“WILLIAM JAMES AND PRAGMATISM” COIMBRA CONFERENCE
12-13 NOVEMBER 2010
Day 1 – University of Coimbra, “Faculdade de Letras”, 6th Floor, Sala Vitor Matos
12 November
9.30 Nathan Houser, Indiana, Peirce’s post-Jamesian Pragmatism
10.30 Howard Callaway, Philadelphia, The Meaning of Pluralism
11.30 Jaime Nubiola, Navarra, The Reception of William James in Continental Europe
12. 30 Lunch Break
14.30 Rossella Fabbrichesi, Milano, James, Peirce, and the Darwinian revolution
15. 30 Edmundo Balsemão Pires, Coimbra, Communication and Consciousness: The critique of Representation from Peirce to James
Roundtable Sessions
A - B
A. 16.30-19.00
Anna Nieddu, Cagliari, Individuality: The Emersonian Background of the Bergson-James Controversy
Giovanni Maddalena, Molise, “Don’t you think so?” Peirce’s and James’s way to common sense
Gabriele Gava, Peirce and James on Pragmatism and Purposes
Ignacio Redondo, La Rioja, Vaguedad o distancia infinita? James y Peirce sobre la indeterminación de la comunicación
Fernando González García, Santiago de Compostela, La Epistemología de W. James. Una revisión de la Tradición
Nairobis Fuenmayor Mendonza, Santiago de Compostela, Verdad y verificabilidad en James y los positivistas lógicos
B. 16.30-19.00
Jose Higuera Rubio, Barcelona, Acerca de la procedencia boeciana de las relaciones en la Logica de Peirce
Izaskun Martínez, Pamplona, William James y Miguel de Unamuno: La recepción del pragmatismo en España
Marco Annoni, Milan, Why We Need Both: On the Importance of Assessing the Relationship between Peirce’s and James’s Pragmatism
Luis Malta Alves Louceiro, São Paulo, Peirce & James and “The Religious Experience”
Omam Pat Agboro, Lagos, On the Metaphysics and Methodology of Pragmatism
19.30 Nathan Houser, Indiana, The Challenge of Editing Peirce
Day 2 – University of Coimbra, “Faculdade de Letras”, 6th Floor, Sala Vitor Matos
13 November
9.30 Ivo Ibri, São Paulo, Some Grounds for a Philosophy of Art in Peirce’s Pragmatism
10.30 Rosa Calcaterra, Roma, Varieties of Synechism: Peirce and James on the Mind-World Continuity
11.30 Michel Weber, Bruxelles, On a certain blindness in political matters
12. 30 Lunch Break
14.30 Christopher Hookway, Sheffield, UK., James's epistemology and 'The Will to believe
15.30 Maria Teresa Teixeira, Lisboa, The Stream of Consciousness and the Epochal Theory of Time
Roundtable Sessions
A - B
A. 16.30–19.30
Paulo Renato Jesus / Nicolás Lori, Lisboa e Coimbra, James and Whitehead on Nature and Truth
Paul Stenner, Brighton, James and Whitehead: Assemblage and Systematization of Deep Empiricist Process Thinking
Dennis Sölch, Düsseldorf, Pragmatic Metaphysics – William James and Alfred North Whitehead
Wim van Moer, Brussels, On the Importance of a Jamesian Pragmatic Approach in Order to Make our Ideas Clear
Thibaud Trochu, Paris I, A “Hidden James”: On some Unpublished Data Concerning the Philosopher’s Reflection in the Privacy of his Own Study
Maria Uxía Rivas Monroy, Santiago de Compostela, La valoración de Putnam sobre la concepción de la verdad de James: la objeción acerca de los enunciados sobre el pasado
B. 16.30-19.30
Sara Barrena, Navarra, Charles Peirce, William James y Henry James: conexiones biográficas y estéticas
Noemi Pizarroso / Mónica Balltondre / Jorge Castro, UNED, Barcelona, From James’s Pragmatism to Delacroix’s Idealism: mystic experience as psychological object
Arthur Arruda L. Ferreira, Rio de Janeiro, William James’s Pragmatism: A Possible Epistemology of Psychology in its Plurality
Marta Morgade Salgado, Madrid, William James y Charles Sanders Peirce conversan sobre Psicología. Pervivencia de sus propuestas 100 años después
Sarin Marchetti, Roma, The Life of Mind: Pragmatism and Ethics in The “Principles of Psychology”
José Geraldo Romanello Bueno, São Paulo, William James, Pragmatism and the Functional Psychology
20.00 Closing words
LOCAL – DEPARTAMENTO DE FILOSOFIA, COMUNICAÇÃO E INFORMAÇÃO, 6º PISO, FACULDADE DE LETRAS – UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA – LARGO DA PORTA FÉRREA, COIMBRA
ORGANIZAÇÃO E APOIOS –
Organização
Grupo de Investigação “A Individuação da Sociedade Moderna” L. I. F. – “Linguagem, Interpretação e Filosofia” – Universidade de Coimbra – “Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia”
Apoios
Unidade de Investigação I&D L. I. F. – “Linguagem, Interpretação e Filosofia”, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia – M.C.T.E.S.
Universidade de Coimbra – Faculdade de Letras – Departamento de Filosofia, Comunicação e Informação
“Centro de Filosofia” Universidade de Lisboa
CONTACTOS
Departamento de Filosofia, Comunicação e Informação
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
Largo da Porta Férrea
3004-530 COIMBRA
Tel. 239 859 983/239 410 087