SSHAP 2025 – Call for abstracts

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[UPDATE] For further details about the 2025 conference, please see the dedicated website: https://www.philosophie.uni-jena.de/2805/tagung-sshap-2025

SSHAP 2025: July 23-26, University of Jena.

The thirteenth annual conference of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy (SSHAP) will be held at the University of Jena, July 23–26, 2025. The annual meeting is locally organized by Tabea Rohr. The main conference venue will be Rosensäle, Fürstengraben 27, in the center of Jena. 

July 26, 2025 is the exact centenary of Frege’s death, and one principal aim of this annual conference is to commemorate that event.

Invited Speakers:

•           Gottfried Gabriel (Jena)

•           Richard Kimberly Heck (Brown)

•           Maria van der Schaar (Leiden)

•           James Tappenden (Michigan)

Submission Deadline:

The submission deadline is February 14, 2025. In the past, some of the papers presented at the annual conference were published in the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy. 

The meeting is to be held in-person, and preference will be given to submitted talks that are able to be presented in-person. There will be a limited number of time slots available for those who need to present a paper remotely by video. Participants who wish to use this option should indicate this in their cover sheet.

Individual Paper Submission Instructions:

Long abstracts (500-1000 words) should be prepared for anonymous refereeing, put into PDF file format, and sent as an email attachment to SSHAP2025@uni-jena.de. The subject line of the submission email should include the key-phrase “SSHAP submission”, and the body text of the email message should constitute a cover page for the submission by including:

1.     return email address

2.     author’s name

3.     affiliation

4.     paper title

5.     short abstract (50-100 words)

6.     whether you will need to present remotely if your paper is accepted.

Time allowed for presentation is 45 minutes (including discussion).

Panel Submission Instructions:

A panel organizer is requested to submit their proposal electronically according to the following guidelines. Long proposals (500-1000 words) describing the panel’s theme and its panelists (up to a maximum of four) and their respective papers should be prepared for blind refereeing, put into PDF file format, and sent as an email attachment to SSHAP2025@uni-jena.de. The subject line of the submission email should include the key-phrase “SSHAP submission (panel)”, and the body text of the email message should constitute a cover page for the submission by including:

1.     return email address

2.     organizer’s name

3.     organizer’s affiliation

4.     panel title

5.     short abstract (50-100 words)

6.     the names and affiliations of all panelists

7.     whether any panelists will need to present remotely if your panel is accepted.

Time allowed for each presentation is 45 minutes (including discussion).

About SSHAP: 

SSHAP is an international organization aimed at promoting discussion in all areas of scholarship concerning the development of analytic philosophy. It welcomes scholars interested in the many ways in which this development was influenced by thinkers such as Bolzano, Brentano and his school, Husserl, Frege, Russell, the Vienna Circle, Wittgenstein, Tarski, Quine, and the Polish school, for instance, but also seeks to promote work engaging with lesser-known figures and trends, and its reception in countries right across the world. Submissions to the SSHAP annual conference in all areas of the history of analytic philosophy are welcome.

SSHAP 2024 Conference Information and Program

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The conference registration fee is $95 waged, $45 others for in-person participation; $45 waged, $20 others for online participation. The conference dinner is $65.

Here is the registration link: https://secure.touchnet.com/C21646_ustores/web/store_main.jsp?STOREID=296

If you would like to participate in the conference dinner on Friday, June 28, in Middletown, please register for the dinner (same link as above) by June 13.

The conference venue in Hartford is the Graduate Business Learning Center (UConn School of Business), 100 Constitution Plaza, corner of Market and Kinsley Streets, Hartford, CT 06103.  The venue in Middletown is at The Frank Center for Public Affairs of Wesleyan University 238 Church Street, Middletown, CT 06459.

Conference hotel rate is available at Candlewood Suites Downtown Hartford,370 Market Street, Hartford, CT  06120,+1 860-724-1074. This is a 10-minute walk to the Hartford conference venue, including a highway underpass. $179 per night plus tax. To book, call the hotel, tell them you’re going to the SSHAP conference organized by the University of Connecticut (be sure to ask them to look up both University of Connecticut *and* the SSHAP conference), and “rebook” the room in your name with a credit card.

