THREE-DAY CONFERENCE: EMPIRICISM AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND AFTER 50 YEARS:
Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Sellars's Lectures in the University of London
WED 28TH TO FRI 30TH JUNE 2006, 10.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.
(N.B. 3.30 p.m. start on Wed) 
CHANCELLORS HALL, SENATE HOUSE, LONDON WC1
with the support of the British Academy, MIND Association, Aristotelian Society and University of Hertfordshire
Click for more Sellars archive material courtesy of Pittsburgh Archives of Scientific Philosophy
PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY 28th June
3.30

Tea and registration
4.30 OPENING ADDRESS: John McDowell (Pittsburgh) Download paper
Why is it called 'Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind'?

6.00

Reception
THURSDAY 29th June

10.00
(I)

(II)

Session 1: PERCEPTION Download paper
Paul Coates (Hertfordshire)
Perception, Imagination and Demonstrative Reference
 Paul Snowdon (UCL)
Sellars on Perception

12.30

Lunch (own arrangements)

2.00
(I)

(II)

Session 2: CONCEPTS AND REASONS
Robert Brandom (Pittsburgh) Download paper
On Sellars on the Modal Character of Concepts
 Johanna Seibt (Aarhus)
Functions Between Reasons and Causes: On Picturing

4.30

Tea break

5.00

Panel discussion: The scientific image and the manifest image
6.00 Close for day
FRIDAY 30th June

10.00
(I)

(II)

Session 3: NATURALISM
 Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins)
 The Tortoise and the Serpent: Sellars on the Structure of Empirical Knowledge
James O’Shea (UCD) Download paper
On the Structure of Sellars' Naturalism with a Normative Turn

12.30

Lunch (own arrangements)

2.00
(I)

(II)

Session 4: MIND, WORLD AND CONSCIOUSNESS
 Jay Rosenberg (Chapel Hill)
Having McDowell's Woodbridge Lectures in View: A Sellarsian Response
Willem deVries (New Hampshire)
Sellarsian Idealismus: Consciousness Presupposes Self-Consciousness

4.30

Tea break

5.00

Closing panel discussion:
What is alive and what is dead in Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind?

6.00

Close

GROUP PORTRAIT

EPM Speakers

l-r (wholly literally): Paul Coates, Paul Snowdon, Johanna Seibt, Tim Crane, Michael Williams, Jay Rosenberg, Bill deVries, Bob Brandom, John McDowell, Jim O'Shea

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