Kripke Center Opening Conference

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

    Opening Ceremony:
    President William Kelly, CUNY Graduate Center
    Alan Berger, CUNY Graduate Center, Brandeis University, Director of Saul Kripke Center

    Roundtable Discussion on Modality, Possible Worlds, and Possible Worlds Semantics:
    Scott Soames, moderator
    John Burgess
    Kit Fine

    Roundtable on Belief Attribution and Direct Reference:
    Alan Berger, moderator
    David Kaplan
    Nathan Salmon
    Michael Devitt

    Saul Kripke Keynote Address:
    Unrestricted Exportation and Some Morals for the Philosophy of Language (mp3)


Thursday, May 22, 2008

    Roundtable Discussion on Saul Kripke's Theory of Truth:
    Mario Gomez-Torrente, moderator
    John Burgess
    Kit Fine
    Melvin Fitting

    Roundtable on Speaker’s and Semantic Reference, Presupposition, Anaphora:
    Scott Soames, moderator
    Alan Berger
    Stephen Neale
    Nathan Salmon
    
    Roundtable Discussion on Kripke on Philosophy of Mind and Wittgenstein:
    George Wilson, moderator
    Jeff Buechner
    Sydney Shoemaker
    Scott Soames


Friday, May 23:

    Roundtable Discussion on Metaphysical Possibility vs. Physical Possiblity and
    Metaphysical Realism vs. Scientific Realism:
    Alan Berger, moderator
    Saul Kripke
    Hilary Putnam

    Roundtable Discussion on the Legacy of Naming and Necessity:
    Nathan Salmon, moderator
    Saul Kripke
    David Kaplan
    Hilary Putnam