Wilfrid Sellars: Science and metaphysics
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
9.15am : Welcome (A. Bandini, Collège de France)
Morning: Robert Brandom(Chairman)
9h30-10h20 : Michael Williams, Johns Hopkins University
Inferentialism and Ontology
10h20-10h50 : discussion
10h50-11h10 : break
11:10-12:00: Aude Bandini, Collège de France - "Between coherentism and foundationalism: the Sellarsian conception of experience"
12:00-12:30 discussion
12:30-14:30: Break
Afternoon: Jacques Bouveresse (chairman)
14h30-15h20: James O'Shea, University College Dublin
Sensing, Seeing, and Categorizing: What is the Myth of the Given?
15h20-15h50 : discussion
15h50-16h40: Frédéric Nef, EHESS
Sellars and the nominalistic ontology of the particular
16h40-17h10 : discussion
5.10pm-5.30pm: break
17h30-18h20 : Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh
Pragmatism, Inferentialism, and Modality in Sellars's Arguments against Empiricism
18h20-18h50 : discussion
Friday, May 29th, 2009
Morning: Michael Williams (chair)
9h30-10h20: Willem deVries, University of New Hampshire
The Transcendental and the Causal in Experience
10h20-10h50 : discussion
10:50-11:10 a.m.: Break
11:10-12:00: Jean-Baptiste Rauzy, Université de Provence
The citation conception of abstraction
12:00-12:30 discussion
12:30-14:30: Break
Afternoon: Jean-Baptiste Rauzy (chair)
14h30-15h20 : Mathias Girel, Paris I
Verbal behavior and the logical space of reasons
15h20-15h50: discussion
15h50-16h10 : break
4.10pm-5.00pm: Jacques Bouveresse, Collège de France
Sellars, Spinoza and Leibniz
17h00-17h30: discussion
This symposium is organized with the support of the Fondation Hugot du Collège de France.
