Conference: Naturalism, Normativity, and the Space of Reasons
Naturalism, Normativity, and the Space of Reasons
Friday-Saturday, March 28-29th
A two-day conference hosted by the School of Philosophy at University
College Dublin (UCD), Ireland (For queries, please contact:
Jim.OShea@ucd.ie)
Papers will run from Friday morning to Saturday late afternoon/early
evening.
A website with registration details, timetable of speakers, times, and
titles will be available very soon (and noted on this blog).
List of Speakers:
Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh
Michael Williams, Johns Hopkins University
Willem deVries, University of New Hampshire
Meredith Williams, Johns Hopkins University
Matthew Chrisman, University of Edinburgh
Jaroslav Peregrin, Charles University, Prague
Aude Bandini, Coll�ge de France, Paris
Topic of the Conference:
The American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars famously remarked in 1956
that "in characterizing an episode or a state as that of knowing, we
are not giving an empirical description of that episode or state; we
are placing it in the logical space of reasons, of justifying and
being able to justify what one says."
An ever increasing number of philosophers today argue that the crux of
a wide variety of crucial problems pertaining to mind, meaning,
knowledge, and action ultimately concerns the same problem space
adverted to by Sellars: namely, the puzzling relationships between the
normatively structured `space of reasons' or rational validity on the
one hand, and the domain of naturalistic causal explanations
characteristic of modern science on the other.
This conference brings together a distinguished group of philosophers
from Europe and America, all of whose work has been centrally
concerned with investigating the complex and puzzling relationships
between the natural and the normative.
[This is perhaps the conference to attend, and at the wonderful UCD
campus as well where I spent a couple of very happy years...highly
recommended!]
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