Camp Out! A conference in honor of Joe Camp on the occasion of his retirement. April 7–8 2006 2500 Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh
Friday April 7 2:00 Opening Remarks: James Allen (Pittsburgh) 2:15–3:25 Allen Hazen (Melbourne) “Epistemology of Mind” Chair: Derrick Darby (Texas A&M) 3:35–4:45 Alexander Nehamas (Princeton) “Only in the Contemplation of Beauty is Human Life Worth Living” (Plato, Symposium, 211d) Chair: Karen Frost-Arnold (Pittsburgh) Reception 4:45 Saturday April 8 Afternoon 1:30–2:40 John MacFarlane (Berkeley) “The Logic of Confusion” Chair: Robert Brandom (Pittsburgh) 2:50–4:00 Lionel Shapiro (Connecticut) “Semantics Without Ascent” Chair: Donald Baxter (Connecticut)	Saturday April 8 Morning Breakfast and Coffee 9:00–9:30 9:30–10:40 Nuel Belnap (Pittsburgh) “Propensity and Probability” Chair: Anil Gupta (Pittsburgh) 10:50–12:00 Mark Lance and K.J. Mourad (Georgetown) “Semantic Self-Awareness and Determinate Truth Values in Second Order Arithmetic” [download] Chair: William Wimsatt (Chicago)
A Related Event The Sixth Annual Tamara Horowitz Lecture, Thursday, 6th April, 5:00pm, 1640 Posvar. Paul Horwich (NYU) “The Value of Truth”
Hotels The Holiday Inn Select University Center (800.864.8287) is very close to the conference site (~5 minute walk). Some discounted rooms have been reserved for the conference; use the code “CAMP.” Rooms in this block will not be held for us after Thursday, March 16. There are two other hotels in Oakland, each about a 20 minute walk to the conference: the Hampton Inn (800.426.7866) and the Wyndham Garden Hotel (412-683-2040). Other Details A cab from the airport to Oakland is ~$45. An alternative is the 28X, an express bus run by the city: this runs every 20 minutes during peak hours and costs $2.25; schedule. A map of the Pitt campus. A map of Pittsburgh.