[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism reading group

Dear all, We will have our last pragmatism reading group of the year on Monday 28th of June, at 11.00am. We will be reading Chapter 12 "Act local, think global, and play nice with the neighbours" from the new edition of Huw Price's Facts and the Function of Truth. You can access the meeting th

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism reading group

Dear all, For tomorrow Monday 21th of June, at 11.00am, we will be reading Chapter 11 "What is Expressivism?" from the new edition of Huw Price's Facts and the Function of Truth. You can access the meeting through the link below (this is a recurring meeting): https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9227148

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism reading group

Dear all, For Monday 14th of June, at 11.00am, we will be reading Chapter 10 "Embracing Minimalism" from the new edition of Huw Price's Facts and the Function of Truth. If you don't have the file and would like to attend this session, please email me. You can access the meeting through the lin

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism reading group

Dear all, For Monday 7th of June, at 11.00am, we will be reading the new introduction to Huw Price's Facts and the Function of Truth. I will be sending the file to the usual attendants. If you would like to join and/or have not received the file, please email me. The full text of the first edit

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism reading group

Dear all, For Monday 31th of May, at 11.00am, we will be reading 'How pragmatists can be local expressivists' by Michael Williams in Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism. You should be able to access the chapter here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/expressivism-pragmatism

Re: [CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group

Hello, I have been a bit shy about coming to this group, but I would have come this week, except that unfortunately I am going to be away. Good luck with the reading, Simon Sent from my iPad > On 21 May 2021, at 11:24, Oscar Westerblad wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > Having now read the firs

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group

Dear all, Having now read the first three chapters of Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism, we will move on to the commentaries in Part II of the book. For Monday 24th of May, at 11.00am, we will be reading chapter 4 'Pragmatism: all or some?' by Simon Blackburn. You should be

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group, 17th May

Dear all, This is a reminder that we will continue reading Huw Price's work in the Pragmatism Reading Group tomorrow, Monday 17th of May, at 11.00am. We will be discussing chapter 3 'Pluralism, ‘world’ and the primacy of science' of Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism. You should

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism reading group: Huw Price 2

Dear all, This is a reminder that we will continue reading Huw Price's work in the Pragmatism Reading Group. On Monday 10th of May, at 11.00am, we will be discussing chapter 2 'Two expressivist programmes, two bifurcations' of Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism. You should be abl

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group: Huw Price

Dear all, This term we will be reading Huw Price's work in the Pragmatism Reading Group. We will be meeting Mondays at 11.00am (please note the change of time from last term), starting Monday 3rd of May. In the first three meetings, we will read chapters from Expressivism, Pragmatism and Repre

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group: Huw Price (vs. Rorty)

Dear all, For Monday 15th of March, we will be reading Huw Price's article "Truth as a Convenient Friction" (2003). The article can be found on JSTOR or here

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism reading group: Rorty and Michael Williams

Dear all, For Monday 1st of March, we will be reading Michael Williams' chapter "Epistemology and the Mirror of Nature" and Rorty's response in the volume Rorty and His Critics (2000). Please email me to get an electronic copy of the chapter. You should be able to access the meeting through th

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group: Rorty and Ramberg

Dear all, For Monday 1st of March, we will be reading Børn Ramberg's article "Post-ontological Philosophy of Mind: Rorty versus Davidson" and Rorty's response in the volume Rorty and His Critics (2000). Please email me to get an electronic copy of the chapter. You should be able to access the

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group: Brandom's criticism of Rorty

Dear all, For Monday 15th of February, we will move on to reading Richard Rorty's critics, starting with Robert Brandom's "Vocabularies of Pragmatism: Synthetizing Naturalism and Historicism" and Rorty's response in the volume Rorty and His Critics (2000). The chapter can be found on Robert Bra

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group: Rorty 5

Dear all, For Monday 15th of February, we will continue with Richard Rorty, reading "Is Truth A Goal of Enquiry? Davidson vs. Wright" (1995). The article can be found here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2219651. Please be aware of the change in time from last term; we are now meeting at 10am. Y

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group: Rorty 4

Dear all, For Monday 8th of February, we will continue with Richard Rorty, reading ch. 7 'From Epistemology to Hermeneutics' in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Please be aware of the change in time from last term; we are now meeting at 10am. You should be able to access the meeting throug

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group: Rorty 3

Dear all, For Monday 1st of February, we will continue with Richard Rorty, reading ch. 6 'Epistemology and Philosophy of Language' in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Please be aware of the change in time from last term; we are now meeting at 10am. You should be able to access the meeting

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group: Rorty 2

Dear all, For Monday 25th of January, we will continue with Richard Rorty, reading ch. 4 'Privileged Representations' in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Please be aware of the change in time from last term; we are now meeting at 10am. You should be able to access the meeting through the fo

Re: [CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group: Rorty, 18th January

Dear Oscar Celine and colleagues: Please do not take this tease amiss. I remember that I, we all!, had RR's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature central in our IB and II supervision readings back in the mid 80s. But I cannot resist sharing this joke definition, along the lines of Dennett's Ph

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group: Rorty, 18th January

Dear all, The pragmatism reading group will resume its regular meetings this term, starting on Monday 18th January at 10.00am. This term, we will be reading selections from Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, and then move on to some of his critics. The 30th anniversary edition

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism reading group (Brandom)

Dear all, Next Monday the Pragmatism Reading Group will be discussing Chapter 4 ("Modality and Normativity: From Hume and Quine to Kant and Sellars") of Between Saying and Doing. The text is accessible here: https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199542871.001

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism reading group (Brandom)

Dear all, Next Monday the Pragmatism Reading Group will be discussing Chapter 6 ("Objectivity and the Normative Fine Structure of Rationality") of Articulating Reasons. The full text is accessible online via iDiscover: https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=TN_cdi_askew

