FIRST INFORMATION

 

 

Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism

 

Lectures by Robert Brandom (University of Pittsburgh)

 

originally given as 2005/6 Locke Lectures in Oxford

 

 

April 28 – 30, 2007

Prague, Czech Republic

 

Hotel Ambassador Conference Centre

 

Overview of Lectures

 

Lecture One

28.4.2007 Morning

Extending the Project of Analysis

 

 

 

Lecture Two

28.4.2007 Afternoon

Elaborating Abilities: The Expressive Role of Logic

 

 

 

Lecture Three

29.4.2007 Morning

Artificial Intelligence and Analytic Pragmatism

 

 

 

Lecture Four

29.4.2007 Afternoon

Modality and Normativity: From Hume and Quine to Kant and Sellars

 

 

 

Lecture Five

30.4.2007 Morning

Incompatibility, Modal Semantics, and Intrinsic Logic

 

 

 

Lecture Six

30.4.2006 Afternoon

Intentionality as a Pragmatically Mediated Semantic Relation

 

Commentators:

 

John McDowell (Pittsburgh), John MacFarlane (Berkeley), Jaroslav Peregrin (Prague),

Huw Price (Sydney), Sebastian Rödl (Basel), Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer (Leipzig)

 

 

The lectures are organized by the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic together with  the Faculty of Philosophy & Arts of the Charles University in Prague and financially supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

 

 

 

The lectures will be preceded by the

 

School of inferentialism,

 

taking place

April 25 – 27, 2007

 

in the Lecture Halls of the Charles University

Prague

 

Tutorials will be given by

 

Bob Brandom  (Pittsburgh), James Conant (Chicago), Paul Horwich (New York),

Michael Kremer (Chicago), Mark Lance (Georgetown), Björn Ramberg (Oslo) and

Michael Williams (Baltimore).

 

 

There is no fee for either the lectures or the school, but registration is required.

 

 

Registration

You can register

n on-line visiting the webpage www.icaris.info/Locke

n or by saving the Preliminary Registration Form in your computer and sending it as an attached file to the address icaris@icaris.cz, marking this E-mail in the subject with your family name and “Locke Lecture”

 

registration timetable

November 30, 2006    - Preliminary registration;

February 28, 2007      - Final registration (including payment of a one-night deposit for

those who request accommodation);

March 1, 2007             – On-line registration still continues. However, take in account that

                                      the later you will register the smaller will be the probability

   that you will receive the accommodation of your 1st choice;

 

 

Scientific Contacts and Scientific Organization

Questions concerning the program and the scientific organization of this event should be addressed to:

 

Jaroslav Peregrin, Academy of Sciences & Charles University, Prague, peregrin@ff.cuni.cz

Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer, Universität Leipzig, stekeler@uni-leipzig.de

 

 

 

Registration, Accommodation and Organization

 

ICARIS Ltd., Conference Management

Nám. Dr. Holého 8

180 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic

 

Phone: +420 284 823 250, 284 828 481

Fax: +420 266 312 113

E-mail: icaris@icaris.cz