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One Day Workshop: “Degrees, Graded Membership, Vagueness”
8 October 2013 @ 12:00 - 21:00
|Announcement One Day Workshop
Degrees, Graded Membership, Vagueness
Date
Tuesday October 8, 2013, 12.00-21.00 (dinner at one’s own expense included)
Venue
VU University, Amsterdam, Dept. of Philosophy, Filmzaal (VU Mainbuilding, first floor 1E-2).
Route description: http://www.vu.nl/nl/over-de-vu/contact-routebeschrijving/routebeschrijvingen/index.asp
Topic
There is a trend in contemporary philosophy to think about many different topics in terms of degrees: degrees of justification, degrees of coherence, degrees of belief, degrees of vagueness, degrees of freedom, degrees of personhood, degrees of truth, degrees of being, and many more.
Degrees raise questions. Logical/epistemological ones (how can degrees be measured?), and metaphysical ones (what are degrees? What sorts of things do and what sorts of things don’t admit of degrees—and why?)
This workshop addresses these questions.
Program Speakers/Presenters
12.00-13.15: Lieven Decock (Dept. of Philosophy VU University) & Igor Douven (Dept. of Philosophy Groningen), “What Verities May Be”
13.15-14.30: Wouter Meijs (ING), To Be Announced
14.30- 15.45: Robert van Rooij (ILLC, University of Amsterdam), “How many degrees do we need for vagueness?”
15.45-16.00: break
16.00-17.15: Inés Crespo (ILLC, University of Amsterdam), “Critical Thoughts on Degree-based semantics for gradable adjectives”
17.15-18.30: Rik Peels (Dept. of Philosophy, VU University) & René van Woudenberg (Dept. of Philosophy, VU University), “The Metaphysics of Degrees”
18.15: dinner on Zuid As
Info & Registration
Everyone interested is welcome. Please do register and indicate whether you will join for dinner. Send an email to Marije Zeldenrijk: M.Zeldenrijk@vu.nl
Organization
Igor Douven, René van Woudenberg
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