There will be free bus transportation from Hartford to Wesleyan (a 20 minute drive) departing at 8 am on Friday, 28th June from Marriott Downtown, 200 Columbus Blvd, Hartford, CT 06103, and back to Hartford after the conference dinner, at 9pm.

SSHAP-2024-Program-June-27Download

The following conference program will be available in printed form at the conference. It contains the conference schedule, maps, and local/travel information.

SSHAP-24-program-revisedDownload

CFA extended: SSHAP 2024 in Hartford and Middletown, Connecticut

Annual Meetings, Meetings

The twelfth annual conference of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy (SSHAP) will be held at the University of Connecticut and Wesleyan University in, respectively, Hartford and Middletown, Connecticut from June 27–29, 2024. The annual meeting is locally organized by Marcus Rossberg (University of Connecticut) and Sanford Shieh (Wesleyan University). The main conference venue will be at the UConn Graduate Business Learning Center (Hartford) and the Public Affairs Center of Wesleyan (Middletown).

The meeting is to be held in-person; preference will be given to submitted talks that are able to be presented in-person. There will be a limited number of time slots available for those who need to present a paper remotely by video. Participants who wish to use this option should indicate this in their cover sheet.

Invited Speakers

  • Sandra Laugier, Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne
  • Ian Proops, University of Texas at Austin
  • Gregory Landini, University of Iowa

SSHAP – Call for Abstracts

SSHAP is an international organization aimed at promoting discussion in all areas of scholarship concerning the development of analytic philosophy. It welcomes scholars interested in the many ways in which this development was influenced by thinkers such as Bolzano, Brentano and his school, Husserl, Frege, Russell, the Vienna Circle, Wittgenstein, Tarski, Quine, and the Polish school, for instance, but also seeks to promote work engaging with lesser-known figures and trends, and its reception in countries right across the world. SSHAP invites submissions for its annual conference. Paper submissions in all areas of the history of analytic philosophy are welcome.

Submission Deadline

The extended submission deadline is March 15, 2024. In the past, some of the papers presented at the annual conference were published in the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy.

Submission Instructions

Authors are requested to submit their long abstract electronically according to the following guidelines.

Long abstracts (500-1000 words) should be prepared for anonymous refereeing, put into PDF file format, and sent as an email attachment to sshap2024 [at] gmail.com. The subject line of the submission email should include the key-phrase “SSHAP submission”, and the body text of the email message should constitute a cover page for the submission by including:

  1. return email address
  2. author’s name
  3. affiliation
  4. paper title
  5. short abstract (50-100 words)
  6. whether you will need to present remotely if your paper is accepted.

Time allowed for presentation is 45 minutes (including discussion).

Panel submissions

Panel submissions involving multiple authors presenting on a theme(s), figure(s), text(s), trend(s), and/or traditions in in all areas of the history of analytical philosophy are welcome. A panel organizer or a corresponding panelist are requested to submit their long panel proposal electronically according to the following guidelines:

Long proposals (500-1000 words) describing the panel’s theme and its panelists and their respective papers should be prepared for blind refereeing, put into PDF file format, and sent as an email attachment to sshap2024 [at] gmail.com. The subject line of the submission email should include the key-phrase “SSHAP submission (panel)”, and the body text of the email message should constitute a cover page for the submission by including:

  1. return email address
  2. organizer’s or corresponding author’s name
  3. affiliation
  4. panel title
  5. short abstract (50-100 words)
  6. the names and affiliations of all panelists
  7. whether any panelists will need to present remotely if your panel is accepted.

Time allowed for presentation is 45 minutes (including discussion).

