RESEARCH SEMINAR ON
LANGUAGE AND MIND:

CONCEPTS

Offered Spring 1998

The seminar on Language and Mind will be conducted this Spring by Ned Block and Paul Boghossian and will meet Tuesdays from 4 to 7 PM. Papers for discussion will be available one week in advance and will be distributed at the preceding seminar. They can also be picked up at the Department of Philosophy, Main Building Room 503, 100 Washington Square East and that is where you can find the first paper. Many of the papers will also be available on this web page by clicking on the title of the paper. Inquiries should be addressed to Debbie Bula in the Department of Philosophy: 998-8320, bula@is.nyu.edu.

Students may take this seminar for credit. For information on course requirements and meeting times, please see the Spring 1998 graduate course announcement.
 

Schedule of Speakers
 

January 20 , 1998:	Jerry Fodor   Rutgers University   There Are No Recognitional Concepts; Not Even RED*  There Are No Recognitional Concepts; Not Even RED
January 27, 1998:	Gilbert Harman   Princeton University   (Nonsolipsistic) Conceptual Role Semantics  The Meanings of Logical Constants
February 3, 1998:	Stephen Schiffer  NYU  A Paradox of Meaning Meanings and Concepts Language-Created Language-Independent Entitities
February 10, 1998:	Michael Martin  University College, London The Transparency of Experience
February 17, 1998:	Brian Loar  Rutgers University   Phenomenal Intentionality as the Basis of Mental Content
February 24, 1998:	Jerry Katz  CUNY Names Without Bearers Analyticity, Necessity and the Epistemology of Semantics
March 3, 1998:	Mark Sainsbury  King's College, London  Fregean Indexicals Freagean Sense
March 10, 1998:	Robert Stalnaker  MIT  What Might Nonconceptual Content Be?
March 24, 1998:	Andy Clark  Washington University, St. Louis The Extended Mind Magic Words: How Language Augments Human ComputationThe Extended Mind
March 31, 1998:	Frank Jackson  Australian National University Reference and Description Revisited
April 7, 1998:	The class will not meet on this date
April 14, 1998:	Martin Davies Oxford University Folk Psychology and Mental Simulation
April 21, 1998:	Chris Peacocke  NYU and Oxford University Being Known: The Theory of Concepts and the Integration Challenge
April 28, 1997:	Crispin Wright   University of St. Andrews and Columbia University (Ruminations towards a possible study of) Response-dependence, Physicalism and Anomalousness Euthyphronism and the Physicality of Colour: A Comment on Mark Powell's "Realism or Response-Dependence?"
May 5, 1998:	Tyler Burge  UCLA

updated 4/2/98 philo.web@nyu.edu