LANGUAGE
MATHEMATICS
A Philosophy Conference in Memory of Imre Ruzsa
September 17-19, 2009
Budapest, Hungary
Imre Ruzsa (1921-2008)
| The
conference is held in memory of Imre
Ruzsa, the father of modern philosophical logic in
Hungary, the founder and the first chair of the Department of Logic at Eötvös
University. His professional interests centered around modal logic, intensional logic, modeling natural language in systems of intensional logic, and the foundations of logic and mathematics. He always thought of his generalization of A. N. Prior’s concept of semantic value gaps to quantified, intensional and type-theoretic systems as his most important contribution to logic. He was the author of three books in English (Modal Logic with Descriptions, The Hague, 1982, Intensional Logic Revisited, Budapest, 1991, Introduction to Metalogic, Budapest, 1993), several monographs and textbooks in Hungarian, and many articles in leading logic journals. Several of Imre Ruzsa’s former students from across the globe will gather to discuss his legacy, and also to present on some of his favorite themes, topics, and areas—we invite you to do the same. |
Keynote speaker:
Rob Goldblatt (Victoria University, Wellington)Plenary speakers:
Hajnal Andréka (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest)Ferenc Csaba (Eötvös University, Budapest)
Gábor Forrai (University of Miskolc)
Robin Hirsch (University College London)
László Kálmán (Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest)
Gyula Klíma (Fordham University)
András Kornai (Technical University, Budapest)
Ági Kurucz (King's College London)
Mihály Makkai (McGill University, Toronto)
András Máté (Eötvös University, Budapest)
Tamás Mihálydeák (University of Debrecen)
István Németi (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest)
László Pólos (University of Durham, UK)
Zoltán Gendler Szabó (Yale University)
Anna Szabolcsi (New York University)
The conference is a part of the annual conference series
LANGUAGE, UNDERSTANDING, INTERPRETATION
organized by
Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities
Philosophy of Language Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
at Eötvös University Budapest
The organizing committee:
János Kelemen, presidentAndrás Máté, co-president
Tibor Bárány
Péter Mekis
János Tőzsér
Zsófia Zvolenszky
Hotel Information (5-minute walk from the conference venue)
Location: Múzeum krt. 4 bld. "i" (Philosophy) Budapest
SCHEDULE
Thursday, September 17
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11:00
Opening
11:30–12:30
In Memory of Imre Ruzsa
András Máté and 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 elsõ lépései
Kiss Olga - Munkácsy Katalin
17:15-17:45
Az empirikus tudományok teoretizálási törekvéseirõl
Madaras Lászlóné
17:45-18:15
Kísérlet a tulajdonnevek vizsgálatára a különbözõ hipertextnarratívák esetében
Szopos András
19:00
Reception
Cogito Ceremony (in Hungarian)
Venue: Kossuth Klub, Múzeum u. 7.
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 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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