WORKSHOP ON “FICTIONAL ENTITIES AND OTHER SOCIAL OBJECTS” AND PAOLO BOZZI PRIZE FOR ONTOLOGY

Department of Philosophy, University of Turin – Labont
PRIN 2008, “Documentality”
Sponsors: ESAP, SIFA
Organizers: Carola Barbero, Maurizio Ferraris, Alberto
Voltolini

Turin, May 26-27, 2011
Venue: Sala Lauree della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
University of Turin, via Sant’Ottavio 20

The event will be streamed on www.unito.it/media

MAY 26, MORNING

9.00-10:15 Kendall Walton (University of Michigan)
Imagination, Fictionality, and Fictionalism
Discussant: Carola Barbero (University of Torino)

10:15-10:30 Coffee break

10:30-11:15 Stuart Brock (Victoria University Wellington)
The Phenomenological Objection to Fictionalism
11:15-11:30 Discussion

11:30-12:15 Frederick Kroon (University of Auckland)
The Social Life of Fictional Entities
12.15-12:30 Discussion

MAY 26, AFTERNOON

15:00-15.45 Alberto Voltolini (University of Turin)
Defiction?
15:45-16:00 Discussion

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-19:00 PAOLO BOZZI PRIZE FOR ONTOLOGY

16:30 Greetings of the Authorities
16:50 Prize Award Ceremony
17:00 Maurizio Ferraris (University of Turin)
Laudatio
17:30 Achille Varzi (Columbia University, New York)
Paolo Bozzi Lecture in Ontology: Fictionalism in Ontology

MAY 27, MORNING

9:30-10:45 Maurizio Ferraris (University of Turin)
Intentionality and Documentality
Discussant: Francesca De Vecchi (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan)

10:45-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:45 Paolo di Lucia (University of Milan)
Impossibility
11:45-12:00 Discussion

12:00-12:15 General discussion

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Prima sessione (26 mattina)
Seconda sessione (26 pomeriggio)
Terza sessione (27 mattina)