 10 morals.
• G. Ray, U Florida: Williamson's master argument on vagueness.
• P. Schotch, Dalhousie: A reconsideration of the model-theoretic approach to modal semantics.
• G. Sher, UC San Diego: On the possibility of a substantive theory of truth.
• H. Sobel, Toronto: Blackburn's problem: On its not insignificant residue.
• R. Sorensen, NYU: Reason demands belief in infinitely many inconsistencies.
• K. Tanaka, Queensland: To be something and something else: Dialetheic tense logic.
• P. Thom, Austr National: How to base apodeictic syllogistic on essentialist theory, and how not to).
• S. K. Thomason, Simon Fraser: Relational models for the modal syllogistic, continued).
• B. van Fraassen, Princeton: Conditionalization, new argument for.
• S. Vineberg, Wayne State: The notion of consistency for partial belief.

1996 Johnston City, Tennessee    < top >

East Tennessee State University, Oct 10-13, 1996

Host: Niall Shanks

• M. Lance, Georgetown: The Significance of Anaphoric Theories of Reference.
• F. Lepage, Montreal: A Many-Valued Probabilistic Conditional Logic.
• G. Ray, Florida: Fodor and the Insrutability Problem.
• A. Dardis, Hofstra: A 'No Causal Rivalry' Solution to the Problem of Mental Causation.
• S. May, K. Larson, and M. Rabinowitz, Memorial: The Role of Automaticity in Learning.
• D. Mayo, Virginia Polytechnic: Science, Error Statistics, and Learning from Error.
• F. Kronz, Austin: Nonseparability and Quantum Chaos.
• K. Ludwig and G. Ray, Florida: Semantics for Opaque Contexts.
• P. McNamara, New Hampshire: Andersonian DWE-ish Logics.
• A. Kyburg, Wisconsin: Vague Utterances and Context Change.
• D. Nute, Georgia: Defeasible Deontic Logic: Part II.
• S. Vineberg, Wayne State: The Logical Status of Conditionalization and its Role in Confirmation.
• C. Morgan, Victoria: Canonical Models and Probabilistic Semantics.
• P. Smets, Bruxelles: The Normative Representation of Quantified Beliefs by Belief Functions.
• P. Johnson, Auburn: Another Look at Group Selection.
• R. Gardner, East Tenn State: Conditional Probability and the Reconstruction of Genealogies.
• D. Bonevac, Austin: Against Conditional Obligation.
• J. Pelham, York: Conditionals, Probability and Triviality.
• C. Juhl, Austin: Teleosemantics, Kripkenstein and Paradox.
• P. Schotch, Dalhousie: Scepticism and Epistemic Logic.
• F. J. Pelletier, Alberta: Was Frege a Fregean.
• M. Morreau, Maryland) and S. Kraus, Bar-Ilan: Syntactical Treatements of Ideal Propositional Attitudes.
• P. Rawling, Missouri, St. Louis: Perspectives on a Pair of Envelopes.

1995 Calgary, Alberta    < top >

University of Calgary, May 25-28, 1995

Host: Brian Chellas

• S. Dimock and P. Schotch: The Moral Ought.
• M. Morreau: Allowed Arguments.
• S. Giambrone and A. Maida: Recovery from Referent Misidentification Without an Explicit Theory of Belief.
• R. Beard: Oughts and Prohibitions.
• S. Thomason: Relational Models for the Modal Syllogistic.
• B. Meyer: [horeshoe]E is admissible in 'true' relevent arithmetic.
• D. Nute: Defeasible Deontic Logic.
• R. Gumb: Free higher-Order Logics and Definition Theory.
• B. Ware: Individualizing with Collective Interpretations.
• M. Bunge: On Pseudoexactness in Social Science.
• P. Apostoli: Logic, Truth, and Number: the Elementary Genesis of Arithmetic.
• L. Bovens: 'P and I will believe that not-P'.
• L. Weitzman: Is Possibility of Massive Error Ruled out by Semantic Holism.
• C. Hitchcock: Causal Decision Theory and Decision-Theoretic Causation.
• G. Sher: Semantics and Logic.
• H. LeBlanc: Of A and B Being Logically Independent of Each Other, and of Their Having No Common Factual Content.
• A. Kyburg: Truth Value Intuitions for Vague Sentences.
• G. Ray: The Surface Logic of Conditional Necessity.
• N. Belnap: An Austere Theory of Strategies.
• D. Jacquette: Lloyd on Intrinsic Natural Representation.
• C. McCurdy: A Propensity Interpretation of Chance.
• G. Marti: Is a Semantics for Modal Contexts Really Possible.
• R. Thomason: Logicism: Exact Philosophy, Linguistics, and Artificial Intelligence.
• P. Blanchette: Frege, Hilbert and Ordinary Consistency.
• J. Horty: Agency and Obligation.
• R. Manor: Demarcating the Bald: a Solution to the Heap Paradox.
• B. Linsky: Russell's Logical Constructions.
• M. Brown: A Logic of Comparative Obligation.

