At the present time, the Ninth Annual SSHAP Meeting at the University of Vienna has NOT been cancelled. However, given the rapidly changing situation with COVID-19, there is a significant chance that we will be forced to cancel. We know that many scholars who were planning to participate are facing travel and funding restrictions, and we will make a definitive decision by mid-April. We are also looking into possibilities for postponing the conference to a future date, in case of cancellation. Our best wishes to all for your safety and health.
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SSHAP 2020
Ninth Annual Meeting
Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, 1-3 July, 2020
The ninth annual conference of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy (SSHAP) will be held at Department of Philosophy – University of Vienna, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna, at the New Institute Building (Neues Institutsgebäude, NIG) from July 01 – 03, 2020. It is locally organized by Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna) with the assistance of Florian Kolowrat (University of Vienna) and is being sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, Institute Vienna Circle and the Vienna Circle Society “Society for the Advancement of the Scientific World Conception”.
Invited Speakers
- Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – Department of Philosophy)
- Martin Kusch (University of Vienna)
- Gillian Russell (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/University of St. Andrews)
- Program and abstracts
- Conference website
- Registration
- Accommodations
- SSHAP 2020 – Call for Abstracts
Pacific APA 2019
Session 1: Thomas Kuhn
Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech)
Can Philosophy be Taught? Socratic vs. Kuhnian Methods
Bojana Mladenović (Williams College)
Historicism and Naturalism in Kuhn’s Mature Thought
Erich Reck (University of California, Riverside)
Kuhn, Philosophical History, and the Context of Articulation”
Session 2: Scientific Diaspora
Co-sponsored by the APA Committee on International Cooperation
Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau (Universität Wien)
Adapting Logical Empiricism. Carnap and Feigl in the 1930s in the US
Alan Richardson (University of British Columbia)
Ethical Non-Cognitivism and Political Action: The Role of Community in Hans Reichenbach’s Practical Philosophy
Flavia Padovani (Drexel University)
How Reichenbach Found His Way from Foundationalism to Pragmatism by Getting Stuck in Istanbul
SSHAP 2019
Eight Annual Meeting
Boston University, Boston, MA, June 17-19, 2019
The eighth annual conference of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy (SSHAP) will be held at Boston University in Boston, MA on June 17-19, 2019. It is locally organized by Juliet Floyd with the assistance of James Pearson and Sanford Shieh and is being sponsored by the Philosophy Department and the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Boston University.
Invited Speakers
- Annalisa Coliva (University of California, Irvine)
- Sandra Lapointe (McMaster University)
- Thomas Ricketts (University of Pittsburgh)
The 2019 SSHAP meeting is being held in conjunction with the Bertrand Russell Society whose conference (June 20-22, 2019) convenes immediately after the SSHAP meeting at University of Massachusetts-Amherst. It is locally organized by Kevin C. Klement. The organizers hope that SSHAP conferees will also want to attend the BRS meeting and vice versa.
Central APA 2018
Quine’s 1980 Kant Lectures
Chair: Joshua Eisenthal (University of Pittsburgh)
Robert Sinclair (Soka University)
Introducing Quine’s Kant Lectures
Frederique Janssen-Lauret (University of Manchester)
Quine, Ontology, and Physicalism
Sander Verhaegh (Tilburg University)
The Development of Quine’s Behaviorism
Gary Kemp (University of Glasgow)
Quine, Carnap, and Objectivity
Method, Science, and Mathematics in Neo-Kantianism
Co-sponsored by the North American Neo-Kantian Society
Chair: Clinton Tolley (University of California, San Diego)
Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech)
The Psychological Agent, the Ideal Subject, and Scientific Ontology after Kant
Janet Folina (Macalester College)
Intuition and the Autonomy of Mathematics after Kant
Nikolay Milkov (Universität Paderborn)
Heinrich Rickert’s Theory of Concept Formation and Its Context
Ira Kachur (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Cassirer’s Revision of Neo-Kantian Rational Epistemology”
Mind, Psychology, and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy
Chair: Frederique Janssen-Lauret (University of Manchester)
Aaron Preston (Valparaiso University)
Experimental Psychology, Metaphilosophical Crisis, and the Rise of Analytic Philosophy
Consuelo Preti (College of New Jersey)
Bradley and Ward on Psychology: Transitioning from Mental Science to Philosophy of Mind in Early 20th Century Philosophy
Alexander Klein (California State University, Long Beach)
‘Icy Bath in the Waters of Uncertainty’: James and Mach on the Psychology of Will
Metaphysics, Its Scope and Its Limits in the History of Analytic Philosophy
Chair: Joshua Eisenthal (University of Pittsburgh)
Vera Flocke (New York University)
Carnap’s Noncognitivism about Ontology
Landon D. C. Elkind (University of Iowa)
Logic, though Not Our Master, Will Be Taken as Our Guide: Logic and Metaphysics
Gregory Landini (University of Iowa)
Schools of Metaphysics and Russellian Logical Form
Katarina Perovic (University of Iowa)
Carrying the Torch for Metaphysics: Bergmann and His Departure from Logical Positivism
SSHAP 2018
Seventh Annual Conference
Hamilton, ON, 19-21 June 2018
The seventh annual conference of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy will be held at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, 19-21 June 2018. It is locally organised by Sandra Lapointe with the assistance of Sean Dudley and sponsored by the Philosophy Department at McMaster University.
Invited Speakers:
- Lydia Patton, Virginia Tech
- Nick Griffin, McMaster University
- Michael Beaney, Humboldt University Berlin and King’s College London
This year’s meeting is being held in conjunction with the Bertrand Russell Society whose conference (22-24 June 2018) convenes immediately after the SSHAP meeting. The organizers hope that SSHAP conferees will also want to attend the BRS meeting and vice versa. There are many areas of shared interest and possibilities for fruitful exchange. Information about the BRS meeting and its call for papers can be found here.
SSHAP 2017
Sixth Annual Conference
Calgary, 8-10 May 2017
The sixth annual conference of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy will be held at the University of Calgary, May 8-10, 2017. It is locally organised by Richard Zach and sponsored by the Philosophy Department at the University of Calgary.
This year’s meeting is being held in conjunction with the Society for Exact Philosophy whose conference (5-7 May 2017) convenes immediately before the SSHAP meeting. The organizers hope that SSHAP conferees will also want to attend the SEP meeting and vice versa. There are many areas of shared interest and possibilities for fruitful exchange. Information about the SEP meeting can be found here.
Invited Speakers:
- Juliet Floyd, Boston University
- Robin Jeshion, University of Southern California
- Bernie Linsky, University of Alberta
Call for Abstracts and Submission Instructions
Registration information and program
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SSHAP 2016
Fifth annual conference
Denver, 16-18 June 2016
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
- Richard Creath, Arizona State University
- Gary Ebbs, Indiana University
- Consuelo Preti, The College of New Jersey
Pacific APA 2016
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)
Central APA 2016
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)