21-23 Sep 2009
Tartu, Estonia
Gottlob Frege Lectures in Theoretical Philosophy 2009 Simon Blackburn - Reason and Representation http://daniel.cohnitz.de/index.php?frege The 2009 Frege Lectures in Theoretical Philosophy will be delivered by Prof. Simon Blackburn from Cambridge University. Professor Blackburn is an internationally renowned philosopher, who, in recent years, has also become widely known outside academic philosophy for his success in popularizing philosophical discussions in his books Think (CUP 1999), Being Good (OUP 2001), Lust (OUP 2004), and Truth: A Guide (OUP 2005). We are happy to have him in Tartu for a three day workshop in September, 21.-23.09.2009. Everyone interested is invited to participate. To plan the event, however, we need your registration no later than September 1. Participants are responsible for making their own travel and accommodation arrangements. For registration and further information please email: cohnitz@ut.ee. THE LECTURER. Simon Blackburn is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Philosophy and Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina. He is also a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and has previously held teaching posts at Pembroke College, Oxford and the University of North Carolina as an Edna J. Koury Professor. In philosophy, he is best-known as the proponent of quasi-realism in meta-ethics and as a defender of neo-Humean views on a variety of topics. Simon Blackburn is a Vice-President of the British Humanist Association and a former editor of the journal Mind. THE TOPIC Professor Blackburn will present lectures on the following topics: 1. Carnapian External Questions: Representationalist and Pragmatist Answers. 2. The Impact of Deflationism 3. Deflationism in the Later Wittgenstein 4. Ontology, Commitments and Semantics For further information, please visit our website at http://daniel.cohnitz.de/index.php?frege The Gottlob Frege Lectures in Theoretical Philosophy are named in honour of the German mathematician and philosopher Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege. We have chosen Frege as the patron for our lecture series as he is widely recognised for his clarity and unpretentious, no-nonsense style of dealing with philosophical problems. So are the lecturers we are honoured to host in Tartu.