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The aim of the conference is to stimulate exchange on those aspects of the history of analytical philosophy that have been neglected and to provide a venue for work that concerns lesser known figures and theories or lesser known aspects of known ones. Possible topics include:

§ The Brentano School and early analytic philosophy

§ British Empiricism and its modifications

§ The British idealists (Bradley, McTaggart, Collingwood, etc.)

§ Early logical positivism

§ The origins of the cognitive sciences and early theories of the mind

§ The relation between philosophy of language and formal semantics

§ Twardowski and his school (Lesniewski, Lukasiewicz, Ajdukiewicz, Kotarbinski, Tarski, etc.)

§ Early analytic philosophy and the neo-Kantians

§ Bolzano and/or Frege

§ Analytic philosophy and phenomenology

§ The raise of analytical issues in ontology

Submitted papers:

A limited number of papers will be selected for presentation at the symposium and considered for inclusion in the proceedings in the Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication.

Time allowed for presentations is 40 minutes including discussion. Submitted papers should have a maximum of 3000 words and should be accompanied by a 200 words abstract.

All submitted papers should be PREPARED FOR BLIND REVIEW, and should be sent electronically to:

bolzano@ksu.edu

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS 1 MAY 2008. Authors will be notified in May 2008.

Symposium proposal:

In addition to individual papers, the scientific committee will be considering proposals for symposia. Time allowed for symposia is 2 hours (including discussion). Symposia should include a minimum of three and a maximum of four contributions. Submissions should be clearly identified as “Symposium proposal” and include:

1) The title of the symposium

2) A brief description of the topic and its relevance to the conference (200 words)

3) The name, affiliation and academic status (student, lecturer, assistant professor, etc.) of each participant

4) The title of each contribution as well as an extended 500-1000 word abstract.

5) The name, affiliation and academic status of the person who will be chairing the symposium

Symposium proposals should be sent electronically to:

bolzano@ksu.edu

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS 1 MAY 2008. Authors will be notified in May 2008.

For more information, please visit our website:

http://www.k-state.edu/200years

Scientific Committee: Matti Eklund (Cornell), Sandra Lapointe (KSU), Marcelo Sabates (KSU), Jurgis Skilters (U of Latvia), Artis Svece (U of Latvia), Amie Thomasson (Miami).