Our next meeting is Monday, Oct. 26, 6-8pm, in Cobb 119.
Jay Elliot will present his paper called “Cooperating”, which went out to the email list on Friday (email bosworth@uchicago.edu if you’d like a copy).
Our first meeting for the year will take place from 6-8pm on Monday, October 12. Location: Cobb 119
Rachel Goodman will present. Her paper, ‘On the Connection between Proper Names and Singular Thought: How to Reject a Popular View’ has been circulated via the list. (Email Sara: bosworth@uchicago, or Rachel: goodman@uchicago if you haven’t received the paper but would like to.)
Hi All,
Our next meeting is this coming Monday, May 25.
Nat Hansen will present his paper, ‘A Slugfest of Intuitions’.
The paper has been sent out to the list. Please email me or Nat (goodman@uchicago.edu / hansenn@uchicago.edu) if you want us to send you the paper again.
As usual, we’ll meet in Wiebolt 111, from 4.30-6.30pm.
Rafeeq’s paper is now available (as a pdf) here:
‘Well Being and Obligation’
Our next meeting is this coming Monday, May 11.
Rafeeq Hasan will present. His paper, ‘Well-Being and Obligation: A Rousseauian Response to Scanlon’ will be available here on Thursday evening.
As usual, we’ll meet in Wiebolt 111, from 4.30-6.30pm.
Our next meeting is on Monday, April 27.
Ryan Long is our presenter, and his paper, ‘Luck and Equality’, is available here.
As usual, we’ll meet in Wiebolt 111, from 4.30-6.30pm.
I neglected to mention previously that the Contemporary Philosophy Workshop is one of the sponsors of the upcoming Anscombe Conference.
Details can be found here: http://lucian.uchicago.edu/workshops/anscombe/
MARTIN GUSTAFSSON (University of Stockholm, Sweden)
““‘Wittenstein and ‘Tonk’: Inference and Representation in the Tractatus’
4:30-6:30, Wieboldt 111
Background Reading:
1) A.N. Pior, “‘A Runabout Inference Ticket’
2) N.D. Belnap, ‘Tonk, Plonk and Plink’”
3) J.T. Stevenson, ‘Roundabout the Runabout Inference Ticket’
Please note that this meeting is a joint session of the Contemporary Philosophy Workshop and the Formal Philosophy Workshop and the Wittgenstein Workshop.
All meetings listed below: they all take place from 4.30-6.30pm, Wiebolt 111.
March 30: Silver Bronzo, ‘Meaning, Intention and the Context Principle’
April 20: Martin Gustafsson, ‘Wittgenstein and Tonk’, (Joint meeting with the Wittgenstein and Formal Philosophy Workshops).
April 24-25: Conference on Anscombe’s Conference (which will be jointly sponsored by the Contemporary Philosophy Workshop, etc.): http://lucian.uchicago.edu/workshops/anscombe/
April 27: Ryan Long
May 11: Rafeeq Hasan, ‘Well-Being and Obligation: A Rousseau-ian Rejoinder to Scanlon’
May 25: Nat Hansen
June 8: Micah Lott
Our next meeting is this Monday, March 30.
Silver Bronzo is our presenter. His paper, ‘Meaning, Intention and the Context Principle‘ is available here.
As usual, we’ll meet in Wiebolt 111, from 4.30-6.30pm.
Best,
Rachel