History of Analytic Philosophy

Workshop on the History of Analytic Philosophy

Jointly organized by the White Rose Centre for the History of Philosophy (CHiPhi) and Peking University (PKU) Institute of Foreign Philosophy

Tuesday 24 June 2014

Treehouse Seminar Room, Humanities Research Centre

Berrick Saul Building, University of York

10.00 Coffee

Pragmatism

10.30 Shang Xinjian (PKU): ‘Is William James a Relativist?’

11.30 Christopher Hookway (Sheffield): ‘Peirce and the “Proof” of Pragmatism’

12.30 Lunch

 

Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty

13.30 Han Linhe (PKU): ‘How not to read Wittgenstein’

14.30 Thomas Baldwin (York): ‘Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty on Knowledge and Certainty’

15.30 Tea

Concepts and Meaning

16.00 Liu Zhe (PKU): ‘An Impasse in Conceptual Capacities’

17.00 Ye Chuang (PKU): ‘“Truth only in Virtue of Meaning” and the Double–Factor Picture of Meaning and Fact’

19.00 Dinner at Viva Goa, 7 Fossgate, York

Registration (including lunch) is free, but do let Michael Beaney know by 19 June if you are able to come.

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