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S.E.P. 2002

The Next Annual Meeting of the

Society for Exact Philosophy

will take place

May 23-26, 2002

at

Washington University
St. Louis, Missouri

 

Correspondence should be sent to:

Professor Ronald P. Loui
Department of Computer Science
Box 1045
Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130



Revised Schedule for SEP 2002

Washington University in St. Louis 

May  23-26

 M Tu  W Th  F  S Su
         23 24 25 26



All Talks in Cupples II 217 (Th, Fr, and Sat).
Cupples II is the building just to the North of the main Library entrance. This room has web access, laptop projection, overhead, and chalkboards. There is NO REGISTRATION FEE for this conference. All faculty and students are invited to attend.




Thursday



  • Reception
    Coffee and Cake in the Jolley Hall 5th Floor Atrium
    2:00pm - 3:00pm

  • Invited Co-Sponsored Talk (CS Departmental Colloquium)
    3:00pm - 4:00pm

    Donald Nute, University of Georgia
    An Epistemology for Defeasible Reasoners


  • Paper Session I
    4:00pm - 7:00pm, Richard M. Souvenir, chair


    1. Francois Lepage, Universite de Montreal CANADA
      What is a Feasible Act?

    2. Michael Morreau, University of Maryland
      What Vague Objects are Like

    3. Bernard Linsky, University of Alberta CANADA
      Classes of Classes and Classes of Functions in Principia Mathematica

    4. Peter K. Schotch, Dalhousie University CANADA
      Background to the Logic of Rules


  • Open Conference Banquet (All are welcome! Pay your own bill)
    Riddles Penultimate Cafe and Wine Bar, 6307 Delmar (in the Loop), 725-6985
    8pm - midnight

    This is a favorite among University people. It is fun and unpretentious, moderately priced, stocks good wines and has an interesting regional menu. There will be their regular Thursday night band. The restaurant is expecting a large crowd (30-50 people) and will split checks. You will want to linger until closing at 1am, but please note that we start at 9am the next morning!

    Riddles can be found by walking due North to the Loop (the college town): first cross Forest Park Parkway using the pedestrian overpass, then use the pedestrian path for about five minutes to reach Delmar. Turn right (East) and cross the street. Riddles is about the tenth storefront on Delmar from this point. If you want to get there early, they have interesting microbrewed beers on tap.





    Friday



  • Paper Session II
    9:00am - 11:15am, Jamie Payton, chair
    Coffee and Croissants


    1. Diana Raffman, Ohio State University
      Borderline Cases and Classical Logic

    2. Kent Johnson, UC Irvine
      How Systematic are Language and Thought?

    3. Jonathan Paul Strand, Concordia University College of Alberta CANADA
      On Behalf of a Non-Transitive Consequence Relation


  • Invited Co-Sponsored Talk (CS Departmental Colloquium)
    11:15am - 12:15pm

    Henry Kyburg, University of Rochester
    Probabilistic Epistemology


  • Lunch
    12:15pm - 2:00pm

    Recommended: Off-campus: walk due North to the Loop and we recommend: (right at Delmar) Blueberry Hill (kitsch landmark and burgers), Brandt's (Eurocafe), Saleem's Lebanese, Thai Seafood or Thai Country Cafe; (left at Delmar) Fitz's (original rootbeer and diner), Cicero's (Italian plus deli), St. Louis Bread Company (soups), Cafe Natasha (Persian). On-campus: head due south to the student center and there is cafeteria style fast food (tacos, pizza, salads, "Chinese") and a rathskellar ("burgers") in the basement.

