WITTGENSTEIN WORKSHOP 2007-2008

FALL

First meeting will be in SOCIAL SCIENCE 107, 1:30-4:30

All other meetings during the Fall will be in HARPER 148, 1:30-4:30

28 Sept Charles Travis, “The Place of Visual Experience in Frege’s Philosophy of Mind”

5 Oct Kristin Boyce, “Philosophy and Literature Reconsidered”

19 Ben McMyler, “Three Models of Epistemic Dependence”

26 Ed Witherspoon, “The Truth of Skepticism: Themes in Cavell and Wittgenstein”

2 Nov Warren Goldfarb, “Wittgenstein against Logicism”

9 Tom Lockhart, “Kant and Frege on Mathematical Reasoning and Arithmetical Objects”

16 Vincent Descombes, “ Paradigms of Necessity”

30 Zed Adams, “Ethical Objectivity”

WINTER

11 Jan Nat Hansen, “Open Texture”

18 Thomas Land, “Kant’s Spontaneity Thesis”

25 Matthias Haase, “Social Practices and the Metaphysics of Language”

1 Feb Nancy Bauer, “What is to be done with Austin?”

7 (Thursday, 4:30) Michael Williams, “Wittgenstein and the Skeptical Tradition”

15 Peter Murray, “Scientism, Second Nature and McDowell”

22 Piergiorgio Donatelli, “Concepts of Nature”

29 Jon Ellis, “Phenomenal Character and Philosophical Introspection”

7 Mar Gary Ebbs, “Self-Knowledge in Doubt”

14 Andrea Kern, TBA

SPRING

3 April Alva Noe, “Conscious reference”

4 David Finkelstein, “Consciousness Matters”

11 Thomas Ricketts, “The Requirement of Determinacy of Sense in the Tractatus”

18 Aidan Gray, “Grammatical Form and Logical Form in ‘On Denoting’”

25 Sandra Laugier, “Ethics as Attention to the Particular”

2 May Jocelyn Benoist, “Husserl and Wittgenstein on Intention and Fulfillment”

9 Richard Strier, “On Cavell on Shakespeare”

16 Ed Minar, TBA

23 Julia Tanney, “Wittgenstein on Conflating Different Criteria”

30 John McDowell, TBA

6 June Arata Hamawaki, “Scenes of Instruction in Wittgenstein and Cavell”

CHANGES in this schedule are possible and rather likely.

Please check online on the Department of Philosophy Calendar for confirmation.

For INFORMATION or assistance please contact the graduate student coordinator:

Silver Bronzo at bronzo@uchicago.edu