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.
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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
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