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NAWS: Coming and Past Programs

Pasadena, March 19th, 2008:

Chair: Jeff Johnson (College of St. Catherine)
      
Speaker: Janette Dinishak (University of Toronto)
"The Place of the Concept 'Noticing an Aspect'"
Commentator: Joshua Kortbein (University of Minnesota)

Speaker: Kevin Cahill (Universitetet i Bergen)
"Wittgenstein and the Fate of Metaphysics"
Commentator: John Woods (Princeton University)

Speaker: Newton Garver (University at Buffalo)
"Grammar and Silence"
Commentator: John W. Powell (Humboldt State University)

San Francisco, April 4th and 5th, 2007:

Session I

Chair: Elizabeth Wolgast (California State University-East bay)

Speaker: Monica Vilhauer (Roanoke College)
“Wittgensteinian Ethics?”
Commentator: Mike Rohde (University of Minnesota–Twin Cities)

Speaker: Richard Raatzsch (University of Cambridge)
“Teleological Metaphilosophy”
Commentator: John W. Powell (Humboldt State University)

Session II

Chair: Elizabeth Wolgast (California State University–East Bay)

Speaker: Jeff Johnson (The College of St. Catherine)
“Grice's Unspeakable Truths”
Commentator: John Powell (Humboldt State University)


Portland, March 24th, 2006:

Chair: Stephen Simon, California State University, Fullerton

Speaker: Howard Wettstein (University of California-Riverside)
"The Magic Prism: Direct Reference by Way of Wittgenstein."
Commentator: John W. Powell (Humboldt State University)

Speaker: Don Levi (University of Oregon)
"The Existence of Language"
Commentator: Jeff Johnson (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)

Speaker: Kelly Jolley (Auburn University)
"Wittgenstein's Three Living Principles"
Commentator: Elizabeth Wolgast (California State University-East Bay)


San Francisco, March 24th, 2005:

Chair: Stephen Simon (California State University-Fullerton)

Speaker: Fred Mosedale (Millikin University)
"Wittgenstein and Ebersole"
Commentator: Merrill Ring (California State University-Fullerton)

Speaker: Jeff Johnson (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)
"When We Understand"
Commentator: Andrew Hsu (UCLA)

Speaker: Rich Booher (University of Chicago)
"Conceptualizing in Recognition: Travis vs. McDowell"
Commentator: John W. Powell (Humboldt State University)


Pasadena, March 25th, 2004:

Chair: Stephen Simon (California State University-Fullerton)

Speaker: Yanni Nevo (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
"Davidson's Private Languages"
Commentator: John W. Powell (Humboldt State University)

Speaker: Richard Allen (New York University)
"Interpretation and Intention"

Speaker: William H. Hyde, (Golden West College)
"The Ethical and `das Mystische' in Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy"
Commentator: Merrill Ring (California State University-Fullerton)


San Francisco, March 27th, 2003:

Chair: Stephen Simon (California State University-Fullerton)

Speaker: John Powell (Humboldt State University)
"The Non-Existence of Perceptions"

Speaker: Charles Crittenden (California State University-Northridge)
"Things in General: An Ordinary Language Alternative to Scientific Realism"
Commentator: Merrill Ring (California State University-Fullerton)

Author Meets Audience:
Jose Medina (Vanderbilt University)
The Unity of Wittgenstein's Philosophy


Seattle, March 28th, 2002:

Chair: Stephen Simon (California State University-Fullerton)

Speaker: Larry Wright (University of California-Riverside)
"Some Issues Concerning the Relation Between Reasoning and Explaining"

Speaker: Merrill Ring (California State University-Fullerton)
"The Strawsonian Objection to Sentences Being Truth-Bearers"

Panel Discussion: "Ordinary Language Philosophy at University of Washington in the 1950’s: Reminiscence and Discussion"

Speakers:
Charles Chihara (University of California-Berkeley)
Peter Radcliff (San Francisco State University)
Benjamin Tilghman (University of Kansas)
Elizabeth Wolgast (California State University-Hayward)


San Francisco, March 31st and April 1st, 2001:

Session I

Chair: Stephen Simon (California State University-Fullerton)

Speaker: Avrum Stroll (University of California-San Diego)
"Wittgenstein’s Metaphors"
Commentator: William Johnson (California State University-Long Beach)

Speaker: Newton Garver (State University of New York-Buffalo)
"Wittgenstein and George Fox"
Commentator: John Powell (Humboldt State University)

Speaker: Beth Savickey (Long Island University)
"Ways of Seeing: Wittgenstein’s Mottos and Forewords"
Commentator: Benjamin Tilghman (Kansas State University)

Session II

Chair: Stephen Simon (California State University-Fullerton)

Panel Discussion: Feminist Interpretations of Wittgenstein

Speakers:
Alice Crary (New School for Social Research)
Hilde Lindemann Nelson (Michigan State University)
Peg O’Connor (Gustavus Adolphus College)
Janet Farrell Smith (University of Massachusetts-Boston)


Albuquerque, April 7th, 2000:

Chair: Stephen Simon (California State University-Riverside)

Speaker: John Whittaker
"Beliefs, Practices and Grammatical Investigations"
Commentator: William Hyde

Speaker: Michael Malone
"The Mind Searle Rediscovered"
Commentator: Merrill Ring

Speaker: Jose Medina
"The Role of the Community: Contextualism and Quietism in Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy"
Commentator: Beth Savickey