The Joint Conference of

The 3rd Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL 2016) &

The 3rd Taiwan Philosophical Logic Colloquium (TPLC 2016)

Call for Papers

5 (Wed.) - 8 (Sat.) October, 2016

The Program for Logic, Mind and Methodology (LMM), Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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

We are pleased to invite you to submit an abstract of contributed talk to the Joint Conference of AWPL-TPLC 2016.

Deadline of the submission: 31 May, 2016.

DESCRIPTION OF THE JOINT CONFERENCE

This is a joint conference of the Third Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL-2016) and the Third Taiwan Philosophical Logic Colloquium (TPLC-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 philosophical study of 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.

SPECIAL SESSIONS

Workshop on Williamson’s Philosophy (organized by S. C.-M. Yang)

Workshop on Mereology (organized by H.-C. Tsai)

SPEAKERS

Plenary/Keynote lectures

Robert Goldblatt (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, for workshop on Mereology). Hiroakira Ono (Japan Advance Institute of Science and Technology, JAIST, Japan) Achille C. Varzi (Columbia University, USA, for Workshop on Mereology) Timothy Williamson (Oxford University, UK, for Workshop on Williamson’s philosophy)

Invited speakers

Katalin Farkas (Central European University, Hungary, on themes from Identity and Discrimination.) Paul Hovda (Reed College, USA, for workshop on mereology) Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua University, China) Hanti Lin (University of California at Davis, USA, on themes from Knowledge and its Limits) Greg Restall (University of Melbourne, Australia, on themes from Modal Logic as Metaphysics.) Nick Smith (University of Sydney, Australia, on themes from Vagueness) Hsing-chien Tsai (Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan, for workshop on mereology) JiJi Zhang (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS FOR CONTRIBUTED TALKS

All researchers working on various aspects of philosophical logic are cordially invited to submit their abstracts by 31 May, 2016. Please note that deadline for the submission of abstracts for talks contributed to Workshop on Williamson’s philosophy is due 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]] H.-C. Tsai [[email protected]] (esp. for Workshop on Mereology) S. C.-M. Yang [[email protected]] (esp. for Workshop on Williamson’s philosophy)

Each submission will be reviewed. The Colloquium is open to everyone, and practical info is available on the website.

POST-CONFERENCE PUBLICATION:

We are planning to publish a post-conference proceedings for the joint conference. It seems likely that a post-conference proceedings will be published as a volume of the LIAA-series by Springer. All authors of papers presented at the joint conference will be encouraged to submit a full length paper, and the deadline of the submission of full-length manuscripts will be around the end of December of 2016. All papers submitted will be refereed to high journal standards, and acceptance as a presentation is no guarantee that the post-conference paper will be published. Detailed information about the submission of full length papers will be announced later.

TRAVEL AWARDS

Free accommodation and travel awards for students and young researchers have been made available by the local organizing committee. In some cases full compensation of expenses is possible. The details, including general information about the awards and the instructions of application, will be announced later on the website. The deadline for travel award applications is June 30, 2016. However, it is strongly recommended that as long as you have the intention of submitting an abstract, please send us a note at your convenience as hotel-room preservation can be made the earlier the easier.

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

Robert Goldblatt Hanti Lin Fenrong Liu Hiroakira Ono H.-C. Tsai S. C.-M. Yang

LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

D.-M. Deng (National Taiwan University) H.-C. Fu (Chinese Cultural University) C.-J. Liau (The Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica) H.-C. Tsai (National Chung Cheng University) K. Y. Lee (National Chung Cheng University) S. C.-M. Yang (Chair)

FURTHER CONTACT:

For any enquiry/information please contact:

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

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Workshop on Williamson’s Philosophy

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 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 3rd Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic and the 3rd Taiwan Philosophical Logic Colloquium (AWPL-TPLC 2016).

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 themes from Williamson’s five books:

. Identity and Discrimination, 2nd ed. (1st 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.

Keynote speaker: Timothy Williamson (Oxford University, UK)

Invited speakers

Katalin Farkas (Central European University, Hungary, on themes from Identity and Discrimination.) Greg Restall (University of Melbourne, Australia, Modal Logic as Metaphysics.) Nick Smith (University of Sydney, Australia, Vagueness)

Some promising young philosophers from Asia-Pacific area will join us, including

Max Deutsch (Hong Kong University): The Philosophy of Philosophy Hanti Lin (University of California at Davis, USA): Knowledge and its Limits Dan Marshall (Lingnan University, Hong Kong): Modal Logic as Metaphysics

and more to come.

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 6th of October, and will be continued, together with a final session for Williamson’s replies on the 7th of October.

. 1st session (90 mins): (i) A brief introduction (about 5-10 minutes) of Williamson’s contribution in the last few decades (by the chair) (ii) A keynote speech (about 60 minutes plus 10-20 minutes for discussion) by Timothy Williamson

. 2nd - 6th sessions: Each session (90 minutes) focuses on one of Williamson’s five books, and includes 4 parts: (i) (3-5 minutes) An introduction to the book under discussion (by the chair) (ii) (60-70 minutes) One talk by an invited speaker, followed by a contributed talk. (iii) (10-15 minutes) Williamson’s replies. (iv) (10-15 minutes) Discussion

. 7th 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. 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. 3. A full length manuscript of a contributed talk on this workshop should be sent to the organizer by the 15th of September 2016 in order for Professor Williamson to read it before the workshop. 4. The chair of each session will provide a brief survey of the book (that session focuses on). 5. 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. 6. 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])