CSLI Calendar addition

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• Subject: CSLI Calendar addition
• From: Emma Pease <emma@csli.Stanford.EDU>
• Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 15:01:49 -0800 (PST)

I forgot one entry in this week's calendar.  

			    Conference on

			 Empty Names, Fiction
		   and the Puzzles of Non-Existence

			   22-24 March 1998
				 CSLI
	    http://www.stanford.edu/~hofweber/conf/

The conference will bring together a large number of leading
philosophers working in that area.

Among the confirmed invited speakers are:
  * Solomon Feferman "Definedness" 
  * Peter van Inwagen "Quantification and Fictional Discourse"
    
  * Fred Kroon "'Disavowal-through-commitment' theories of negative
    existentials" 
  * Terence Parsons "An Experiment in Making Ontological Commitments"
    
  * John Perry "Speaking of Santa Claus" 
  * Stephen Schiffer "Pleonastic Fregeanism and Empty Names." 
  * Ken Taylor "Emptiness without Compromise: A Referentialist
    Semantics for Empty Names" 
  * Amie Thomasson "The Artifactual Theory of Fiction" 
  * Kendall Walton "Existence as Metaphor?" 
  * Stephen Yablo "A Paradox of Existence" 
  * Edward Zalta "The Road Between Pretense Theory and  Object
    Theory" 

Additional shorter presentation will be given by
  * Anthony Everett "How to say Things with empty Names"
  * Avrom Faderman "On Myths" 
  * Stacie Friend "Real People in Unreal Contexts, or Is There a Spy
    Among Us?" 
  * Thomas Hofweber "Quantification and Non-Existent Objects"

For more information see the web page or contact 

Thomas Hofweber - hofweber@csli.stanford.edu
Anthony Everett - heverett@csli.stanford.edu

http://www.stanford.edu/~hofweber/conf/

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