Workshop Program
The Workshop Existence, Nonexistence, and Numbers will be held in the building of Euler International Mathematical Institute (EIMI), which is a part of St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Mathematical Institute. You can find the EIMI on the map, or on its home site.
| Tuesday 17 November 2009 | |
| 10:00-10:45 | Registration |
| 10:45-11:00 | Opening Remarks |
| Session 1: The existence predicate | |
| 11:00-11:45 | Friederike Moltmann Linguistics observations and generalizations about the verb ‘exist’ |
| 11:45-12:00 | Coffee Break |
| 12:00-12:45 | Graham Priest Historical attitudes towards the existence predicate and the particular quantifier |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch Break |
| Session 2: Existence and quantification | |
| 14:30-15:15 | Friederike Moltmann ‘There’-sentences, quantification, and existence statements |
| 15:15-15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30-16:15 | Graham Priest The logic of existence and quantification |
| Wednesday 18 November 2009 | |
| Session 3: Existent and non-existent objects | |
| 11:00-11:45 | Friederike Moltmann Intentional objects: linguistic evidence and a novel proposal |
| 11:45-12:00 | Coffee Break |
| 12:00-12:45 | Graham Priest Identity and characterisation |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch Break |
| Session 4: On kinds of objects | |
| 14:30-15:15 | Friederike Moltmann ‘The number two’ as a reifying number term |
| 15:15-15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30-16:15 | Graham Priest Objects, intentional, fictional, and mathematical |
| 16:15-16:30 | Closing Remarks |