10-13 June 2008
Tartu, Estonia
GOTTLOB FREGE LECTURES IN THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY 2008 Paul Boghossian "Objective Knowledge", Tartu, June 10-13 PAUL BOGHOSSIAN -- OBJECTIVE KNOWLEDGE http://daniel.cohnitz.de/index.php?frege The 2008 "Gottlob Frege Lectures in Theoretical Philosophy" will be deliver ed by Prof. Paul Boghossian from New York University. Professor� Boghossian is an internationally renowned philosopher who is well� known for his research in philosophy of mind, the philosophy of� language and epistemology. His rec ent book "Fear of Knowledge" (OUP� 2006) has received wide recognition and wa s named the Choice� Outstanding Academic Book 2006.� We are happy to have him in Tartu for� a four day workshop at the beginning of June, 10.-13. 06. 2008 .� Everyone interested is invited to participate. To plan the event,� howeve r, we need your registration no later than May 19. Participants are responsible for making their own travel and� accommodati on arrangements. However, we have reserved some places in a� nearby student dormitory. Please indicate in your registration if you� are interested in staying at the student dormitory. For registration� and further informati on please email: cohnitz@ut.ee. The Lecturer Paul Boghossian is Silver Professor of Philosophy at the Department of� Philosophy, New York University. He is the author of numerous works on� a variety of topics, including rule-following, eliminativism,� naturalism, self-knowledge, a priori knowledge, analytic truth,� realism, relativism, the aesthetics of music and the concept of� genocide. He has held research fellowships from the National Endowment� for the Humanities, Magdalen Col lege (Oxford), the School of Advanced� Study (University of London), and from the Australian National� University (Canberra). He has been a Visitor at the Institute for� Advanced Study in Princeton, a Fulbright Senior Specialist and is a� fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities. He has also� taught at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and at Princeton. The Topic Recent philosophy has seen a huge amount of interest in relativism,� unde rstood as a semantical thesis. Professor Boghossian will examine� the ways in wh ich traditional relativism differs from this new age� relativism and will loo k at the problems that each faces.� After that� he will examine issues that arise in defending the thesis that there� can be objective facts about epistemic justification and take a closer� look at the question of whether we could be said to have epistemic� systems that guide our belief formation. For further information, please visit our website at http://daniel.cohnitz.de/index.php?frege The event is organised by the Department of Philosophy, University of� Ta rtu, and the EuroCollege of the University of Tartu and sponsored by� the Esto nian Science Foundation and the Embassy of the United States,� Tallinn. 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.