Archive 2009-2010
Sep 30th, 2009 by bronzo
Oct 2
Nat Hansen (University of Chicago, graduate student)
“A Slugfest of Intuitions: Reconsidering the Evidence for Contextualism”
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Background Reading:
1) DeRose, “Contextualism and Knowledge Attributions”
2) DeRose, “The Ordinary Language Basis for Contextualism, and the New Invariantism</
3) Travis, “Pragmatics”
Oct 9
Lars Hertzberg (Åbo Akademi, Finland)
“Attending to Actual Sayings of Things”
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Background readings:
1) Conant, “Wittgenstein on Meaning and Use”
2) Diamond, “Rules: Looking in the Right Place”
3) Diamond, “How Old are These Bones?”
4) Ryle, “Use, Usage and Meaning”
Oct 23
Tom Lockhart (University of Chicago, graduate student)
“Frege’s Argument that Numbers are Objects”
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Background readings:
1) Frege, “Foundations of Arithmetic”, §§1-17, 55-83
2) Fraser McBride, “Speaking with Shadows: a Study of Neo-Logicism”
Oct 30
Thomas Land (University of Chicago, graduate student)
“Kantian Conceptualism”
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Background readings:
1) Hanna, “Kant and Non-Conceptual Content”
2) McDowell, “Conceptual Capacities in Perception” (Published in Id., “Having the World in View”)
Nov 6
Vincent Descombes (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France, and University of Chicago, Visiting Professor)
“My Self, Myself, and Me”
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Background reading:
1) G.E.M. Anscombe, “The First Person”
Nov 20
Jean-Philippe Narboux (Université Bordeaux III, France)
“The Externalist Strand in Wittgenstein’s ‘On Certainty’ “
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Background Reading:
1) Saul Kripke, “Naming and Necessity”, Lecture III, pp. 140-144;
2) Hilary Putnam, “Rethinking mathematical necessity”
3) Gary Ebbs, “Putnam and the contextually a priori”