Putnam Conference, Pecs

Pécsi Tudományegyetem Filozófia Tanszékek Magyar Tudományos Akadémia University Pécs Philosophy Department Hungarian Academy of Sciences H i l a r y P u t n a m f i l o z ó f i á j a The Philosophy of Hilary Putnam Nemzetközi Filozófiai Konferencia Hilary Putnam részvételével International Conference in Philosophy with the participation of Hilary Putnam MTA Pécsi Akadémiai Bizottság Székháza House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Pécs Pécs, Jurisics M. u. 44. 2003 május 5.-6. May 5-6, 2003 Organization: János Boros, University Pécs boros(a)btk.pte.hu Monday, May 5, 2003 9.00-9.10 Opening 9.10-10.00 Opening Lecture Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore), Putnam, Pragmatism and Truth 10.00-10.10 Break 10.10-12.20 Morning Session Chair Michael Williams (Baltimore) 10.10-10.25 Zsolt Garai (Pécs-Paris), Varieties of therapeutical realism: McDowell and Putnam 10.25-10.40 Andrea Clausen (Berlin), How to account for objectivity. Brandom?s inferentialism vs. Putnam?s direct realism 10.40-10.55 Krisztián Pete (Pécs), Relativism cum Realism: is it a possible theory? 10.55-11.15 Discussion 11.15-11.30 Katalin Farkas (Budapest-London), Stopping short of the fact 11.30-11.45 Tadeusz Szubka (Lublin), Putnam on the viability of an epistemic conception of truth 11.45-12.00 Matjaz Potrc (Ljubljana), Internal Realism 12.00-12.20 Discussion 12.20-15.00 Break - Lunch in Hotel Hunyor 15.00-18.00 Afternoon Session Chair: Katalin Farkas (Budapest-London) 15.00-15.15 Tim Crane (London), Is the Mind a Thing? 15.15-15.30 Gyula Mezősi (Pécs), Is the strong supervenience thesis defensible? 15.30-15.45 György Kampis (Budapest), How to Be a Brain in a Vat and Why we are not 15.45-16.00 Ferenc Ruzsa (Budapest), Testing the Vat ? Talking about the Ding an sich 16.00-16.20 Discussion 16.20-16.40 Break 16.40-16.55 Ferenc Huoranszky (Budapest), Causation, Explanation and Internal Realism 16.55-17.10 István Danka (Pécs-Budapest), Rethinking non-mathematical necessity 17.10-17.25 András Máté (Budapest), First or second order logic? Putnam, Quine and the Skolem-Argument 17.25-17.40 Bojan Borstner (Maribor), Putnam on properties 17.40-18.00 Discussion 18.00-18.30 Break 18.30-19.30 Evening Lecture Hilary Putnam (Harvard), Objectivity without Objects 20.00 Dinner for the Participants at Pavlik Cellar (Pavlik Pince) Pécs, Varjú dűlő 1. Phone 226 252 Tuesday, May 6, 2003 9.00-10.00 Morning Lecture Ágnes Heller (New School, New York), Hilary Putnam on fact/value dichotomy 10.00-10.20 Break 10.20-12.30 Morning Session Chair: Tim Crane (London) 10.20-10.35 Meredith Williams (Johns Hopkins Univ. Baltimore), Putnam?s Wittgenstein 10.35-10.50 János Weiss (Pécs-Frankfurt), Putnam and Habermas 10.50-11.05 Jon Roberts (New York), Putnam, Truth and History: Reading the Past Pragmatically 11.05-11.25 Discussion 11.25-11.40 László Tarnay and Tamás Pólya (Pécs), On Meaning Holism. Is Miscommunication All We Have? 11.40-11.55 Richard Schantz (Berlin), Putnam on perception 11.55-12.10 János Tőzsér (Budapest), Is there a gap between the Mind and the World in perception? 12.10-12.30 Discussion 12.30-15.00 Break - Lunch in Hotel Hunyor 15.00-18.00 Afternoon Session Chair: Meredith Williams (Baltimore) 15.00-15.15 János Kelemen (Budapest), Linguistic Division of Labour: Putnam and Rossi-Landi 15.15-15.30 László Komlósi (Pécs), Negotiated and Agreeable Inferences 15.30-15.45 Tibor Szolcsányi (Pécs), Experience, Descriptions and the Spectral Model of Information 15.45-16.05 Discussion 16.05-16.20 Zsofia Zvolenszky (New York), The semantics of natural kind terms 16.20-16.35 Ferenc András (Pécs), The question, the possibility of the answer and the answer 16.35-16.50 János Boros (Pécs), Internal realism is realism: Dewey and Davidson vs. Putnam 16.50-17.05 Csaba Pléh (Budapest) 17.05-17.20. Discussion 17.20-17.30 Conclusion 18.00 Take off for dinner in Villány, Blum Cellar (Blum Pince) Villánykövesd, Pince sor 24. Phone (72) 493 088 Bus starts 18.00 from conference location, stops at 18.05 at Hotel Hunyor. The conference is part in the series of the Pécs Philosophy Conferences. Until today there were conferences with and about the following philosophers: John McDowell, Pittsburgh, 1998 Daniel Dennett, Boston, 1999 Michael Williams, Baltimore, 1999 Robert Brandom, Pittsburgh, 2000 Jacques Derrida, Paris, 2000 Richard Rorty, Stanford, 2001 Ágnes Heller, New York and Budapest, 2002 A konferencia a Pécsi Filozófia Konferenciák sorozat része Eddig az említett filozófusokról és filozófusokkal rendeztünk Pécsett konferenciát. * Hilary Putnam (born in Chicago, July 31, 1926) is one of the most important thinkers of our time. 1927-34 he lived in Paris, where his father translated works of Cocteau, Pirandello and Cervantes? Don Quichote in English. Graduate studies 1948-49 in mathematics, logic, philosophy at Harvard among others by Quine. Graduate studies at University of California in Los Angeles by Hans Reichenbach. 1951 PhD by Reichenbach with the title The Meaning of the Concept of Probablity in Application to Finite Sequences. Teaching positions at Princeton, MIT, since 1965 professor of philosophy at Harvard University. His works are among others Mind, Language and Reality, Cambridge University Press, 1975 Meaning and the Moral Sciences, London, Routledge, 1978 Reason, Truth and History, Cambridge University Press, 1981 The Many Faces of Realism, La Salle, Open Court, 1987 Realism with a Human Face, Harvard University Press, 1990 Renewing Philosophy, Harvard Univesity Press, 1992 The Threefold Cord, Columbia University Press, 1999 -- L a s z l o E. 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