1994 Austin, Texas    < top >

University of Texas, May 12-15, 1994

Host: Daniel Bonevac

• H-G. Kim, Georgia: Theory-Based Conceptualization in Perspectives.
• A. Schwartz, Austin: Default Reasoning.
• M. Morreau, Maryland: Nested Inference Tickets.
• D. Nute, Georgia: Possible Worlds Without Possibilia.
• J. H. Sobel, Toronto: On the Possibility of Omniscience.
• C. Liu, Florida: Of Arguments against Metaphysical Realism and Manifold Substantivalism.
• C. Hitchcock, Rice: Disjunctive Factors and Other Causal Conundrums.
• S. L. Zabell, Northwestern: The Continuum of Inductive Methods Revisited.
• D. Jacquette, Penn State: A Meinongian Theory of Definite Description.
• R. Jennings, Simon Fraser: The Representation of Meaning.
• C. Juhl, Austin: Paradoxical Specifications.
• M. Lance, Georgetown: Quantification, Substitution, and Conceptual Content.
• C. Cross, Georgia: A Characterization of Imaging in Terms of Conditionalization.
• B. Brown, Lethbridge: The Logic and Mathematics of Aggregation.
• G. Ray, Florida: Logical Consequence: A Defense of Tarski.
• C. Daniels, Victoria: Wittgenstein and the General Form of a Proposition.
• N. Asher, Austin) [title unknown]
• J. Hawthorne, Oklahoma: Mathematical Instrumentalism Meets the Conjunction Objection.
• B. Yi, UCLA: Sets and 'Any Number of Ordinary Things'.
• D. Bonevac, Austin: Another Philosophical Basis for Intuitionistic Logic.
• S. Dimock, York) and P. Schotch, Dalhousie: Elements of Goal Theory.
• P. McNamara, New Hampshire: Must I Do What I Ought.
• L. Goble, Williamette: The Good Samaritan Again.
• M. Belzer, Bowling Green) and B. Loewer, Rutgers: Deontic Detachment.
• R. Koons, Austin) and T. K. Seung, Austin: Defeasible Reasoning and Ethical Dilemmas.
• R. Hilpinen, Miami: The Analysis of Action and Deontic Logic.

1993 Toronto, Ontario    < top >

York University, May 13-15, 1993

Host: Susan Dimock

• B. Linsky and E. Zalta: In Defense of the Simplest Quantified Modal Logic.
• G. Ray: Ontology-Free Modal Semantics.
• J. Pelham: A Reconstruction of Russell's Substitution Theory.
• B. Brown and P. Apostoli: The Metamathematics pf Paraconsistency.
• C. Silver: Pascal for Deontic Logic.
• S. Kuhn: Pure and Impure Prisoner's Dilemmas.
• R. Koons and T.K. Seung: Paraconsistent, Defeasible Reasoning.
• G. H. Moore: The Evolution of Russell's Logical Symbolism.
• N. Griffin: Denoting Concepts in the Principles of Mathematics
• G. Landini: A Comparison of Church's Russellian Intensional Logic with Russell's 1906 Intensional Logic of Propositions.
• W. Goldfarb: Russell's Metaphysics and the Ramified Theory of Types.
• P. McNamara: Doing Well Enough: A Logical Framework for Common Sense Morality.
• C. Daniels: 'Good' Defined in Terms of 'Better'.
• M. Belzer and B. Loewer: Logics of Defeasible Normative Reasoning.
• H. Deutsch: Relative Identity Revisited.
• D. Jacquette: Many-Valued Deontic Predictions.
• D. Bonevac and N. Asher: Two Theories of Prima Facie Obligation.
• A. Vellino and W. Older: Computing Time Intervals Logically.
• R. Butrick: A Sound A-Propositional System of Higher Oreder Logic.
• E. Mares and C. Morgan: Conditionals, Probability and Non-triviality.
• M. Morreau: Intuitive Moral Reasoning.
• H. West: Act Utilitarianism and Randomization.
• P. Schotch: Advice on Deontic Logic.

