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.