June, 29 June, 30 - Philosophy Kitchen

Thinking
the
(im)possible
mon
June, 29
9.00
Greetings: Gianmaria AJANI (Rector, Università di Torino), Massimo FERRARI (Director of the Department
of Philosophy and Education, Università di Torino), Alberto VOLTOLINI (Coordinator of the FINO PhD
Programme, Università di Torino).
9.45
Opening Lecture
Mark SAINSBURY (University of Texas at Austin)
Intentionality, intensionality, and nonexistence: An outline
11.15
Coffee Break
11.45
Daniel DOHRN (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)
The case for imagination as a guide to possibility
Daniele SGARAVATTI (Università di Roma III)
Thinking about something. On a transcendental argument by E. J. Lowe
12.30
13.15
Lunch break
15.00
15.45
Samuele CHILOVI (Universitat de Barcelona), Maurice dispelled
Raphaël MILLIÈRE (École Normale Supérieure Paris)
Thinking the unthinkable: Berkeley’s challenge and pragmatic contradiction
16.30
Coffee Break
17.00
17.45
Thibaut GIRAUD (Institut Jean-Nicod Paris), Logically impossible objects in classical logic
Alexander DINGES (Humboldt-Universität Berlin), Innocent implicatures
tue
June, 30
9.45
(Im)Possible Lecture
Graham PRIEST (University of Melbourne, University of St. Andrews), Thinking the impossible
11.15
Coffee Break
11.45
Filippo CASATI (University of St. Andrews)
Nobject, one can even think of something that is not an object
Agnese PISONI (Università di Genova)
Thinking on the (im)possibility of time without change
12.30
13.15
Lunch Break
15.00
15.45
Martin VACEK (Slovenská Akadémia Vied), Impossible worlds and the incredulous stare
Cristina NENCHA (Università di Torino), Was David Lewis an anti-essentialist?
16.30
Coffee Break
17.00
Closing Lecture:
Timothy WILLIAMSON (University of Oxford), Counterpossible conditionals
FINO/SIFA
Graduate
Conference
June 29-30, 2015
Center for Logic,
Language,
and Cognition
University of Turin
Palazzo Badini,
via Verdi 10, Turin