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The Alabama Philosophical Society's fall meeting runs October 2-3, 2009, in Orange Beach, AL.  While a full schedule is here, three talks of particular interest to readers of this blog are the following:

[Editor's note: I deleted the previously posted times and days because of revisions to the schedule.  See above link for most recent schedule.]

Chase Wrenn (U. of Alabama), "Truth is Not Instrumentally Valuable" (abstract)

Marcus Rossberg (U Conn), "Inferentialism and Conservativeness" (abstract)

Adam Podlaskowski (Fairmont State U.), "Semantic Pluralism and Semantic Functionalism" (abstract)

I hope to see you there!

Review by Stewart Shapiro (The Ohio State University/Arché Research Center, University of St. Andrews) is here.

 

Review by David Efird (University of York) is here.  

The website for this conference is here.  Below is the announcement, as received through Philosophy Updates:

13th annual

Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference

Topic: Reference and Referring

Dates: April 30 - May 2, 2010

Location: Moscow, ID & Pullman, WA

The Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference is a topic-focused,
interdisciplinary conference on philosophical themes, co-sponsored by
the Philosophy Departments at the University of Idaho and Washington
State University. This meeting will focus on reference and referring,
two topics of traditional interest in the philosophy of language,
linguistics, and psychology.

Keynote Speaker: David Kaplan (UCLA)

Other participants include...

...here. 

Of note (for this blog) are the following:

(1) Kris Rhodes (The Extended Cognition Blog) has a post on original vs. derived meaning.
(2) Avery Archer (The Space of Reasons) has a post on propositional indexing.

The other posts are good as well.

Review by Paul McCallion (U. of St. Andrews) is here.

I want to draw your attention to the review of Griffin and Jacquette (eds.), Russell vs. Meinong: The Legacy of "On Denoting," by Berit Brogaard, who, by the way, manages LEMMINGS.   

...here (hosted by Subjunctive Moods).

Of special interest (to me) are Jonathan Ichikawa's "Case Study: Stalnaker on Conditionals" at The Arché Methodology Project and Daniel Nolan's "The Age of Hyperintensionality" at Matters of Substance.

Truth seekers and language lovers, the Midsouth Philosophy Conference, to be held at the Univ. of Memphis 17-18 April 2009, is approaching and now that the penultimate schedule is out I want to highlight a few talks of interest listed in chronological order.  (Apologies to those not mentioned.  But this is a blog devoted, first and foremost, to truth and semantics.  If, however, I missed something relevant to those areas then don't hesitate to let me know.  My criterion for inclusion is title of paper.  So mistakes can be made.)

FRIDAY, SESSION 3, 5:00-5:50

3B: Hassman, Benjamin <benjamin-hassman@uiowa.edu> University of Iowa
Battling Paradox: Recapturing Reference for (Some) Sorites-Susceptible Predicates
Commentator: Choi, Andrew <choi.402@osu.edu> The Ohio State University

3G: Floyd, Kamper <kamper.floyd@usm.edu> University of Southern Mississippi
Rorty and the Value of Truth
Commentator: Karofsky, Amy <phiadk@hofstra.edu> Hofstra University

SATURDAY, SESSION 4, 9:00-9:50

4I: Karofsky, Amy <phiadk@hofstra.edu> Hofstra University
Against Contingent Truth
Commentator: Shaeffer, Howard Benjamin <hbs1@humboldt.edu> Humboldt State University

SATURDAY, SESSION 6, 11:00-11:50

6B: Martínez-Manrique, Fernando <fmmanriq@ugr.es> University of Granada
On the Distinction between Semantic and Conceptual Representation
Commentator: Butler, Jesse <jbutler@uca.edu> University of Central Arkansas

6I: Asay, Jamin <asay@email.unc.edu> The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
How to Express Ontological Commitment in the Vernacular
Commentator: Gibson, Joel <joel_gibson11@hotmail.com> University of Maryland

I just found out about a great conference going on May 15-17, 2009, at the University of Connecticut on truth.  The lineup is excellent:

• JC Beall (UConn)
• Marian David (Notre Dame)
• Pascal Engel (Geneva)
• Patrick Greenough
  (St. Andrews/Arché)
• Max Kölbel (Birmingham)
• Michael Lynch (UConn)
• Vann McGee (MIT)
• Gila Sher (UCSD)
• Crispin Wright
  (St. Andrews/Arché, NYU)

Space is limited.  Visit the website for more information.

Description follows.