1992 Lafayette, LA    < top >

Univ. Louisiana at Lafayette, May 1992

Host: Steve Giambrone

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1991 Victoria, B.C.    < top >

Univ. Victoria, 23-26 May 1991

Host: Charles Morgan

• J. Pelletier, University of Alberta, University of Rochester: Automated Modal Logic Theorem Proving in Thinker.
• S. Thomason, Simon Fraser University: Semantic Analysis of the Modal Syllogistic.
• D. Jacquette, Penn State University: The Valdsty Paradox in Modal S5.
• R. Butrick, Ohio University: The Implementation of Property Abstracts in PROLOG.
• M. Fitting, City Univ. of New York: Predicate Abstraction in Modal Logic.
• I. Gevt, University of Warwick: Theory Matrices for Modal Logic.
• E. Orlowska, Polish Acad. Sci.: Relational of Proof Systems for Relevant Logics.
• G. Beavers, Indiana University: Automated Theorem Proving for Lukasiewicz Logics.
• Z. Stachniak, New York University: Au Essay on Resolution Logics.
• A. Urquhart, Toronto University: Why are Some Tautologies Harder to Prove than Others .
• A. Vellino, Bell Northern Research: The Relative Complexity Analytic Tableaux and sl-Resolution for the Propositional Calculus.
• F. Johnson, Colorado St. Univ.: Counting Functions.

1990 Tallahassee, Florida    < top >

Florida State Univ., 30 May-2 June 1990

Host: Bob Beard

• T. Parsons, University of Calif., Irvine: A Theory of Applied Logic.
• D. Nute, University of Georgia: What Inference Rules Mean.
• S. May, Memorial U. of Newfoundland: The Algebra Factory.
• J. Pollock, University of Arizona: The Structure of Defeasible Reasoning.
• H. Leblanc, Temple University: Probability Functions, the Matter of their Recursiveness.
• B. Wolfson, Syracuse University: Applying a Constructional Definition Schema for the Social Sciences to Cooperative Game Theory.
• P. Rawling, University of Georgia: Truth Conditions and Oratio Obliqua.
• B. Chellas, University of Calgary: Time, Modality and Agency.
• S. Thomason, Simon Fraser University: Logic of Action and Ability.
• R. Jeffrey, Princeton University: Truth and Probability.
• H. Kyburg, University of Rochester: Objectivity and Probability.
• J. Pelletier, University of Alberta: Genericity.
• P. Oppenheimer, Thinking Machines Corp.: The Logic of the Ontological Argument [not presented, but distributed]
• D. Holdsworth: Approaches to the Categorical Foundations of Quantum Logic: Do Sets Precede Logic.
• G. Hellman, University of Minnesota: Never say 'Never'.
• S. McCall, McGill University: The Branched Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.

1989 Edmonton, Alberta    < top >

Univ. Alberta, 17-19 Aug. 1989

Hosts: T. Pelletier & B. Linsky

• M. Dunn, Indiana University: Relevant Predication II: Intrinsic Properties and Internal Relations Formalized.
• H. Leblanc, Temple University: Identity and Indiscernibility in Probability Theory
• S. Savitt, UBC: Epistemological Time Asymmetry.
• H. Korte & R. Coleman, Univ. Regina: An Empirical, Purely Spatial Criterion for the Planes of F-Simultaneity.
• M. Rabinowitz, Memorial U. of Nfld.: Class Inclusion and Working Memory.
• H. Kyburg, University of Rochester) ``A Two-Level System of Epistemic Acceptance.
• D. Jacquette, Penn. State: Intentional Relations in Zalta's Intensional Logic.
• N. Asher, University of Texas: Some Problems in the Semantics of Sentential Nominals.
• R. Clark, University of Western Ontario: Names, Indexicals and Definite Descriptions.
• M. Schmidt, CSU, San Jose: On Some Neglected Paradoxes of Modern Logic.
• S. Giambrone, Southwestern Lousiana St. University: Orlowska's Relevant Implications, Relevant Logics and Analytic Implication.
• T. Parsons, Univ. Cal., Irvine: Definitions of Truth and Meaning in Fregean Semantics.
• S. Cumming, Simon Fraser University: A Non-Normal Semantics for Programs that Fail.
• P. Schotch, Dalhousie University: Choice, Perfect Information and Deontic Logic.
• A. Urquhart, Univ. Toronto: Translation Problems in Modal Logic.