  • Paper Session III
    2:00pm-5:00pm, Simone Semprini, chair


    1. Vladan Djordjevic, University of Alberta CANADA
      Similarity, Cotenability

    2. Tara Nicholson, Simon Fraser University CANADA
      Cooperation and Defection in a Generalized Modal Setting

    3. Kelly Trogdon, University of Florida
      A Defense of the Principle of Identity of Indiscernibles and the Principle of Sufficient Reason

    4. Rani Lill Anjum, University of Tromsoe NORWAY and Simon Fraser University CANADA
      A Solution to the Paradox of Indicative Conditionals


  • Short Break
    Bread and cheese

  • Discussion/Education
    5:20m - 6:10pm


    Sherry May, F. Michael Rabinowitz and Donald Mantyka
    Memorial University of Newfoundland CANADA
    Teaching the Rules of Exponents: A Resource Based Approach

    Commenting:
    Takayuki Dan Kimura, Washington University



  • Additional Short Papers (IV): Late Submissions, Poster Presentations
    6:10 - 7:00pm


    1. Hong Yu Wong, Rutgers University
      Epiphenomenal Emergents


  • SEP BUSINESS MEETING

  • Friday Evening in your own groups

    See Saturday Evening, except for remarks about Attitudes.





    Saturday



  • Paper Session V
    8:30am - 11:30am
    Coffee and muffins


    1. Alasdair Urquhart, University of Toronto CANADA
      The Complexity of Propositional Proofs with the Substitution Rule

    2. Greg Ray, University of Florida
      On the Matter of Essential Richness

    3. Graeme Forbes, Tulane University
      Disjunctive Attitudes
      http://www.Tulane.EDU/~forbes/pdf_files/Disjunctive_Attitudes.pdf

    4. Timothy O'Connor, Indiana University and Hong Yu Wong, Rutgers University
      The Metaphysics of Emergence


  • Long Lunch
    11:30am - 3:00pm

    Recommendation: the St. Louis Art Museum atop Art Hill in Forest Park is about a 20 minute walk from the meeting room (no admission fee). There is a cafe in the Museum, but it takes some time to be served. If it is unbearably hot we will recommend lunch at the Loop or on campus. If it is good weather, we recommend the walk (some cars will be available to shuttle people for whom the walk is too difficult).

    You have enough time to even pop into the Zoo (also no admission fee), where there are terrific hot dogs to be found.

  • Paper Session VI
    3:00pm - 5:15pm


    1. S. Meyer and R. E. Jennings, Simon Fraser University CANADA
      Function and Pleiotropy

    2. Jeremy Koons, American University of Beirut LEBANON
      Reconciling Internalism and Externalism in Epistemology

    3. Todd M. Stewart, University of Arizona
      Ethical Disagreement: The Epistemological Problem


  • Short Break
    Coffee and cheesecake

  • Paper Session VII
    5:30pm - 7:00pm


    1. Max Deutsch, University of Hong Kong HONG KONG
      A Reductio of Millianism

    2. Otavio Bueno, Cal State Fresno
      An Easy Road to Nominalism


  • Saturday Evening in your own groups

    We recommend: Early evening: Bar Italia is a lovely restaurant in the Central West End (CWE) 361-7010; India's Rasoi is a good restaurant in downtown Clayton (and can accomodate large impromptu groups) 727-1414; Sidney Street Cafe is a romantic restaurant in the South of the City, near the breweries 771-5777; Llewellyn's and Dressel's are two Welsh pubs within a block of each other in the CWE -- the former for eating and the latter for sitting around, welcoming intellectuals and requiring no reservations; Kopperman's in the CWE will serve deli style breakfasts all evening during the prime hours of people watching -- no reservations needed; Cafe Eau is the bar in the Chase Park Plaza in the CWE and has great appetizers and a lively upscale crowd. Late evening: the Cheshire Inn has three bars, one of which comes alive after midnight with young professionals; the CWE's Coffee Cartel is open 24 hours on the most popular corner and sports an openly alternative crowd with good gelato, too; down the street, near the fountain, the Grind is open until 3am and welcomes all chain smokers; M.P.O'Reilly's is between these two cafes and has a young college dance crowd; if you must dance, Club Viva accomodates all ages with a Latin influence, but has a $10 door and a basement atmosphere. The best come-as-you-are dance place by far is the lesbian club, Attitudes, in South City, which is hopping until 3am (cab). If you want to catch jazz or blues, try BB's, 700 South Broadway just south of downtown, or Jazz at the Bistro 3536 Washington Blvd 531-1012 (Ahmad Jamal, $30 scheduled to play, cab); or Muddy Waters down on Laclede's Landing, under the Arch, which may actually be muddy if the river floods; we like the convenient Delmar Lounge, which is in the Loop 725-6565. Sorry, there is no home baseball game this weekend, but it is possible the St. Louis Blues will be in the finals, which can make any sports bar a fun experience. No matter what ads you hear, the casinos here are very depressing places to be.




