Richard Rorty filozófiai öröksége

A Pécsi Tudományegyetem Filozófia Tanszéke és a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia szeretettel várja az érdeklődőket "Richard Rorty filozófiai öröksége" című, 2008 május 13-14-e között tartott pécsi konferenciájára. A részleteket lásd alább.

borosjanos@t-online.hu

http://www.btk.pte.hu/tanszekek/filozofia/Boros_lap/index.htm

May 13, Tuesday 8.30 am – 6.30 pm

 

Morning Session

 

8.30-9.00 Opening – Janos Boros

(University Pécs, borosjanos@t-online.hu)

Richard Rorty’s Philosophical Legacy

 

Chair: János Boros (University Pécs)

9.00-9.40h John McDowell (University of Pittsburgh, jmcdowel+@pitt.edu)

Rorty on Subjectivity

9.40-10.20 Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, mwilliams@jhu.edu

)

The Long Goodbye: Richard Rorty and Analytic Philosophy

 

10.20-10.40h Break

 

Chair: John McDowell (University of Pittsburgh)

10.40-11.20h Agnes Heller (New School of Social Research, New York, hellera@newschool.edu

), The playful rhetorics of melancholy seriousness

11.20-12.00h Robert Brandom (University of Pittsburgh, rbrandom+@pitt.edu)

An Arc of Thought:From Rorty’s Eliminative Materialism to his Pragmatism

12.00-12.40h Kristof Nyíri (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, nyiri@hunfi.hu

)

Visualization and the Limits of Scientific Realism

 

12.40-14.30 Lunch break

 

Afternoon Session

 

Chair: Kristof Nyíri (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)

14.30-15.10h Paul Horwich (New York University, ph42@nyu.edu)

Rorty’s Wittgenstein

15.10-15.50h István Fehér M.

(University Budapest, h9142feh@ella.hu)

Aspects of Rorty's Legacy: Pragmatism, Hermeneutics, Politics

15.50-16.30h Björn Ramberg (University Oslo, b.t.ramberg@ifikk.uio.no)

For the sake of his own generation: Rorty on destruction and edification

 

16.30-16.50h Break

 

Chair: Paul Horwich (New York University)

16.50-17.30h Anton Leist (University Zürich, leist@access.unizh.ch)

On Rorty's Relativism

17.30h-18.00h Zsolt Garai (University Pécs, garaizs@gmail.com)

Rorty and the Interpretationism

18.00-18.30h Pierre Steiner (Université de Compiègne, France, Pierre.Steiner@univ-provence.fr

) Rorty on the mental / physical distinction

 

19.00 Dinner at Pavlik Cellar (Pécs, Varjú dűlő 1.)

May 14, Wednesday 9.00 am – 6-30 pm

 

Morning Session

 

Chair: Robert Brandom (University of Pittsburgh)

9.00-9.40h Jolán Orbán (University Pécs, orbanjolan@t-online.hu)

Pragrammatology – Derrida’s Pragmatism, Rorty’s Deconstruction

9.40-10.20h Danielle Macbeth (Haverford College, dmacbeth@haverford.edu)

Reading Rorty: A Sketch of a Plan

10.20-11.00 Tibor Szolcsányi (University Pécs, szolcsanyit@freemail.hu)

Pragmatism or representationalism: how could you recognize that an electron recognizes you?

 

11.00-11.20h Break

 

Chair: Zsolt Garai (University Pécs)

11.20-12.00h Huw Price (University of Sidney, huw@mail.usyd.edu.au)

Two Ways to Reject Representationalism

12.00-12.40h Matjaz Potrc and Vojko Strahovnik (University of Ljubljana, matjazpotrc@gmail.com

)

Viable Pragmatist Cognitivism

 

12.40-14.30h Lunch Break

 

Afternoon Session

 

Chair: Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University)

14.30-15.10h Tadeusz Szubka (University of Szczecin, szubka@univ.szczecin.pl)

Rorty on Analytic Philosophy

15.10-15.40h László Kocsis (University Pécs, kocsis.laszlo@gmail.com)

Playground or Discipline: Rorty on Ontology

15.40-16.10h Béla Egyed (University of Carleton, begyed@ccs.carleton.ca)

Rorty, Philosophy, and Politics: Once Again

 

16.10-16.30h Break

 

Chair: Danielle Macbeth (Haverford College)

16.30-17.00h György Pápay (University Pécs, papaygy@freemail.hu)

Parallels Between Politics and Science: Rorty on Conceptual Revolutions

17.00-17.20h Nóra Horváth (University Pécs, azenor@freemail.hu)

"Self-creation" and that certain "incommunicable private bliss" - The influence of
Proust's special world to Rorty

17.20-17.40h Dániel Golden (Hungarian Academy, Philosophy Department, golden.daniel@t-online.hu

), Pragmatical Textualism: Richard Rorty’s Aborted Philosophical Research Program

17.40-18.00h Concluding remarks

 

18.00h/6.30pm Take off to Villány – Bock Cellar www.bock.hu

 

Please send the final versions of the presentations for publication in the conference volume until June 30, 2008, to borosjanos@t-online.hu