Semantics and Ontology


November 28-30, 2011


Conference Program


Organizing Committee:

  • Dmitry Ankin (PhD, UrFU),

  • Alexey Kislov (PhD, UrFU),

  • Sofia Danko (PhD, HSE),

  • Lev Lamberov (PhD, UrFU)


November 28:

10:00-10:20 – Opening Address by Dmitry Ankin, the Director of the Chair of Ontology and Epistemology

10:20-11:05 – Vladimir Lobovikov (Institute of Philosophy and Law of UB RAS) Criteria of Existence in Sensationalism and Rationalism as well as in Nominalism and Realism. Formal Axiological Aspect

11:05-11:50 – Sofya Danko (HSE) The Experience of Correlating Eidetic and Logical Structures of World and Language

11:50-12:35 – Lunch

12:35-13:20 – Yulia Gorbatova (HSE) On the Role of Ontology in Alvin Plantinga’s System

13:20-14:05 – Ilya Tarasov (SSU) Moral Realism vs. Moral Skepticism (Anti-Realism).


November 29:

10:00-10:45 – Tatiana Levina (HSE) On What There Is Differently: the Bounds of Nominalism and Possibilities of Realism

10:45-11:30 – Alexey Kislov (UrFU) Logical Semantics and Dynamic Ontology

11:30-12:15 – Victor Gorbatov (HSE) Ontological Assumptions of the Basic Variations of Two-dimensional Semantics

12:15-13:00 – Lunch

13:00-13:45 – Svetlana Hagumanova (KSMU) The Use of Two-dimensional Semantics in the Argument from Conceivability to Metaphysical Possibility

13:45-14:30 – Vitaly Dolgorukov (HSE) Ontological Status of the Pragmatic Restrictions from the Game Theory’s and Optimality Theory’s Points of View


November 30:

10:00-10:45 – Aleksandr Khlebalin (Institute of Philosophy and Law of SB RAS) Meta-languages and Ontologies

10:45-11:30 – Lev Lamberov (UrFU) In What Sense Deflationism Is Tied Down to Non-Conservativeness?

11:30-12:15 – Dmitry Ankin (UrFU) On the Problem of the Disciplinary Definition of Semantics and Ontology by Applying the Categories of Identity and Synonymy

12:15-13:00 – Lunch

13:00-13:45 – Vitaly Phillipovsky (SSAU) Ontological Assumptions in Formal Languages

13.45-14.30 – Konstantin Yakovlev (UrFU) Autobiography Study in Search of Semantics and Ontology: the Context of Research Analysis

14.30-15.15 – Aleksandr Kasatkin (UrFU) Ontological Grounds of Possible World Semantics

15:15 – Closing Ceremony


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