Tentative program



                TUESDAY, APRIL 21


                9-13

Galen Strawson (Reading/New York): The Self and I (Descartes and Strawson United)

Michele Di Francesco (Milan): Self and Person

Manidipa Sen (New Delhi): Strawson on the Notion of the First Person


14-18

Michelle Montague (Oxford) : The Phenomenology of Particularity

Paul Snowdon (London): Strawson on Persons and Consciousness

Kathrin Gluer-Pagin (Stockholm): Strawson Against the Evidence of the Senses 

Leila Haaparanta (Tampere): "Being" and Being in Frege's and Strawson's Philosophy


18.30 Welcome party



        WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22


9-13

Barry Smith (London): Strawson On Referring: Lessons it took so long to learn

Murali Ramachandran (Sussex):  Identifying Singularity and Truth-Value

Stephen Barker (Nottingham): Indefinite Descriptions as Referring Terms


14-19

Josep Macia (Barcelona): A Presuppositional Treatment of Expressive Meaning

Manuel Garcia Carpintero (Barcelona): Norms of Presupposition

Marie Duzi (Ostrava) & Pavel Materna (Prague):  Topic-Focus Articulation and Truth Conditions

Jiri Raclavsky (Brno): Semantic Concept of Existential Presupposition and Existential Generalization



        THURSDAY, APRIL 23


        9-13

Peter Pagin (Stockholm): Homer and Systematicity

Asa Wikforss (Stockholm): Assent and Communication

Mircea Dumitru (Bucharest): "Ordinary Expressions Have No Exact and Systematic Logic". Some remarks on Strawson's contributions to logical theory

Marian Zouhar (Bratislava): The Role of Speakers in Semantics (if any)


14-18

Karel Thein (Prague): Artefacts and Model Particulars

James Hamilton (Kansas): Imagination, Perception and Convention

Anders Pettersson (Umea): P. F. Strawson and Stephen Davies on the Ontology of Art: a critical discussion

Jiri Chotas (Prague): Strawson and Kant’s Critique of Metaphysics



        FRIDAY, APRIL 24


9-13

Fredrik Stjernberg (Stockholm): Metaphysics and Intuitions

Jan Kunes (Prague): Strawson and Kant on Being I

Juraj Hvorecky (Prague): Strawson on Normativity

Petr Kotatko (Prague): Definite Descriptions Again: Reference and Truth-evaluation