Logical and Linguistic Analysis of Epistemological Problems


10-11 December, 2012


Conference Program

Organizing Committee:

  • Dmitry Ankin (PhD, UrFU),

  • Alexey Kislov (PhD, UrFU),

  • Lev Lamberov (PhD, UrFU)


December 10, 2012

10:00-10:20 – Opening Address by Dmitry Ankin, the Head of the Organizing Committee, and Alexey Kislov, the Director of the Chair of Ontology and Epistemology

10:20-11:05 – Vladimir Lobovikov (Institute of Philosophy and Law of UB RAS) Values World, Which Is Transcendental to the World of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and Formal Axiological Semantics of Ordinary Language

11:05-11:50 – Dmitry Ankin (UrFU) Ontological Emptiness and Epistemological Value of Truth in Alfred Tarski’s Semantics

11:50-12:35 – Lunch

12:35-13:20 – Alexey Kislov (UrFU) On the Question of Ontological Autonomy of Assertion and Negation

13:20-14:05 – Yuriy Chernoskutov (SPbU) Logical and Mathematical Knowledge in Edmund Husserl’s Early Writings

14:50-15:35 – Yulia Gorbatova (HSE) Possible World Semantics: Levels of Analysis and the Concept of Existence

15:35-16:20 – Svetlana Nagumanova (KSMU) Is There an Inaccessible Consciousness?

16:20-17:05 – Grigory Olkhovikov (UrFU) The Reference to Actions as a Ground to the Reference to Objects

17:05-17:55 – Mikhail Mukhin (UrFU) TBA


December 11, 2012

10:00-10:45 – Victor Gorbatov (HSE) The Actuality Operator and the Problem of Knowability, or What has Sleeping Beauty Learnt?

10:45-11:30 – Maxim Shaldyakov (TSU) Rules and Grammatical Relations

11:30-12:15 – Alexey Klyashtorny (UrFU) On the Ontological Assumptions of the Conception of “Strong” Artificial Intelligence in the Context of the Theory of Action by Hans Joas

12:15-13:00 – Lunch

13:00-13:45 – Igor Samoylov (UrFU) «Objectness» as a Way to Construct Reality

13:45-14:30 – Vitaly Phillipovsky (SSAU) A Parametrical Approach to the Theory of Knowledge

14:30-15:15 – Vitaly Dolgorukov (HSE) What do Neo-Gricean Theories Say about Our Cognitive Abilities?

15:15-16:00 – Taras Pashchenko (HSE) On the Epistemological Grounds of Mathematics

16:00-16:45 – Margarita Niyazova (TSU) Syntactic Aspects of Distinction between Factual and Nomological Utterances

16:45-17:30 – Aleksandr Kasatkin (UrFU) Is Metalanguage Necessary for Definition of Truth?

17:30-18:15 – Yuriy Pavlov (UrFU) Brain-Computer Interface: Reality and Perspectives

18:15 – Closing Ceremony


The Conference venue: Institute of Social and Political Sciences, Department of Philosophy, Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg, 51 Lenin St, room 314a)