Juhani Yli-Vakkuri
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  • Events
    • Frege Lectures: Timothy Williamson
    • Humboldt Vagueness and Modality Workshop
    • Humboldt Logic and Language Workshop
    • Williamson in Montreal
    • Workshop on Meaning and Modality
    • Workshop on Narrow Content
    • Workshop on Tense, Modality, and Semantic Values
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Recent and upcoming talks

  • TBA. Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar, University of Oxford, December 20, 2023 (upcoming). Based on joint work with Zachary Goodsell.
  • TBA. Helsinki Philosophy Colloquium, University of Helsinki, December 1, 2022 (upcoming)
  • “Higher-Order Logic as Metaphysics”,  Analytic Philosophy: Past, Present, Future, a conference on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Ural Federal University and the 50th anniversary of the philosophy department of Ural Federal University, November 21, 2020 (on Zoom). Based on joint work with Zachary Goodsell.
  • Keynote. uAnalytiCon-2020: Contextualism, Knowledge, and Truth​, Ural Federal University, May 16, 2020 (event cancelled due to pandemic)
  • Keynote. Workshop on Philosophical Applications of Modal Logic, University of Glasgow, May 14, 2020 (event cancelled due to pandemic)
  • “Imaginative Resistance and Truth in Fiction”, conference on The Future of Experimental Aesthetics, University of Leeds, April 26, 2019 (with Margot Strohminger)
  • Replies to David Chalmers, Paul Pietroski, and Ori Simchen. Book Symposium on Narrow Content, 2019 American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver, BC, April 17, 2019 (with John Hawthorne)
  • “Counterpart Theory and Quantified Modal Logic Revisited”, LOGOS, University of Barcelona, February 20, 2019
  • “Is Meaning Arbitrary? A Philosopher Looks at Semiotics”, Inaugural Lecture as Professor of the Philosophy of Language, University of Tartu, September 26th, 2018​.
  • “Vagueness as Irremediable Ignorance?”, Humboldt Logic and Language Workshop, Humboldt University of Berlin, June 2, 2018 (with John Hawthorne)
  • “Semantic Plasticity and Ignorance due to Vagueness”, Humboldt Workshop on Vagueness and Modality, Humboldt University of Berlin, June 25, 2018 (with John Hawthorne)
  • “Semantic Plasticity and Ignorance due to Vagueness”, University of Göttingen, June 22, 2018 (with John Hawthorne)
  • “Chisholm's Paradox”, University of Oxford, April 27, 2018 (with John Hawthorne)
  • “Modal Epistemology”, Bielefeld University, April 10, 2018 (with John Hawthorne)
  • “The New Chisholm Paradox”, The Question of Ontology conference at the Complutense University of Madrid, February 15, 2018 (with John Hawthorne)
  • “A Counterfactual Analysis of Truth in Fiction“, workshop on Imagination as a Source of Knowledge, University of Cologne, February 2nd-3rd, 2018
  • “L’arbitraire du signe”, University of Hamburg, December 2, 2017
  • “Modals and Conditionals are Ambiguous”, Humboldt University, Berlin, November 20th, 2017
  • “Modals and Conditionals are Ambiguous”, Bielefeld University, November 7th, 2017
  • “Modals and Conditionals are Ambiguous”, University of Lisbon, October 27th, 2017
  • “The Humpty Dumpty Theory of Meaning”, University of Lisbon, October 26th, 2017
  • Masterclass on Modality, University of Lisbon, October 26th, 2017
  • “Semantic Externalism without Thought Experiments“, University of Bristol, July 27th, 2017
  • “The Necessity of Mathematics”, University of Oxford, June 12th, 2017 (with John Hawthorne)
  • “Semantic Externalism without Thought Experiments”, University of Tartu, May 22nd, 2017​
  • “Semantic Externalism without Thought Experiments”, University of Salzburg, February 3rd, 2017
  • “Operator Arguments Revisited”, Rutgers University, December 9th, 2016 (with Peter Fritz and John Hawthorne)
  • “Operator Arguments Revisited”, Operators vs Quantifiers Workshop, Barcelona, June 30th-July 2nd, 2016 (with Peter Fritz and John Hawthorne)
  • “Operator Arguments Revisited”, CSMN Colloquium, University of Oslo, May 26th, 2016 (with Peter Fritz)
  • “Semantic Externalism without Thought Experiments”, University of Tampere (Finland), April 18th, 2016
  • “Imaginative Resistance and Truth in Fiction”, University of Helsinki, April 14th, 2016 (with Margot Strohminger)
  • “Semantic Externalism without Thought Experiments”, Umeå University, March 17th, 2016.
  • “The Logic of Vagueness and Modality I”, 15th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, University of Helsinki, 3-8 August 2015 (with Jon Litland)
  • “Epistemicism and Modality”, Williamson on Modality/Williamson in Montreal workshop, Montreal, April 23rd, 2015
  • “Epistemicism in 3D”, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, February 5th, 2015
  • “Vagueness and Modality: an Ecumenical Approach”, Conference on Meaning and Modality, CSMN, University of Oslo, June 3rd, 2014 (with Jon Litland)
  • “Mirror Thoughts”, King's College London, May 21, 2014
  • “Mirror Thoughts”, University of Toronto, October 1st, 2013
  • “Mirror Thoughts”, University of Guelph, October 3rd, 2013
  • “Mirror Thoughts”, McMaster University, October 4th, 2013
  • "Semantics for Epistemicists", University of Helsinki, April 3rd, 2014 (with Jon Litland)
  • “Vagueness and Safety”, CSMN Colloquium, University of Oslo, November 14th, 2013 (with Jon Litland)
  • “Vagueness and Modality”, CSMN Colloquium, University of Oslo, September 26th, 2013 (with Jon Litland)
  • “Knowledge of Metaphysical Necessity”, Workshop on the epistemology of counterfactuals and thought experiments, Humboldt University, Berlin, September 3rd, 2013
  • “Narrow Content”, Workshop on Narrow Content, University of Oslo, August 25th, 2013 (with John Hawthorne)
  • “Operator Arguments Revisited", Workshop on Tense, Modality, and Semantic Values, CSMN, University of Oslo, June 17th, 2013
  • “Narrow Content and the A Priori”, Reference and Frege Puzzles: a Workshop in the Philosophy of Mind and Language, Umeå University, May 31st, 2013 (with John Hawthorne)
  • “Propositions and Compositionality”, Uppsala University, April 12th, 2013
  • “Propositions and Compositionality”, Boğaziçi University (Istanbul), February 22nd, 2013
  • “Problems of Ecumenical Internalism”, University College London, February 13th, 2013


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