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism reading group (Brandom)

Dear all, Next Monday the Pragmatism Reading Group will be discussing Chapter 5 ("A Social Route from Reasoning to Representing") of Articulating Reasons. The full text is accessible online via iDiscover: https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=TN_cdi_askewsholts_vlebook

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism reading group (Brandom)

Dear all, Next Monday the Pragmatism Reading Group will be discussing Chapter 2 ("Actions, norms and practical reasoning") of Articulating Reasons. The full text is accessible online via iDiscover: https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=TN_cdi_askewsholts_vlebooks_97806

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism reading group (Brandom)

Dear all, Next Monday the Pragmatism Reading Group will be discussing Chapter 1 ("Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism") of Articulating Reasons. The full text is accessible online via iDiscover: https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=TN_cdi_askewsholts_vleb

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism reading group: Brandom

Dear all, Next Monday the Pragmatism Reading Group will be moving on to Brandom. We will start by reading the introduction of Articulating Reasons (focusing on pp. 1-35). The full text is accessible online via iDiscover: https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=TN_cdi_ask

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group: Sellars 4

Dear all, Next Monday the Pragmatism Reading Group will be discussing Sellars's 'Abstract Entities', which can be accessed through the following link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20123967?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents We will meet, as usual, at 11.00-12.00 on Zoom. You should be able to acc

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group: Sellars 3

Dear all, Next Monday the Pragmatism Reading Group will be discussing Sellars's 'Meaning as Functional Classification (A perspective on the Relation of Syntax to Semantics)', which can be accessed through the following link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20114935?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group; Sellars, 2nd meeting

Dear all, Thanks to those who attended the first meeting of the Pragmatism Reading Group this Monday. Next Monday, we will again meet at 11.00am on Zoom. For Monday, 19th October, we will read Sellars, 'Language as Thought and as Communication'

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group: Sellars, first meeting

Dear all, The Pragmatism Reading Group will be running online, on Mondays at 11.00am, this term. We will be using Zoom and will send a link out to those interested in attending. The focus in Michaelmas Term will be on Wilfrid Sellars and Robert Brandom, exploring their functionalist and inferen

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group: Special Event Reminder

Dear all, This is a reminder that the pragmatism reading group is running a special event this Friday, 28th of February, at 3.30pm until 5.00pm in Seminar Room 2 in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. We will be joined by Cheryl Misak, Professor of Philosophy at the University

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group: special event, 28th of February

Dear all, The next pragmatism reading group meeting will be a special event with Cheryl Misak and Huw Price, who will be joining us to discuss two readings from Misak's new book, Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group: Ramsey and Special Event

Dear all, In anticipation of Cheryl Misak's forthcoming book, Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers, we will be reading some of Ramsey's work in the pragmatism reading group. For Monday 17th of February, we will read 'Facts and Propositions'

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group: Dewey 3

Dear all, For our next meeting, on Monday 10th of February, we will finish with Dewey, discussing his paper 'The Logic of Judgements of Practice'. The paper can be accessed through the link, or as a PDF attached to this emai

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group: Dewey 2

Dear all, For our next meeting, on Monday 3rd of February, we will continue with Dewey, discussing his paper The Experimental Theory of Knowledge. The paper can be accessed through the link, or as a PDF attached to this emai

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group: Dewey

Dear all, For our next meeting, on Monday 27th of January, we will discuss John Dewey's 1908 paper 'What Does Pragmatism Mean by Practical?'. The paper can be accessed through the link, or as a PDF attached to this email. W

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group

Dear all, This term the Pragmatism Reading Group will be meeting on Mondays at 15.00-16.00, in room P19 in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. We will meet for the first time on Monday 20 of January to discuss two papers by William James: 'Pragmatism's Conception of Truth

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group

Dear all, For the pragmatism reading group next week, we will continue with Peirce, reading what are probably his two most famous papers: 'The Fixation of Belief' and 'How to Make Our Ideas Clear'. We will try to cover the material of both in the reading group, but if there's too much material

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group

Dear all, For the pragmatism reading group next week, we will continue with Peirce, reading a review of a collection of Berkeley's work, titled 'Fraser's The Works of George Berkeley'. This paper contains a discussion of Peirce's own so-called scholastic realism and his "common-sense" notions o

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group, 2nd meeting

Dear all, For the pragmatism reading group next week, we will continue with Peirce, reading his 'Some Consequences of Four Incapacities'. For those not receiving this through the Phil-Events list, the reading is attached to this email. If you don't have access to the reading, please email me an

Re: [CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group: First Meeting October 15th, 11.00am

:02:33 PM To: phil-events@lists.cam.ac.uk Subject: Re: [CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group: First Meeting October 15th, 11.00am Dear all (apologies for another email), I was just made aware that attachments aren't permitted on the phil-events email. Please let me know if you'd li

Re: [CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group: First Meeting October 15th, 11.00am

Dear all (apologies for another email), I was just made aware that attachments aren't permitted on the phil-events email. Please let me know if you'd like a copy of the readings and the schedule, and I'll pass those along. Next time I'll make sure they're sent through a link to Dropbox or somet

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group: First Meeting October 15th, 11.00am

Dear all (with apologies for cross-posting), The pragmatism reading group will meet for the first time this term, on Tuesday 15th of October, at 11.00am in Seminar Room P19, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. We will start by reading C. S. Peirce, the so-called father or fo

[CamPhilEvents] Pragmatism Reading Group, Lent Term

Dear Colleagues, The Pragmatism Reading Group will commence again on the 21st of January. Having read several of C. S. Peirce’s most important essays last term, we now turn to William James and John Dewey’s development of pragmatism. The reading list for the first five weeks is as follows: