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Pittsburgh at Lisbon

Org. Ana Almeida, Alberto Arruda, Humberto Brito

 

As part of the research project titled Literature and Art in the Space of Reasons, the Pittsburgh at Lisbon Seminar is dedicated to studying the work of three philosophers from the University of Pittsburgh: Robert Brandom, John McDowell and Michael Thompson. Each session will focus on one text by one of these authors. That text will be read and discussed along with other recommended texts. 

All the texts will be made avalilable to the participants.

Mondays 5.30pm-7.30pm

FCSH I&D Building

 

20.09.2010 | Alberto Arruda

  • BRANDOM, “Toward a Normative Pragmatics” (Making it Explicit, Harvard UP: 1998); “Norms, Selves and Concepts” (Animating Ideas, Harvard UP, 2009)

 

4.10. 2010 | Alberto Arruda

  • BRANDOM, “Toward an Inferential Semantics" (Making it Explicit, Harvard UP: 1998)

  • KANT, Crítica da Razão Pura, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, trad. Manuela Pinto dos Santos e Alexandre Fradique Morujão, 5ª edição, 2001. Selecção: Analítica dos conceitos: §14 (B125)—§27(B166).

  • FREGE, “Thought” (1918) (The Frege Reader, ed. Michael Beaney, Blackwell: 1997, trad. Peter Geach e R. H. Stoothoff).

 

18.10. 2010 | Alberto Arruda        

  • BRANDOM, “Linguistic Practice and Discursive Commitment” (Making it Explicit, Harvard UP: 1998)

  • FREGE, “My basic logical insights” (c.1915) (The Frege Reader, ed. Michael Beaney, Blackwell: 1997, trad. Peter Long e Roger White)

  • DUMMETT, “Can Truth be Defined?” (Frege Philosophy of Language, Harvard UP:1981)

 

8.11. 2010 | Alberto Arruda

  • BRANDOM, “Perception and Action” (Making it Explicit, Harvard UP: 1998)

  • FREGE, “On Sinn and Bedeutung” (1892) (The Frege Reader, ed. Michael Beaney, Blackwell 1997, trad. Max Black)

 

22.11.2010 | Alberto Arruda 

  • McDOWELL, “Wittgenstein on Following a Rule”; “Non-cognitivism and rule-following” (Mind, Value and Reality, Harvard UP: 1998).

 

6.12.2010 | Humberto Brito

  • RORTY, “Privileged Representations” (Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Princeton UP: 1979)

  • SELLARS, “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind”, excertos (1956) (ed. Robert Brandom, Harvard UP: 1997)

 

10.01.2011 | Humberto Brito

  • McDOWELL, “Might there be external reasons?” (Mind, Value and Reality, Harvard UP: 1998)

  • WILLIAMS, “Internal and External Reasons” (1979) (Varieties of Practical Reasoning, ed. Elijah Millgram MIT Press: 2001).

  • HOOKER, “Williams’ Argument against External Reasons” (1987) (Varieties of Practical Reasoning, ed. Elijah Millgram MIT Press: 2001).  

  • MACINTYRE, “Reasons for Action” (Dependent Rational Animals, Carus Publishing Company: 1999)

 

17.01.2011 | Ana Almeida

  • McDOWELL  “Virtue and Reason” (Mind, Value and Reality, Harvard UP: 1998)

 

31.01.2011 | Ana Almeida

  • THOMPSON, “The Representation of Life” Parte I e II, “Introduction” (Life and Action, Elementary Structures of Practice and Practical Thought, Harvard UP: 2008)

  • ANSCOMBE, “Modern Moral Philosophy” (1958) (Ethics, Religion and Politics, Collected Philosophical Papers, Volume III, Basil Blackwell: 1981).

  • FREGE, “On Concept and Object” (1892) (The Frege Reader, ed. Michael Beaney, Blackwell: 1997,trad. Peter Geach)

 

14.02.2011| Ana Almeida

  • THOMPSON, “The Representation of Life” Parte III (Life and Action, Elementary Structures of Practice and Practical Thought, Harvard UP: 2008)

  • ANSCOMBE, “You Can Have Sex Without Children: Christianity and the New Offer” (1968) (Ethics, Religion and Politics, Collected Philosophical Papers, Volume III, Basil Blackwell: 1981).

  • RAWLS, “Two Concepts of Rules” (1955) (Collected Papers, ed. Samuel Freeman, Harvard UP: 1999)

 

28.02.2011 | Ana Almeida

  • THOMPSON “Representation of Life” Parte IV (Life and Action, Elementary Structures of Practice and Practical Thought, Harvard UP: 2008)

  • “Three Degrees of Natural Goodness” (http://www.pitt.edu/~mthompso/three.pdf)

  • McDOWELL, “Two Sorts of Naturalism” (Mind, Value and Reality, Harvard UP: 1998)

  • FOOT, “Natural Norms” (Natural Goodness, Oxford UP 2001)

  • GEACH, “Why Men Need the Virtues” (The Virtues, Cambridge UP 1977)

 

7.03. 2011 | Ana Almeida

  • THOMPSON “Representation of Life” Parte IV (Life and Action, Harvard UP: 2008)

  • “Three Degrees of Natural Goodness” (http://www.pitt.edu/~mthompso/three.pdf)

  • McDOWELL, “Two Sorts of Naturalism” (Mind, Value and Reality, Harvard UP: 1998)

  • FOOT, “Natural Norms” (Natural Goodness, Oxford UP 2001)

  • GEACH, “Why Men Need the Virtues” (The Virtues, Cambridge UP 1977)