The 3rd Conference on Experience and Truth

November 24-25, 2006

Soochow University (Waishuanghsi Campus), Taipei, Taiwan

Keynote Speakers: Professor Nicholas Asher, University of Texas, Austin

Program

Friday, 24 November, 2006 (B013, Grand Complex Building)
08:20 - 08:50	Registration/Breakfast
08:50 - 09:00	Opening
09:00 - 10:15	Keynote Speech Nicholas Asher (University of Texas, Austin): “A Web of Words: Lexical Meaning in Context”	Chair: Eric M. Y. Peng (Soochow University)
10:15 - 11:15	Chin-Mu Yang (National Taiwan University): “Truth and Existence in Fiction”	Chair: Chienkuo Mi (Soochow University)
11:15 -12:15	Caleb Y. Y. Liang (National Taiwan University): “Perceptual Phenomenology and the Problem of Perception”
12:15 - 13:30	Lunch Hour
13:30 - 14:30	Linton I-Chi Wang (National Chung Cheng University): “Implicature and Defeat”	Chair: Bei-Hai Zhou (Peking University)
14:30 - 15:30	Laurent Prevot (Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica): “The Link Between Formal Ontology and Lexical Semantics”
15:30 - 16:00	Refreshments/Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00	Richard W. T. Hou (National Chung Cheng University): “On Horwich’s Use-Theoretic Conception of Word Meaning”	Chair: Wen-fang Wang (National Chung-Cheng University)
17:00 - 18:00	C. C. Tsai (Aletheia University): “Senses of Compositionality and the Compositionality of Senses”
18:00 - 19:00	Dinner Hour/Coffee Break
19:00 - 20:00	Eric M. Y. Peng (Soochow University): “Psychoessentialist Cognition of Kind”	Chair: Yi Mao (Smart Card Research, Gemalto Inc.)

Saturday, 25 November, 2006 (G101, Language Center Building)
08:30 - 09:00	Registration/Breakfast
09:00 - 10:00	Yi Mao (Smart Card Research, Gemalto Inc.): “Generics and Metaphors – Unified under a Four-Layer Semantic Theory of Concept”	Chair: Linton I-Chi Wang (National Chung Cheng University)
10:00 - 11:00	Jiun-Shiung Wu (National Chiayi University): “Temporal Relations in Mandarin: Clauses with No Aspect Marker”	Chair: Tim Lane (National Chengchi University)
11:00 - 12:00	Chienkuo Mi (Soochow University): “Davidson’s Slingshot Argument”
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch Hour
13:30 - 14:30	Tim Lane (National Chengchi University): “J.D.R.”	Chair: Chienkuo Mi (Soochow University)
14:30 - 15:30	Jeu-Jeng Yuann (National Taiwan University): “Feyerabend's Empirical Foundation of an Attempted Theory of Truths”	Chair: Thomas Benda (National Chung Cheng University)
15:30 - 16:00	Refreshments/Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00	Thomas Benda (National Chung Cheng University): “Quasi-Set Theory: Can There Be a Set Theory of Non-Individuals”	Chair: Jeu-Jeng Yuann (National Taiwan University)
17:00 - 18:00	Wen-Fang Wang (National Chung Cheng University): “A New Semantics of Counterfactuals”	Chair: Caleb Y. Y. Liang (National Taiwan University)
18:00 - 19:00	Dinner Hour
19:00 - 20:00	Bei-Hai Zhou (Peking University): “Sense-Based Semantics and Term Logic”	Chair: Wen-Fang Wang (National Chung Cheng University)

Language

The conference will be held in English

Organizers

Wen-Fang Wang (Department of Philosophy, National Chung Cheng University)

Thomas Benda (Department of Philosophy, National Chung Cheng University)

Linton I-Chi Wang (Department of Philosophy, National Chung Cheng University)

Co-Sponsors

Center For Humanities Research, National Science Council

Department of Philosophy, Soochow University

Contact

Wen-Fang Wang (wang@phil.ccu.edu.tw)

Chun-Ming Chen (jason@phil.ccu.edu.tw)

Website

http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~clubpy/index.htm