Inferentialism seeks to explain meaning not in terms of denotation but in terms of the inferential connections between sentences and the role of terms in those sentences in explaining those connections. Its most famous exponent is Robert Brandom, but it is also found in some of the works of Frege, Carnap and Wittgenstein, if not earlier. The workshop aims to gain greater insight into the viability of inferentialism not just for logical expressions (logical inferentialism) but more broadly for non-logical expressions; to explore the connections between inferentialism and proof-theoretic semantics on the one hand and conceptual role semantics on the other; and to understand the normative aspect that inferential connections bring to the notion of meaning. Registration fee (including lunch, tea and coffee): £50 (or £25 per day). Workshop dinner (25 November): £35 (£30 without wine). Registration is now CLOSED.

The Call for Papers has now been completed and the Bursaries have been awarded.

PROGRAMME

Wednesday 25 November

• 09.00 Arrival and Registration
• 09.15 Greg Restall (University of Melbourne), ‘Generality and Existence: Quantification’
• 10.30Tea/coffee
• 10.45 Rohan French (University of Groningen), ‘Dialogue Semantics for Bilateralism: Towards a Multi-Agent Account’
• 11.30 Ukyo Suzuki (University of Tokyo), ‘Bilateralism and Falsificationism’
• 12.15 Jacob Archambault (Fordham University),‘Model-Theoretic Inferentialism for Bilateral Natural Deduction”
• 13.00 Lunch
• 14.00 Ryosuke Igarashi (Kyoto University), ”Proof-Theoretic Treatment of Various Negations Based on Natural Deduction
• 14.45 Christina Weiss (Universität Friedrichshafen), ‘Towards a constructive integration of phenomenological and inferentialist concepts of conceptual content’
• 15.30 Tea/coffee
• 15.45 Ryan Nefdt (Arché) ‘Inferentialism, the structuralism of semantics?’
• 16:30 Ole Hjortland (University of Bergen), ‘Does inferentialism need categoricity?’
• 17.45 Close
• 19.30 Workshop dinner

Thursday 26 November

• 09.00 Arrival
• 09.15 Catarina Dutilh Novaes (University of Groningen), ” A dialogical, multi-agent account of the normativity of logic’ (via Skype)
• 10.30 Tea/coffee
• 10.45 Jarda Peregrin (Czech Academy of Science), ‘Two kinds of inferentialism’
• 12.00 Julien Murzi (University of Salzburg) and Florian Steinberger (Birkbeck College London), ‘Inferentialism and Understanding’
• 12.45 Lunch
• 13.45 Shawn Standefer (University of Melbourne), ‘Brandom’s Logical Expressivism and Logical Inferentialism’
• 14.30 Rea Golan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), ‘Inferentialism and Logical Pluralism’
  15.15 David Ripley (University of Connecticut), ‘Consequentialism’
• 16.00 Tea/coffee
• 16.15 Marcus Rossberg (University of Connecticut), ‘The extension of second-order logical consequence and an inferentialist redundancy theory of truth’
• 17.00 Bruno Jacinto and Stephen Read (Arché), ”General-elimination stability’
  
• 18.00 Close
  This event is open to all philosophers in Scotland and beyond and is made possible by the generous support of the Analysis Trust and the Scots Philosophical Association.