Workshop on the Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars

June 4, 2012 - June 5, 2012
School of Philosophy, University College Dublin

Alexander Hotel
Fenian Street
Dublin
Ireland

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Monday June 4th 

10:00 Aston Suite 1 

Brandhoff, Boris - Predicates as Guiding Behaviour and Inconceivable Without It: A Proposal to Understand Sellars’s Nominalistic Account of Predication as a Corollary of his Theory of Representational Systems

11:00 Aston Suite 1 

Breunig, Anke - The Structure of EPM and the General Form of Givenness

11:00 Aston Suite 2  

Stöckle-Schobel, Richard - Sellarsian Concept Learning 

12:00 Aston Suite 1

Rueter, Kevin - Sellars and Austin on Appearances & Introspection 

12:00 Aston Suite 2 

Stovall, Preston - Peirce and Sellars on the Cognitive Significance of Sensation 

2:00 Aston Suite 1 

Politis, Vasilis - Sellars' Aristotle: an analysis and assessment 

2:00 Aston Suite 2  

Esterhazy, Paulus - ‘Thinking’ that one ought: Sellars on intuitionism and emotivism  

3:00 Aston Suite 1

Medici, Lorenzo - Weaving names together: Reflections on Sellars, Plato & the problem of predication 

3:00 Aston Suite 2 

Kiesselbach, Matthias - Why we attribute reasons even when they fail to motivate. A Sellarsian take on Humeanism 

4:00 Aston Suite 1

Wolfendale, Pete - Is there a TV in my head? Content, Functional Mapping, & the Myth of Given 

4:00 Aston Suite 2 

Szubka, Tadeusz - Analytic Philosophy & Synoptic Vision: Sellars' Metaphilosophy 

5:00 Aston Suite 1 

Cheng, Tony H. Y. - Imagination and Image in Sellars  

5:00 Aston Suite 2

Sachs, Carl - Pragmatism as Quasi-Representationalism: A Neo-Sellarsian Response to Price and Rorty  

Tuesday June 5th  

10:00 Aston Suite 1 

Maher, Chauncey - The Given in Action 

10:00 Aston Suite 2 

Peregrin, Jarda - Should one be left or right Sellarsians? (And is there such a choice, really?) 

11:00 Aston Suite 1 

Beisecker, David - "From the grunts & groans of the cave..."  

11:00 Aston Suite 2 

Bandini, Aude - A History of the Given: the Sellarsian Moment 

12:00 Aston Suite 1 

Woodbridge, James & Armour-Garb, Bradley - Sellars and Pretense on Truth & Meaning 

12:00 Aston Suite 2

Olen, Peter - From Formalism to Psychology: Metaphilosophical Shifts in Sellars’s Early Works  

1:45* Aston Suite 1  

Akins, Kathleen & Leardi, Jason - Homogeneous Pink  

2:00 Aston Suite 2

Auerbach, David - Functional Classification in Finnegans Wake: A Sellarsian Account 

3:00 Aston Suite 1 

Levine, Steven - Sellars and Non-Conceptual Content  

3:00 Aston Suite 2 

Giromini, José - Language & Rules: A Normative Approach to the Myth of the Given 

4:00 Aston Suite 1  

Wolf, Michael P. - Context-Sensitive Inference Licenses: How to Have Communication Without Miracles 

4:00 Aston Suite 2 

Brokes, Audre - Keeping it Implicit: A Probabilistic Case for the Primacy of Material Inferences 

5:00 Aston Suite 1 

Shapiro, Lionel - How “Meaning and Truth Talk Gets its Connection with the World”: Sellars on the Inferential Role of Semantical Vocabulary

5:00 Aston Suite 2 

O’Madagain, Cathal - Sellars' Myth of Jones as a Model for Building a Theory of Mind 

Following the Workshop will be a 3-day Sellars Centenary Conference on Wed-Fri June 6­–8 with papers by Robert Brandom, Paul Churchland, Willem deVries, Robert Kraut, Rebecca Kukla & Mark Lance, John McDowell, Ruth Millikan, James O’Shea, Huw Price, David Rosenthal, Johanna Seibt, and Michael Williams. See: http://philevents.org/event/show/41

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