The seminar on Language and Mind will be conducted this Spring by Paul Boghossian and Stephen Schiffer 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. 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 1999 graduate course announcement. 
 

Schedule of Speakers
 

January 19 , 1999:	Michael Friedman University of Indiana  I. The Idea of a Scientific Philosophy II. Historical Perspectives on the Stratification of Knowledge III. Rationality, Revolution, and the Community of Inquiry
January 26	Ian Hacking University of Toronto Is there any pont in talking about social constructs in connection with the natural sciences?
February 2	Catherine Elgin Harvard University From Considered JudgementPDF
February 9	Hartry Field NYU A Prioricity as an Evaluative Notion PDF Epistemological Nonfactualism and the A Prioricity of Logic PDF
February 16	Thomas Nagel NYU From The Last Word PDF
February 23	Robert Brandom University of Pittsburgh A Social Route from Reasoning to RepresentingPDF Objectivity and the Normative Fine Structure of RationalityPDF
March 2	David Velleman University of Michigan On the Aim of Belief PDF
March 9	Helen Longino University of Minnesota
March 16	Spring break
March 23	Stephen Stich Rutgers University
March 30	Thomas Scanlon Harvard University From What We Owe to Each Other PDF
April 6	Derek Parfit NYU and Oxford University Normativity [Html version] Normativity [PDF version]
April 13	Crispin Wright University of St. Andrews and Columbia University Three Problems: Relativism Vagueness Logical Revisionism PDF
April 20	Paul Boghossian NYU Reasons and our Knowledge of LogicPDF The Objectivity of Epistemic Reasons PDF The Normativity of Content PDF
April 27	Ronald Dworkin NYU Objectivity and Truth: You'd Better Believe It

 

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