Robinson College, Cambridge
BSHP Conference Spring 2006
Philosophy and Historiography: Programme
Monday 3 April
11.00
BSHP Management Committee Meeting (Umney Lounge)
12.00 –
Registration, Umney Foyer
14.00
Opening Address (Umney Theatre)
Speaker: Quentin Skinner (Cambridge), ‘The post-modern challenge and the
interpretation of texts’
Chair: Martin Bell (BSHP Chair)
15.00
Session 1: Collingwood and Gadamer (Umney Theatre)
Dale Jacquette (Pennsylvania), ‘Collingwood on historical authority and
historical imagination’
Nick Jardine (Cambridge), ‘Gadamer’s “merely historical understanding” of
dead philosophical questions’
Chair: James Connelly (Southampton Solent)
16.30
Tea
17.00
BSHP AGM (Umney Theatre)
18.15
Wine Reception, sponsored by Routledge, Publisher of the BJHP (Umney
Lounge)
19.00
Dinner
20.15
Session 2: Postanalytic and sociological approaches to history of philosophy
(Umney Theatre)
Mark Bevir (Berkeley), ‘Philosophical historiography: a postanalytic
perspective’
Martin Kusch (Cambridge), ‘Sociological approaches to the history of
philosophy’
Chair: Sue James (Birkbeck College)
Tuesday 4 April
9.00
Session 3A: Early modern philosophy and science (Umney Theatre)
Sarah Hutton (Middlesex), ‘Books, history and philosophy: libraries and the
history of early modern philosophy’
M. A. Stewart (Aberdeen), ‘Placing Hume historically’
Richard W. Serjeantson (Cambridge), ‘Problems in the historiography of
early modern philosophy and science: the case of human understanding’
Chair: Marina Frasca Spada (Cambridge)
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Session 3B: Historiography of the sciences (Music Room)
Christopher Minkowski (Oxford), ‘Sanskrit knowledge and the world history
of science’
Teresa Castelão-Lawless (Grand Valley University), ‘Does science have the
history of philosophy it deserves?’
Theodore Arabatzis (Athens), ‘The historiography and the philosophy of
science: towards a two-way traffic’
Chair: Brendan Larvor (Hertfordshire)
Session 3C: Hermeneutics and Merleau-Ponty (Umney Lounge)
Chris Lawn (Limerick), ‘Hermeneutics and the history of philosophy’
Martina Reuter (Helsinki), ‘Appearance, truth and limitations: Maurice
Merleau-Ponty’s remarks on the historiography of philosophy’
Josep Maria Bech (Barcelona), ‘Merleau-Ponty’s historiography of
philosophy encourages sociologism despite its ontological background’
Chair: Cristina Chimisso (Open University)
Session 3D: Historical knowledge and philosophy of history (Teaching
Room 7)
Eelco Runia (Groningen), ‘Vico and the metonymical structure of historical
knowledge’
Leon ter Schure (Groningen), ‘Presence: a new perspective in philosophy of
history?’
Herman Paul (Groningen), ‘Prefiguring the historical field: an empirical study
of metahistory’
Chair: Cees Leijenhorst (Nijmegen)
11.00
Coffee
11.30
Session 4A: Historiography and analytic philosophy (Umney Theatre)
Hanjo Glock (Reading), ‘Analytic philosophy and history – a mismatch’
Michael Beaney (York), ‘Analytic philosophy and historiography’
Chair: Alix Cohen (Cambridge)
Session 4B: Historiography of philosophy and science (Music Room)
Marion Ledwig (Stockholm), ‘How one should understand a dead
philosopher: experimental psychology applied to the history of philosophy’
Vasso Kindi (Athens), ‘Glancing at history’
Anja Skaar Jacobsen (Roskilde), ‘The relation between Marxist philosophy of
history, philosophy of science, and the historiography of science in the work
of Léon Rosenfeld’
Chair: Sandy Stewart (Aberdeen)
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Session 4C: Early modern philosophy (Umney Lounge)
S.-J. Savonius (Cambridge), ‘Pierre Bayle and John Locke’
Duncan Kelly (Sheffield), ‘Adam Smith: the history of philosophy and the
propriety of liberty’
Chair: Sarah Hutton (Middlesex)
13.00
Lunch
14.00
Session 5A: Twentieth-century French historiography (Umney Theatre)
Michael Heidelberger (Tübingen), ‘Emile Boutroux’s conception of the
historiography of philosophy: a Franco-German affair’
Bernadette Bensaude Vincent (Paris X, Nanterre), ‘Meyerson a chemist
turned philosopher’
Cristina Chimisso (Open University), ‘Philosophy as reflection on history of
philosophy and science in the work of Léon Brunschvicg’
Chair: Teresa Castelão-Lawless (Grand Valley University)
Session 5B: Historiography of analytic philosophy (Music Room)
Alan Richardson (UBC), ‘What, for history, is logical empiricism? Remarks
toward an empirical history of logical empiricism’
Aaron Preston (Malone College, Ohio), ‘What the history of the
historiography of analytic philosophy teaches us about historiography,
philosophy, and analytic philosophy’
Henrique Jales Ribeiro (Coimbra), ‘On the history of the history of analytical
philosophy’
Chair: Michael Potter (Cambridge)
Session 5C: Categorising matter (Umney Lounge)
