“One might think: if philosophy speaks of the use of the word "philosophy" there must be a second-order 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

 

Opening Address, Iveagh Room

Chair: Dermot Moran (UCD)

 

10.00-11.00 On Philosophical Divisions

          Maria Baghramian (UCD)

 

 

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

 

 

Graduate Students Sessions

 

Parallel Session A1, Iveagh Room

Chair: Pegah Lashgarlou (UCD)

 

11.30-12.00 Beyond the ‘Analytic-Continental’ Gap: The Converging Methods in the History of Philosophy

                         ANDRIJA SOC (Belgrade University)

 

12.00-12.30 Why Believe the Dictionary? Ordinary Language Philosophy: Between Austin and Wittgenstein

                          SEBASTIAN GREVE (Birkbeck College, University of London)

 

12.30-13.00 Is Chinese Thought Philosophy? An Investigation from the Perspective of Song and Ming Neo                    Confucianism

          Yangxiao Ou (University College Cork)

 

 

 

 

 

Parallel Session B1, Room 9

Chair: Dylan Trigg

 

11.30-12.00 The Textuality of Philosophy

                         MARTIN GRüNFELD (UCD)

 

12.00-12.30 Heidegger’s Hermeneutics of Suspicion

                        NAOMI VAN STEENBERGEN (Essex)

 

12.30-13.00 Hegel and the De-familiarization of the Familiar

                        Hammam Aldouri (CRMEP Kingston University)

 

 

1.00 – 2.30 LUNCH BREAK

 

 

Parallel Session A2, Iveagh Room

Chair: Tom McNally (TCD)

 

2.30- 3.00 Intuitions and Skepticism

                     Martha Cassidy-Brinn (University of Vienna)

 

3.00-3.30 Practical Knowledge in Mathematical Practice: A suggestion from Wittgenstein's philosophy

                   MONICA SOLOMON (Notre Dame)

 

 

Parallel Session B2, Room 9

Chair: Meline Papazian (UCD)

 

2.30-3.00 Davidsonian - Heideggerian account of Truth: a middle ground position                   

      MEhdi Nassaji (University of Hull)

 

3.00-3.30 Which turn to take in the Philosophy of Understanding?

                    JONATHAN LEWIS (Royal Holloway)

 

 

3.30-4.00 Coffee Break

 

 

Invited Sessions, Iveagh Room

Chair: Mahon O’Brien (UCD)

 

4.00-5.00 Phenomenology: Some Metaphilosophical Considerations

     Søren Overgaard (University of Copenhagen)

 

Chair:  Joseph Cohen (UCD)

 

5.00-6.00 Reading Hegel: Some Remarks

     GILLES MARMASSE (Sorbonne)

June 18

 

 

Invited Session, Physics Theatre

Chair: Maria Baghramian (UCD)

 

10.00 -11.00 What do we learn from Phenomenology?

           DERMOT MORAN (UCD)

 

 

11.00-11.30 Coffee Breaks

 

 

Parallel Session A1, Iveagh Room

Chair: Paul O’Grady (TCD)

 

11.30-12.00 The Methodological and Metaphilosophical assumptions of the Gettier tradition in Epistemology

                           BOB LOCKIE (University of West London)

 

12.00-12.30 Hybrid Virtue Epistemology and the A Priori

                         BENJAMIN JARVIS  (Queen’s University Belfast)

 

 

Parallel Session B1, Physics Theatre

Chair: Maeve Cooke (UCD)

 

11.30-12.00 Wittgenstein on Idealization in Philosophy/Logic

                         OSKARI KUUSELA (East Anglia)

 

12.00-12.30 Later Wittgenstein as Literature

                         DAVID EGAN (Oxford University)

 

 

 

12.30 -2.00 Lunch

 

 

 

Parallel Session A2, Physics Theatre

Chair: Meredith Plug (TCD)

 

2.00-2.30 The Twin track Strategy

                   CHRIS DALY (Manchester University)

 

2.30-3.00 The Philosopher and the Grapes: on descriptive metaphysics and why it is not “sour metaphysics”

                     GIUSEPPINA D’ORO (Keele University)

 

 

 

Parallel Session B2, Iveagh Room

Chair: Áine Kelly (UCD)

 

2.00-2.30 The Philosophy of Language’s Impact on the Language of Philosophy

                   LARS INDERESLT (Duesseldorf Universitat)

 

2.30-3.00 How to Do Things with ‘Anglobalisation’

                   OISíN KEOHANE (University of Edinburgh & University of Johannesburg)

 

 

 

Invited Sessions, Physics Theatre

Chair: Dermot Moran (UCD)

 

3.00- 4.00 Left-Wing vs Right-Wing Wittgensteinians

      KEVIN MULLIGAN (Geneva)

 

 

4.00-4.30 Coffee Break

 

 

Chair: James O’Shea (UCD)

 

4.30- 6.30 The Plausibility of Wittgenstein’s Metaphilosophy

      Timothy WILLIAMSON (Oxford)

      PAUL HORWICH (NYU)

     

 

Conference Dinner – Chez Max, 133 Lower Baggot St., Dublin 2 (invited and registered)

 

 

June 19

 

Invited Sessions, Physics Theatre

Chair:  Sarin Marchetti (UCD)

 

10.00 -11-00 Conceptual Genealogy

            Philip PETTIT (Princeton/ANU)

 

 

11.00-11.30 Coffee Breaks

 

 

Chair: Christopher Cowley (UCD)

 

11.30 - 12.30 Canonical Texts, Canonical Questions

                           KATALIN FARKAS (Central European University)

 

 

12.30- 2.00 lunch

 

Parallel Session A, Physics Theatre

Chair: Jim Levine (TCD)

 

2.00-2.30 Naturalised Metaphysics or Metaphysics as Metaphor

                    JACK RITCHIE (University of Cape Town)

 

2.30-3.00 The Importance of Existence Questions        

                    NIALL CONNOLLY (TCD/UCD)

 

 

Parallel Session B, Iveagh Room

Chair: Fergal McHugh (UCD)

 

2.00-2.30 Conditional qua Conceptual Analysis

                    RAAMY MAJEED (The University of Otago)

 

2.30-3.00 Intuitions and Why They Matter. A Response to Cappelen

                   EUGEN FISHER (East Anglia)

 

 

Invited Sessions, Physics Theatre

Chair: Cathal O’Madagain (UCD)

 

3.00 – 4.00 What Experiments Can Do for Philosophy

        Jonathan WEINBERG (University of Arizona)

 

 

4.00-4.30 Coffee Break

 

 

Chair: Maria Baghramian (UCD)

 

4.30-6.30 Philosophy without Intuitions

     PAUL BOGHOSSIAN (NYU)

      Herman Cappelen (St Andrews)

    

 

6.30 Dinner – Il Primo, 16 Montague St., Dublin 2

          (invited and registered)

Conference Organisers

Professor Maria Baghramian (UCD)

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Dr Sarin Marchetti (UCD/Rome)

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The conference is generously sponsored by

UCD School of Philosophy

The International Journal of Philosophical Studies

UCD Seed Funding

                                                                                              UCD College of Human Sciences