Category Archives: Meetings

Central APA 2014

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

Pacific APA 2013

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

Central APA 2013

Session 1

Logical Form

Chair: Nicholas F. Stang (University of Miami)

Speakers

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

Session 2

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

Pacific APA 2012

Session 1
Pragmatism and Early Analytic Philosophy

Chair: Sandra Lapointe (McMaster University)

Speakers

Henry Jackman (York University)
James vs Russell on the Nature of Acquaintance

Alexander Klein (California State University, Long Beach)
What (Use) Did Russell Make of Functionalist Psychology?

Eric Dayton (University of Saskatchewan)
C.I. Lewis, the Pragmatic A Priori and the American Assimilation of Logical Positivism

Session 2
Kant, Frege, and the Science of Logic

Chair: Jeremy Heis (UC Irvine)

Speakers

Clinton Tolley (UC San Diego)
The Necessity of Receptivity in Logic: Frege’s Criticism of Kant
Commentator: Danielle Macbeth (Haverford College )

Erich Reck (UC Riverside)
From Kant to Frege and Beyond: On the Objects of Modern Logic
Commentator: Joan Weiner (Indiana University)

Pacific APA 2011

The Carnap/Quine debate and its contemporary relevance to metaontology

Session 1

Chair: Paul M. Livingston (University of New Mexico)

Richard Creath (Arizona State University)
Carnap’s Ontological Caution

Amie Thomasson (University of Miami)
Carnap and the Prospects for Easy Ontology

Session 2

Chair: Sandra Lapointe (Kansas State University)

Luke Thompson (Monash University)
Why Carnap needs a Rationalist Psychology to support his Deflationism

Greg Lavers (Concordia University)
On the Quinean-analyticity of mathematical propositions

Central APA 2011

Truth in Analytical Philosophy

Chair: Chris Pincock (Purdue University)

Fraser MacBride (University of Cambridge)
Russell on Relations and Judgement

Joshua Schwartz (University of Chicago)
Quine and the Problem of Truth

Paul Cudney / Eric Winsberg (University of South Florida)
Through Tarski, Darkly: A typology of contemporary concepts of truth.

Central APA 2010

Aspects of Analysis

Chair: Sandra Lapointe (Kansas State University)

Speakers

Peter Hylton (University of Illinois at Chicago)
“Ideas of a Logically Perfect Language in Analytic Philosophy”

Mark Textor (King’s College, University of London)
“Reinach and Co. on Rejection and Negative Judgement”

Michael Detlefsen (University of Notre Dame)
“Freedom and Analysis”