Archive 2008-2009
Sep 24th, 2008 by bronzo
17 October
Colin Patrick (Chicago, Graduate Student)
“Foot’s Naturalism and Moral Reasons for Action”
- Background Reading:
1) Foot, “Natural Goodness”, Oxford, 2001, Chapters 2 and 3
2) Anscombe, “On Promising and Its Justice”, Collected Papers, III, Blackwell, 1981
For the PDF of both items click here
7 Nov
Silver Bronzo (Chicago, graduate student)
“Context Principle and Contextual Definitions in Jeremy Bentham”
14 Nov
Nat Hansen (Chicago, graduate student)
“Color Adjectives and Radical Contextualism”
(For a copy of the paper, please contact hansenn@uchicago.edu)
21 Nov
Ed Minar (University of Arkansas)
“The Life of the Sign: Rule-Following, Practice and Agreement”
(For a copy of the paper, please contact bronzo@uchicago.edu)
23 Jan
Matt Teichman (Chicago, graduate student)
“Philosophy of Action in the Tractatus”
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Background Reading:
1) Vincent Decombes, “Paradigms of Necessity” (in French) (PDF)
2) Tractatus, §§ 5.6s, §§6.4s, §§ 6.5s
3) Davidson, “Mental Events” (PDF)
30 Jan
Tom Lockhart (Chicago, graduate student)
“What would it be (if anything) to be a disjunctivist about X (for any X)?”
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Background Reading:
1) John McDowell, “The disjunctive conception of experience as material for a transcendental argument” (PDF)
2) Jennifer Hornsby, “A disjunctive conception of acting for reasons” (PDF)
6 Feb
Joshua Schwartz (Chicago, graduate student)
“Quine on Disquotation Schemata”
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Background Reading:
Quine, “Truth and Disquotation” (PDF)
13 Feb
Piergiorgio Donatelli (Sapienza Universita’ di Roma)
“Transformations of the Concept of Human Being”
The text of the talk has been sent out through the Wittgenstein Workshop mailing list. If you would like to receive a copy of it, please contact the student coordinator at bronzo@uchicago.edu.
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Background Readings:
1) G.E.M. Anscombe, “The Dignity of the Human Being” (PDF)
2) M. Foucault, “Abnormal: Lectures at the College de France 1974-1975″, Lecture V (PDF)
3) C. Diamond, “Eating Meat and Eating People” (PDF)
20 Feb
Dawn Chow (Chicago, Graduate Student)
“The Logic of Nonsense” (PDF)
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Background Reading:
Cora Diamond, “What Nonsense Might Be”, in The Realistic Spirit (PDF)
20 Feb
Will Small (Chicago, Graduate Student)
“Knowing What I’m Doing”
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Background Reading:
1) David Velleman, Introduction to the David Hume Series Edition (CSLI: 2007) of Practical Reflection (PDF)
2) Richard Moran, ‘Anscombe on Practical Knowledge’, in Agency and Action, ed. Hyman and Steward (CUP: 2004) (PDF)
3) Kevin Falvey, ‘Knowledge in Intention’, Philosophical Studies 99 (2000) (PDF)
7 March
Cato Wittusen (University of Stavanger, Norway)
‘Wittgenstein and Secondary Sense” (PDF)
3 April
Agnes Callard (University of Chicago)
“The Shape of Satisfaction”
10 April
Daesuk Han (University of Chicago, graduate student)
“The Nature of All Being: Wittgenstein and Heidegger”
17 April
Daniel R. Rodriguez Navas (Chicago, graduate student)
“The Tractarian Doctrine of Relations”
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Background Reading:
T. Ricketts, “Pictures, Logic and the Limits of Sense in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus”
20 April
Martin Gustafsson (University of Stockholm, Sweden)
“Wittgenstein and ‘tonk’: Inference and Representation in the Tractatus”
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Background Readings:
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”
1 May
Peter Hylton (UIC)
“Ideas of Logically Perfect Languages in Analytic Philosophy”
8 May
Charlotte Gauvry (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, visiting student)
“Sense, Nonsense and Context: The New Wittgenstein and Travis’ Wittgenstein”
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Background Readings:
- McDowell J., “On the Sense and Reference of a Proper Name” and “Criteria,
Defeasibility and Knowledge” in Meaning, Knowledege and Reality, Harvard
University Press, 1998.
- Diamond C. “Realism and the Realistic Spirit” and “What Nonsense Might Be” in The Realistic Spirit, Wittgenstein, Philosophy and Mind, MIT Press, 1995.
- Travis C., Thought’s Footing, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2006.
15 May
Charles Todd (Chicago, Graduate Student)
“The New Problem of Akratic Action”
Background Readings:
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1) Davidson, “How is Weakness of the Will Possible?”
2) Frankfurt, “The Problem of Action”
22 May
Zed Adams (The New School for Social Research)
“The Hardness of the Ethical Must”
- Background Reading:
M. Thompson, Life and Action, “Introduction”
29 May
Stina Bäckström (Chicago, Graduate Student)
“Can We Make Sense of Inner Sense?”
- Background Reading:
M.G.F. Martin, “Bodily Awareness: A Sense of Ownership”"