1988 Rochester, N.Y.    < top >

Rochester University, 3-5 August, 1988

Host: Henry Kyburg

• D. Nute, Univ. Georgia: Defeasible Logic and the Frame Problem.
• B. Gillon, Univ. Toronto: Bare Plurals as Indefinite Noun Phrases.
• C. Cross, Reed College: Belief Revision, Non-Monotonic Reasoning, and the Ramsey Test.
• D. Perlis, Univ. Maryland: Thing and Thought.
• R. Thomason, Univ. Pittsburgh: Inheritance and Logic.
• M. Krifka, Univ. Tubingen: A Treatment of Aspectual Classes in Terms of Event Lattices.
• L. Schubert, Univ. Alberta: Solving the Original Frame Problem without Frame Axioms of Nonmontonicity.
• N. Belnap, Univ. Pittsburgh: Declaratives are not Enough.
• A. McCafferty, LSU: Speaker Plans, Linguistic Context, and Indirect Speech Acts.
• J. Pearl, UCLA: Jeffrey's Rule, Pathways of Experience, and Neo-Bayesianism.
• T. Seidenfeld, CMU: Two Perspectives on Consensus for, Bayesian) Inference and Decisions.
• R. Giles, Queen's University: A Utility-Valued Logic for Decision-Making.
• H. Leblanc, Temper University: Conditionals and Conditional Probabilities: Three Trivialization Theorems.
• R. Aleliunas, Simon Fraser Univ.: A New Normative Theory of Probabilistic Logic.
• R. Loui, Washington Univ.: Defeasible Reasoning about Utilities and Decision Trees.
• M. Dunn, Indiana Univ.: The Relevance of Relevance Logic in AI.
• H. Geffner, UCLA: A Framework for Reasoning with Defaults.
• J. Pelletier, Univ. Alberta: Post's Functional Completeness Theorem.

1987 St. John's, Newfoundland    < top >

Memorial U. of Newfoundland, 27-29 August, 1987

Host: Sherry May

• C. Morgan, Victoria University: The Probabilistic Foundations of Logic.
• S. Thomason, Simon Fraser University: Dagstack Prolog.
• R. Giles, Queen's University: Generalized Probability and Utility.
• J. Pollock, University of Arizona: Interest-Driven Reasoning.
• W. Harper, University of Western Ontario: Direct Inference and Conditionalization.
• S. Zabell, Northwestern University: Confidence vs. Probability.
• D. Mayo, University of Virginia: Did Pearson Reject the Neyman-Pearson Philosophy of Statistics.
• R. B. Angell, Wayne State University: Conditional Probability and Nicod's Conditional.
• H. Leblanc, Temple University: On Relativizing Kolmogorov's Absolute Probability Functions.
• J. H. Sobel, University of Toronto: A Problem for Utility Theory.
• R. Jeffrey, Princeton University: Reading de Finetti's Probabilismo.
• J. Pelletier, University of Alberta: Varieties of Vagueness: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
• C. Genest, University of Laval: Conditionalization and Likelihood Dominance in Group Belief Formation.
• H. Kyburg, University of Rochester: Getting Fancy with Uncertainty.

1986 Honolulu, Hawaii    < top >

Univ. Hawaii & Manoa, 20-22 February, 1986

Hosts: Copi, Rudebusch & Hawthorne

• D. Nute, University of Georgia: A Non-Monotonic Logic Based on Conditional Logic.
• R. Jennings, Simon Fraser University: An Eddy in the Theory of Conditionals.
• G. Hellman, Indiana University: Toward a Modal Interpretation of Mathematics.
• J. Hawthorn, University of Hawaii: Truth and the Liar.
• R. Arthur, Middlebury College: Combinatorial Topology and Leibniz's Theory of Space.
• H. Korte & R. Coleman, University of Regina: The Universality of Free Fall.
• R. Manor, San Jose St. University: Durations: Temporal Intervals with Gaps and Undetermined Edges.
• N. Cartwright, Stanford University: Putting Causes to the Test of Nature.
• G. Rudebusch, University of Hawaii: Identity, Ostension, and the Possible.
• R. Beard, Florida St. University: Modality, Quantification and Extensionality.
• E. LePore, Rutgers University: Absolute Truth Theories for Modal Languages as Theories of Interpretation.
• J. Carroll, University of Arizona: Terminating the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma.
• R. Tuomela, Helsinki University: Other-Regarding Intentions and Social Motivation.
• H. Kyburg, University of Rochester: Powers.

