BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:ILLC Website X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2011/newsitem/3865/9-1 1-June-2011-Contexts-Perspectives-and-Relative-Tru th-Bonn-Germany DTSTAMP:20110327T000000 SUMMARY:Contexts, Perspectives, and Relative Truth , Bonn, Germany DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110609 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110611 LOCATION:Bonn, Germany DESCRIPTION:Surely, we might have different opinio ns about whether or not it is fun to ride a roller coaster. But can they both be true? And are we re ally disagreeing in case they are? Relativists t ypically tend to answer both questions in the affi rmative. As innocent as this position may seem at first sight, it certainly involves some rather dra matic changes in the way philosophers usually thin k about formal semantics. Then again, these change s seem to offer elegant solutions to further probl ems besetting semantics, such as the assessment of future contingents, the variability of knowledge ascriptions and the correct analysis of epistemic modals. The conference will be concerned with diff erent relativist proposals, with its consequences, and with possible alternative analyses of the phe nomena motivating relativism. The conference is part of the Rhine Valley Philosophy Summer 2011, a series of independently organized philosophical e vents. See http://rvps2011.net/ for further inform ation. For more information, see http://rvps20 11.net/relativism/ or contact relativism at uni-bo nn.de. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n
Surely, we might have different opinions about whether or no t\n it is fun to ride a roller coaster. But c an they both be true?\n And are we really dis agreeing in case they are?\n
\nR elativists\n typically tend to answer both qu estions in the affirmative. As\n innocent as this position may seem at first sight, it certainl y\n involves some rather dramatic changes in the way philosophers\n usually think about fo rmal semantics. Then again, these changes\n s eem to offer elegant solutions to further problems besetting\n semantics, such as the assessmen t of future contingents, the\n variability of knowledge ascriptions and the correct analysis of \n epistemic modals. The conference will be c oncerned with\n different relativist proposal s, with its consequences, and with\n possible alternative analyses of the phenomena motivating\ n relativism.\n
\nThe confe rence is part of the Rhine Valley Philosophy Summe r 2011, a\n series of independently organiz ed philosophical events. See\n http://rvps2011 .net/ for further information.\n
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\n \nFor more infor mation, see\n http://rvps2011.net/r elativism/\n or contact relativism at uni-bonn.d e.\n
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