Workshop on Williamson’s Philosophy

First Announcement–

Call for Papers

6(Thursday) − 7(Friday) October, 2016

The Program for Logic, Mind and Methodology (LMM),

Department of Philosophy,

National Taiwan University, Taiwan

http://www.philo.ntu.edu.tw/lmmgroup/

You are cordially invited to submit an abstract of a contributed talk to the Workshop on Williamson's Philosophy, to be held during the Joint Conference of AWPL-TPLC 2016.

Deadline of the submission: 30 April, 2016.

Introduction

This will be a one-day plus workshop on Timothy Williamson’s philosophy, hosted by the Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University, during the joint conference of the 3^rd Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic and the 3^rd Taiwan Philosophical Logic Colloquium (AWPL-TPLC 2016), which is organized by The Program for Logic, Mind and Methodology (LMM), Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University, and will be held during 5-8 October 2016.

The aim of this conference is to strengthen the connection between logic and philosophy. In particular, we are hoping that more attention in future research will be paid to the study of philosophical logic, specifically, the study of the construction, and application, of logical framework appropriate for not only the analysis of philosophical concepts, but also the theorization of philosophical doctrines. For further information, see http://www.philo.ntu.edu.tw/lmmgroup/

In view of the substantial contribution that Professor Timothy Williamson has made in the last few decades to contemporary philosophy, the organizing committee has set as the ultimate priority to organize a one-day plus workshop on Williamson’s philosophy during the joint conference. This project has been approved by Professor Williamson and more importantly he has accepted our invitation to come and join us on this special occasion.

The Core

Special attention will be paid to Williamson’s five seminal books:

Identity and Discrimination, 2nd ed. (1^st ed. 1990), Oxford: Blackwell, 2013.
Vagueness, London: Routledge, 1994.
Knowledge and Its Limits, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
The Philosophy of Philosophy, Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.
Modal Logic as Metaphysics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

The format (The workshop will contain at least 7 sessions)

The workshop will start with a keynote speech by Williamson, followed by four sessions on the 6^th of October, and will be continued, together with a final session for Williamson’s replies on the 7^th of October.

1^st session (90 mins):

A brief introduction (about 5-10 minutes) of Williamson’s contribution in the last few decades (by the chair)
A keynote speech (about 60 minutes plus 10-20 minutes for discussion) by Timothy Williamson

2^nd-6^th sessions: Each session (90 minutes) focuses on one of Williamson’s five books, and includes 4 parts:

(3-5 minutes) An introduction to the book under discussion (by the chair)
(60-70 minutes) One talk by an invited speaker, followed by a contributed talk.
(10-15 minutes) Williamson’s replies.
(10-15 minutes) Discussion

7^th session (90 minutes):

(5-10 minutes) A summary from the chair
(30-40 minutes) a final response from Williamson (especially to the talks which are not included in the special workshop)
(20-30 minutes) discussions.

Submission of Abstracts for Contributed Talks

All researchers who are interested in Williamson’s philosophy are cordially invited to submit their abstracts by 30 April 2016. Authors should submit an (extended) abstract no less than one page but no more than four pages (A4 size, single space). Abstracts must be submitted as PDF files and sent to

D.-M. Deng [[email protected]]

S.C.-M. Yang [[email protected]]

Memo:

1. Associated with each book, there is at least one session, containing two talks to address some issues on the themes of that book.

2. The organizing committee have also invited some renowned scholars to focus on the themes of each book, if possible. So far we have invited:

Katalin Farkas (Central European University, Hungary, on themes from Identity and Discrimination.)

Greg Restall (University of Melbourne, Australia, on themes from Modal Logic as Metaphysics.)

Nick Smith (University of Sydney, Australia, on themes from Vagueness)

3. Extra contributed talks will be welcome. If the accepted abstracts for contributed talks on Williamson’s philosophy are more than originally scheduled, the Programme Committee will be very glad to put the extra ones in some other sessions before the conclusion session so that Williamson may have some comments/replies to those speakers as well.

4. A full length manuscript of a contributed talk on this workshop should be sent to the organizer by the 15^th of September 2016 in order for Professor Williamson to read it before the workshop.

5. The chair of each session will provide a brief survey of the book (that session focuses on).

6. The organizing committee will try to find some well-known publisher to consider the possibility of publishing a post-conference proceedings, provided this proposal is approved by Williamson. The details will be announced when this proposal is also approved by the publisher.

7. A final remark:

Professor Williamson has thoughtfully promised to offer young scholars in Taiwan, who contribute papers to this workshop, a one-on-one tutorial/supervision to discuss their papers before the conference. Tutorial time will be scheduled in two afternoons before the conference. [The details will be announced in due course.]

For any enquiry/information please contact:

D.-M. Deng ([email protected])

S. C.-M. Yang ([email protected])