1985 Toronto, Ontario    < top >

U. of Toronto, 16-18 May, 1985

Hosts: Alasdair Urquhart & Calvin Normore

• J. Pelletier, University of Alberta: Automatic Theorem Proving.
• S. Thomason, Simon Fraser University: A Free Construction of Time from Events.
• R. Jennings, Simon Fraser University: Aspects of the Analysis of Entailment.
• D. Nute, University of Georgia: Artificial Intelligence and Conditional Logic.
• H. Leblanc, Temple U.) and P. Roeper, Australia National University: Absolute Probability Functions.
• S. Cook, University of Toronto: The Theory of Large Scale Computation.
• C. Parsons, Columbia University: The Structuralist View of Mathematical Objects.
• K. Okruhlik, University of Western Ontario: A Locus of Value in Science.
• B. Gillon, University of Alberta: The Semantics of Plural Noun Phrases in English.
• S. May, Memorial U. of Newfoundland: A Catastrophe Model of Negotiation.
• B. Linsky, University of Alberta: Factives, Blind Spots, and Some Paradoxes.
• M. Bergmann, Smith College: Categorial Grammars and Natural Language Parsing.

1984 Athens, Georgia    < top >

U. Georgia, May 3-5, 1984

Host: Don Nute

• D. Jacquette, Franklin & Marshall College: Intentionality & Intentional Connections.
• R. Wachbroit, University of Penn: Realism & Its Epistemological Problem.
• J. McGrath, Inc. U., South Bend: Deontic Tense Logic & Chisholm's Paradox.
• R. M. Martin, Dalhousie University: How Scientific Laws can be about Individuals.
• B. Linsky, University of Alberta: General Terms as Rigid Designators.
• H. Leblanc, Temple University: Some of the Things I Don't Know about Probabilistic Semantics.
• M. Dunn, Indiana University: Relevant Predication.
• S. Thomason, Simon Fraser University: A Free Construction of Time From Events.
• J. Post, Vanderbilt University: On the Determinacy of Truth & Translation.
• W. Lycan, University of North Carolina: The Paradox of Naming.
• J. Fetzer, University of South Florida: Probabilistic Metaphysics.
• B. Chellas, University of Calgary: Magical Moments in Modal Logic.
• J. Pelletier, University of Alberta: Six Problems in: Translational Equivalence.
• B. Mundy, University of Oklahoma: Relational Theory of Euclidean Space & Classical Forces.
• R. Jennings, Simon Fraser University: A Report on Leibniz Ian Semantics.
• G. Ross, Franklin & Marshall College: Counterfactuals in the Infinite Case.
• K. Johnson Wu, University of Alabama: Three Uses of 'It'.

1983 Vancouver, B.C.    < top >

Simon Fraser U., 21-23 April, 1983

Host: Ray Jennings

Proceedings: Topoi 3:1, 1984

• P. Williams, University of Sussex: Changing Expectations from a Bayesian Viewpoint.
• K. Segerberg, University of Auckland: Actions and Their Logic.
• A. Fine, Northwestern University: What is Einstein's Statistical Interpretation, Or, Is It Einstein For Whom Bell's Theorem Tolls.
• M. Katz, University of Haifa: An Exact Philosophy of Inexactness.
• R. Manor, San Jose St. University: Formalizing Dialogue.
• M. Bunge, McGill University: Toposes in Logic and Logic in Toposes.
• P. Schotch, Dalhousie University: Truth, Relevance and Conditionality.
• H. Leblanc, Temple University: A New Semantics for First-Order Logic, Multivalent and Mostly Intensional.
• R. Goldblatt, Victoria U. of Wellington: An Abstract Setting for Henkin Proofs.
• W. Blok, University of Illinois at Chicago: The Algebraization of Logic.

1982 Tempe, Arizona    < top >

Arizona State U., February 1982

Hosts: R. Creath & T. Stone

• B. Mundy, Stanford: Derivation of the Lorentz Transformations from the Constancy of the Speed of Light.
• N. Cartwright, Stanford: Four Phenomenological Laws.
• A. Stairs, Minnesota: Quantum Logic and Interpretation.
• P. Schotch, Dalhousie) & R. Jennings, Simon Fraser: Speak of the Level.
• H. Herzberger, Toronto: Notes on Naive Semantics.
• K. Lehrer, Arizona) & C. Wagner, Tennessee: Evaluation of Higher-Order Probabilities.
• H. Leblanc, Temple: Tree-Making: Its Scope and Limits.
• M. Salmon, Pittsburgh: Functions, Latent Functions, and Style.
• D. Baird, Arizona: How to Commit. the Gambler's Fallacy and Get Away With It.
• M. Wilson, California & San Diego: What is This Thing Called 'Pain'.
• D. Holdsworth, Toronto: Quantum Topoi of Quantum Sets.
• C. McIntosh, Utah: Putnam on Realism.

