RG Communicative Understanding

Research Group Communicative Understanding

Activities

General Information

The Projects and their Members

Current and Future Activities

Activities up to now

Project Description

Project 1: Reconstructing Speech Act Theory

Project 2: Pragmatic Implications

Project 3: Speech Act and Interpretation

Project 4: Explanatory Coherence

Project 5: Computational Dialectics

Guests

Papers

Here You can find an overview of the activities of our resarch group up to now, especially of public lectures, discussions, colloquia, workshops and lessons. It is sorted by terms.
Summerterm 1998	W 1998/99 - S 1999	Winterterm 1999/00
	Summerterm 2000

Summerterm 2000

Public lectures & Discussion

18.04. (Di 19 Uhr!)	Wayne Davis (New York)	Implicature Conventions
26.04.	Erik Olsson (Konstanz)	Does Coherence imply Truth?
02.05. (Di!)	Michael Bratman (Stanford)	Intention and Planning Agency
03.05.	Joelle Proust (Paris)	Discriminating Oneself from Others in Action (How Neurophysiology may help solve the "Other Minds" Problem)
17.05.	Günther Grewendorf (Frankfurt/M)	Kommunikation und Grammatik
31.05.	Thomas Spitzley (Duisburg)	Zur Autorität der Ersten Person
05.07.	Margaret Gilbert (Connecticut)	Acting Together
12. 07.	Michael Thompson (Pittsburgh)	Relations of Recognition

The scientists invited to the philosophical colloquium by our research group will talk about topics relevant for us.

Wednesday 18.30 - 20.00
Ritterstr. 26, Neuer Senatssaal

Colloquium of the research group

Tuesday 18.00 - 20.00 (every second week)
Ritterstr. 26, Neuer Senatssaal

The members of the resarch group will present and discuss their results.

Seminars relevant to our research group

Bartelborth/Meggle	Kommunikation, Interpretation und Erklärung (HS)	Mi 9-11
Brewka/Stekeler-Weithofer	Intelligente Systeme (HS)	Di 15-17
Lübbe	On Social Facts (Margaret Gilbert) (HS)	Di 9-11
Max	Negation, Präsupposition, Implikatur	Di 15-17
Rabinowicz	Introduction to Decision Theory, for Philosophers and Everybody Else (PS)	Mi 11-13
Rabinowicz	Recent Work in Practical Reasoning (Kolloquium) (s.u.)	Do 18.30-20.30

Colloquium Recent Work in Practical Reason

Interdisciplinary colloquium organized by the Leibniz-professor Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund) in cooperation with the Center for Higher Studies and our reasearch group

Each Thursday at 18.30
Neuer Senatssaal, Ritterstr. 26

13.04.	W. Rabinowicz (Leipzig/Lund)	First lesson as Leibniz-Professor: How to Pump Money out of Far-Sighted People Alter Senatssaal!
27.04.	Thomas Schmidt (Göttingen)	Moral Normativity
Di 02.05.	M. Bratman (Stanford)	Intention and Planning Agency (Sondersitzung im Philosophischen Kolloquium)
04.05.	M. Bratman (Stanford)	Shared Intention
11.05.	W. Spohn (Konstanz)	The Rationality of Cooperation Vindicated
18.05.	Arnis Vilks (Leipzig)	Backward Induction in Games: Logical Reconstruction I
25.05.	Thorsten Clausing (Magdeburg) Wlodek Rabinowicz (Leipzig/Lund)	Backward Induction in Games: Logical Reconstruction II
08.06.	Kirsten Petzold (Berlin)	Korsgaard on Normativity, Commitment and Practical Reason
22.06.	Hans Rott (Regensburg)	The Ethics of Belief Revisited
29.06.	Weyma Lübbe (Leipzig)	[Titel wird noch bekannt gegeben]
06.07.	Margaret Gilbert (Storrs)/Georg Meggle (Leipzig)	On Social Facts
13.07.	Rüdiger Bittner (Bielefeld)	Can Reasons for Action be Normative?

In analysing speech acts the research group comes across basic questions concerning rational actions: What are and how to identify (individual and collective) intentions? What are rational actions, especially interactions? The colloquium is to present and bring on the current resarch about such questions.

Workshop
Preferencedynamics
Leipzig, Friday and Saturday, 5/6th May, 2000, 9.00 - 14.00
Dekanatsraum (Burgstraße 21, 1th Floor, Room 1.19)

International workshop in cooperation with the Center for Higher Studies.
Chairman: Leibniz professor Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund)
Supported by the Tercentenary Foundation of the Bank of Sweden.

Program

Friday, May 5

9.00 - 10.30
John Broome: tba (but probably on "Weighing Lives")

10.40 - 12.10
Magnus Jiborn: "Extended Preferences and Interpersonal Comparisons of Good"

12.20 - 13.50
Gustaf Arrhenius: "Iterated Prisoner's Dilemmas with Endogenous Changes in the Number of Players"

Saturday, May 6

9.00 - 10.30
Krister Bykvist: "What is Wrong with Past Preferences?"

10.40 - 12.10
Erik Carlson: "Actualism and the Incompatibility of Foreknowledge and Deliberation"

12.10 - 13.50
Wlodek Rabinowicz: "Does Deliberation Crowd Out Prediction?"

To act rational means to act according to ones preferences. But how to take possible changes of ones preferences into considerations? And how to judge the fact that one can cause such changes by oneself? What does it mean to act rational if preferences are to be understood as variable? Answers to such questions have important consequences for many fields in economics, philosophy and sociology.

Workshop
On Social Facts
Leipzig, 6./7. July 2000

Workshop with and on Margaret Gilbert (Connecticut) who will be the guest of our research group from 3.-10. July 2000.
Philosophy Department, University of Leipzig
Burgstr. 21, 1st floor, room 1.19
Friday, July 7th, 9.00 - 19.00

Margaret Gilbert has been dealt in a serie of books and articles with a topic central for our research group too, namely the nature of social phenomena. Some of her main questions are: What is constitutive for a social group? What are collective intentions and actions? And how do conventions and commitments come about? The workshop will be centered around such questions.

Programm

09:00 - 10:00
Ruediger Bittner (Bielefeld): Plural subjects

10:00 - 11:00
Ulrich Baltzer (Dresden): Joint action in large groups

11:15 - 12:15
Sebastian Roedl (Leipzig): Practice and the unity of action

14:15 - 15:15
Luc Bovens (Boulder): The epistemology of social facts

15:15 - 16:15
Peter Baumann (Goettingen): Epistemic contracts

16:30 - 17:30
Thomas Schmidt (Goettingen): I wish that your wishes come true

17:30 - 18:00
Michael Tomasello (Leipzig): Can chimpanzees take a walk together?

18:00 - 19:00
Open discussion (Evening: joint dinner)

Further participants: Christoph Doerge (Tuebingen), Beate Herrmann (Leipzig), Solveig Hofmann (Munich), Michael Kober (Freiburg), Andreas Luckner (Leipzig), Weyma Luebbe (Leipzig), Geert-Lueke Lueken (Leipzig), Wolfgang Luutz (Leipzig), Ingolf Max (Leipzig), Richard Raatzsch Leipzig), Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund/Leipzig), Henning Tegtmeyer (Leipzig), Michael Thompson (Pittsburgh/Leipzig), Andrej Ule (Ljubljana), Ulla Wessels (Leipzig) - und die Forschergruppe Kommunikatives Verstehen

Wednesday, July 5th, 18:30 - 20:00, Ritterstr. 26, Neuer Senatssaal
Margaret Gilbert: Acting together

Thursday, July 6th, 18:30 - 20:30, Ritterstr. 26, Neuer Senatssaal
Margaret Gilbert & Georg Meggle: On conventions

Proceedings
Social Facts & Collective Intentionality. Special Issue of Grazer Philosophische Studien, Georg Meggle (ed.)
Selected papers from the WS Collective Intentionality II (October 2000) and from this workshop. Final Deadline: 06.01.2001

Collective Intentionality Bibliography by Petri Ylikoski (Helsinki).