Seventh Principia International Symposium

The Seventh Principia International Symposium will be held in Florianópolis, Brazil, from 15 to 18 August, 2011, focusing on the philosophy of Nelson Goodman.

The six previous symposia in this series have been devoted respectively to Principles in Philosophy and in the Sciences (1999), The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell (2001), The Philosophy of Willard van Orman Quine (2003), The Philosophy of Donald Davidson (2005), The Philosophy of Bas van Fraassen (2007), and Charles Darwin and his impact on philosophy and science (2009).

These symposia have been organized by the Epistemology and Logic Research Group (NEL) and the editors of Principia - an International Journal of Epistemology, both belonging to Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil.

This Symposium is being organized by the Epistemology and Logic Research Group (NEL-UFSC), in association with Principia, and supported by the Graduate Program in Philosophy and the Philosophy Department of Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil.

General Program

Besides the main session about Nelson Goodman, we are also planning to have parallel sessions dealing with the following subjects:

Philosophy and History of Science,
Logic and Philosophy of Language,
Epistemology,
Ethics and Philosophy of the Human Sciences,
Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind.

There will also be meetings of the following research groups (GTs) belonging to the Brazilian National Association of Graduate Studies in Philosophy (ANPOF):

Logic
Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Language
Ethics

Main Speakers

Catherine Elgin (Harvard University)
Gary Hatfield (University of Pennsylvania)
Geoffrey Hellman (University of Minnesota)
Jacques Morizot (Université de Aix-en Provence)
Michel Ghins (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Michel Paty (Université Paris 7)
Newton da Costa (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)
Oswaldo Chateaubriand Filho (Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro)
Wilson Mendonça (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

Organizing Committee

Alberto Cupani (UFSC, chair)
Alexandre Meyer Luz (UFSC, secretary)
Cézar Augusto Mortari (UFSC)

Scientific Committee

Luiz Henrique de Araújo Dutra (UFSC, chair)
Catherine Elgin (Harvard University)
Gary Hatfield (University of Pennsylvania)
Oswaldo Chateaubriand Filho (UCRJ)
Wilson Mendonça (UFRJ)

Submission format

Contributed papers to the symposium can be written in English, French, Portuguese, or Spanish. An extended abstract (about 500 words, in any of these languages) of the paper must be submitted by March 10, 2011 to the organizing committee. Submissions must be made by e-mail only to the following address: simposio-principia@cfh.ufsc.br.

Important Notice: members of ANPOF research groups must send their contributions directly to the group coordinator. The deadline is the same.

Abstracts must give enough detail to allow the scientific committee to assess the merits of the work. Please, include an identification page with the author's name, e-mail, his/her professional category (professor, associate professor, researcher, or student), and full institutional address.

Papers submitted by undergraduate students, even if in collaboration with their supervisors or other professionals, will not be accepted.

Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by April 5, 2011. Abstracts will be available for participants by the time of the conference.

Contributed papers will be invited for submission (in full version) to a special issue of Principia.

Financial Support to Speakers

In order to provide a partial aid to the speakers in the Seventh Principia International Symposium, the organizing committee will do its best to obtain financial support from Brazilian funding agencies. However, participants must not rely only on this source, and are strongly encouraged to try to get support from their universities, especially with regard to their flight tickets.

Inscriptions and Fees