The fifth annual conference of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy will be held at Metropolitan State University Denver in Denver, Colorado. It is locally organised by Sean Morris and funded by the Philosophy Department at MSUD.
Invited Speakers
Pragmatism, language and concepts formation
Chair : Danielle Macbeth (Harverford College)
From Conceptual Pragmatism to Pragmatic Naturalism: Sellars’s Contribution to the Pragmatic A Priori, Carl B. Sachs (Marymount University)
Behaviorism, Rationalism, and Explanation, Peter Olen (Lake Sumter State College)
Choosing a Conceptual Frame: Sellars on Carnap, Aude Bandini (Université de Montréal/ Cégep É. Montpetit)
Frege’s Conception of Sense
Chair: Erich Reck (University of California, Riverside)
Sense and Judgement, Robert May (University of California, Davis)
TBA, Jeremy Heis (University of California, Irvine)
Sense and the Amodality of Truth, Sanford Shieh (Wesleyan University)
Arbitrariness in Frege’s Philosophy of Mathematics
Chair: Marcus Rossberg (University of Connecticut)
Arbitrariness and Conceptual Analysis in Frege, Patricia Blanchette (University of Notre Dame)
Frege’s Definition of Cardinal Number, Roy T. Cook (University of Minnesota)
What arbitrariness? Frege’s two definitions of number and the aims of analysis, Philip A. Ebert (University of Stirling)
Arbitrariness and Constraints in Frege and Dedekind, Erich Reck (University of California, Riverside)
Russell and Wittgenstein in the 1910s and 1920s: New Developments
On Newman’s Twin Objections to Russell’s Structural Realism
TBA, David G. Stern (University of Iowa)
On the Ontology behind Russell’s Map of the Judgment Complex in His Theory of Knowledge, Katarina Perovic (University of Iowa)
Time in Russell’s Structural Realism, Gregory Landini (University of Iowa)
On Newman’s Twin Objections to Russell’s Structural Realism, Landon D. C. Elkind (University of Iowa)
The fourth annual conference of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy was held at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), 4-6 June 2015. The local organizers were James Levine and Peter Simons. The conference was held jointly with the meeting of the Bertrand Russell Society.
The Third Annual Conference was held at the Université de Quebec à Montréal (UQAM), May 23-25, 2014. The invited speakers were:
Chair: Professor Maria Baghramian (University College Dublin)
Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto)
Pragmatism’s Analytic Heritage: C.S. Peirce and Frank Ramsey
James Levine (Trinity College Dublin)
Russell, Pragmatism, and Meaning as Use
Michael Beaney (The University of York)
John Cook Wilson and the Origins of Oxford ordinary language philosophy
Sarin Marchetti (University College Dublin)
The Nature of Verification Between Pragmatism and Logical Positivism
Chair: Sandra Lapointe (McMaster University)
Nick Stang (University of Miami)
Kant, Russell, and the Unity of the Proposition
Jack Woods (Bilkent Univeristy):
‘A judgment forced upon us’: Poincaré on Intuition and Mathematical Induction
Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech)
Space and Methodology in Helmholtz, Mach, and Kant
Clinton Tolley (UCSD)
Geometry and the possibility of synthetic apriori cognition in the early Carnap
Chair: James Conant (University of Chicago )
Aude Bandini (Université de Montréal/Université du Québec à Montréal)
C. I. Lewis: Transcendental Realism with a Pragmatist Turn
Steven Levine (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
James and Lewis on the Given
Peter Olen (University of Central Florida)
Sellars vs. Lewis, Round 1: The Realist Challenge to Conceptual Pragmatism
Carl Sachs
Is the Given a Myth?: Analytic Pragmatism in C. I. Lewis and Wilfrid Sellars
The Second Annual Conference was held at Indiana University, Bloomington, May 9-11, 2013. The invited speakers were:
The website of the meeting at IU is here.
Chair: Sandra Lapointe (McMaster University)
Daniel Harris (CUNY Graduate Center)
Grice on the Composition of Timeless Meaning
Stephen Neale (CUNY Graduate Center)
What is Said
Kent Bach (San Francisco State University)
Getting Grice Straight and Straightening Out Grice
Chair: Nicholas F. Stang (University of Miami)
Julie Brumberg (CNRS-Paris)
The Origins of Logical Hylomorphism
Sandra Lapointe (McMaster University)
Is Logic Formal? Bolzano and Kant
Danielle Macbeth (Haverford College)
Logical Form in Mathematical Practice
Chair: Kelly Jolley (Auburn University)
Speakers
Ian Proops (University of Texas, Austin)
Russellian Acquaintance
Michael Kremer (University of Chicago)
Acquaintance before ‘On Denoting’
Mike Martin (University of California, Berkeley)
Acquaintance and Memory