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)

Philosophical Revolutions 1895-1935: Analytic Philosophy, Pragmatism And Phenomenology

Chair: Professor Maria Baghramian (University College Dublin)

Speakers

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

Session 1

Kantian Problems in Early Analytic Philosophy

Chair: Sandra Lapointe (McMaster University)

Speakers

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

Session 2

Between Analytic Philosophy and American Pragmatism: C. I. Lewis and Wilfrid Sellars

Chair: James Conant (University of Chicago )

Speakers

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

Paul Grice’s Philosophy of Language

Chair: Sandra Lapointe (McMaster University)

Speakers

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