Professor Peter Hacker giving the opening address at the conference on analysis at St Catherine's College Oxford in 2005.
The Varieties of Analysis: Conceptions of Analysis in the History of Philosophy
British Society for the History of Philosophy in association with the Open University Mind, Meaning and Rationality Research Group
and supported by the British Academy, the Mind Association, the Analysis Trust, the Maison Française, and Taylor & Francis
St. Catherine’s College, Oxford
30 March - 1 April 2005
Programme (4-page Word document)
Wednesday 30 March 2005
11.00 BSHP Management Committee Meeting (Mary Sunley Seminar Room)
12.00 - Registration, Mary Sunley Conference Centre
14.00 Opening Address (Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre)
- Peter Hacker: 'Analytic Philosophy: beyond the linguistic turn and back again'
- Chair: Martin Bell (BSHP Chair)
15.00 Session 1: Russell (Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre)
- Nicholas Griffin: 'Russell's Early Semantics'
- Bernard Linsky: 'Logical Analysis and Logical Construction'
- Chair: Sean Crawford
16.30 Tea
17.00 BSHP AGM (Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre)
18.15 Wine Reception, sponsored by Taylor & Francis, Publisher of the BJHP (Junior Common Room Lounge)
19.00 Dinner
20.30 The 'On Denoting’ Centenary Lecture, sponsored by the Mind Association (Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre)
- Peter Hylton: '"On Denoting" and the Idea of a Logically Perfect Language'
- Chair: Dorothy Edgington (President of the Mind Association)
Thursday 31 March 2005
9.00 Session 3A: Geometrical Analysis (Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre)
- Marco Panza: 'From Intra-configurational to Trans-configurational Analysis, or from Pappus to Viète: The Origins of Modern Mathematics'
- Petri Maenpaa: 'Analysis of inductively defined configurations: A generalization of configurational analysis'
- Patrick Byrne: 'The Modern Return to Analysis: Viète and Descartes'
- Chair: Danielle Macbeth
Session 3B: Wittgenstein's Tractatus (Mary Sunley Seminar Room)
- Maria Cerezo: 'Two conceptions of analysis in Wittgenstein's Tractatus'
- Dawn Phillips: 'The Paradox of Analysis in the Tractatus'
- Andreas Blank: 'Analysis, Elucidation, and the Descriptive Nature of Philosophy in the Early Wittgenstein'
- Chair: Edgar Boedeker
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Session 4A: History and Philosophy of Science (Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre)
- Volker Peckhaus: 'Analysis and Invention: From the ars inveniendi to the Context of Discovery'
- Brigitte Falkenburg: 'Analysis and Synthesis in Modern Physics'
- Chair: Sarah Hutton
Session 4B: Collingwood and Ryle (Mary Sunley Seminar Room)
- Giuseppina D'Oro: 'Collingwood and the Idea of Philosophical Analysis'
- Charlotte Vrijen: 'The Development of Philosophical Analysis in the Work of Gilbert Ryle'
- Chair: James Connelly
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Session 5A: Frege and Russell (I) (Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre)
- Jamie Tappenden: 'Analysis and Notation in Frege and his Mathematical Surroundings'
- Erich Reck: 'Frege and Russell: Analyzing the Concept of Number'
- James Levine: 'Analysis and Abstraction Principles in Frege and Russell'
- Chair: Michael Potter
Session 5B: Moore and Conceptual Analysis (Mary Sunley Seminar Room)
- Marion Ledwig: 'Common Sense Philosophy in Reid, Austin, Searle, Moore, and Wittgenstein'
- Consuelo Preti: 'Moore's Early Theory of Judgment: A Reconsideration'
- Bo Petersson: 'The Uppsala School and Conceptual Analysis'
- Chair: Derek Matravers
16.00 Tea
16.30 Session 6A: Kant and Wittgenstein (Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre)
- Robert Hanna: 'Kant, Wittgenstein, and the Fate of Analysis'
- Chair: Hanjo Glock
Session 6B: Analysis in the History of Philosophy (Mary Sunley Seminar Room)
- Alan Nelson: 'Russellian and Moorean Analysis in the History of Philosophy'
- Chair: Vivienne Brown
17.15 Session 7A: Analytic Philosophy in the History of Philosophy (Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre)
- Alan Richardson: 'Synthesizing "Analytic Philosophy": Historical Remarks on a Curious Name'
- Chair: Alex Barber
Session 7B: Quine (Mary Sunley Seminar Room)
- Heikki Koskinen: 'Logical Analysis and Its Ontological Implications in Quine'
- Chair: Alex Orenstein
18.00 Session 8: C. I. Lewis (Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre)
- Thomas Baldwin: 'C. I. Lewis and Pragmatic Analyticity'
- Chair: John Rogers
19.00 Conference Dinner
Friday 1 April 2005
9.00 Session 9A: Bolzano (Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre)
- Sandra Lapointe: 'Bolzano's Semantic Analyses and the Austrian Logistic Turn'
- Chair: Carolyn Price
9.00 Session 9B: Frege and Russell (II) (Mary Sunley Seminar Room)
- Norma Goethe: 'Frege and the remains of the axiomatic tradition'
- Omar Nasim: 'Russell's Notion of Philosophical Analysis and Edwardian English Philosophy'
- Chair: Denis McManus
9.45 Session 10A: Conceptual Analysis and Concepts (Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre)
- Chris Daly: 'Conceptual Analysis Meets Prototype Theory'
- Michael Blome-Tillmann: 'Conceptual Analysis and the Concept of Truth'
- Chair: Carolyn Price
10.00 Session 10B: Phenomenology and the Linguistic Turn (Mary Sunley Seminar Room)
- Christophe Alsaleh: 'Analysis, Austinian Linguistic Phenomenology, and Husserlian Phenomenology'
- Marika Hadzipetros: 'The Phenomenological Reduction and the Linguistic Turn'
- Chair: Cristina Chimisso
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Session 11: Analysis in the Analytic and Phenomenological Traditions (I) (Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre)
- Leila Haaparanta: 'The Method of Analysis in Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy'
- Dermot Moran: 'Husserl's Methodology of Concept Clarification'
- Chair: David Roden
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Session 12: Analysis in the Analytic and Phenomenological Traditions (II) (Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre)
- Paul Livingston: 'Husserl and Schlick on the Logical Analysis of Experience'
- Amie Thomasson: 'Analyzing Meanings in Mind and Language'
- Chaise longue: Mike Beaney
15.30 Tea
16.00 Conference Ends