Program


   Tuesday, May 24  
     
 12.00 registration
 13.15 opening


chair of the afternoon session: J. Peregrin
 13.30

W. deVries: Millikan vs. Sellars on the Normativity of Language

 14.05 

L. Shapiro: Sellars on Semantical Rules and the Meaning of 'Means'

 14.40 

S. Levine: The Tenability of Sellars' Naturalism with a Normative Turn

 15.15

coffee break

 15.30

R. Stöckle-SchobelIn a strange forest on a dark night – Sellarsian Concept Learning defended against Nativism

 16.05

P. Olen: Meaning and Frameworks: Sellars on Ryle and Inner Episodes

 16.40

P. Redding: Wilfrid Sellars's Disambiguation of Kant's “Intuition” and its Relevance

 17.15

coffee break

 17.30 

Invited Lecture 
J. O'SHEA:
Normativity and Nature: Prospects for a Stereoscopic View


   
   Wednesday, May 25  
     


chair of the morning session: L. Shapiro
 9.00 J. Wanderer: 'Styles of Thinking' and the Expansion of Normative Space
 9.35 

L. Medici: Norms and their place in nature: Foundations for a synoptic theory of intentionality

 10.10

coffee break

 10.20 

M. Kiesselbach: How meaning is like value: Brandomian thoughts on the institution of normative statuses

 10.55

J. P. LivingstonIntuition and Inference

 11.30

coffee break

 11.40

Invited Lecture 
R. BRANDOM: Modal expressivism and modal realism: together again

 12.30

lunch break



chair of the afternoon session: P. Redding
 14.30

R. Kukla and M. Lance: Talking to yourself and hearing others’ thoughts: why neither means you are insane

 15.05

C. Sachs: Intentionality Relational and Non-Relational: Sellars and Merleau-Ponty contra McDowell

 15.40

coffee break

 15.55

P. Stovall: Being as We Ought: Rule-Following, Language-Use, and Persons

 16.30

B. Prien: The Relation between Norms and Patterns of Behavioral Dispositions

 17.05

coffee break

 17.20

M. Okrent: Instrumental Norms and the Institution of Semantic Meaning

 17.55

E. Begby: Lexical Norms, Language Comprehension, and the Epistemology of Testimony


 
   
 

 Thursday, May 26

 
     


chair of the morning session: M. Lance
 9.00 T. Høíbek: Semantic Normativity and Supervenience
 9.35 

P. Steiner: The normativity of meaning and the ontlogical status of conceptual mental episodes. Reassessing Sellars’ behaviorism

 10.10

J. Woodbridge: Meaning attribution, normativity, and pretense

 10.45 

coffee break

 11.00

D. Laurier: What does intentional normativism require?

 11.35

J. Klimczyk: Taking It Seriously: Norm-Relativity, Normativity of Meaning and Rationality

12.10

coffee break

12.25

Invited Lecture
M. WILLIAMS
Meaning, Use and Normativity

13.15

free afternoon

19.00

conference banquet

     
 

 Friday, May 26

 
     


chair of the morning session: P. Steiner
 9.00 A. Brokes: The Closure Debate, The Meaning of ‘Implication’, and Epistemology as Spectator-activity
 9.35 

D. Porello: Dialogue Games and Incompatibility Semantics

 10.10

coffee break

 10.20 

G. Turbanti: A logic for "causal modalities"

 10.55

F. Knappik: On the Role of Explanatory Relations in Inferentialist Semantics

 11.30

coffee break

 11.40

Invited Lecture
C. GAUKER:
A third conception of the normativity of meaning

 12.30

lunch break



chair of the afternoon session: V. Svoboda
 14.30

D. Lauer: Anti-Normativism and the Fraud With "Ought": On the Normativity of Constitutive Rules

 15.05

T. Pritzlaff: The Normativity of Doxastic and Discursive Updating

 15.40

coffee break

 15.55

U. Hlobil: Defending the normativity of meaning

 16.30

J. Peregrin: Society as the source of the normativity of meaning