Recently, we’ve mentioned plenty of instances of conferences where, at first glance, you’d get the impression that only male philosophers work in that area. Which is what makes it all the more satisfying to draw attention to this up-coming workshop where half of the contributers are women, and the topic is in the kind of area that we might ordinarily think is male-heavy. I don’t know if this is intentional, but it seems to good to be accidental. I recall that its organiser, Dan Lopez de Sa, has commented here in the past and suspect he’ s paid some attention to this issue. So, credit where it’s due. Bravo!
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Workshop on Vagueness and Metaphysics, Barcelona, 25-26 June 2009
Provisional Program
Thursday 25 June
10.00-11.30 Iris Einheuser (Duke): ‘Vague Objects: A Conceptualist Account’
12.00-13.30 Dan Korman (Illinois): ‘Restricted Composition without Sharp Cut-Offs’
15.00-16.30 Elizabeth Barnes (Leeds): TBA
17.00-18.30 Benjamin Schnieder (Phlox): ‘Reasoning with ‘Because”
Friday 26 June
10.00-11.30 David Barnett (Colorado): ‘Vague Entailment’
12.00-13.30 Delia Graff Fara (Princeton): ‘Would Interests have Agents?’
15.00-16.30 Ofra Magidor (Oxford): ‘Strict Finitism and the Sorites Paradox’
17.00-18.30 Ross Cameron (Leeds): ‘Truth-Making and Determinacy-Making’
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Speaking of which… The recent Wired Live business conference apparently had a notable lack of female speakers.