1981 Halifax, Nova Scotia    < top >

Dalhousie U., 25-27 May 1981

Host: Peter Schotch

• R. Campbell & T. Vinci, Dalhousie: Why are Novel Predictions Important.
• C. Daniels, University of Victoria) [title unknown]
• G. Hardegree, University of Mass.: Note on the Logic of Natural Kinds.
• R. Jennings, SFU: The Subjunctive in Conditionals and Elsewhere.
• J. van Benthem, Groningen: The Logic of Time.
• S. Thomason, SFU: Euclidean Infinitesimals.
• R. Arthur, University of Western Ontario: Exacting a Philosophy of Becoming from Modern Physics.
• R. McArthur, Colby College: Defeasible Obligation.
• S. Kuhn, Georgetown University: Logic, Theory and Modality.
• A. Urquhart, University of Toronto: Intensional Logics via Denominalization.
• B. van Fraassen, University of Toronto/USC: Probability in Semantics.
• H. Leblanc, Temple University: Popper's 1955 Axiomatisation of Absolute Probability: A New Approach to Logical Truth.
• R. Hilpinen, University of Turku: On the Logic of Permission.
• R. Coleman & H. Korte, University of Regina: A Realist Field Ontology of the Causal-Inertia] Structure.
• V. Huber-Dyson, University of Calgary: To Formalize or not to Formalize.
• K. Fine, University of Michigan: Events, Acts and Things.

1980 Los Angeles, Calif.    < top >

Univ. Southern California, 13-15 June 1980

Hosts: S. Schiffer & P. Dao

Proceedings: Philosophical Studies 40:1, 1981

• P. S. Churchland, University of Manitoba: On the Alleged Backwards Referral of Experiences and the Mind-Body Problem.
• M. Hanen, University of Calgary: Probability and Evidence.
• L. Wessels, Indiana University: Einstein-Podolski-Rosen and Modalities.
• Z. Domotor, Pennsylvania: Higher Order Probabilities and Conditionals.
• A. ter Meulen, University of Washington: Formal Semantics for Mass Terms.
• [author and affiliation unknown]: On the Decidability of Mathematics and Physics.
• J. Pollock, University of Arizona: Statements and Propositions.
• C. Chihara, University of Calif., Berkeley: Quine and the Confirmational Paradoxes.
• S. Haack, University of Warwick: Dummett's Justification of Deduction.
• D. Harrah, University of Calif., Riverside: On Reducing Questions to Commands.
• P. Schotch, Dalhousie) & R. Jennings, SFU: Epistemic Logic, Skepticism, and non-Normal Modal Logic.
• W. Harper, University of Western Ontario) & R. Giles, McGill University: An Infinitesimal Probability Representation of Popper Function Belief Models.
• H. Field, USC: Science Without Numbers.
• D. Grover, Chicago Circle: Truth.
• T. Burge, UCLA: Epistemic Paradox.

1979 Montreal, Quebec    < top >

McGill Univ., 4-5 June 1979

Host: Mario Bunge

• D. Braybrooke, Dalhousie: Formal Aspects of Reconciling Attention to Needs with Attention to Preferences.
• E. Bulygin, La Plata: Permissions and Permissive Norms.
• M. Bunge, McGill: A Formalization of the Concept of Mind.
• N. Cartwright, Stanford: How Classical are Decay Rates.
• L. Chiaraviglio & A. Badre, Georgia Tech: Action and Behaviour.
• L. J. Cohen, Oxford: Assessing the Reliability of Medical Diagnoses.
• Z. Domotor, Pennsylvania: Relationships between Macro-Theories and Micro-Theories.
• W. Hatcher, Laval: Platonism and Pragmatism.
• L. Kruger & W. Gaertner, Bielefeld: Self-Consistent Liberatarianism.
• J. Lambek, McGill: Intuitionist Type Theory in Foundations.
• K. Szaniawski, Warsaw: Science as an Information-Seeking Process.
• R. Torretti, Puerto Rico: Mathematics and Ontology.
• B. van Fraassen, Toronto & USC: Belief and Context.
• P. Weingartner, Salzburg: On the Distinction between Logic and Mathematics.

