We are glad to announce that the International Workshop “The Lingua Franca of Thought. Wilfrid Sellars and the History of Philosophy” will be held at the University of Padova on June 23-24, 2016. Keynote speaker: Jim O’Shea.
The workshop sessions will take place in Sala delle Edicole, Palazzo del Capitanio, Piazza Capitaniato 3.
Programme
Thursday, June 23d
Afternoon
14.30 – Antonio Nunziante/ Luca Corti– Introduction
15.00 – Guido Bonino/Paolo Tripodi– Sellars and Wittgenstein, Early and Late
16.00 – Luca Corti– Hegel after Sellars
17.00 – Coffee Break
17.30 – Fabio Gironi– Wilfrid Sellars, Roy Wood Sellars and the History of American Realism
18.30 – Conclusion
20.00 – Dinner
Friday, 24th
Morning
9.30 – Antonio Nunziante– The lingua franca of nominalism. Sellars on Leibniz
10.30 – Carlo Gabbani– Sellars and Carnap
11.00 – Coffee Break
12.00 – Dionysis Christias– Thinking with Sellars and Beyond Sellars on the Relation between Philosophy and History of Philosophy
13.00- Lunch
Afternoon
15.00 – James O’Shea– Sellars’s Kant
16.00 – General Discussion
17.00 – Conclusion
20.00 – Dinner
Organizers: Antonio Nunziante (antonio.nunziante@unipd.it), Luca Corti (luca.corti@unipd.it).
Other Participants: Giovanna Miolli, Elena Tripaldi, Davide Dalla Rosa, Alessandro Esposito, Frida Trotter.