Workshop: On Getting It Right

The theme of the conference has its origin in a dispute where Bernard Williams accuses Richard Rorty of failing to respect that, in philosophy, there must be something that counts as getting it right. The central question of the workshop is: what does it mean to get it right in philosophy? Or, more specifically, what can count as getting it right if we take worries about anti-foundationalism and the contingency of our concepts seriously? Of course, these worries might turn out to be misguided or not provide any obstacle to making sense of what it is to get things right.

The workshop aims to shed light on these questions by bringing together a variety of perspectives, such as pragmatism, conceptual ethics, and a broadly post-Wittgensteinian tradition, as well as views more critical to the underlying assumption that our concepts are sufficiently contingent for there to be any serious worry about what it can mean to get it right.

Friday June 12th
8:45 Welcome and Coffee 
8:50 Matthieu Queloz (University of Bern) - Is the Contingency of Our Concepts an Obstacle to Getting It Right? 
10:20 Break 
10:25 Niklas Dahl (Lund University) – Explanatory Unity as a Sense of Reality 
11:55 Lunch 
13:30 Martin Gustafsson (Åbo Akademi) – Philosophy as a Crisis Phenomenon 
15:00 Break 
15:15 Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth College) – Yeah to Truth: Or, the Functions of Truth Talk 
16:45 End of Day 
19:30 Dinner

Saturday June 13th
10:30 Anton Emilsson (KU Leuven) – On the Deepest Sense of Style 
12:00 Lunch 
13:00 Huw Price (University of Cambridge) – The Hand-Made Mirror: Rorty, Davidson, and Brandom 
14:30 Break 
14:35 David Owens (University of Oxford) – The Method of Cases 
16:05 Break 
16:30 Sophie Grace Chappell (The Open University) – The Sense of a Difficulty 
18:00 End of Day 
19:00 Dinner