[2nd announcement] Workshop Oct. 18-19:'Plurality, Unity and Structure in Ontology and Semantics'

[Arapinis Alexandra]

    irst announcement:                    Second Announcement:
 
 
 Workshop    
 PLURALITY, UNITY, AND STRUCTURE IN ONTOLOGY AND SEMANTICS
 
 
 This workshop focuses on ontological, logical and linguistic issues concerning plural reference, on conditions constitutive of the unity of objects in general, and on the question of the unity or plurality of collections, kinds, and masses in particular. The presentations are to an extent work-in-progress.
 
 
 Time: October 18-19, 2007
 Location : IHPST (13 rue du Four, 75006 PARIS, France, metro Mabillon)
 
 
 
 
 program:
 
 
 Thursday, October 18:
 
 
 14.30 – 15.30: Maximiliano Carrara and Enrico Martino (University of Padua):
                        'On the Alleged Innocence of Mereology'
 
 
 15.30 – 16.00: Coffee Break
 
 
 16.00 – 17.00: Gabriel Uzquiano (Oxford University):
                         ‘Varieties of Composition’
 
 
 17.00 – 17.30: Coffee Break
 
 
 17.30 – 18.30: David Liebesman (Cornell University):
                         'Mass Nouns as Kind-Referring'
 
 
 Friday, October 19:
 
 
 10.00 – 11.00:  Giorgio Lando (University of Geneva):
                          'Can Sets be Objects of Reference?'
 
 
 11.00 – 11.30: Coffee Break
 
 
 11.30 – 12.30: Philippe de Rouilhan (IHPST, Paris):  
                         ‘Ontological Commitment to Multiplicities’
 
 
 12.30 – 14.00: lunch
 
 
 14.00 – 15.00: Friederike Moltmann (IHPST, Paris):
                         'Plural Reference: Some New Applications and Challenges'
 
 
 15.00 – 15.30: Coffee Break
 
 
 15.30 -16.30: Alex Oliver (Cambridge University):
                        ‘Fregean Semantics vs Plural Semantics’
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
       
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