10.12-10.13：International Conference on Modality, Logic and Philosophy
Organized by
Department of Philosophy, Peking University
Funded by
Creation Project of Graduate Education, Graduate School, Peking University
Invited Speakers
- Professor Otavio Bueno (University of Miami, USA)
- Professor Roy Cook (University of Minnesota, USA)
- Professor Peter Fritz (University of Oslo, Norway)
- Professor Wesley H. Holliday (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
- Professor Ming Hsiung (South China Normal University, China)
- Professor LIU Fenrong (Tsinghua University, China)
- Professor Dan Marshall (Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China)
- Professor Sanford Shieh (Wesleyan University, USA)
- Professor John Symons (University of Kansas, USA)
- Professor WANG Yanjing (Peking University, China)
October 12, 2019
First Session, 8:30-10:20, Invited Speech, the speaker talks 30 minutes, Plus 5 minutes for Q-A
Place: B114, Dept. of Philosophy, Peking University
Chair: Professor CHEN Bo (Department of Philosophy, Peking University)
8:30-8:35, Professor Chen Bo: Opening address
8:35-9:10, Professor Otavio Bueno (University of Miami, USA): “Imagination and Modal Epistemology”
9:10-9:45, Professor Wesley H. Holliday (University of California at Berkeley, USA): “Possibility Semantics”
9:45-10:20, Professor LIU Fenrong (Tsinghua University, China): “Collective Belief as Tendency toward Consensus”
10:20-10:50, Taking Photo together, and Tea Break
Second Session, 10:50-12:00; Invited Speech, the speaker talks 30 minutes, plus 5 minutes for Q-A
Place: B114, Dept. of Philosophy, Peking University
Chair: Professor Michael Nelson (University of California, Los Angles)
10:50-11:25, Professor Roy Cook (University of Minnesota, USA): “The Logic of ‘Opposite Day’”
11:25-12:00, Professor Peter Fritz (University of Oslo, Norway): “A Path to Worldliness”
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break, Shaoyuan Restaurant, PKU
Third Session, 14:00-15:45; Invited Speech, the speaker talks 30 minutes, plus 5 minutes for Q-A
Place: B114, Dept. of Philosophy, Peking University
Chair: Dr Peter Eldridge-Smith (Australian National University)
14:00-14:35, Professor Ming Hsiung (South China Normal University, China): “Truth versus Modal Liars: Some Symmetry Comparisions”
14:35-15:10, Professor Sanford Shieh (Wesleyan University, USA): “Modality Regained: Possibility and Picturingin Wittgenstein’s Tractatus”
15:10-15:45, Professor WANG Yanjing (Peking University, China): “When Names Are Not Commonly Known: Epistemic Logic with Assignments”
15:45-16:05, Tea Break
Fourth Session, 16:00-18:30; Presentations, each speaker talks 20 minutes, plus 5 minutes for Q-A
Place: B114, Dept. of Philosophy, Peking University
Chair: Professor Chow Pak Kiu (Shanxi University, China)
16:05-16:30, Professor Michael Nelson (University of California, Los Angles): “The Nature of a Proposition”
16:30-16:55, Professor Zhang Lifeng (Nanjing University, China): “Names as Rigidified Descriptions”
16: 55-17:20, Dr Peter Eldridge-Smith (Australian National University): “In Search of Modal Hypodoxes”
17: 20-17:45, Professor Xu Zhaoqing (Sichuan University, China): “Counterfactuals and Knowledge of Epistemic Modality”
17: 45-18:10, Dr. Zhao Zhen (Anhui University, China): “Building a Better Monotonic Conditional”
18:30-20:30, Dinner, Shaoyuan Restaurant, PKU
October 13, 2019
Fifth Session, 8:30-10:10, Presentations, each speaker talks 20 minutes, plus 5 minutes for Q-A
Place: B114, Dept. of Philosophy, Peking University
Chair: Professor Richard Hou (Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, China)
8:30-8:55, Professor Chow Pak Kiu (Shanxi University, China): “Confirmation and Possible Worlds”
8:55-9:20, Professor Cheng Yong (Wuhan University, China): “Constructing undecidable sentences of arithmetic via provability logic”
9:20-9:45, Professor Ching Hui SU (Shandong University, China): “On the Justification of Knowledge of Counterfactuals”
9:45-10:10, Professor Liu Jingxian (Liaoning University, China): “Thought Experiments and Information Asymmetries”
10:10-10:25, Tea Break
Sixth Session, 10:30-12:00, Presentations, each speaker talks 20 minutes, plus 5 minutes for Q-A
Place: B114, Dept. of Philosophy, Peking University
Chair: Professor Ching Hui SU (Shandong University, China)
10:25-10:50, Professor Richard Hou (Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, China): “The causal structure of historical local inevitability and variability”
10:50-11:15, Professor Chunghyoung Lee (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea): “Reconciling Essentiality and Variability with Immutable Modal Profile”
11:15-11:40, Professor Feng Shuyi (Wuhan University, China): “The Inconsistency Between Modal Empiricism and Modal Skepticism: A Critique of the Similarity-Based Approach”
11:40-12:05, Professor Luo Zixin (Xi’an Jiaotong University, China): “Kripke’s Puzzle about Belief Revisited”
12:05-12:30, Dr. Wang Hairuo (Chinses Academy of Social Science): “Knowledge of Vague Truth”
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break, Shaoyuan Restaurant, PKU
Seventh Session, 14:00-16:30, Presentation for PhD students; each speaker talks 15 minutes, plus 5 minutes for Q-A
Place: B114, Dept. of Philosophy, PKU
Chair: Professor Cheng Yong (Wuhan University, China)
14:00-14:20, Da fan (University of California, Davis): “Focused Counterfactuals”
14:20-14:40, Hu Lanshuan (Peking University, China): “The Slingshot Argument and the Correspondence theory of truth”
14:40-15:00, Elan You (University of California, Davis): “A Teleoepistemology of Mathematical Knowledge”
15:00-15:20, I- Sen Chen (University of California, Davis): “An Epistemological Case against Brentanianism of Color”
15:20-15:50, Han Yixiao (Peking University, China): “On the status of possible world in contemporary philosophy：Inspection based on Parsimony Principle”
15:50-16:10, Tea Break
Eighth Session, 16:00-18:30, Invited Speeches and Presentation
Place: B114, Dept. of Philosophy, PKU
Chair: Professor Zhang Lifeng (Nanjing University, China)
16:10-16:45, Professor John Symons (University of Kansas, USA): “Hintikka and Quine on Henkin Quantification”
Time: talk 30 minutes, plus 5 minutes for Q-A
16:45-17:20, Professor Dan Marshall (Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China): “A Problem for No Alien Linguistic Ersatzism”
Time: talk 30 minutes, plus 5 minutes for Q-A
17:20-17:45, Professor Andrea Strollo (Nanjing University, China): “Identities and the Attributive/Referential Uses of Proper Names”;
Time: talk 20 minutes, plus 5 minutes for Q-A
17:45-18:10, Professor CHEN Bo (Peking University, China): “Designative and Predicative Uses of Terms: against the distinction of rigidity and non-rigidity”
Time: talk 20 minutes, plus 5 minutes for Q-A
18:10-18:15, Professor CHEN Bo (Peking University, China): Closing Address
18:30-20:30, Dinner, Shaoyuan Restaurant, PKU
October 14, 2019
Tour to Summer Palace and Great Wall, or some other places the most of attendants prefer to go.