III MADRID WORKSHOP ON NEW TRENDS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE

INFERENTIALISM IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE, MIND, AND ACTION

Organised by: UNED

Facultad de Filosofía. Dpt. Lógica, Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia


Madrid, october 3-5, 2012

UNED, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales

Sala “Angel Sáez Torrecilla”

Senda del Rey, 11. Madrid

(Map; bus 46, stop “Senda del Rey” –from “Sevilla”; or “Av. Séneca –from “Moncloa”)


Invited speakers:
Lilian Bermejo (Universidad de Granada)
Anthony Booth (Utrecht University)
Matthew Chrisman (University of Edinburgh)
María José Frápolli (Universidad de Granada)
Beatrice Kobow (Universität Leipzig)
Sven Rosenkranz (University of Barcelona)
Lionel Shapiro (University of Connecticut)
Daniel Whiting (University of Southampton)

   

For further information, contact:

Jesús Zamora-Bonilla.  jpzb [@] fsof.uned.es

 

Sponsored by the Spanish govt. research project FFI2011-23267 (“Inferentialism as social epistemology”)

 

 

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

 

Wednesday, October 3rd

 9:50. Welcome and registration.

10:00 Sven Rosenkranz. “Inferentialism and metasemantics”

11:00. Andreas Fjellstad. “What is semantic content?”

11:35 Coffee break.

 

12:00 Bernd Prien. “Holistic inferentialism and the problem of communication”

12:35 Nicholas Tebben. “Inferentialism and communication”

13:10 Leonardo Marchettoni. “Inferentialism, culture and public deliberation”

13:45 Lunch

 

16:00 Mathew Chrisman. "Should the Metalanguage of Metaethics be Nonnormative?"

17:00 Cristina Corredor. “On the pragmatics of pejoratives”

17:35 Ulf Hlobil. “Meaning Is a Normative Concept”

18:10 End of session

 

Thursday, October 4th

 

9:25 Owen Griffiths. “Inferentialism and identity”

10:00 Lilian Bermejo. “On material inferences: Brandom's false dilemma”

11:00 Coffee break

 

11:25 Ole Hjortland. “Thrice denied”

12:00 Daniel Whiting. “What’s so bad about bad concepts?”

13:00 Éva Kocsis. “Brandom on indexicals”

13:35 Lunch

 

16:00 Mª José Frápolli and Neftalí Villanueva. “Do sciences (natural and human) search for truth?”

17:00 Giacomo Turbanti. “A paradox of inferentialism”

17:35 Javier González de Prado and Jesús Zamora Bonilla. “Inferentialism and collective intentionality”

18:10 End of session

  

Friday, October 5th

 

9:25: Elia Zardini. “The underdetermination of the meaning of logical words”

10:00 Anthony Booth. "What do we aim at when we suspend judgement?"

11:00 Coffee break

 

11:25 Nuria Miras. “Reasons and actions on a slippery ground”

12:00 Beatrice Sasha Kobow. “Making it the case by taking it to be the case?

Some critical remarks on the notion of declarations and an alternative proposal”

13:00 Thomas Jussuf Spiegel. “Inferentialism and Semantic Contextualism in Brandom and Travis”

13:35 Lunch

 

16:00 Preston Stovall. “Toward a First-Order Comprehensional Semantics”

16:35 Daniele Santoro. “Causes and Blame: A Pragmatic Analysis”

17:10 Lionel Shapiro. "Relativism and Inferentialism."

18:10 End of workshop

Sponsored by the Spanish govt. research project FFI2011-23267 (“Inferentialism as social epistemology”)

Previous workshops: 2010, 2011