Call for Papers
200 Years of Analytical Philosophy
4th International Symposium for Cognition, Logic and Communication
Confirmed invited speakers include :
Arianna Betti (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Mike Beaney (York, UK)
Johannes Brandle (Salzburg, Austria)
Matti Eklund (Cornell, USA)
Dagfinn Foellesdal (Stanford, USA)
Leila Haaparanta (Tampere, Finland)
Peter Hylton (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Sandra Lapointe (Kansas State, USA)
James Levine (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Bernard Linsky (Alberta, Canada)
Michael Losonsky (Colorado State, USA)
Ulrich Majer (Hanover, Germany)
Paolo Mancosu (Berkeley, USA)
Mathieu Marion (Montreal, Canada)
Kevin Mulligan (Geneva, Switzerland)
Peter Simons, FBA (Leeds, UK)
Jamie Tappenden (Michigan, USA)
Amie Thomasson (Miami, USA)
Janis N. Vejs (Riga, Latvia)
Jan Wolenski (Krakow, Poland)
Richard Zach (Alberta, Canada)
The symposium will take place on 28-30 August 2008 at the University of Latvia in Riga and is co-hosted by the Center for Cognitive Sciences and Semantics of the University of Latvia and the Department of Philosophy at Kansas State University
Call for Papers and Symposia
The aim of the conference is to stimulate exchange on those aspects of the history of analytical philosophy that have been neglected and to provide a venue for work that concerns lesser known figures and theories or lesser known aspects of known ones.
Possible topics include:
The Brentano School and early analytic philosophy
British Empiricism and its modifications
The British idealists (Bradley, McTaggart, Collingwood, etc.)
Early logical positivism
The origins of the cognitive sciences and early theories of the mind
The relation between philosophy of language and formal semantics
Twardowski and his school (Lesniewski, Lukasiewicz, Ajdukiewicz, Kotarbinski, Tarski, etc.)
Early analytic philosophy and the neo-Kantians
Bolzano and/or Frege
Analytic philosophy and phenomenology
The rise of analytical issues in ontology
Submitted papers:
A limited number of papers will be selected for presentation at the symposium and considered for inclusion in the proceedings in the Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication.
Time allowed for presentations is 40 minutes including discussion. Submitted papers should have a maximum of 3000 words and should be accompanied by a 200 words abstract.
All submitted papers should be PREPARED FOR BLIND REVIEW, and should be sent electronically to:
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS 15 APRIL 2008. Authors will be notified in May 2008.
Symposium proposal:
In addition to individual papers, the scientific committee will be considering
proposals for symposia. Time allowed for symposia is 2 hours (including discussion).
Symposia should include a minimum of three and a maximum of four contributions.
Submissions should be clearly identified as ?Symposium proposal? and include:
1) The title of the symposium
2) A brief description of the topic and its relevance to the conference (200 words)
3) The name, affiliation and academic status (student, lecturer, assistant
professor, etc.) of each participant
4) The title of each contribution as well as an extended 500-1000 word abstract.
5) The name, affiliation and academic status of the person who will be chairing the symposium
Symposium proposals should be sent electronically to:
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS 15 APRIL 2008. Authors will be notified in May 2008.
For more information, please visit our website:
http://www-personal.k-state.edu/~bolzano
Scientific Committee: Matti Eklund (Cornell), Sandra Lapointe (KSU), Marcelo Sabates (KSU), Jurgis Skilters (U of Latvia), Artis Svece (U of Latvia), Amie Thomasson (Miami).
Sponsors and partners:
The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia
The University of Latvia
Kansas State University
The Bertrand Russell Society
The History of Early Analytical Philosophy Society