“One might think: if philosophy speaks of the use of the word "philosophy" there must be a secondorder philosophy. But it is not so: it is, rather, like the case of orthography, which deals with the word
"orthography" among others without then being second-order”. Wittgenstein, PI §121.
PHILOSOPHIES OF PHILOSOPHY
Celebrating 20 Years of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies
School of Philosophy
University College Dublin
June 17-19
Newman House
86 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2
Online Registration: http://ucdphilosophyconferences.eventbrite.ie/
Programme
June 17
10.00 Opening Address
MARIA BAGHRAMIAN (UCD)
The Question of Style in Philosophy
GRADUATE STUDENTS SESSIONS
Parallel Session A1
11.30- Beyond the ‘Analytic-Continental’ Gap: The Converging Methods in the History of Philosophy
ANDRIJA SOC
Belgrade University
12.00-How to Do Philosophical Things with Words
ANDY BLITZER
Georgetown
12.30- Why Believe the Dictionary? – Ordinary Language Philosophy: Between Austin and
Wittgenstein
SEBASTIAN GREVE
Birkbeck College, University of London
Parallel Session B1
11.30- The Textuality of Philosophy
MARTIN GRÜNFELD
UCD
12.00- Heidegger’s hermeneutics of suspicion
NAOMI VAN STEENBERGEN
Essex
12.30- Hegel and the De-familiarization of the Familiar
HAMMAM ALDOURI
CRMEP Kingston University
1.00 – 2.00 LUNCH BREAK
Parallel Session A2
2.00- Intuitions and Skepticism
MARTHA CASSIDY-BRINN
University of Vienna
2.30- Practical Knowledge in Mathematical Practice: A suggestion from Wittgenstein's philosophy
MONICA SOLOMON
Notre Dame
3.00- Metatheory and the Evidential Weight of Intuitions
AMANDA MACASKILL
NYU
Parallel Session B2
2.00- Davidsonian - Heideggerian account of truth, a middle ground position
MEHDI NASSAJI
University of Hull
2.30- Is Chinese Thought Philosophy? --An Investigation from the Perspective of Song and Ming NeoConfucianism.
YANGXIAO OU
University College Cork
3.00- Which turn to take in the philosophy of understanding?
JONATHAN LEWIS
Royal Holloway
3.00-3.30 Coffee Break
Invited Sessions
3.30- 4.30 SØREN OVERGAARD (University of Copenhagen)
Phenomenology: Some Metaphilosophical Considerations
4.30-5.30 GILLES MARMASSE (Sorbonne)
Reading Hegel: Some Remarks
June 18
Invited Session
9.30 -10.30 DERMOT MORAN (UCD)
What do we learn from Phenomenology?
10.30 Coffee Break
Parallel Ssession A1
11.00-The methodological and metaphilosophical assumptions of the Gettier tradition in epistemology
BOB LOCKIE
University of West London
11.30- The Twin track Strategy
CHRIS DALY
Manchester University
12.00- Naturalised Metaphysics or Metaphysics as Metaphor
JACK RITCHIE
University of Cape Town
Parallel Session B1
11.00- Wittgenstein on Idealization in Philosophy/Logic
OSKARI KUUSELA
East Anglia
11.30- Later Wittgenstein as Literature
DAVID EGAN
Oxford University
12.00-The Philosopher and the Frapes: on descriptive metaphysics and why it is not “sour
metaphysics
GIUSEPPINA D’ORO
Keele University
12.30 -2.00 Lunch
Parallel Session A2
2.00 - Hybrid Virtue Epistemology and the A Priori
BENJAMIN JARVIS
Queen’s Belfast
2.30 - Intuitions and Why They Matter. A Response to Cappelen
EUGEN FISHER
East Anglia
Parallel Session B2
2.00- The Philosophy of Language’s Impact on the Language of Philosophy
LARS INDERESLT
Duesseldorf Universitat
2.30 How to Do Things with ‘Anglobalisation’
OISÍN KEOHANE
University of Edinburgh & University of Johannesburg.
Invited Sessions
3.00 – 4.00 KEVIN MULLIGAN (Geneva)
Left-Wing VS Right-Wing Wittgensteinians
4.00 Coffee break
4.30- 6.30
TIMOTHY WILLIAMSON (Oxford)
Paul HORWICH (NYU)
On the Consequences of Wittgenstein’s Metaphilosophy
June 19
Invited Sessions
9.30–10.30 PHILIP PETTIT (Princeton)
Conceptual Genealogy
10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 - 12.00 KATALIN FARKAS (Central European University)
Canonical texts, canonical questions
12.30- 2.00 lunch
2.00-2.30 Parallel Session A
Conditional qua Conceptual Analysis
RAAMY MAJEED
The University of Otago
2.00-2.30 Parallel Session B
The Importance of Existence Questions
NIALL CONNOLLY
TCD/UCD
INVITED SESSIONS
3.00 – 4.00 JONATHAN WEINBERG (University of Arizona)
What Experiments Can Do for Philosophy
4.00 Coffeee break
4.30 – 6.30
PAUL BOGHOSSIAN (NYU)
HERMAN CAPPELEN (St Andrews)
Philosophy without Intuitions
6.30 Conference Close and Reception
Conference Organisers
Professor Maria Baghramian (UCD)
Maria.Baghramian@ucd.ie
Dr Sarin Marchetti (UCD/Rome)
Sarin.Marchetti@ucd.ie
The conference is sponsored by
UCD School of Philosophy
The International Journal of Philosophical Studies
UCD Seed Funding