II International Colloquium on the Metaphysics and Semantics of Fiction
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Conferences and contributed papers:
(All times are GMT-3, BRT)
Wednesday, June 12:
Opening ceremony:
09:50–10:00
Italo Lins Lemos (Universidade Federal do Cariri, Brazil)
Jerzy André Brzozowski (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil)
II International Colloquium on the Metaphysics and Semantics of Fiction
Conference:
10:00–11:30
Francesco Berto (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
Meinongian Quantification, Equivocation, and Existence
Contributed papers:
14:00 - 14:30
Merel Semeijn (Institut Jean Nicod, France)
Hoaxing: Deception and Fiction
14:30 - 15:00
Gabriel Andersen Eugenio (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)
Trivial Inferences to Fictional Entities
15:00 - 15:30
Hicham Jakha (Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Poland)
Blaustein, Ingarden, and the Paradox of Fiction
Conference:
16:00 - 17:30
Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College, United States)
Empathy, Imagination, and the Epistemic Value of Fiction
Thursday, June 13:
Contributed papers:
08:00-08:30
Sitian Liu (中山大学 - Sun Yat-sen University, China)
Defense of Revolutionary Moral Fictionalism
08:30-09:00
Felipe Nogueira de Carvalho (Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil)
Feeling (together) for Anna Karenina: a social/externalist account of emotions in fiction
09:00-09:30
Ivan Ferreira da Cunha (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Understanding Imagination in Otto Neurath's Utopianism
Conference:
10:00–11:30
Fiora Salis (University of York, England)
Can scientific models be true?
Contributed papers:
14:00 - 14:30
Enrique Aranda Murillo (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
Conversational Implicatures in Fiction
14:30 - 15:00
Iago Mello Batistela (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)
Eduarda Calado Barbosa (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)
Another take at the co-predication problem: a critical referentialist approach
15:00 - 15:30
Jerzy André Brzozowski (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Harry Potter and the Reference of Natural Kind Terms
Conference:
16:00 - 17:30
John Gibson (University of Louisville, United States)
Criticism, Aboutness, & Cognitivism
Friday, June 14:
Contributed papers:
08:00-08:30
Valdenor Monteiro Brito Júnior (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Tipos Sociais e Entidades Ficcionais
08:30-09:00
Jean Machado Senhorinho (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Ficção: uma tecnologia imaterial para simularmos vidas e mundos
09:00-09:30
Cristian Santiago Kraemer (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Referência e ficção: como falar sobre coisas que não existem?
Conference:
10:00–11:30
Julia Langkau (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Fiction, Truth and Literariness
Contributed papers:
14:00 - 14:30
Felipe Zárate Guerrero (Durham University, England)
Truth in fiction: explicitism and canon in comics
14:30 - 15:00
Italo Lins Lemos (Universidade Federal do Cariri, Brazil)
Truth(making) in fiction
15:00 - 15:30
Elisa Paganini (Università degli Studi di Milano Statale, Italy)
Fiction as non-assertive communication
Conference:
16:00 - 17:30
Eleonora Orlando (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Fiction as declaration