Bit of a short notice, but I just saw an announcement for this conference on the law (or principle, whichever you prefer) of non-contradiction. This is always a topic that interests me, and of course I’ve got a paper on LNC as well, ‘The Law of Non-Contradiction as a Metaphysical Principle’. Well, I don’t think I’ll be able to attend, but it looks quite interesting. Would be useful to know Italian though, as some of the papers are in Italian. Bologna is a nice city as well.

Here’s the announcement:

An international meeting on the Principle of Non-Contradiction (history and theory) will be held in Bologna on next September 30th-October 1st. Everyone interested is welcome. For any information, please contact Walter Cavini (walter.cavini@unibo.it).

The Principle of Non-Contradiction
History and Theory

Bologna, September 30th-October 1st, 2010
Rodolfo Mondolfo Hall
Via Zamboni, 38 – Third Floor

September 30th

Chair Walter Cavini

9:30 Graham Priest, Plato’s Parmenides

11 Break

11:15 Jonathan Barnes, Against Aristotle?

Chair Gerhard Seel

15:30 Mauro Nasti De Vincentis, Forme della Contraddizione e Sillogistica Aristotelica

17 Break

17:15 Walter Cavini, Truth and (Non-) Contradiction: Some Ancient Reflections

20 Dinner (Anna Maria, Via delle Belle Arti, 17/A)

October 1st

Chair Jonathan Barnes

9:15 Mirella Capozzi, Kant e il Principio di Non Contraddizione

10:45 Break

11 Enrico Berti, Hegel e il Principio di Non Contraddizione

Chair Graham Priest

14:00 Franca D’Agostini, What Kind of Law Is the Law of Non-Contradiction?

15:30 Break

15:45 Gerhard Seel, What is Pragmatic Self-Contradiction? Some Semantical Considerations

17:15 Break

17:30 Annalisa Coliva/Sebastiano Moruzzi, Relativism and Contradiction