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Friday, June 28, 2013

INFLUENCE OF THE AUFBAU ON GRICE --

Speranza

Well, this below is rather influence ON the Aufbau.

For the record then, there is a

Call for participation:

Influences on the Aufbau.

To be held at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU
Munich

01-03 July 2013

http://www.carnapsaufbau13.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/index.html

The workshop should cover all varieties of influences on Carnap’s seminal
work, with the inclusion of the influences of

Frege
Russell
Husserl,
the neo-Kantians
Dilthey, and
the Dilthey-school

but also the
influences of less well-known philosophers such as

Vaihinger,
Gätschenberger,
Driesch, Dingler,
and others.

Invited speakers:


Andre Carus (Hegeler Institute)
Hans-Joachim Dahms (University of Vienna)
Michael Friedman (Stanford University)
Thomas Mormann (University of San Sebastian)
Matthias Neuber (University of Tübingen)
Alan Richardson (UBC Vancouver)
Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock (University of Puerto Rico)
Thomas Ryckman (Stanford University)
Clinton Tolley (UC San Diego)
Thomas Uebel (University of Manchester)
Paul Ziche (University of Utrecht)


in order to register please contact Christian Damböck
(christian.damboeck@univie.ac.at)

the program and abstracts as well as practical information on the venue
etc. can be found online:

http://www.carnapsaufbau13.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/index.html

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

Thursday, April 25, 2013

The Carnap Idiom, The Grice Idiom -- Look For A Neutral One

--- by JLS, of the Grice Club

---- WON'T SAY a 'common one', because a common idiom may not ring the right sort of bell.

But when discussing what Grice calls the 'longitudinal unity of philosophy', Grice notes that one obstacle in its perception is the dating of 'idioms'. Some idioms date: they become old-fashioned. New ones are fangled, and so on ad infinitum.

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The idea occurred to me, after the heroic attempts by Jones in "Grice Club" to turn to some Carnapian 'common' lingua franca the latest Gricean novelties.

Jones proposed:

----- for 'meaning', qua noun. As when we say, "The meaning of this". What is this? What is 'meaning' for Carnap? What was meaning for Grice?

When it comes to Carnap one has to give a lot of credit to his mother tongue. Or something.

Strawson/Stroud's bio of Grice -- Carnap's bio of Carnap

Speranza

Enters Dummett

Speranza

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Dummett has described metaphysics

Perspectives on Carnap and Grice

Speranza

“Perspectives on Carnap” A one day workshop
University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK)
10th June 2013 (10am-1pm / 2pm-3:30pm) - Room Arts 3.03

S P E A K E R S:

FIRST LECTURE:

KAMMER QUENTIN (University of Bordeaux 3 – SPH)

"Goodman’s Reading of the Aufbau"

---- Interesting. I wish we could present something on Grice's Reading of the Aufbau!
Goodman is a fascinating philosopher.

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SECOND LECTURE:

KUUSELA OSKARI (University of East Anglia)
Resolving the Dispute between Ideal and Ordinary Language Approaches

----- This is fascinating. Indeed, one should trace who the first philosopher was who made the distinction. I THINK it was Cicero! (I once came across something like the Latin expression for "ordinary language" in his writings!). In fact, if there is ONE feature that distinguishes Carnap and Grice is this.



THIRD LECTURE:

WAGNER HENRI (University of Bordeaux 3 – SPH)
Quine on Carnap’s Conception of Logic
----- This is of course one of R. B. Jones's interests, as he seems fascinated, as Grice and myself are, with the personality of this Harvard professor of logic: Quine. I'm PRETTY sure that P. F. Strawson's motivation for HIS conception of logic is best understood as an answer to Quine in "Methods of Logic" (vide Strawson, "Intro" to "Philosophy of Logic", Oxford readings in Philosophy). And we know Grice's conception is a reply to Strawson!

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Co-organized by the Universities of East Anglia and Bordeaux 3 - SPH:
Kuusela Oskari (UEA)
Uçan Timur (UEA – University of Bordeaux 3)



THE “PERSPECTIVES ON CARNAP” A ONE DAY WORKSHOP WILL BE FOLLOWED ON JUNE 11th BY A ONE DAY WORKSHOP “WITTGENSTEIN/PHENOMENOLOGY”.

Grice and Carnap, Carnap and Grice

Speranza

We should explore.


“Perspectives on Carnap” A one day workshop



University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK)
10th June 2013 (10am-1pm / 2pm-3:30pm) - Room Arts 3.03


S P E A K E R S:

KAMMER QUENTIN (University of Bordeaux 3 – SPH)
Goodman’s Reading of the Aufbau

KUUSELA OSKARI (University of East Anglia)
Resolving the Dispute between Ideal and Ordinary Language Approaches

WAGNER HENRI (University of Bordeaux 3 – SPH)
Quine on Carnap’s Conception of Logic



Co-organized by the Universities of East Anglia and Bordeaux 3 - SPH:
Kuusela Oskari (UEA)
Uçan Timur (UEA – University of Bordeaux 3)



THE “PERSPECTIVES ON CARNAP” A ONE DAY WORKSHOP WILL BE FOLLOWED ON JUNE 11th BY A ONE DAY WORKSHOP “WITTGENSTEIN/PHENOMENOLOGY” (SEE ON PHILOS-L).