18-19 July 2023

FLUP | Sala de Reuniões 1

4th Meeting of the Contextualism Network

Participants:

• Alex Englander (Institut für Philosophie - Universität Bonn)
• Charles Travis (KCL, TsingHua University-Beijing, Instituto de Filosofia - Porto)
• David Zapero (Institut für Philosophie - Universität Bonn)
• John Collins (University of East Anglia, UK)
• Sandford Shieh (Wesleyan University, US)
• Sofia Miguens (University of Porto)

This was the fourth meeting of the Contextualism Network in 2022-2023, following meetings dedicated to the themes of action, epistemology and rationality. The general objective of the Meetings is to specify the core agenda of the RG MLAG in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and philosophy of action with a view to submitting national projects and participating in international projects. The Network Contextualism pursues MLAG’s former work within the CNRS Network La philosophie du langage ordinaire, around the works of Austin and Wittgenstein, as well as the discussion of positions on logic, thought and language inspired by the works of Frege and Wittgenstein which led to the publication of The Logical Alien (Miguens ed 2020, Harvard University Press).

How should one characterize ‘idealism’? Which idealism was Frege attacking in “Der Gedanke”? Are there other varieties of idealism that do not fall under such attack? Should Kant’s and Hegel’s idealism be considered in the same boat as Berlekeley’s?

18 July 2023

Meeting Room 1

Morning | 10 am-12.30 pm

Sofia Miguens, Opening I: Occasion-Sensitivity and Idealism

David Zapero and Charles Travis, Opening II: Idealism

Discussion (by all participants)

Lunch

Meeting Room 2

Afternoon | 2.30 pm-5 pm

John Collins: Idealism and Species-Specificity

Discussion (by all participants)

Dinner

19 July 2023

Meeting Room 1

Morning | 10 am-12.30 pm

Alex Englander: Varieties of Idealism 

Discussion (by all participants) 

David Zapero: Within and Without the Mind

Discussion (by all participants)

Lunch

Room 202

Afternoon 2.30 pm-5 pm

Sanford Shieh: Linguistic Idealism

Charles Travis: Le psychologue malgré lui

Discussion (by all participants)

Dinner

Organization:
Mind, Language and Action Group (MLAG)
Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto – UIDB/00502/2020 / UIDP/00502/2020
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
U.Porto e Banco Santander - Programa Santander Universidades