1978 Pittsburgh, Penn.    < top >

Univ. Pittsburgh, 4-6 June, 1978

Host: Nuel Belnap

Proceedings: Philosophia 9:2, 1980

• E. Bencivenga, University of California, Irvine: Truth, Correspondence, and Non-Denoting Singular Terms.
• P. Schotch, Dalhousie U.) & R. Jennings, Simon Fraser University: Modal Logic and The Theory of Modal Aggregation.
• A. Chernavska, UBC: Impossibility of Bivalent, Truth-Functional Semantics for Non-Boolean Propositional Structures of Quantum Mechanics.
• A. Gupta, McGill University: Sortal Quantification, Modality and Truth.
• R. Thomason, University of Pittsburgh: Multiple Quantification, Questions, and Bach-Peters Sentences.
• R. Hausser, University of Texas: Surface Compositionality and the Semantics of Mood.
• J. McCawley, University of Chicago: An Analysis of Definite Descriptions to End All Analyses of Definite Descriptions.
• B. Chellas, University of Calgary: Another Proof of the Decidability of Some Normal Modal Logics Containing the S5 Axiom.
• H. Kamp, University of London: The Paradox of the Heap.
• H. Leblanc, Temple University: On Carnap and Popper Probability Functions.
• R. Wolf, Southern Illinois University: Studies in Paraconsistent Logic I.
• W. Harper, University of Western Ontario: Minimal Revision of Bodies of Knowledge.

1977 Victoria, B.C.    < top >

Univ. Victoria, 25-27 May, 1977

Host: Charles Morgan

• J. Heintz, University of Calgary: Reflections on Second-Order Logic: What is it? Who needs it.
• M. Dunn, Indiana University: Inconsistent Models, Ambiguous Information, and Relevant Logic.
• S. Thomason, SFU: Possible Worlds and Many Truth Values.
• K. Fine, University of Calif., Irvine: Modal Theories.
• D. Grover, Chicago Circle: The Liar Sentence, Ungrounded Proforms, and Other Inheritors.
• G. Miller, [affiliation unknown]: On General Relativity, Topology and Quantum Description.
• H. Leblanc, Temple University: Open Problems in Quantification Theory.
• J. Pelletier & C. Lupart, University of Alberta: Some Remarks on the Formal Properties of Rule Orderings in Linguistics.
• I. Hacking, Stanford) & Levy, UBC: Why Orthomodular Quantum Logic is Logic.
• R. Gumb, Temple: An Explication of the Notion of a Consistent Evolving Theory.
• J. McGrath, [affiliation unknown]: A Formal Statement of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Argument.
• J. Bub, University of Western Ontario: How to Kill Schrodinger's Cat.

1976 Detroit, Michigan    < top >

Wayne State U., 20-22 May, 1976

Host: Brad Angell

Proceedings: Philosophia 7:2, 1978

• K. Arrow, Harvard University: Equality and Justice in a Democratic Society: I.
• J. Narveson, University of Waterloo: Rawls on Equal Distribution of Wealth.
• J. Sterba, University of Notre Dame: A Defense of Rawls against Arrow and Nozick.
• K. Arrow, Harvard University: Equality and Justice in a Democratic Society: II.
• D. Gauthier, University of Toronto: Social Choice and Distributive Justice.
• A. Gibbard, University of Pittsburgh: Preference Strength and Two Kinds of Ordinalism.
• H. Leblanc, Temple University: Truth Value Assignments and their Cardinality.
• M. Pastin, Indiana University: Perceptual Relativity.
• W. Harper, University of Western Ontario: Conditional Probability and Conceptual Change.
• D. Nute, University of Georgia: Simplification and Substitution of Counterfactual Antecedents.
• R. Wolf, Southern Illinois University: Are Relevance Logics Deviant.

1975 No meeting.

SEP funds were used to support the IEEE meeting on many-valued logic.

1974 Edmonton, Alberta    < top >

Univ. Alberta, 9-11 May, 1974

Hosts: R. Shiner & C. Morgan

• K. Lambert, University of California, Irvine: On the Extensions of Singular Terms.
• M. Hanen, University of Calgary: Confirmation and Explanation.
• C. Hooker, University of Western Ontario: Systematic Ontology and the Mathematical Structure of Physical Theory.
• H. Leblanc, Temple University: Queries on Truth Conditions.
• N. Belnap, University of Pittsburgh: Functions that Really Depend on their Arguments.
• D. Kaplan, UCLA: On Old Foundations for Intensional Logic.
• H-N. Castaneda, Indiana University: Individuation and Non-Identity.
• C. Morgan, University of Alberta: Some Recent Results in Automated Hypothesis Generation.
• D. Grover, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle: A Prosentential Theory of Truth.
• J. Woods, University of Victoria: Aquarian Implication: The Relevance of a Relevance Logic.

