Colloquium : Carnap's Ideal of explanation

Carnap's Ideal of Explication: Logic, Metalogic, and Wissenschaftslogik
14, 15, 16 May 2009
Venue :
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - 12, place du Panthéon, Paris
Aile Soufflot - Escalier A - 4th floor - Room 419 B
No fee, no registration


Thursday, May 14th 2009
Morning session. Chair: Pierre Wagner

8:50 – 9:00 Welcoming address and introduction. Pierre WAGNER.
9:00 – 9:55 Wolfgang KIENZLER (Universität Jena)
On Carnap's Ideal of Philosophy. The Scope of Tolerance and the Double-Faced Ideal of Explication
10:00 – 10:55 Juliet FLOYD (Boston University)
Carnap, Turing and Wittgenstein: Contrasting Notions of Analysis
11:15 – 12:10 Juha MANNINEN (University of Helsinki)
14:00 – 14:55 Michael BEANEY (University of York)
Flexplication: Fashioning Frege's Functional Framework
15:00 – 15:55 Richard CREATH (Arizona State University)
16:15 – 17:10 Erich RECK (University of California, Riverside)
Carnapian Explication and its Rivals
17:15 – 18:10 Xavier VERLEY (Université de Toulouse le Mirail)
Interpretation, Explication, and Logic of Science

Friday, May 15th 2009

9:00 – 9:55 Alan RICHARDSON (University of British Columbia)
15:00 – 15:55 Daniel ISAACSON (University of Oxford)
Carnap’s Conception of Mathematics as Analytic
16:15 – 17:10 Philippe de ROUILHAN (IHPST, CNRS, Paris)
Carnap and the Semantical Explication of Truth and Logical Consequence

Saturday, May 16th 2009

9:00 – 9:55 Peter HYLTON (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Quine and the Aufbau: the Problem of Objective Knowledge
10:00 – 10:55 Gottfried GABRIEL (Universität Jena)
Carnap, Pseudo-Problems, and Ontological Questions
15:00 – 15:55 Jacques BOUVERESSE (IHPST, Collège de France, Paris)
Carnap and the Legacy of Aufklärung
16:15 – 17:10 André CARUS (University of Cambridge)
Engineers and Drifters