GAP.8

Colloquia on Thursday,
20.9.2012, 9-12

On thursday, 20.9.2012, between 9 an 12 there will be five parallel sessions:

Mindreading versus Teleological Reasoning: Two Ways of Understanding Rational Action
Organisers: Johannes Brandl (Salzburg), Frank Esken (Bielefeld), Speakers: Josef Perner (Salzburg), Kim Sterelny (Wellington), Pierre Jacob (Paris), Commentators: Hans-Johann Glock (Zürich), Johannes Roessler (Warwick)

Moral Understanding
Organisers: Peter Schaber, Christoph Baumberger, Georg Brun, Gertrude Hirsch (Zurich), Speakers: Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (Chapel Hill), Alison Hills (Oxford), Gerhard Ernst (Stuttgart)

Perspectivism in the Philosophy of Science and Epistemology
Organiser: Jörn Wüstenberg (Constance), Speakers: Paul Teller (Davis), James Conant (Chicago), Ronald Giere (Minneapolis)

The Contribution of the History of Philosophy to the Theory of Perception
Organisers: Dina Emundts (Constance), Ursula Renz (Klagenfurt), Speakers: Alison Simmons (Harvard), Barry Stroud (Berkeley), Gianfranco Soldati (Fribourg)

Truth, Meaning, and the Semantic-Pragmatics Distinction
Organisers: Elke Brendel, Erik Stei (beide Bonn) Speakers: Emma Borg (Reading), Robyn Carston (London), Zoltán Gendler Szabó (Yale)