EAP6:    6th International/MidWest Conference on Early Analytic Philosophy IPFW Campus, Classroom Medical 35A, April 17th–18th, 2009

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We wish to gratefully acknowledge the financial support for this conference provided by the IU Department of Philosophy, IU College of Arts and Sciences, IU Logic Program, IU Office of International Affairs, IPFW Office for Research and External Support (ORES), IPFW College of Arts and Sciences, IPFW Department of Philosophy, and sundry other donors.  Thanks!  BB&DCM

CONFERENCE PROGRAM       (back to top)

• Friday, April 17th
  
  

  9:30am–noon	Sightseeing
  2:30–3:00pm	REFRESHMENTS
  Time	EARLY ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY
  3:00–3:15pm	Welcome!
  3:15–4:00pm	Jesson: "Frege's Primary Principle and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy"
  4:00–4:45pm	Preti: "Marginal Notations to G.E. Moore's 1898 Elements of Ethics"
  4:45–5:15pm	COFFEE BREAK
  5:15–6:00pm	Mi: "Semantics without Metaphysics"
  6:00–7:00pm	Creath: "Before Explication"



• Social Gathering (8:00pm–  )


• Saturday, April 18th       (back to top)
  
  

  Time	RUSSELL
  8:45–9:15am	CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
  9:15–10:00am	McCarty: "Myths of Syntax"
  10:00–10:45am	Foster: "Russell and Do Differences Differ?"
  10:45–11:15am	COFFEE BREAK
  11:15–12:00pm	Landini: "Two Dogmas of Russellian Interpretation"
  12:00–12:45pm	Bonino: "Russell's Judgments and Wittgenstein's Propositions"



• Lunch Break (12:45–3:00pm)



Time	WITTGENSTEIN
3:00–3:45pm	Tillman: "Tractatus 4.466: Tautology and Contradiction"
3:45–4:30pm	Stillwell: "Wittgenstein's Tractatus and On Certainty"
4:30–5:00pm:	COFFEE BREAK
	QUINE AND BEYOND
5:00–5:45pm	Yuann: "Empirical Stimulus in Theory Change: Quine and Feyerabend"
5:45–6:30pm	Ebbs: "Quine's Naturalistic Account of 'Truth by Convention'"



• Philharmonic (8:00–9:45pm) / Conference Dinner (at Club Soda) (10:00pm–??)

PARTICIPANTS & ABSTRACTS

• Bernd Buldt, Professor and Chair, IPFW (Organizer)


• Guido Bonino, Professor, U of Torino, Italy (Speaker)
  "Russell's Judgments and Wittgenstein's Propositions" (abstract)


• Richard Creath, Professor, Arizona State U, USA (Keynote Speaker)
  "Before Explication" (abstract)


• Gary Ebbs, Professor, IUB, USA (Speaker)
  "Quine's Naturalistic Account of 'Truth by Convention'" (abstract)


• Tom Foster, Professor, Ball State U, USA (Speaker)
  "Russell and Do Differences Differ?" (abstract)


• Greg Jesson, graduate student, U of Iowa, USA (Speaker)
  Frege's Primary Principle and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy" (abstract)


• Jeremy Kelly, Florida Southern College, USA (Speaker)
  "Frege and Russell on Assertion" (abstract)


• Gregory Landini, Professor, U of Iowa, USA (Speaker)
  "Two Dogmas of Russellian Interpretation" (abstract)


• Charles McCarty, Professor (Organizer, Speaker)
  "Myths of Syntax" (abstract)


• Chienkuo Mi, Professor and Chair, Soochow U, Taiwan (Speaker)
  "Semantics without Metaphysics" (abstract)


• Consuelo Preti, Professor, C of New Jersey, USA (Speaker)
  "Marginal Notations to G.E. Moore's 1898 Elements of Ethics" (abstract)


• Liane Stillwell, Professor, Illinois State U, USA (Speaker)
  "Wittgenstein's Tractatus and On Certainty" (abstract)


• Chris Tillman, graduate student, IUB, USA (Speaker)
  "Tractatus 4.466: Tautology and Contradiction" (abstract)


• Jeu-Jeng Yuann, Professor, National Taiwan U, Taiwan (Speaker)
  "Empirical Stimulus in Theory Change: Quine and Feyerabend" (abstract)

TRAVEL INFORMATION       (back to top)

• Driving directions, the "usual blurb," not particularly helpful  ;-(


• Much better:  mapquest Holiday Inn or mapquest IPFW ;-)


• Google Map of both Holdiday Inn and IPFW (all maps are outdated, the Holiday Inn is where the map says "Johnny Appleseed Park").


• Website Holiday Inn IPFW


• Annotated campus map; more campus maps

CONTACTS       (back to top)

• Deborah Hoile (Secretray) — IPFW Department of Philosophy, CM 23 —
  • e-mail (watch the "@"!)
  • Office phone: [+1] (260) 481-6366
  • Office fax: [+1] (260) 481-6367


• Bernd Buldt
  • e-mail (watch the "@"!)
  • Office phone: [+1] (260) 481-6091
  • Home phone: [+1] (260) 637-5192
  • Cell phone: [+1] (260) 241-5521 (only during conference)


• Charles McCarty
  • e-mail (watch the "@"!)
  • Office phone: [+1] (812) 855-9899
  • Office fax: [+1] (812) 855-3777

Last updated: April 14, 2009  (These pages look worst in IE6. ;-)