16-17 Jun 2016
Essen, Germany
Workshop "Philosophical methods" When: June 16 & 17, 2016 Where: Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen For details see below or here: https://philosophicalmethods.wordpress.com/ How to register: Attendence is free of charge. Please register via filling in the following form by June 10, 2016: https://philosophicalmethods.wordpress.com/registration/ Topic: The topic of the workshop is intended to be construed fairly broadly, with an eye on questions regarding conceptual clarification. We are especially interested in debates concerning: (*) a priori methods and a posteriori methods in philosophy (*) conceptual analysis and Carnap?s conception of explication (*) formal methods in philosophy Program: June 16, 2016 11:00 ? 12:00 Magdalena Balcerak Jackson: ?Can Epistemic Analyticity Explain A Priority?? 12:00 ? 13:00 Christian Nimtz: ?Empirical Enquiry and the Limits of Armchair Speculation? 13:00 ? 14:15 Lunch 14:15 ? 15:15 Mark Pinder: ?Does Explication Have a Role in Conceptual Clarification?? 15:15 ? 15:30 Coffee Break 15:30 ? 16:30 Eve Kitsik: ?Yes, But Not Really: How Philosophical Explications Relate to Common Sense? 16:30 ? 17:30 Marc Andree Weber: ?The Method of Thought Experiments ? Why Conceptual Possibility Suffices? 17:30 ? 17:45 Coffee Break 17:45 ? 18:45 Timothy Williamson: ?Abductive Philosophy? Dinner June 17, 2016 09:30 ? 10:30 Anna-Maria A. Eder: ?Consider the Purposes of the Theory of Justification When You Characterize Justification? 10:30 ? 11:30 Thomas Grundmann: ?Conceptual Construction in Epistemology: Why the Content of Our Ordinary Terms Has Only Limited Significance? 11:30 ? 11:45 Coffee break 11:45 ? 12:45 Catarina Dutilh Novaes: ?Carnapian Explication as an Ameliorative Project: Logic and Social Change? 12:45 ? 14:00 Lunch 14:00 ? 15:00 Raphael van Riel: ?Technical Terms in Philosophy? 15:00 ? 16:00 Sebastian Lutz: ?Armchair Philosophy Naturalized? 16:00 ? 16:15 Coffee Break 16:15 ? 17:15 Hannes Leitgeb: ?Mathematical Empiricism. A Methodological Proposal? Dinner Organizers: Anna-Maria A. Eder (University of Salzburg & University of Duisburg-Essen) Insa Lawler (University of Duisburg-Essen) Raphael van Riel (University of Duisburg-Essen) The workshop is funded by the DFG and the University of Duisburg-Essen. -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam