Here You can find an overview of the current and planned activities of our resarch group, especially of public lectures, discussions, colloquia, workshops and lessons. It is sorted by terms. (At the moment only for the this term.)

Winterterm 2000/01

Workshop

Communication & Understanding - 2
Saying, Meaning, Implicating

University of Bielefeld, September 27 - 28, 2000
within the framework of the 4th international congress of the
Society of Analytical Philosophy (Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie - GAP ):
"Argument and Analysis" (September 26 - 29, 2000).

Organizers of the workshop:
Georg Meggle & Christian Plunze

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Furthermore we plan a

Workshop

Collective Intentionality II
Leipzig, 2000 Oct (27)/28/29, Philosophy Department

Organisation
Georg Meggle (Leipzig) & Raimo Tuomela (Helsinki)

Collective attitudes (beliefs and intentions in particular) are central for analyzing, and theorizing about, the social world. The international Collective Intentionality group, which was created in 1999, is a network of scholars from different disciplines. By maintaining an e-mail network, by organizing workshops, and by other means this group aims at arriving at deeper understanding of the conceptual and philosophical nature and the logical aspects of these attitudes, as well as of the various theoretical and practical consequences of these Collective Intentionality attitudes. For Collective Intentionality discussions and interaction between scholars from such disciplines as Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, Logic, Psychology, and Sociology are essential.

There are many connections between the study of Collective Intentionality and that of Communicative Understanding. Therefore, the Research Group Kommunikatives Verstehen (Communicative Understandig) cooperates with the Collective Intentionality group, and one result of this cooperation is the 2nd Collective Intentionality Workshop.

Report on the Workshop

Friday, Oct 27 Ziegenledersaal, Hauptgebäude, Augustusplatz 10/11

19:00 (s.t.) Seumas Miller (Canberra) On the Alleged Mental States, Commitments and Reasons of Collectivities

Saturday, Oct 28 Philosophy Department - Burgstr. 21 - 1st floor

09:00 - 09:50 Kay Mathiesen (North Adams) What Do We Mean by "We"? A Philosophical Analyis of Collectives 09:50 - 10:40 Anthonie Meijers (Eindhoven) Dialogue, Understanding and Collective Intentionality 10:40 - 11:00 Cafe / Tee 11:00 - 11:50 Frank Hindriks (St. Andrews) Social Ontology, Social Groups, and Collective Intentionality 11:50 - 12:40 Rafal Wierzchoslawski (Lublin): Did Alfred Schutz meet Margaret Gilbert? Lunch Time 15:00 - 15:50 Wolfgang Balzer (Munich) / Raimo Tuomela (Helsinki) Social Institutions, Norms and Practices 15:50 - 16:40 Solveig Hofmann (Munich): The Social Practice of a Woman Group 16:40 - 17:00 Cafe / Tee 17:00 - 17:50 Petri Ylikoski (Helsinki): We-Attitudes and Social Institutions 17:50 - 18:40 Maj Tuomela (Helsinki): On Rational Trust 21:00 Joint Dinner Reservation in Bartels Hof (week invitation!)

Sunday, Oct 29 Philosophy Department - Burgstr. 21 - 1st floor

08:30 - 09:20 Michael Robins (Bowling Green): Cooperation and Joint Commitment 09:20 - 10:10 Kaarlo Miller (Helsinki): On Collective Commitment 10:10 - 11.00 Raimo Tuomela (Helsinki): Collective Commitment and We-Mode Thinking 11:00 - 11:15 Champagne Reception, Philosophy Department 11.15 - 12:30 Panel Discussion 12:45 - 15.00 Brunch - Cafe Luise

Further Participants
Marco Colombetti (Milano); Christoph Jäger (Leipzig); Ingolf Max (Leipzig); Eric Rakowski (Berkeley), Roberta Vaghi (Milanon) et. al.
Members of the Research Group Kommunikatives Verstehen & of the Philosophy & Logic/Philosophy of Science Departments Leipzig

Proceedings
Socal Facts & Collective Intentionality. Special Issue of Grazer Philosophische Studien, Georg Meggle (ed.)
Selected papers from the Workshop On Social Facts. Discussions on and with Margaret Gilbert (June 2000) and from this workshop. Final Deadline: 06.01.2001

Organisation Contact Address: meggle@uni-leipzig.de
For accommodation requests contact: busch@uni-leipzig.de
Organisation Secretary's (Mrs. Andrea Busch) Phone: 0043-(0)-341-97-35800

University of Leipzig
Philosophy Department
Burgstr. 21
D 04109 Leipzig

Bibliography on Collective Intentionality by Petri Ylikoski (Helsinki).

Collective Intentionality Group


Invitation
Open Workshop

SEMANTIC ACTS, INTENTIONS & LANGUAGES
Discussions on and with
WAYNE DAVIS

Saturday, Dec 16, 2000
University of Leipzig, Philosophy Department, Burgstr. 21

Paul Grice conceived two programs concerning the foundations of semantics.The first was his project of defining word meaning in terms of speaker meaning and speaker meaning in terms of intention. The second was his theory of implicatures. Wayne Davis (Washington) is one of the most prominent researchers in the discussion of both of these programs (cf. Implicature. Intention, Convention, and Principle in the Failure of Gricean Theory, CUP, 1998; and Meaning, Expression, and Thought, forthcoming).

Grice's two programs are also in the focus of interest of the Research Group Kommunikatives Verstehen at Leipzig University. Therefore, Davis will be Invited Research Professor working with this group in December (6-20).

Everybody who is interested in (Davis's and the Research Group's work on) Grice's programs is welcome to join us in our discussions - esp. on 16 Decem-ber, when we will have an open (and open ended) discussion workshop, starting at 10 a.m.

Implicatures have already been the topic of our GAP4-workshop; thus, although further comments on implicatures will certainly be welcome, this time we will focus mainly on (Davis's and our views of) the Gricean intentionalist meaning-program. For this purpose (thanks to the author) an e-mail copy of the first chapters of Davis's forthcoming "Meaning, Expression, and Thought" will be sent to all those who declare to attend the workshop.

Unfortunately we have no money available to fund this workshop. The most we can offer is a 2 nights stay in our university's guesthouse or private accommodation. The discussion group should not include more than 25 participants; having reached that number, the registration list will be closed. Giving a talk is not a necessary condition for taking part in the workshop. However, some short statements would be fine.

Here are the addresses at which you should register and tell us whether (and for how many nights) you would like accommodation (hotel, guest-house, private) reserved: meggle@uni-leipzig.de, siebel@uni-leipzig.de.

Deadline for free housing application: 4 December

Invitation
Workshop

PROBLEMS OF KNOWLEGDE
Discussions on and with MICHAEL WILLIAMS

Wednesday, Jan 17, 2001, 14-17 p.m.
Institut for Philosophy, Burgstr. 21, Raum 1-19

The subject of the workshop will be the manuskript "Problems of Knowledge" by Michael Williams and the problem of scepticism in general.
Contact: Sebastian Rödl (e-mail: roedl@uni-leipzig.de).

Lecture by Michael Williams
Wittgenstein's Pragmatism
Wednesday, Jan 17, 2001, 18.30 p.m.
Ritterstraße 26, Neuer Senatssaal