Contemporary Language, Logic, and Metaphysics:
African and Western Approaches (CLLM)
14–16 August 2017
Venues:
- Senate Room, second floor, East Wing, Solomon Mahlangu House (formerly Senate House)
- Disability Rights Unit Boardroom, first floor, East Wing, Solomon Mahlangu (formerly Senate House)
- Room RS 8, ground floor, Robert Sobukwe Block (formerly Central Block)
- Room RS 3C, Philosophy Department Seminar Room, Robert Sobukwe Block (formerly Central Block)
Monday 14 August 2017
| Senate Room, Solomon Mahlangu House |
Disability Rights Unit Boardroom, Solomon Mahlangu |
Room RS8, Robert Sobukwe Block |
|
| 7:30–8:30 | REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST: Senate Room foyer | ||
| 8:30–9:45 | ‘Revisiting the language question in African philosophy: Why conversationalism is a viable alternative’ Chukwueloka Uduagwu |
‘Questioning the idea of ‘African ontology’: A constructive case for Ezi n’ulo model’ L. Uchenna Ogbonnaya |
‘A naturalistic solution to the liar paradox’ Casper Storm Hansen |
| 10:00–11:15 | ‘Why we should go beyond linguistic rebellion in African philosophy: A case for linguistic de-structuring’ Jonathan O. Chimakonam |
‘The notion of Onyeaghalanwanneya as a way out of the subject-object dichotomy in the practice of African philosophy’ Umezurike Ezugwu |
‘Is the liar paradox an aberration?’ Eric Epstein |
| 11:15–11:45— | TEA BREAK: Senate Room foyer | ||
| 11:45–13:00 | ‘A new semantics for the conditional’ Monique Whitaker |
‘Is there a language of Philosophy?’ Samuel Segun |
‘Izibongo, inkumbulo nokuqukethwe kwigama: Negotiating social meanings of identity’ Siseko H. Kumalo |
| 13:00–14:00 | LUNCH: Senate Room foyer | ||
| 14:00–15:15 | ‘How to live with meaninglessness: In and beyond Ada Agada’s consolationist metaphysics’ Aribiah Attoe and Victor Nweke |
‘A philosophical reaction to the growing menace of language endangerment in Africa: A case study of the Igbo language’ Eleazu Osita Ibe |
‘Are there any viable biologically realist theories of race left?’ Phila Msimang |
| 15:15–15:45 | TEA BREAK: Senate Room foyer | ||
| 15:45–17:00 | ‘Nihilism and pessimism in the perspective of consolation philosophy: The implication for interculturality’ Ada Agada |
‘The semantics of surnames and the surnaming strategy’ André Bazzoni |
‘Ontologically legitimated ableist language against disabled persons in African traditions’ Elvis Imafidon |
| 17:30–19:30 | Keynote talk: ‘Naming and Necessity Revisited’ Saul Kripke |
|
|
Tuesday 15 August 2017
|
|
Senate Room, Solomon Mahlangu House |
Disability Rights Unit Boardroom, Solomon Mahlangu |
Philosophy Seminar Room, 3C, Robert Sobukwe Block |
| 7:30–8:30 | BREAKFAST: Senate Room foyer | ||
| 8:30–9:45 | ‘An inferential articulation of metaphorical assertions’ Richmond Kwesi |
‘What is the explanatory content of Kripke’s causal theory?’ JP Smit |
‘Moderate modal skepticism: Strengthening the skeptical argument with a pragmatic twist’ Lucia Martinengo |
| 10:00–11:15 | ‘The mixed-designation phenomenon and object-invoking expressions’ Murali Ramachandran |
‘Destiny-in-a-case: Making sense of choice in the Yoruba conception of destiny’ Ashley Tshabalala |
‘Defeasible modalities and modes of reasoning’ Arina Britz and Ivan Varzinczak |
| 11:15–11:45— | TEA BREAK: Senate Room foyer | ||
| 11:45–13:00 | ‘Wiredu and Lewis on the right modal logic’ David Martens |
‘Who gets a place in person space?’ Simon Beck and Tony Oyowe |
‘The limits of modal knowledge’ Rehan Visser |
| 13:00–14:00 | LUNCH: Senate Room foyer | ||
| 14:00–15:15 | ‘Is there an African logic?’ Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi |
‘Fiction and ontological independence’ Adetayo Alade |
‘Threshold: Worlds and individuals’ Michael Omoge |
| 15:15–15:45 | TEA BREAK: Senate Room foyer | ||
| 15:45–17:00 | Carroll, Kripke, and the Wittgenstein Connection Romina Padro |
‘Correctness, Conscience and Following a Rule’ Michael Losonsky |
‘Kripke and the contingency of existence’ Michael Nelson |
Wednesday 16 August 2017
| Senate Room, Solomon Mahlangu House |
Disability Rights Unit Boardroom, Solomon Mahlangu |
||
| 7:30–8:30 | BREAKFAST: Senate Room foyer | ||
| 8:30–9:45 | ‘Inferentialism and the possibility of an African philosophy of language and logic’ Ryan Nefdt |
‘The mechanics of accredited double-talk: Scientific consenses, non-evidential criteria, and professional referencing practices’ Helen Lauer |
|
| 10:00–11:15 | ‘What is the essence of an essence?: Comparing Western and African metaphysics’ Thaddeus Metz |
‘‘Problems for descriptivism about anaphora and demonstratives’ Kyle Blumberg |
|
| 11:15–11:45— | TEA BREAK: Senate Room foyer | ||
| 11:45–13:00 | ‘Subjectivism, assertoric content, and disagreement’ Sara Packalén |
‘On Kripke’s epistemic argument against descriptivism’ Eric Johannesson |
|
| 13:00–14:00 | LUNCH: Senate Room foyer | ||
