Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 11:08:35 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi-AT-statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Norms, Nature and Truth with special guest "Robert Brandom"       


Greetings lists,

[Hi, I thought --this might interest you --Robert B. Brandom will be
speaking and discussing on the issues of Norms, Nature and Truth. He 
is a Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Philosophy at
the University of Pittsburg and a fellow of the Center for Philosophy of
Science. He is author of Making it Explicit (1994), and Articulating
Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism (2000). His main interests are
in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of logic,
epistemology, and the history of philosophy. **Most Important** --He is
currently working on a book on "Hegel's Phenomenology", and a "lecture
series on Frege". He has published articles on semantics and the
philosophy of language in the Journal of Philosophy, Midwest Studies,
Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Topics, and Analysis. His work on
Spinoza and Leibniz has appeared in the Journal of the History of
Philosophy, on Heidegger in the Monist, on Hegel in the American
Philosophical Quarterly, on Frege in Synthese. Thank you.--Arun]
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From: Stephen Clark <srlclark-AT-LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:32:24 +1000
From: "RIHSS (Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences)"
<melissa.mcmahon-AT-rihss.usyd.edu.au>

  The Department of Philosophy and the Research Institute for Humanites
 and Social Sciences at Sydney University, and the School of Philosophy,
            Macquarie University present a one-day workshop:

                        Norms, Nature and Truth

                           with special guest

                             Robert Brandom
           Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburg

                        Tuesday, July 11th, 2000

                        Holme & Sutherland Room
                       Ist Floor, Holme Building
                        The University of Sydney

Robert B. Brandom is Distinguished Service Professor in the Department
of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburg and a fellow of the Center
for Philosophy of Science. He is author of Making it Explicit (1994),
and Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism (2000). His
main interests are in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind,
philosophy of logic, epistemology, and the history of philosophy. He is
currently working on a book on Hegel's Phenomenology, and a lecture
series on Frege. He has published articles on semantics and the
philosophy of language in the Journal of Philosophy, Midwest Studies,
Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Topics, and Analysis. His work on
Spinoza and Leibniz has appeared in the Journal of the History of
Philosophy, on Heidegger in the Monist, on Hegel in the American
Philosophical Quarterly, on Frege in Synthese. His work in the
philosophy of logic has appeared in the Notre Dame Journal of Formal
Logic and Philosophical Topics. He has been a Nelson Visiting Professor
at the University of Michigan (1990), and delivered the Hempel Lectures
at Princeton (1994).


Provisional Programme

10-10.30:         Reg, coffee

10.30-12.30:    Robert Brandom: "Actions, Norms and Practical Reasoning"

                   Reply by David Macarthur (to be confirmed)

2.00 -3.30:       Paul Redding: "Making Hegel's Inferentialism Explicit"

4.00 -5.30:      Huw Price: "Truth as Convenient Friction"


Registration fee: $10 waged, $5 unwaged (includes refreshments)

                               For further information, please contact:
       Paul Redding, Department of Philosophy, The University of Sydney
                                    Paul.Redding-AT-philosophy.usyd.edu.au
                                                   Fax: (612) 9351 6683
                                                   Work: (612) 9351 3983














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