46th Annual Meeting of the Society for Exact PhilosophyUniversity of Connecticut · Storrs, CT · Laurel Hall · May 18–20, 2018

As is customary for the SEP, we ask that speakers chair the talk immediately following their own.

Speakers presenting in the final time slot of each day chair the first talk of the day in that session.

Friday, May 18, 2018

room 201 room 202 room 205 room 301 room 302

Allen P. Hazen &9:00 – Francis Jeffry Pelletier Ruth Millikan Paul McNamara

10:00 K3, L3, LP,RM3,A3, FDE,M:How to Make Many-Valued

Logics Work for You

Biosemantics and Wordsthat Don’t Represent

Monadic & Dyadic Agency &Ability Logics: A

Fundamental Theorem forCanonical Models &

Correspondence Proofs

10:15 – Christopher Meacham Teresa Kouri Kissel Greg Ray Jared Henderson Tamar Lando

11:15 Deference and Uniqueness Metalinguistic Negotiationand Logical Pluralism

Recursive SemanticsWithout a Net

True is a Gradable Adjective Logic of Pointless Spaces

11:30 – Keynote Address1:00 Craige Roberts (NYU/Ohio State): The Character of Epistemic Modals in Natural Language: Evidential Indexicals

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· Lunch Break ·

Colin Marija Jankovic & ASL Session2:15 – McCullough-Benner Nader Shoaibi Andrew Tedder Kirk Ludwig Adam Bjorndahl

3:15 Representing the World withInconsistent Mathematics

Logic and the Aim of Truth A Multi-Modal Interpretationof Descartes’ Creation

Doctrine

Conventions and StatusFunctions

Logic and topology forknowledge, knowability, and

belief

Christopher ASL Session3:30 – Ethan Brauer Blake-Turner Erik Stei Eric Guindon Guram Bezhanishvilli

4:30 Mathematical Knowledge andIndefinite Extensibility

Deflationism about Logic How Can More than OneLogic be Correct?

Arbitrary Reference isPluri-Reference

Modal Logics Arising fromMetric Spaces

ASL Session4:45 – Steven Dalglish Jeonggyu Lee Philip Kremer

5:45 Defaulting on Paradox Against Predicativism aboutNames

Quantified logic in topologicalsemantics

6:00 – 8:00 pm, Conference Reception: Grille 86

Saturday, May 19, 2018

room 201 room 202 room 205 room 301 room 302

Jussi Haukioja,Ralph DiFranco & Mons Andreas Nyquist,

9:00 – Andrew Morgan P.D. Magnus Michael De & Jussi Jylkka Hanti Lin

10:00 Slurs, Speech Acts, andDerogatory Soliloquies

Science, Values, and thePriority of Evidence

Knot Much Like Tonk Reports from Twin Earth Modes of Convergence to theTruth: Steps Toward aBetter Epistemology of

Induction

Elisangela Greg Front-Arnold &10:15 – Jonathan Payton Max Bialek Ramırez-Camara James R. Beebe Ravit Dotan

11:15 Proportionality andOmissions Reconsider

Comparing Systems withoutSingle Language Privileging

Knot Is Not That Nasty Multiple-Signifying Names inOrdinary Language

Resistance to Evidence

11:30 – Keynote Address1:00 Joan Rand Moschovakis (Occidental College): A Logical Look at Kripke’s Idea of Free Choice Sequences

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· Lunch Break ·

2:15 – Shay Logan Rachel Keith Alexandru Radulescu Daniel Skibra Gurpreet Rattan

3:15 The Alpha Calculus:Syntax and Semantics

The Hard Question ofFeminism and the “Hard”

Sciences

Token-Reflexivity andRepetition

Propositions and the Contentof Desire

Relativism and AustereNonsense

3:30 – Isaac Wilhelm Noa Latham Norbert Gratzl Rafael Ventura Evan T. Woods

4:30 Comparative Structure Maudlin on the Passage ofTime

Classical Logic as SingleConclusion

Ambiguous Signals, PartialBeliefs, and Propositional

Content

Many, But Almost One

4:45 – Eric Snyder Kathy Fazekas Fabio Lampert Rachel Rudolph Patrick Grafton-Cardwell

5:45 How Not to Count 2 1/2Oranges

The Experience of thePassage of Time

Modal Logic Should (Still)Say More Than It Does

Apperance Reports and theAcquaintance Inference

Platonism about Stories:Creativity without Creation

7:00 pm, Banquet : Chang’s Garden

Sunday, May 20, 2018

room 201 room 202 room 205 room 301 room 302

9:00 – Jordan Ochs Giacomo Giannini Rory Smead Diana Raffman Gerard Rothfus

10:00 Knowledgeability of InnerSpeech Episodes: A Problem

for the PracticalSelf-knowledge Approachs

Resemblance,Representation, and

Counterparts

Learning to Spite How to Deal with BorderlineCases

Evidence, Causality, andSequential Choice

10:15 – Devin Morse David Fisher Cosmo Grant Madiha Hamdi Greg Lauro

11:15 More Cats than Dogs:Comparing Quantities in

‘Steps Towards aConstructive Nominalism’

A Regress for theGround-theoretic Explication

of Antirealism

When Will People Play aNash Equilibrium?

The Predicativist Dilemma:λ-abstraction or UI?

Decision Dependence andCausal Decision Theory: ACritical Response to Hare

and Hedden

11:30 – Keynote Address1:00 Elaine Landry (UC Davis): Mathematics is not Metaphysics

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· Lunch Break ·

2:15 – David McElhoes Ioan Muntean Samara Burns Aleks Knoks

3:15 A Problem for FundamentalOntology

Fictions, Maps, andStructures in Forecast Models

Relational Hypersequents andthe Proof Theory of Modal

Logics

Higher-order Evidence byWay of Deontic Logic

3:30 – Leo Carton Mollica Joanna Lawson David Kinney Andrew Parisi Paul Silva

4:30 How Not to Argue forConditional Excluded Middle

The Metaphysical Structureof the De Se: Constructing a

Functional Account of theSelf

Curie’s Principle and CausalGraphs

Neutral Proof Theory A Bayesian Explanation ofthe Irrationality of Sexist

and Racist Beliefs InvolvingGeneric Content

4:45 – Michael J. Shaffer Andrew Smith Jonathan Livengood Bruno Whittle Thomas Mulligan

5:45 Disjunction, Modality, andUncertainty: A Solution to

the Miners Paradox

Re-visiting Quine on Truthby Convention

Counting Experiments Truth and GeneralizedQuantification

The Epistemology ofDisagreement: Condorcetian

Lessons and BayesianProspects