Frank Ramsey’s Anti-Intellectualism

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Volume 12.2 of The Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy (JHAP) has now been published online, with full open-access:

https://jhaponline.org/jhap/issue/view/511

It features an article by Soroush Marouzi, entitled “Frank Ramsey’s Anti-Intellectualism”. Here is the abstract:

Frank Ramsey’s philosophy, developed in the 1920s in Cambridge, was in conversation with the debates surrounding intellectualism in the early twentieth century. Ramsey made his mark on the anti-intellectualist tradition via his notion of habit. He posited that human judgments take shape through habitual processes, and he rejected the separation between the domain of reason, on one hand, and the domain of habit, on the other. Ramsey also provided the ground to explore the nature of knowledge employed in acting from habit. That ground was passed onto Margaret MacDonald who came up with the distinction between knowing that something is the case and knowing how to apply a rule (or habit), the distinction that set the stage for Gilbert Ryle’s philosophical project against intellectualism from the 1940s onward. Ramsey thus influenced Ryle’s account of knowledge through the channel of MacDonald.

JHAP is a free, open-access, peer-reviewed journal. It is available at https://jhaponline.org/. Submissions welcome!

On “Ontology”

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Volume 12.1 of The Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy (JHAP) has now been published online, with full open-access:

https://jhaponline.org/jhap/issue/view/510

It features an article by Sam Whitman McGrath, entitled “On ‘Ontology’: Analyzing the Carnap-Quine Debate as a Case of Metalinguistic Negotiation”. Here is the abstract:

This paper uses the concept of metalinguistic negotiation, drawn from contemporary philosophy of language, to develop a novel interpretation of Carnap and Quine’s debate about ontology. Like recent revisionary accounts of the debate, it argues that the widespread perception of first-order disagreement between the two is misleading, ascribing this misperception to Carnap and Quine’s divergent usage of “ontology” and its cognates. Once this difference is accounted for, their seemingly contradictory claims about the subject can be reconciled, as the two “talk past” each other on the semantic level. Crucially, however, this does not render their dispute merely verbal. Rather, it emerges as a remarkably consequential metalinguistic negotiation over whether the term “ontology” ought to be reinterpreted or replaced for the purposes of positive philosophical theorizing. This reading provides an account of the genuine disagreement that drove Carnap and Quine to engage in their debate and illuminates the broader metaphilosophical convictions that support each of their positions. As such, it addresses an important explanatory challenge facing members of the revisionary camp.

JHAP is a free, open-access, peer-reviewed journal. It is available at https://jhaponline.org/. Submissions welcome!

CFA: SSHAP 2024 in Hartford and Middletown, Connecticut

Annual Meetings, Meetings

The twelfth annual conference of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy (SSHAP) will be held at the University of Connecticut and Wesleyan University in, respectively, Hartford and Middletown, Connecticut from June 27–29, 2024. The annual meeting is locally organized by Marcus Rossberg (University of Connecticut) and Sanford Shieh (Wesleyan University). The main conference venue will be at the UConn Hartford campus and the Public Affairs Center of Wesleyan.

The meeting is to be held in-person; preference will be given to submitted talks that are able to be presented in-person. There will be a limited number of time slots available for those who need to present a paper remotely by video. Participants who wish to use this option should indicate this in their cover sheet.

Invited Speakers

  • Sandra Laugier, Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne
  • Ian Proops, University of Texas at Austin
  • Gregory Landini, University of Iowa

SSHAP – Call for Abstracts

SSHAP is an international organization aimed at promoting discussion in all areas of scholarship concerning the development of analytic philosophy. It welcomes scholars interested in the many ways in which this development was influenced by thinkers such as Bolzano, Brentano and his school, Husserl, Frege, Russell, the Vienna Circle, Wittgenstein, Tarski, Quine, and the Polish school, for instance, but also seeks to promote work engaging with lesser-known figures and trends, and its reception in countries right across the world. SSHAP invites submissions for its annual conference. Paper submissions in all areas of the history of analytic philosophy are welcome.

Submission Deadline

The submission deadline is February 14, 2024. In the past, some of the papers presented at the annual conference were published in the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy.

Submission Instructions

Authors are requested to submit their long abstract electronically according to the following guidelines.

