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Friday, May 10, 2013

Grice at Ruhr -- On the concept of structure in Grice and Carnap --

Speranza

The Rudolf Carnap Lectures -- not necessarily about Carnap (although cfr. talk below by Guido).

Cfr. Grice's William James lectures not really about James ("Logic and Conversation")
and his "John Dewey" lecture, and his "Paul Carus" lectures, and so on.

Still, Ruhr is the most charming place to hold the Carnap lectures, and I'm pleased to think Grice would be invited!


Cheers,

Speranza

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Rudolf Carnap Lectures and Graduate Conference
Institute of Philosophy II,
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
May 21-23, 2013

David J. Chalmers (ANU/NYU)
"Structuralism, Space, and Skepticism"


David J. Chalmers is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director
of the Center for Consciousness at ANU and Professor of Philosophy and
Co-Director of the Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness at NYU.

He will be presenting new material in a series of lectures, developing and
extending themes from his recent book "Constructing the World" (OUP 2012).


Tuesday 21st
10.30-12.30 David Chalmers: Lecture 1, tba

12.30-14.30 Lunch Break

14.00-14.45
Guido Del Din (Padua):
On the concept of structure in 
Carnap‘s ,Der logische Aufbau der Welt‘ 

14.45-15.30 Benjamin Andrae (Munich School of Philosophy):
Chalmers, Russell, and 
Whitehead on Epistemology and Acquaintance

15.30-16.00 Coffee Break

16.00-16.45 Robert Smithson (Carolina): Conceptual vs. metaphysical grounding

18.00-20.00 David Chalmers: The Matrix as Metaphysics (public lecture, HGA 30)

20.30 Dinner


Wednesday 22nd
10.00-12.00 David Chalmers: Lecture 2, tba

12.00-14.00 Lunch Break

14.00-14.45 Inga Vermeulen (Sheffield): Verbal disputes, but not about words

14.45-15.30 Dusko Prelevic (Belgrade): Scrutability of Truth and Continuum Hypothesis

15.30-16.00 Coffee Break

16.00-16.45 Antonella Mallozzi (The Graduate Center, CUNY): Scrutability and negative facts

19.00 Dinner 


Thursday 23rd
10.00-10.45 Jonathan Mai (Heidelberg): Two problems with Chalmers‘ Structuralism

10.45-11.00 Coffee Break

11.00-13.00 David Chalmers: Lecture 4, tba

13.00 Lunch and End

Further information about these and past Carnap Lectures, the Venue and
Travel information: http://www.rub.de/philosophy/carnaplectures/Home.html

Organization:
Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht, Prof. Dr. Albert Newen
Institute of Philosophy II
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Germany


Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht
Institut für Philosophie II
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Universitätsstr. 150, GA3/29
44780 Bochum