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Abstract I shall appeal to teleological considerations to argue that there are no elements in thought that are simultaneously indexical and file-like. So-called perceptual demonstratives are particularly interesting in this …

Abstract I propose a couple of revisions to the standard criterion of difference for modes of presentation attributed to Frege. First, we need to broaden the scope of the criterion so that not merely the thoughts of a given subject at a given time may or …

Summary The latest conference systematically examines how the European Union could better defend and promote democracy. It explains why the destruction of democracy within member states is a greater threat to the Union than rather technocratic failures …

Abstract Codified in England from the end of the 18th   century, modern sports appeared in France at the end of the 19th   century. Despite the spread and spectacularization of the practice in the first half of the twentieth   century, it wasn't until …

Abstract The purpose of this talk will be to determine certain special representations (i.e. in the discrete series, but not cuspidal) whose space is generated by spherical automorphic functions. Volker Heiermann 1994  : Doctoral thesis, University of …

Abstract It is generally accepted that restrictive relative propositions, such as "   [which are red]  " in "   les fruits [qui sont rouges]  " , denote properties of individuals, which can be applied to an object and return true or false -   in this …

Abstract Subject and topical share certain interpretative properties, which underline the partial analogy between the subject-predicate relationship and the topical-comment relationship. On the other hand, subject and topical differ in many respects  : in …

Program 10h-11h  : Netta Engelhardt (MIT, USA) Cryptographic Censorship: A Quantum Complexity Approach to (Quantum) Cosmic Censorship Abstract  : Do naked singularities exist as typical states in quantum gravity? Various considerations, from black hole …

Abstract In this lecture, I will discuss the exciting (and for a long time unexpected) finding that distinct areas of the adult brain continue to generate new neurons throughout life. He will show how newborn neurons affect brain structure and function …

Program 10:30-11am  : Welcome 11h-12h  : Miguel Montero (IFT, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) No Global Symmetries and String Universality Abstract  : The Swampland Program aims to uncover general principles that govern the consistent coupling of …

Chair  : Mélanie Traversier (University of Lille). …

Abstract The concluding lesson makes a selection from the immense literature devoted - without waiting for the 19th century    - to the criticism of Europe in the vision of non-Europeans or anti-Europeans. We find a first type of external reflection on …

Abstract The enlargement of the European Union has been widely seen as a means of consolidating democracy. The handling of the Austrian question in 2000 gave an initial sign that this expectation may have been an illusion. But the European response to the …