Kevin Chang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), ‘From vitalistic earth to
materialistic globe: Johann Joachim Becher and Georg Ernst Stahl on
subterranean physics and chemistry of minerals’
Georgette Taylor (UCL), ‘The boundaries of affinity: drawing a line between
chemistry and natural philosophy’
Matthew D Eddy (Durham), ‘Names, ideas and signs: the medical and
philosophical foundations of Dugald Stewart’s ‘nominalistic’ philosophy of
mind’
Chair: Hasok Chang (UCL)
Session 5D: Hegel and historiography (Teaching Room 7)
Raffaella Santi (Urbino), ‘Historiography and the unity of philosophy and of
science: Hegel and Whewell’
Michael Schleeter (Pennsylvania State University), ‘Hegel and the myth of
teleological historiography’
Michele Del Prete (Berlin), ‘The conclusion of the history of philosophy and
the end of philosophy: Franz Rosenzweig’s anti-Hegelian interpretation of a
Hegelian topos’
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Chris Lauer (Pennsylvania State University), ‘Historiographical necessity in
Heidegger’s Beiträge and Hegel’s Differenzschrift’
Chair: Giuseppina D’Oro (Keele)
16.00
Tea
16.30
Session 6: Round table discussion of The Cambridge History of Philosophy,
sponsored by Cambridge University Press (Umney Theatre)
Speakers: Michael Ayers, Tom Baldwin, Knud Haakonssen, Quentin Skinner
Chair: John Rogers (Editor of the BJHP)
19.00
Conference Dinner
Wednesday 5 April
9.00
Session 7A: Historiography of mathematics (Umney Theatre)
Jeremy Gray (Open University), ‘Mathematicians compelled to become
philosophers: history, philosophy, and the history of mathematics’
José Ferreirós (Seville), ‘In and with the rest of knowledge: reflections on
mathematics, science and philosophy in the 19th century’
Steve Russ (Warwick), ‘The ‘grounding’ of truths in Bolzano’s philosophy
and his mathematics’
Chair: Serafina Cuomo (Imperial College)
Session 7B: Anachronism and Skinner’s historiography (Music Room)
Carlos Spoerhase (Berlin), ‘Do we have to forget the present in order to
understand the past? A vindication of present-centred methodologies in the
history of philosophy’
Richard Randell (Webster University, Geneva), ‘The intentionalist
methodology of Quentin Skinner’
Sami Syrjämäki (Tampere), ‘Quentin Skinner on anachronism’
Chair: Sean Crawford (Lancaster)
Session 7C: Renaissance and early modern philosophy (Umney Lounge)
Vasily Arslanov (IMPRS Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte), ‘Can the
historian be non-partisan? Philosophical paradoxes in the Chronicle of
Sebastian Franck’
Constance Blackwell (International Society for Intellectual History), ‘The
progress of philosophy: Pierre Gassendi’s De origine et varietate logicae and
its use as a model for a history of philosophy as the progress of thought: Jena
1700-1744’
Leo Catana (Copenhagen), ‘Jacob Brucker’s historiographical concept
“system of philosophy”’
Jarmo Pulkkinen (Oulu), ‘Technical metaphors and history of philosophy:
Christian Wolff’s clockwork universe’
Chair: Paul Schuurman (Erasmus University, Rotterdam)
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Coffee
11.30
Session 8A: The theory and practice of history (Umney Theatre)
Avi Tucker (Belfast), ‘Our knowledge of the past: or how to prove that your
students plagiarized’
Adrian Wilson (Leeds), ‘Historiography and the resistance to theory’
Chair: Michael Beaney (York)
Session 8B: Pragmatism and American analytic philosophy (Music Room)
Sami Pihlström (Helsinki), ‘Synthesizing traditions: rewriting the history of
pragmatism and transcendental philosophy’
Joel Isaac (Cambridge), ‘Beyond platonism and social determinism:
American analytic philosophy in historical context’
Chair: Neil Gascoigne (Roehampton)
Session 8C: Ancient and medieval philosophy (Umney Lounge)
Miira Tuominen (Helsinki), ‘Are the ancient commentators on Plato and
Aristotle historians of philosophy?’
Frédéric Goubier (Québec), ‘Late medieval philosophy and rational
reconstruction: the ideal match?’
Carlos Eduardo Nogueira Loddo (Québec), ‘“Reconstruction” vs.
“restauration” in the historiography of philosophy’
Chair: Annabel Brett (Cambridge)
13.00
Lunch
14.00
Session 9A: Historiography and the philosophy of mind (Umney Theatre)
Vivienne Brown (Open University), ‘Historiography, interpretation and
philosophy of mind’
Giuseppina D’Oro (Keele), ‘The philosophy of history and the philosophy of
action’
Chair: Derek Matravers (Open University)
Session 9B: Semantic issues in historiography (Music Room)
Franz Leander Fillafer (Max-Planck-Institute for History, Göttingen/IFK,
Vienna), ‘Structural isomorphisms of language and reality: historiographical
perspectives’
Jouni Kuukkanen (Edinburgh), ‘Existence and definability of ideas and
concepts in history’
Chair: Nick Unwin (Bolton)
15.30
Tea
16.00
Conference Ends
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