Long abstracts (500-1000 words) should be prepared for anonymous refereeing, put into PDF file format, and sent as an email attachment to sshap2024 [at] gmail.com. The subject line of the submission email should include the key-phrase “SSHAP submission”, and the body text of the email message should constitute a cover page for the submission by including:

  1. return email address
  2. author’s name
  3. affiliation
  4. paper title
  5. short abstract (50-100 words)
  6. whether you will need to present remotely if your paper is accepted.

Time allowed for presentation is 45 minutes (including discussion).

Panel submissions

Panel submissions involving multiple authors presenting on a theme(s), figure(s), text(s), trend(s), and/or traditions in in all areas of the history of analytical philosophy are welcome. A panel organizer or a corresponding panelist are requested to submit their long panel proposal electronically according to the following guidelines:

Long proposals (500-1000 words) describing the panel’s theme and its panelists and their respective papers should be prepared for blind refereeing, put into PDF file format, and sent as an email attachment to sshap2024 [at] gmail.com. The subject line of the submission email should include the key-phrase “SSHAP submission (panel)”, and the body text of the email message should constitute a cover page for the submission by including:

  1. return email address
  2. organizer’s or corresponding author’s name
  3. affiliation
  4. panel title
  5. short abstract (50-100 words)
  6. the names and affiliations of all panelists
  7. whether any panelists will need to present remotely if your panel is accepted.

Time allowed for presentation is 45 minutes (including discussion).

An Interpretation of the Gray’s Elegy Argument

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Volume 11.6 of The Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy (JHAP) has now been published online, with full open-access:

https://jhaponline.org/jhap/issue/view/503

It features an article by Ryo Ito, entitled “An Interpretation of the Gray’s Elegy Argument“. Here is the abstract:

In this essay, I first argue that the Gray’s Elegy Argument—the dense passage in Bertrand Russell’s ‘On Denoting’—can be interpreted as a single, coherent argument against the notion that a definite description corresponds to what I call a multifaceted object—an object having multiple facets or sides. I then look into some manuscripts Russell wrote in 1904 and in 1905. I show that he had envisaged the notion of a multifaceted object and used it for two different purposes before he discovered various objections to it, which he turned into the Gray’s Elegy Argument.

JHAP is a free, open-access, peer-reviewed journal. It is available at https://jhaponline.org/. Submissions welcome!

Indeterminate Analyticity

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Volume 11.5 of The Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy (JHAP) has now been published online, with full open-access:

https://jhaponline.org/jhap/issue/view/501

It features an article by Martin Montminy, entitled “Indeterminate Analyticity“. Here is the abstract:

W. V. Quine is commonly read as holding that there are no analytic truths and no a priori truths. I argue that this is a misreading. Quine’s view is that no sentence is determinately analytic or determinately a priori. I show that my reading is better supported by Quine’s arguments and general remarks about meaning and analyticity. I then briefly reexamine the debate between Quine and Carnap about analyticity, and show that the nature of their disagreement is different than what it is usually thought to be.

JHAP is a free, open-access, peer-reviewed journal. It is available at https://jhaponline.org/. Submissions welcome!

Carnap’s Geometrical Methodology / Review of work on Venn

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Volume 11.4 of The Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy (JHAP) has now been published online, with full open-access:

https://jhaponline.org/jhap/issue/view/499

It features an article by Matteo De Benedetto, entitled “Carnap’s Geometrical Methodology: Explication as a transfer principle“. Here is the abstract:

In this paper, I will offer a novel perspective on Carnapian explication, understanding it as a philosophical analogue of the transfer principle methodology that originated in nineteenth-century projective geometry. Building upon the historical influence that projective geometry exerted on Carnap’s philosophy, I will show how explication can be modeled as a kind of transfer principle that connects, relative to a given task and normatively constrained by the desiderata chosen by the explicators, the functional properties of concepts belonging to different conceptual frameworks. Moreover, I will demonstrate how, in light of this characterization, we can better appreciate the evolution of Carnap’s metaphilosophy.

The volume also contains a review of John Venn: A Life in Logic, by Lukas M. Verburgt (University of Chicago Press, 2022), written by David E. Dunning.

JHAP is a free, open-access, peer-reviewed journal. It is available at https://jhaponline.org/. Submissions welcome!