The Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA) are organising their 9th conference in Padua, which I visited last summer. It’s a lovely old city. The conference is themed ‘Truth, Knowledge, and Science’, but I believe that they take this quite liberally: as long as it’s analytic, it goes. I’ll probably submit something to this, I wouldn’t mind going to Padua again! Although my September may be quite busy anyway, we’ll see. The list of invited speakers looks pretty good too. Here is the actual call for papers:

CALL FOR PAPERS

TRUTH, KNOWLEDGE, AND SCIENCE

9th National Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: June 21st 2010

The 9th National Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy
(SIFA) will be held in Padova from the 23rd to the 25th of September 2010.
The Conference offers an occasion for discussion of various themes of
research in analytic philosophy. We invite submissions on the following
areas:

1. Philosophy of logic
2. Philosophy of language
3. Metaphysics
4. Epistemology
5. Philosophy and History of science
6. Practical philosophy (Ethics, Political philosophy and Philosophy of law)
7. Philosophy of mind
8. Aesthetics

INVITED SPEAKERS

- John Dupré (University of Exeter)
- Elisabetta Galeotti (University of Eastern Piedmont)
- Wolfgang Künne (University of Hamburg)
- Theo Kuipers (University of Groningen)
- Paolo Leonardi (University of Bologna)
- Stathis Psillos (University of Athens)
- Timothy Williamson (University of Oxford)

INVITED DISCUSSANTS

Mauro Dorato (University of RomaTre)
Roberto Festa (University of Trieste)

and more to be confirmed.

SUBMISSIONS

Contributors will have 40 minutes, ideally divided into 30 minutes of
exposition and 10 minutes of discussion. The languages of the conference
will be English and Italian.
Those wishing to make a presentation should submit:

1. A short abstract (about 200 words)
2. A long abstract (1000-1500 words)

Long abstract should be thoroughly prepared for blind refereeing, with any
and all revealing references to the author removed, including personal
acknowledgments.

Both short and long abstracts should be submitted electronically using the
EasyChair submission page at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sifa2010

The creation of an EasyChair account will be required. For any problems,
please refer to:

http://www.filosofia.lettere.unipd.it/analitica/sifa2010/SIFA2010-easyguide.pdf

Abstracts will be subject to double blind refereeing and acceptance will be
notified by July 19th.

Deadline for submissions: June 21st 2010.

REGISTRATION

Participation in the conference is subject to a registration fee.

If paid before August 10th:

– 50 euros: permanent faculty, post-doc, teachers
– 25 euros: SIFA members, graduate, undergraduate students

If paid after August 10th:

– 70 euros: permanent faculty, post-doc, teachers
– 35 euros: SIFA members, graduate, undergraduate students

Early registration will be open on March 15th. Check the Conference website
– from March on — for details:

http://www.filosofia.lettere.unipd.it/analitica/sifa2010

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

- Andrea Bottani
- Massimiliano Carrara
- Mario De Caro
- Michele Di Francesco
- Pierdaniele Giaretta
- Vittorio Morato
- Elisa Paganini
- Andrea Sereni

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

- Massimiliano Carrara
- Pierdaniele Giaretta
- Vittorio Morato
- Marzia Soavi
- Giuseppe Spolaore

IMPORTANT DATES

- Registration opens: March 15th 2010
- Deadline for submissions: June 21st 2010.
- Notifications of acceptance: July 19th 2010
- Deadline for early registration: August 10th 2010
- Conference dates: September 23rd-25th 2010