Sellars Centenary Conference and Workshop 2012 Dublin, Ireland 4 - 8 June 2012

**CALL FOR ABSTRACTS IS NOW CLOSED**

REGISTRATION IS FREE

Workshop on Wilfrid Sellars

The Workshop will take place on June 4–5, 2012, in Dublin, Ireland n the Alexander Hotel, situated beside the Davenport Hotel (sister hotels), Dublin City Centre.

**If you are interested in attending, please reserve your place as soon as possible**
Registration for the workshop should be made online on the registration page.

Workshop Programme

Monday June 4th

10:00-10:45 Aston Suite 1
Brandhoff, Boris
Predicates as Guiding Behaviour and Inconceivable Without It

  Coffee/Tea

11:00-11:45 Aston Suite 1
Breunig, Anke
The Structure of EPM and the General Form of Givenness

11:00-11:45 Aston Suite 2
Stöckle-Schobel, Richard
Sellarsian Concept Learning

12:00-12:45 Aston Suite 1
Rueter, Kevin
Sellars and Austin on Appearances & Introspection

12:00-12:45 Aston Suite 2
Stovall, Preston
Peirce and Sellars on the Cognitive Significance of Sensation

  LUNCH (12:45–14:00)

14:00-14:45 Aston Suite 1
Politis, Vasilis
Sellars' Aristotle: an analysis & assessment

14:00-14:45 Aston Suite 2
Esterhazy, Paulus
"Thinking” that one ought: Sellars on intuitionism and emotivism

15:00-15:45 Aston Suite 1
Medici, Lorenzo
Weaving names together: Reflections on Sellars, Plato & the problem of predication

15:00-15:45 Aston Suite 2
Kiesselbach, Matthias
Why we attribute reasons even when they fail to motivate. A Sellarsian take on Humeanism

   Coffee/Tea

16:00-16:45 Aston Suite 1
Wolfendale, Pete
Is there a TV in my head? Content, Functional Mapping, & the Myth of Given

16:00-16:45 Aston Suite 2
Szubka, Tadeusz
Analytic Philosophy & Synoptic Vision: Sellars' Metaphilosophy

17:00-17:45 Aston Suite 1
Cheng, Tony H. Y.
Imagination and Image in Sellars

17:00-17:45 Aston Suite 2
Sachs, Carl
Pragmatism as Quasi-Rep'ism: A Neo-Sellarsian Response to Price and Rorty

Tuesday June 5th

10:00-10:45 Aston Suite 1
Maher, Chauncey
The Given in Action

10:00-10:45 Aston Suite 2
Peregrin, Jarda
Should one be left or right Sellarsians?

   Coffee/Tea

11:00-11:45 Aston Suite 1
Beisecker, David
"From the grunts & groans of the cave..."

11:00-11:45 Aston Suite 2
Bandini, Aude
A History of the Given: the Sellarsian Moment

12:00-12:45 Aston Suite 1
Woodbridge, J & Armour-Garb, B
Sellars and Pretense on Truth & Meaning

12:00-12:45 Aston Suite 2
Olen, Peter
From Formalism to Psychology: Metaphilosophical Shifts in Sellars’s Early Works

   LUNCH (12:45-13:45)

13:45-14:45 Aston Suite 1
Akins, Kathleen & Leardi, Jason
Homogeneous Pink

13:45-14:45 Aston Suite 2
Auerbach, David
Functional Classification in Finnegans Wake: A Sellarsian Account

15:00-15:45 Aston Suite 1
Levine, Steven
Sellars and Non-Conceptual Content

15:00-15:45 Aston Suite 2
Giromini, Jose
Language & Rules: A Normative Approach to the Myth of the Given

  Coffee/Tea

16:00-16:45 Aston Suite 1
Wolf, Michael P
Context-Sensitive Inference Licenses: How to Have Communication Without Miracles

16:00-16:45 Aston Suite 2
Brokes, Audre
Keeping it Implicit: A Probabilistic Case for the Primacy of Material Inferences

17:00-17:45 Aston Suite 1
Shapiro, Lionel
How “Meaning and Truth Talk Gets its Connection with the World”: Sellars on the Inferential Role of Semantical Vocabulary

17:00-17:45 Aston Suite 2
O Madagain, Cathal
Sellars' Myth of Jones as a Model for Building a Theory of Mind

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