Dear All, Tomorrow (Tuesday the 23rd) Julia Tanney, from the University of Kent, will give a talk entitled 'The Cambridge Transformation of the Conception of Concepts: First Steps of a Conceptual-Cartographical Exploration of Cause, Reason, and Explanation'.
The meeting will take place in St. John's College in the Dirac Room in the Fisher Building and will start at 5.15pm. As usual, the speaker will talk for a maximum of 45 minutes, followed by discussion until 7pm. *If you would like to have dinner with Julia after the talk, please tell me by noon tomorrow, so that I can reserve a table* The abstract is as follows: What Ryle called 'The Cambridge Transformation of the Conception of Concepts' was, as I see it, supposed to come about from a rejection of a naïve view about the representational function of language. Already put under pressure by Russell and Frege, this rejection, Ryle argued, found its fulcrum in the work of Wittgenstein. But outside Wittgenstein scholarship, the naïve view has continued to prevail in philosophical theorizing today. In particular, philosophical enquiry that proceeds by a conceptual-cartographical exploration of the linguistic practices in which our expressions have their home(s) has become virtually extinct. In this paper, written as a tribute to Roy Holland, I tease out some of the assumptions about language at issue while examining how a logical-geographical exploration of cause, reason and explanation puts pressure on some widely accepted accounts of today. Regards, Daniel Brigham Secretary of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge _____________________________________________________ Sent by the CamPhilEvents mailing list. To unsubscribe or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents Posts are archived here: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
