Institute of Philosophy Zurich Doctoral Workshop
Wittgenstein and Quine on Truth, Evidence and Semantic Content Keynote Speakers Prof. Peter Hylton (University of Illinois at Chicago) Prof. Thomas Ricketts (University of Pittsburgh) Date And Venue 12th and 13th of September 2014 KAB-E-05 (Friday) and KO2-F-153 (Saturday)
Program Friday 9:45
Welcome
10:00
Thomas Ricketts (Pittsburgh): The General Sentence-form: the keystone of (the development of) the «Tractatus»
11:00
Discussion. Chair: Anne-Katrin Schlegel (Zürich)
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Dominik Renner (Basel): Tractarian Logicism
15:00
Susanne Huber (Zürich): Identity in the Tractatus
15:50
Coffee Break
16:10
David Dolby (Zürich): Wittgenstein on Truth
17:10
Leo Cheung Kam Ching (Hong Kong): The Early Wittgenstein and Quine on the Elimination of Names
19:00
Dinner
Saturday 9:45
Welcome
10:00
Peter Hylton (Chicago): Carnap and Quine on the Nature of Evidence (and the Nature of Philosophy)
11:00
Discussion. Chair: Kai Büttner (Zürich)
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Sander Verhaegh (Groningen): The Development of Quine’s Naturalism
15:00
Reto Gubelmann (Zürich): Quine’s Naturalistic Conception of Evidence – Empirical or A Priori?
15:50
Coffee Break
16:10
Stefan Brandt (Erlangen): Sellars and Quine on Empiricism and Conceptual Truth
17:10
Štefan Riegelnik (Zürich): On Some Aspects of Language as a Social Art
18:00
Good-Bye
Registration: Attendance to the workshop is free, just register until September 10 by sending an email to one of the organizers. Organizers:
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[email protected] The workshop is financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF).
