Alien Structure Workshop III

Date
12 November 2025, 09:15 – 13 November 2025, 15:30
Location
See below
Type
Workshop
Organiser
Department of Philosophy
Contact person
Matti Eklund, Daniel Berntson

Venue

Campus English Park

Room 2-0024

Programme

Wednesday, November 12

9:15-10:45

Neil Dewar (Cambridge): Is Mathematics an Alien Language?

11:00-12:30

Robert Trueman (York): Against Alien Structure

14:00-15:30

Naomi Thompson (Bristol): Brute Inheritance

15:45-17:15

David Mark Kovacs (Tel Aviv): Iterated Determination


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Thursday, November 13

9:15-10:45

Giorgio Sbardolini (Amsterdam): Alien Connectives and Quantifiers

11:00-12:30

Katharina Felka (Münster): No Way – Do We Commit Ourselves to Ways Things Could Have Been?

14:00-15:30

Nicholas K. Jones (Oxford): Counterparts of Properties and Propositions

 

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The workshop is organised by Matti Eklund and Daniel Berntson as part of the the research project Alien Structure: Language and Reality, which is funded by the Swedish Research Council. The workshop is also partly funded by a grant from the Royal Society of the Humanities at Uppsala.

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