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Conference "Ramsey and the Vienna Circle", November 2003, Vienna

Cambridge and  Vienna
Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circle

Friday, 28 -- Saturday, 29 Nov. 2003
Universit?tscampus, Aula
Hof 1, Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Wien

November 28

9:15 -- 10:00 Opening
Werner Leinfellner (Wien), Friedrich Stadler (Wien)

10:00    Patrick Suppes (Stanford)
Ramsey's Psychological Theory of Belief

11:00 -- 11:20      coffee break

11:20   Sir Michael Dummett (Oxford)
Ramsey and the Vicious Circle  Principle

12:20 -- 14:20     Lunch break

14:20  Brian Skyrms  (UC Irvine)
The Value of Knowledge -- On a  Manuscript at Cambridge

15:20 Stathis Psillos (Athens)
Ramsey-sentences: from descriptivism to structuralism and back again.

16:20 -- 16:40     Coffee break

16:40  Session in memoriam Donald Davidson (1917--2003)



November 29

9:00 Peter Clark (St. Andrews)
Ramsey and Logicism

10:00 Wolfgang Degen (Erlangen)
Logical Problems Suggested by Logicism

11:00 -- 11:20     Coffee break

11:20 Eckehart K?hler  (Wien)
Ramsey and the Vienna Circle on  Logicism

12:20 -- 14:20    Lunch break

14:20 Brian McGuinness (Siena)
Ramsey and  Wittgenstein

15:20 Gabriela Taylor (Oxford)
Frank Ramsey - A Biographical Sketch

16:20 -- 16:40      Coffee break

16:40 Maria Carla Galavotti (Bologna)
Ramsey's "On Time" -- an  Unpublished Manuscript

17:40 Closing discussion

Conference language: English