As I reported in a previous post, I submitted an abstract to a workshop with Scott Soames in Cologne. My paper ‘The Metaphysical Status of Modal Statements’ (see my earlier post for the abstract), is one of the four papers that has been accepted for presentation at the workshop, and the programme is now online. The other presentations at the workshop will be by Robert Michels from Konstanz, Dr. Michael Nelson from UC Riverside, and the fourth speaker is still TBA. There is also a graduate conference preceding the workshop, which I will attend. I’ll post a draft of my paper for the conference once I get around to it. I’ve got most of the material already, but need to work on it quite a bit still.

I will be flying to Cologne on May 13th and staying until the 21st. The reason for such a long stay is that there is also a Workshop on the A Priori just before the Soames conference, and I thought I might as well go to that as well since I’m working on the a priori myself. There will be some good people there too: Carrie Jenkins, Daniel Cohnitz, and Jonathan Ichikawa, among others.

From Cologne I plan to take the train to Dresden, stay there for two nights, then head to Berlin for another two nights, and finally fly back to the UK on May 25th. The Dresden-Berlin trip is just to see some friends and to have a look around in Germany. Any suggestions as to what to do/see in Cologne, Dresden or Berlin are most welcome!