Archive 2008-2009

Oct 17
Colin Patrick (University of Chicago, graduate student)
“Foot’s naturalism and moral reasons for action”

Nov 7
Silver Bronzo (University of Chicago, graduate student)
“The context principle and contextual definitions in Jeremy Bentham”

Nov 14
Nat Hansen (University of Chicago, graduate student)
“Color adjectives and radical contextualism”

Nov 21
Ed Minar (University of Arkansas)
“The life of the sign: rule-following, practice and agreement”

Jan 23
Matt Teichman (University of Chicago, graduate student)
“Philosophy of action in the Tractatus

Jan 30
Tom Lockhart (University of Chicago, graduate student)
“What would it be (if anything) to be a disjunctivist about X (for any X)?”

Feb 6
Joshua Schwartz (University of Chicago, graduate student)
“Quine on disquotation schemata”

Feb 13
Piergiorgio Donatelli (Sapienza Universita’ di Roma)
“Transformations of the concept of human being”

Feb 20
Dawn Chow (University of Chicago, graduate student)
“The logic of nonsense”

Feb 20
Will Small (University of Chicago, graduate student)
“Knowing what I’m doing”

Mar 7
Cato Wittusen (University of Stavanger, Norway)
“Wittgenstein and secondary sense”

Apr 3
Agnes Callard (University of Chicago)
“The shape of satisfaction”

Apr 10
Daesuk Han (University of Chicago, graduate student)
“The nature of all being: Wittgenstein and Heidegger”

Apr 17
Daniel R. Rodriguez Navas (University of Chicago, graduate student)
“The Tractarian doctrine of relations”

Apr 20
Martin Gustafsson (University of Stockholm, Sweden)
“Wittgenstein and ‘tonk’: inference and representation in the Tractatus

May 1
Peter Hylton (UIC)
“Ideas of logically perfect languages in analytic philosophy”

May 8
Charlotte Gauvry (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, visiting student)
“Sense, nonsense and context: the New Wittgenstein and Travis’ Wittgenstein”

May 15
Charles Todd (University of Chicago, graduate student)
“The new problem of akratic action”

May 22
Zed Adams (The New School for Social Research)
“The hardness of the ethical must”

May 29
Stina Bäckström (University of Chicago, graduate student)
“Can we make sense of inner sense?”