[FOM] Imre Ruzsa Memorial Conference

[Andras Mate]

Logic, Language, Mathematics
A Philosophy Conference in Memory of Imre Ruzsa
Budapest, September 17-19, 2009

Venue: Eötvös University of Budapest, Institute of Philosophy
Budapest VIII., Múzeum krt. 4. bld. "i"

More information: http://phil.elte.hu/ruzsaconf

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SCHEDULE
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Thursday, September 17
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Opening Session
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11:00-11:30
Opening

11:30-12:30
In Memory of Imre Ruzsa
An Overview on his Life and Work
András Máté - Tamás Mihálydeák

Plenary Lectures
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14:00-14:50
Natural Logic, Medieval Logic and Formal Semantics
Gyula Klíma

15:00-15:50
Whose Logic is Three-valued Logic?
Ferenc Csaba

16:00-16:50
Modal Constructions in Sociological Arguments
László Pólos

Keynote Lecture
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17:30-19:00
Quantifiers and Admissible Propositions
Robert Goldblatt

Friday, September 18
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Plenary Lectures
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9:00-9:50
Analogy in Semantics
László Kálmán

10:00-10:50
Certain Verbs Are Syntactically Explicit Quantifiers
Anna Szabolcsi

11:00-11:50
The Treatment of Ordinary Quantification in English Proper
András Kornai

13:30-14:20
Exporting Methods from the Foundation of Mathematics to the Foundation of Relativity Theory
Hajnal Andréka and István Németi

English Session 1
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14:30-15:00
Logic and Language of Relativity Theories
Gergely Székely

15:00-15:30
Visualizations of Relativity, Relativistic Hypercomputing
Renáta Tordai

15:30-16:00
Comparing Relativistic and Newtonian Dynamics in First Order Logic
Judit X. Madarász

16:00-16:30
On Field's Nominalization of Physical Theories
Máté Szabó

English Session 2
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16:45-17:15
Plural Grundgesetze
Francesca Boccuni

17:15-17:45
The Reference of Numerals in Frege
Edward Kanterian

17:45-18:15
Grasping the Conceptual Difference between János Bolyai's and Lobachevskii's Notions of Non-Euclidean Parallelism
János Tanács

Hungarian Session 1
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14:30-15:00

A matematikai tudás eukleidészi modelljének kritikája Lakatos Imre filozófiájában
Golden Dániel

15:00-15:30
Tarski és a deflácionizmus
Kocsis László

15:30-16:00
Szemantikai értékrés Cantor mennyországának égboltján - avagy mi az, amit megmentett Hilbert?
Geier János

16:00-16:30
Kontextuális kétdimenziós szemantika
Kovács János

Hungarian Session 2
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16:45-17:15
A logika iskolai tanulásának első lépései
Kiss Olga - Munkácsy Katalin

17:15-17:45
Az empirikus tudományok teoretizálási törekvéseiről
Madaras Lászlóné

17:45-18:15
Kísérlet a tulajdonnevek vizsgálatára a különböző hipertextnarratívák esetében
Szopos András

Saturday, September 19
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Plenary Lectures
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9:00-9:50
In Defense of Hermeneutic Fictionalism
Gábor Forrai

10:00-10:50
Relativity and Modal Logic
Robin Hirsch

11:00-11:50
Tasks and Ultra-tasks
Zoltán Szabó Gendler

12:00-12:50
Neo-Fregeanism: Revising Frege's Notion of Identity in the Philosophy of Language and Mathematics
Mihály Makkai

14:00-14:50
Many-Dimensional Modal Logics
Ági Kurucz

English Session 3
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15:00-15:30
Prior and the Limits of \emph{de Re Temporal Possibility
Márta Ujvári

15:30-16:00
The Indispensability of Logic
Nenad Miscevic

16:00-16:30
Fitch's Paradox and Natural Deduction System for Modal Logic
Edi Pavlovic

English Session 4
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16:45-17:15
Premise Semantics and Possible Worlds Semantics for Counterfactuals
Vladan Djordjevic

17:15-17:45
Counterfactuals, Context, and Knowledge
Jelena Ostojic

17:45-18:15
Aristotle's Wheel and Galileo's Mistake
Nenad Filipovic, Una Stojnic \& Vladan Djordjevic

English Session 5
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15:00-15:30
On the So-Called Dependent (Embedded) Questions
Anna Brozek

15:30-16:00
Partiality and Tichys Transparent Intensional Logic: Solutions to Selected Issues
Jiri Raclavsky

16:00-16:30
Names are Not Rigid
Hanoch Ben-Yami

English Session 6
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16:45-17:15
'Upgrades' and 'Updates': from Degrees of Belief to the Dynamics of Epistemic Logic
András Benedek

17:15-17:45
Ruzsa on Quine's Argument against Modal Logic
Zsófia Zvolenszky

17:45-18:15
Definite Descriptions in Dynamic Predicate Logic
Péter Mekis


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Andras Mate CSc, assoc. prof. 
Inst. Philosophy, Dept. Logic
ELTE Budapest
mailto: mate at ludens.elte.hu
http://philosophy.elte.hu/mate