1973 Toronto, Ontario    < top >

U. Toronto, 16-18 March, 1973

Host: Bas van Fraassen

• M. Bunge, McGill University: The Concept of a Thing.
• D. Miller, John Abbott College: On Agency, Choosing, and Trying.
• S. McCall, University of Pittsburgh: The Strong Future Tense.
• G. Reyes, University of Montreal: Logica More Geometrico Demonstrata.
• Y. Gauthier, University of Toronto: Logica Geometrica sive Geometria Logica.
• R. Giere, Indiana University: Statistical Inference and the Theory of Knowledge.
• H. Tennessen, University of Alberta: Scientists in Vain Want of World Views.
• R. Thomason, University of Pittsburgh: Montague Grammar.
• H. Beatty, McGill University: Opacity in Adverbs.
• R. Meyer, University of Toronto: New Axiomatics for Relevant Logics.
• C. Hooker, University Western Ontario: Global Theories.
• B. van Fraassen, University of Toronto: Global Purport.
• N. Cartwright, University of Maryland: Covariance Without Joint Distributions in Quantum Mechanics.
• E. Levy, University of British Columbia: Quantum Logic Without Quantum Mechanics - Well, Almost.

1972 No meeting.

1971 No meeting.

1970 Montreal, Quebec    < top >

Founding Meeting

McGill Univ., 4-5 November, 1970

Host: Mario Bunge

Proceedings: J Philosophical Logic 1:3-4, 1972

• H. Leblanc, Temple Uuniversity: Matters of Relevance.
• B. Chellas, University of Pennsylvania: Notions of Relevance: Comments on Leblanc's Paper.
• L. Svenonius, University of Maryland: Translation and Reduction.
• M. Bunge, McGill U.: A Program for the Semantics of Science.
• N. Belnap, University of Pittsburgh: S-P Interrogatives.
• W. Hatcher, University of Laval: Foundations as a Branch of Mathematics.
• C. Castonguay, University of Ottawa: Naturalism in Mathematics: Comments on Hatcher's Paper.
• R. Tuomela, Helsinki University: Deductive Explanation of Scientific Laws.
• P. Kirschenmann, Wayne State University: Concepts of Randomness.
• B. van Fraassen, University Toronto: The Logic of Conditional Obligation.
• H. Beatty, McGill University: On Evaluating Deontic Logics: Comments on van Fraassen's Paper.
• C. Alchourron, Buenos Aires University: The Intuitive Background of Normative Legal Discourse and Its Formalization.
• H-N. Castaneda, Indiana University: Plato's Phaedo Theory of Relations.

PEOPLE PRESENT AT FOUNDATION OF SEP (NOV. 4, 1970)

And their 1970 affiliations; philosophy departments except where noted.

• Carlos Alchourron, Guido 1953, Buenos Aires
• Roger B. Angel , Sir George Williams U., Montreal, P. Q.
• Harry Beatty, McGill U., Montreal, P.Q.
• Nuel D. Belnap, U. Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.
• Mario Bunge , McGill U., Montreal P.Q.
• Hector-Neri Castaneda , Indiana U., Bloomington, Ind.
• Charles Castonguay , U. Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
• Brian F. Chellas , U. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
• E. G. K. Lopez Escobar , Dep. Math., U. Maryland, College Park, Md.
• Bas van Fraassen, U. Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
• Ronald N. Giere, Indiana U., Bloomington, Ind.
• Dorothy Grover, U. Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisc.
• William S. Hatcher, Dept. Math., Laval U., Quebec, P.Q.
• Arnold Johanson, U. Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
• Peter Kirschenmann, Vreje Univ., Amsterdam
• Jim Lambek, Math Dept., McGill Univ., Montreal
• Hugues Leblanc, Temple U., Philadelphia
• Dilip B. Madan, Economics Dept., U. Maryland, College Park, Md.
• James Claggett Owings , Math. Dept., U. Maryland, College Park, Md.
• Hector C. Sabelli, Chicago Medical School, Chicago, Ill.
• Tom Settle, U. Guelph, Ont.
• Lars Svenonius, U. Maryland, College Park, Md.
• M. E. Szabo, Dept. Math., Sir George Williams U., Montreal, P.Q.
• Raimo Tuomela, Univ. Helsinki, Helsinki

* Data on meetings prior to 1992 drawn from F. J. Pelletier, "The Society for Exact Philosophy", Ruch Filozoficzny 48 (1991): 107-118.