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Quine at 100:  A Centenary Conference
25 & 26 October 2008

All sessions will be held in Emerson 210, Harvard University

For a PDF version of the schedule, please click here.

Saturday, October 25

10:30 AM - 1 PM

Session I: Carnap and Quine

Gary Ebbs
Indiana University
Carnap and Quine on Truth by Convention
Huw Price
University of Sydney
Minimalism, Monism and Modal Metaphysics

1 PM - 2 PM

Lunch

 

2 PM - 4:30 PM

Session II: Ontology

Charles Parsons
Harvard University
Quine's Nominalism
Thomas Ricketts
University of Pittsburgh
Roots of Ontological Relativity

4:30 PM - 5 PM

Break

 

5 PM - 6 PM

Informal Session: Quine Remembered

Warren Goldfarb
Harvard University
 
Douglas Quine  
Charles Parsons
Harvard University
 

6 PM - 7 PM

Reception

Sunday, October 26

10 AM - 12 PM

Session III: Naturalism and Behaviorism

Dagfinn Føllesdal
Stanford University/University of Oslo
Developments in Quine's Behaviorism
Peter Hylton
University of Illinois, Chicago
Quine's Naturalism Revisited

12 PM - 1 PM

Lunch

 

1 PM - 3 PM

Roundtable: Quine’s Legacy

Daniel Dennett
Tufts University
 
Catherine Elgin
Harvard University
 
Alexander George
Amherst College
 

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