The fifth annual conference of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy will be held in Denver, Colorado 16-18 June 2016. It is locally organised by Sean Morris and funded by the Philosophy Department at Metropolitan State University Denver.

Invited Speakers:

• Richard Creath, Arizona State University
• Gary Ebbs, Indiana University
• Consuelo Preti, The College of New Jersey

The Society for Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy is an international organization aimed at promoting discussion in all areas of scholarship concerning the development of philosophical logic, philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, the philosophy of science and epistemology. It welcomes scholars interested in the many ways in which the disciplines were influenced by thinkers such as Bolzano, Brentano and his school, Husserl, Frege, Russell, the Vienna Circle, Tarski and the Polish school, for instance, but also seeks to promote work engaging with lesser know figures and trends.

Previous conferences have been held at McMaster University, Indiana University, Université du Québec à Montréal and Trinity College Dublin.

CALL FOR PAPERS

SSHAP invites submissions for its 2016 annual conference. Paper submissions in all areas of the history of analytic philosophy are welcome.

A selection of papers from the conference will be published in a special volume of the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy. (www.jhaponline.org)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 15, 2016.

Submission Instructions

Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically according to the following guidelines:

1) Papers should be prepared for blind refereeing, 2) put into PDF file format, and 3) sent as an email attachment to the address given below. 4) The subject line of the submission email should include the key-phrase “SSHAP submission”, and 5) the body text of the email message should constitute a cover page for the submission by including i) return email address, ii) author’s name, iii) affiliation, iv) paper title, and v) short abstract and vi) academic rank.

Time allowed for presentation is 60 minutes (including discussion). We recommend that papers submissions be no longer than 4000 words.

Electronic submissions and queries should be sent to:

sshap@mcmaster.ca

All contributions included in the present issue were originally presented at an ‘Author Meets Critics’ session organised by Richard Zach at the Pacific Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in San Diego in the Spring of 2014.

All contributions included in the present issue were originally presented at an ‘Author Meets Critics’ session organised by Richard Zach at the Pacific Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in San Diego in the Spring of 2014.

All contributions included in the present issue were originally presented at an ‘Author Meets Critics’ session organised by RichardZach at the Pacific Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in San Diego in the Spring of 2014.

All contributions included in the present issue were originally presented at an ‘Author Meets Critics’ session organised by Richard Zach at the Pacific Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in San Diego in the Spring of 2014.

I investigate the role of geometric intuition in Frege’s early mathemat- ical works and the significance of his view of the role of intuition in geometry to properly understanding the aims of his logicist project. I critically evaluate the interpretations of Mark Wilson, Jamie Tappen- den, and Michael Dummett. The final analysis that I provide clarifies the relationship of Frege’s restricted logicist project to dominant trends in German mathematical research, in particular to Weierstrassian arith- metization and to the Riemannian conceptual/geometrical tradition at Göttingen. Concurring with Tappenden, I hold that Frege’s logicism should not be understood as a continuing a project of reductionist arith- metization. However, Frege does not quite take up the Riemannian ban- ner either. His logicism supports a hierarchical understanding of the structure of mathematical knowledge, according to which arithmetic is applicable to geometry but not vice versa because the former is more general, as revealed by the strictly logical nature of its objects in com- parison to the intuitional nature of geometric objects. I suggest, in par- ticular, that Frege intended that foundational work would show the use of geometric intuition in complex analysis, a source of error for Rie- mann that Weierstrass was proud to have uncovered, to be inessential.

We initially planned to hold the next meeting of SSHAP in Rio de Janeiro in the Summer of 2016. However,  that is also when and where the next Olympic Games will take place and we were unable to find a hotel that would accommodate everyone, or many hotels that would each accommodate some of us. Everything is booked out. Fortunately, the local organisers (Dirk Greiman and Jean-Yves Beziau) and invited speakers (Mike Beaney, Juliet Floyd and Leila Haaparanta) have graciously accepted to postpone the Rio meeting to 2017 (dates to be confirmed).

We are currently finalising arrangements for a new venue for the 2016 annual meeting of SSHAP and we’ll make an announcement in early September. The CFP will follow shortly thereafter.

The Editorial Board of the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy is delighted to announce the winners, ex-aequo, of the JHAP Essay Prize 2014:

Karl Egerton (Birkbeck College) for “Getting off the Inwagen: a critique of Quinean metaontology” 

Luis Duarte D’Almeida (University of Edinburgh) for “Geach and Ascriptivism: Beside the ‘Point’”

The two essays will be published in a forthcoming special issue of JHAP.

The triennial conference of the Société de Philosophie Analytique is being held this week in Montreal. It will gather some 150 presenters, many of whom will discuss historical themes. The program is spectacular. If you are in Montreal, come and join us. If you are not in Montreal, you need to be!