200 Years of Analytical Philosophy

4th International Symposium for Cognition, Logic and Communication

 

University of Latvia

Main building, Raina boulevard 19

 

PROGRAMME

 

Wednesday 

27.08.2008

 

19:00

 Public Lecture

Small Aula

 

Prof. Peter Simons, FBA, The University of Leeds (UK)

 

Analytic Philosophy: What it has been, what it should be, and why it's the best

 

The lecture will be followed by a Reception.

 

 

Thursday

28.08.2008

 

9:00-10:00 Registration

10:00–10:30 Opening (Aula Magna)

 

Parallel sessions

 

10:30-12:30

 

Session 1

Chair: Steve Russ, Warwick (UK)

 

KantÕs Influence on the Early Philosophy of Bolzano: A Priori Synthetic Judgments Without Intuition

Johan Blok, University of Groningen (NL)

 

Naturalized Rationality – A Glance at Bolzano's Philosophy of Mind

Anita Konzelmann Ziv, Basel (CH)

 

What is Bolzanian in HusserlÕs Early Theory of Knowledge?

     Sandra Lapointe, Kansas State (US)

 

Session 2 Symposium: Collingwood and other philosophers

Chair: Michael Beaney, York (UK)

 

R.G. Collingwood in relation to analytical philosophy and the challenge of logical positivism

James Connelly, Hull (UK)

 

The Collingwood-Ryle Correspondence As A Window Onto The Origins Of Analytic Philosophy

Giuseppina DÕOro, Keele (UK)

 

Continuity In British Aesthetics From Collingwood To Wollheim

Chinatsu Kobayashi, McGill University (CA)

 

 

Session 3

Chair: Rafal Urbaniak, University of Gent (BE)

 

G.E. Moore and Analytical Philosophy

Janis Vejs, CCSS/University of Latvia (LV)

 

Intentional Objects. An Introduction

Arkadiusz Chrudzimski, Salzburg (AT)/Szczecin (PL)

 

 

LUNCH 12:30-13:30

 

 

13:30-14:50

 

Session 1

Chair: Ulrich Majer, Hanover (DE)

 

Mannigfaltigkeitslehre: Husserl, Hilbert, And The Highest Level Of The Formal Logic

Mirja Hartimo, Tampere (FI)

 

Husserl And Heyting On Knowledge And Assertion

Maria van der Schaar, Leiden (NL)

 

 

Session 2

Chair: Arianna Betti, Free University of Amsterdam (NL)

The ÒEmergentist ChallengeÓ. What Ermergentism? Which Challenge?

Marcelo Sabates, Kansas State (US)

The Eerie Particular. G.F. Stout & T. Kotarbinski

Anna C. Zielinska, Grenoble (FR)

 

 

Session 3

Chair: Volker Peckhaus, Paderborn (DE)

 

The Linguistic Turn: Is it a Coherent Notion and, if so, Should We Care?

Benjamin Hill & Henrik Lagerlund, UWO (CA)

 

An analysis of ÔanalysisÕ in the history of mathematics

Steve Russ, Warwick (UK)

 

 

Break 14:50-15:20

                     

15:20-17:20

 

Session 1

Chair: Amie Thomasson, Miami (US)

 

Are Definitions Trivial: Russell, PoincarŽ, and Leśniewski.

Franois Lepage, University of MontrŽal (CA)

 

Lesniewski's quantifiers. A modal interpretation.

Rafal Urbaniak, Gent (BE)

 

A Substantive Non-Solution to the Problem of Unity

Samuel Lebens, School of Philosophy, Birkbeck (UK)

 

Session 2

Chair: Artis Svece, University of Latvia (LV)

 

Theory Of Meaning In The Begriffsschrift. Two Misconceptions

Elina Kaarina Nurmi, Cornell (US)

 

Welby, Peirce and Russell: The Role of Language in Early Analytic Philosophy

Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, Helsinki/Turku (FI)

 

Language and Logic in German Post-Hegelian Philosophy

Volker Peckhaus, Paderborn (DE)

 

 

 

Friday

29.08.2008

 

PLENARY SESSIONS

 

Except for the first session, all plenary sessions will be held in the Aula Magna of the Main Building

 

 

9:00-11:00 (Small Aula)

 

Chair: Kevin Mulligan, Geneva (CH)

 

9:00-10:00 Bridging the Gap



Dagfinn F¿llesdal, Stanford (US)

 

 

10:00-11:00 Is Logical Analysis Logical?

Jan Wolenski, Jagiellonian University (PL)

 

 

BREAK  11:00-11:30

 

11:30-13:30

Chair: Peter Simons, Leeds (UK)

 

11:30-12:30 The Method of Analysis in Frege and Husserl

Leila Haaparanta, Tampere (FI)

 

12:30-13:30 Carnap, Logic, and Analytic Philosophy

Richard Zach, University of Calgary (CA)

 

LUNCH 13:30-14:30

 

14:30-16:30

 

Chair: van der Schaar, Maria

 

14:30-15:30 Appearance And Reality: Theory Of Knowledge In Britain From Bradley To Austin

Mathieu Marion, UniversitŽ du QuŽbec ˆ MontrŽal (CA)

 

15:30-16:30 Russell's Transcendental Argument Revisited

David Sullivan, Metropolitan State College Denver (US)

 

 

BREAK 16:30-17:00

 

17:00-19:00 Symposium: Russell. Sponsored by the Bertrand Russell Society

 

Chair: David Sullivan, Metropolitan State College Denver (US)

 

The Early Life of Russell's Notion of a Propositional Function

Michael Beaney, York (UK)

    

Russell on Analysis and Understanding:  From Moore to Peano to Watson

James Levine, Trinity College Dublin (IE)

 

Descriptive Functions and Sets of Ordered Pairs 

Bernard Linsky, University of Alberta (CA)

 

Conference Dinner 

 

 

Saturday

30.08.2008

 

PLENARY SESSIONS (continued)

 

9:00-11:00

Chair: James Levine, Trinity College Dublin (IE)

 

9:00-10:00 The Spider in the Web: Lotze and his Influence

Peter Simons, Leeds (UK)

 

 

10:00-11:00 Husserl between FregeÕs Logicism and HilbertÕs Formalism

Ulrich Majer, Hanover (DE)

 

 

 

BREAK  11:00-11:30

 

11:30-13:30

Chair: Mathieu Marion, UniversitŽ du QuŽbec ˆ MontrŽal (CA)

 

11:30-12:30 Semantical Completeness, Categoricity and Logical Consequence: an Unpublished Lecture by Tarski (1940)

Paolo Mancosu, Berkeley (USA)

 

12:30-13:30 The Prehistory of Formal Semantics in the Nineteenth Century

Jamie Tappenden, Michigan (US)

 

LUNCH 13:30-14:30

 

14:30-16:30

Chair: Johannes L. Brandl, Salzburg (AT)

 

 

14:30-15:30 A Century of Tropes

Kevin Mulligan, Geneva (CH)

 

15:30-16:30 Non-Descriptivism about Modality: A Brief History and Revival

Amie L. Thomasson, Miami (USA)

 

BREAK 16:30-17:00

 

17:00-19:00

Chair: Sandra Lapointe, Kansas State University (US)

 

17:00-18:00 Two Kinds of Pre-Reflective Self-Awareness

Johannes L. Brandl, Salzburg (AT)

 

18:00-19:00 Bolzano, Tarski and the ÔCommonÕ Concept of Consequence: The Ajdukiewicz Connection

     Arianna Betti, Free University of Amsterdam (NL)