Calendar

Second Graduate International Summer School in Cognitive Sciences and Semantics

Second Graduate International Summer School in Cognitive Sciences and Semantics

http://web.me.com/sandra.lapointe/ksuwebsite/ISSCSS.html


University of Latvia, Riga

19-29 July 2010



Analytic Pragmatism, Semantic Inferentialism, and Logical Expressivism


Robert Brandom (University of Pittsburgh)

David Beisecker (University of Nevada Las Vegas)

Michael Glanzberg (University of California, Davis)

Henry Jackman (York University)

Danielle MacBeth (Haverford College)

Mark McCullaugh (University of Guelph)

Douglas Patterson (Kansas State University)


The Seminar will focus on three interconected themes running through the work of Robert Brandom: (1) Analytic Pragmatism, the project of giving a rigorous and systematic theoretical account of the relation between meaning and our discoursive practices, (2) Semantic Inferentialism, the strategy of taking inference rather than representation as one’s explanatorily basic semantic category, and (3) Logical Expressivism, the idea that the fundamental role of logical terms is to make explicit the inferential relations in our discursive practices.

Prof. Brandom will be lecturing and leading seminars on all three topics, while the other members of the faculty will be leading seminars on historical antecedents and contemporary alternatives/criticisms of these pragmatic, inferentialist and expressivist positions.


Admission requirements


1) Being registered in a post-graduate program in philosophy or other connected discipline. Exceptionally, advanced undergraduate students will be entitled to enroll.

OR

2) Holding a graduate or postgraduate degree in philosophy or other connected disciplines.


OR

3) Working as a postdoctoral researcher or professionnal in this field.


Selection procedure


Students will be selected on the basis of 1) their prior acquaintance with the topic; 2) their overall academic merit. They will be required to provide a cv as well as a statement of purpose (see registration form).


Tuition fees


Registration fees include:


Participation in all academic activities and credit transfer, accommodation, meals and course packet (to be sent in advance).

Tuition fees are lower for students who register prior to 15 April 2009. The following amounts are given in Latvian Lats :

Before 15 April

Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers: 450 LVL

Professionals: 700 LVL


After 15 April

Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers: 550 LVL

Professionals: 800 LVL


Partial scholarships are available in limited numbers on the basis of need and academic merit.