LanCog Workshop on Analyticity

September 26, 2014 12:00am

25-26 September 2014
Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon

The notion of analyticity has had a prominent role in the work of many philosophers, especially in the first half of the twentieth century. Following W. V. Quine’s seminal paper “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” (1951) many philosophers have come to regard the notion with much suspicion. In recent years, however, there has been renewed interest in analyticity, but can we make sense of it? What is its philosophical significance? Can it be used to explain the possibility of a priori knowledge? The aim of this workshop is to provide a platform for discussion and reflection on these and related questions.

Speakers:

Paul Boghossian (NYU)
Bob Hale (Sheffield; NIP; KCL)
Gillian Russell (Washington)
Manuel García-Carpintero (Logos, Barcelona & Lancog, Lisbon)
Magdalena Balcerak Jackson (Konstanz)
Julien Murzi (Kent & MCMP, Munich)
Florian Steinberger (MCMP, Munich)
Gurpreet Rattan (Toronto)
David Liggins (Manchester)

Workshop program

Thursday, 25 September

9:55

10:00 – 11:20

11:20 – 11:40

11:40 – 13:00

13:00 – 14:30

14:30 – 15:50

15:50 – 16:10

16:10 – 17:30

20:30

Welcome

Paul Boghossian (NYU), “Epistemic Analyticity and Intuition”

Coffee Break

Julien Murzi (Kent & MCMP, Munich) & Florian Steinberger (MCMP, Munich), “Inferentialism and Understanding”

Lunch

Manuel García-Carpintero (Logos, Barcelona & Lancog, Lisbon), “Understanding De Iure Coreference”

Coffee Break

Magdalena Balcerak Jackson (Konstanz),” The Significance of Epistemic Analyticity”

Workshop Dinner

Friday, 26 September

10:00 – 11:20

11:20 – 11:40

11:40 – 13:00

13:00 – 14:30

14:30 – 15:50

15:50 – 16:10

16:10 – 17:30

Bob Hale (Sheffield), “Bolzano’s Definition of Analytic Propositions”

Coffee Break

Gillian Russell (Washington), “Analyticity and the Epistemology of Logic”

Lunch

Gurpreet Rattan (Toronto), “Concepts and Epistemic Normativity Beyond Revisability and Conceptual Change”

Coffee Break

David Liggins (Manchester), “Grounding and Metaphysical Analyticity”

Organizing Committee:

Adriana Silva Graça (Lancog, Univ. of Lisbon)
Fiora Salis (Lancog, Univ. of Lisbon)
Célia Teixeira (Lancog, Univ. of Lisbon)
Filipa Seabra (Univ. of Lisbon)
Carla Simões (Univ. of Lisbon)

Sponsors:

LanCog – Research Group in Language, Mind and Cognition
FCT Project – Online Companion PTDC/FIL-FIL/121209/2010
FCT – Fundação para Ciência e Tecnologia, Ministério da Educação e Ciência
CFUL – Centro de Filosofia, Universidade de Lisboa
FLUL – Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa
QREN – Quadro de Referência Estratégico Nacional