eidos -- the Centre in Metaphysics of the University of Geneva

Eighteenth eidos workshop (in cooperation with Thumos), Fiction and Imagination, 28-30 April 2010

Location: University of Geneva, Room SO 019, rue St. Ours 5 [map].

Programme:

Wednesday 28 April 2010:

12h30-14h00 lunch
14h00-15h30 Gina Tsang, "Fiction Matters"
15h30-16h00 coffee break
16h00-17h30 Aaron Meskin, "Reflections on the Short Story"
20h00 dinner

Thursday 29:

09h00-10h30 Berys Gaut, "Empathy an Identification in Cinema"
10h30-11h00 coffee break
11h00-12h30 Kendall Walton, "Empathy, Imagination, and Phenomenal Concepts"
12h30-14h00 lunch
14h00-15h30 Harry Deutsch, "The Definition of Fiction"
15h30-16h00 coffee break
16h00-17h30 Stacie Friend, "Fiction, Non-fiction, Both and Neither"
20h00 dinner

Friday 30:

09h00-10h30 Mark Textor, "Sense-only-Signs: Frege on Fictional Names"
10h30-11h00 coffee break
11h00-12h30 Kathleen Stock, "Fiction, assertion and imagining"
12h30-14h00 coffee break
14h00-14h30 Cain Todd, "Imagining, ptojecting, expressing"
14h30-15h00 coffee break

18h15-20h00 Phileas’ serie of talks: Timothy Williamson, "Philosophical Expertise"
20h00 dinner

You can also download the programme here. Click here to download a poster of the workshop.

If you want to attend the workshop, please send a mail to Amanda Garcia.

Organization: Amanda Garcia.

This workshop is part of the SNSF graduate school "Contemporary issues on ontological commitment: fictionalism and fundamentality" (101111-130363).


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