    Sunday



    We anticipate that half of the conferees will be here on this day.

    The plan is to visit the St. Louis Arch, starting out at 10am and getting there by noon. We will meet at Coffee Cartel in the Central West End, at 10am, #2 Maryland Plaza, at the corner of Euclid Ave and Maryland Ave (if you look to the Central West End and can see the Chase Park Plaza, the tall building, then the Cartel is on the same block; it's just on the diagonally-opposite corner). Sometime near 11am, we will start walking to the Metrolink station and be down at the Arch and Landing at noon.

    It is very unlikely that you will be able to ascend the arch on Sunday unless you purchase tickets in advance. If however you can stay late on Sunday, the dusk trip to the top is worth the stay. Go to http://www.stlouisarch.com/main.html at least two days in advance if you want to buy tickets. But they will not have their extended hours yet.

    There are many restaurants in Laclede's Landing near the base of the Arch and the place should be swarming with tourists.




    Please Note: The conference dates span the Memorial Day holiday in the U.S., so those who think they may attend are strongly encouraged to make their hotel reservations as soon as possible. This week is, in addition, a popular week in St. Louis because of the baseball season and the extension of the hours for visiting the Arch.

     

    Lodging Information:

    We have several hotel options:

    Best Western on the Park

    $83 single or DOUBLE
    (best location for city explorers)
    (this is definitely the budget inn, and shared doubles will not be too comfortable)

    4630 Lindell Boulevard
    St. Louis, Missouri 63108
    800-373-7501 ext 410, Jeanne Castillo, mention SEP/Wash U
    fax 314-367-9015
    http://www.travelbase.com/destinations/st-louis/bestwest-inn-park/

    Cheshire Inn, Clayton

    $91 single, $101 double

    $70 single, $80 double
    (best for minimum hassle, also best for cars)
    (a very fun and sometimes snotty faux-english inn)

    6300 Clayton Rd
    St Louis, MO 63117
    800-325-7378 reservations, Leah Hudson Marilyn, mention Wash U faculty visitor (not parent/student)
    fax 314-647-9819
    www.cheshirelodge.com

    Chase Park Plaza

    no more doubles or studios! this hotel has just been renovated again

    $180 DOUBLE suites ($90 per person) with shared kitchen, $119 studios
    $129-139 singles with kitchen
    (best value/experience, also best location)
    (this is the fancy art deco renovated hotel, great location, and reasonable if shared by two parties; there are separate baths and bedrooms, typically with four total rooms plus bathrooms, so they can even be shared comfortably by strangers.)

    212-232 North Kingshighway Boulevard
    Saint Louis, Missouri 63108
    voice: 314-633-3000 mention Wash U/SEP
    toll-free: 877-587-2427
    fax: 314-633-1144

    Other Hotels

    Other hotels include the Hampton Inn on Market (closer to downtown, and
    reasonably close to a MetroLink station), the Radisson Inn or Sheraton
    Inn in Clayton (these will shuttle to campus). All corporate hotels
    will run $80-100 per night with a Washington University rate. It is
    likely that there will be summer housing at UMSL, Washington
    University, and Webster University, at very low rates, but these cannot
    be guaranteed at this time.

    Washington University will have available at least a dozen rooms, perhaps two dozen: "Depending on the style of building, and the needs for your guests, the price per night will fall in the $13 to $18 per night range. Factors to determine this will include single room versus double room. Common bathrooms versus semi-private bathrooms, and so on." The actual price is going to be $21 per night per person. Contact the organizer listed above.

     

    Notes

    It is also recommended that people make travel plans early. <www.orbitz.com> lists outstanding fares to St. Louis.

    It is not expected that there will be a registration fee for this conference due to the sponsorship of the Washington University Computer Science Department.

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    Inquiries may be made to local conference organizer, Ronald P. Loui, <loui@cs.wustl.edu>.

    General Inquiries may also be made to < s e p @ p h i l . u f l . e d u >.

    SEP Society information









    (exact building numbers to be announced)