Friday 24 April
11.30 Registration and Lunch
Chair: Achille Varzi (Columbia, New York). Commentator: John Searle
3.45 Anthonie Meijers (Tilburg, Netherlands)
Social
Reality, Relations and Searle's Ontological
Individualism
4.45 Break
5 Fernando
Atria (Edinburgh)
Constitutive
and Regulative Institutions: John Searle's General Theory of Institutional
Facts
6.15 Reception
7.15 Dinner
9
Mariam Thalos (Buffalo) Degrees
of Freedom in the Social World
Chair: Roberto Casati (CNRS/CREA, Paris). Commentator: James Stieb (Temple)
10.15 Break
10.30 Dieter Muench (Berlin) The
Ontology of Artifacts
Chair: Peter Hare (Buffalo). Commentator: Randall Dipert (West Point)
11.45 Lunch
1.00 Address by Provost Thomas Headrick
1.15 Clark Hare (Webwithe Publishing,
California)
Towards
an Ontology of Intellectual Property
Chair: Errol Meidinger (Buffalo), Commentator: David Koepsell (Buffalo)
2.30 Leonardo Zaibert (Caracas, Venezuela)
Real
Estate as Institutional Fact
Chair: David Mark (Buffalo). Commentator: Laurence S. Moss (Babson
College, MA)
3.45 Break
4 Trevor Bench-Capon
(Liverpool) and Pepijn Visser (Liverpool)
Towards
a Library of Legal Domain Ontologies
Chair: Richard Beatch (Ogden, UT). Commentator: Elisabeth Milan (Caracas)
5.15 Lars Lundsten (Helsinki, Finland)
Towards
a Reinachian Ontology of Television
Chair:
Berit Brogaard (Buffalo). Commentators: Lamont
Johnson (Buffalo), Gloria
Zúñiga
(Buffalo)
6.30 Break
7 Dinner, with an after-dinner speech by John Searle (introduced by John Kearns)
Conference Directors: Barry Smith (Department of Philosophy, SUNY Buffalo), David Koepsell (Cohen and Lombardo PC, Buffalo)
Executive Committee: Roberto Casati (CNRS), Randall Dipert (West Point), Andrew Frank (Vienna Technical University), David Mark (Geography/NCGIA, Buffalo), Errol Meidinger (School of Law, Buffalo), J. C. Nyiri (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest), Mariam Thalos (University at Buffalo), Achille Varzi (Columbia University).
The organizers gratefully acknowledge support from the Department of
Philosophy and the Center for Cognitive Science of the University at Buffalo,
from the Marvin Farber Memorial Fund, and from SUNY's Conferences in the
Disciplines and Conversations in the Disciplines programs.
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