Conference and
Seminar Papers (since 2000)
Michael Beaney
Conference Papers
- Conceptions of Philosophical Analysis, Conference on
Philosophical Analysis, Bled, Slovenia, 5-9 June 2000. (Paper
published in Acta Analytica 2000.)
- Conceptions of Logical Analysis, Logica 2000 Conference,
Liblice, Czech Republic, 27-30 June 2000. (Paper published in Logica
Yearbook 2000.)
- Analysis and Explication, HOPOS (History of Philosophy of
Science) 2000 Conference, Vienna, 6-9 July 2000.
- Rationality and Reasonableness, International
Wittgenstein Conference, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, 13-19 August 2000.
(Paper published in B. Brogaard, ed., Rationality and Irrationality,
Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Volume 8, Part 1,
2000; revised version in B. Brogaard and B. Smith, eds., Rationality and
Irrationality / Rationalität und Irrationalität: Proceedings of the
23rd International Wittgenstein Symposium, 2001.)
- Collingwoods Critique of Analytic Philosophy,
Conference on Collingwood and British Idealism at the Millennium,
Gregynog, Wales, 14-16 December 2000. (Paper published in Collingwood and
British Idealism Studies 2001.)
- Collingwood and the Paradox of Analysis, International
Collingwood Conference: R.G. Collingwood at the Millennium, St
Catherines College, Oxford, 4-6 July 2001.
- Susan Stebbing on Cambridge and Vienna Analysis,
Institute of the Vienna Circle Conference: The Vienna Circle and Logical
Empiricism, Vienna, 12-14 July 2001. (Paper published in F. Stadler, ed.,
The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism, 2003.)
- Decompositions and Transformations: Conceptions of Analysis in
the Early Analytic and Phenomenological Traditions, 2001 Spindel
Conference: Origins: The Common Sources of the Analytic and
Phenomenological Traditions, Memphis, Tennessee, 20-22 September 2001.
(Paper published in Southern Journal of Philosophy, Supp. Vol.,
2002.)
- Carnaps Conception of Explication: From Frege to
Husserl?, International Carnap Conference: Rudolf Carnap
From Jena to L.A., Jena, 26-29 September 2001. (Paper published in S.
Awodey and C. Klein, eds., Carnap Brought Home: The View from Jena,
2004.)
- Historical Indexicality and the Paradox of Analysis,
British Society for the History of Philosophy Conference: Analytic
Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, St. Annes College,
Oxford, 22-24 March 2002.
- Kant and the Aesthetics of Geometry: Imagination, Creativity
and Euclidean Methodology, British Society of Aesthetics Conference, St.
Edmunds Hall, Oxford, 13-15 September 2002.
- Is Talk of Analysis Systematically Misleading?, One-day
Conference on The Life and Work of Gilbert Ryle, Linacre College,
Oxford, 30 November 2002.
- Philosophical and Mathematical Methodology: Philosophical
Conceptions from Kant to Hilbert, and the Role of Historical Elucidation,
International History and Philosophy of Mathematics Meeting, Seville, Spain,
17-19 September 2003. (Paper published in J. Ferreirós and J. Gray, eds., The Architecture of Modern Mathematics: Essays in History and Philosophy, 2006.)
- Reply to Robert Brandoms Kantian Lessons about
Mind, Meaning and Rationality, OU Mind, Meaning and Rationality
Research Group Inaugural Conference, 14 June 2004.
- Frege and the Paradox of Analysis, APA Eastern Division
Meeting, Boston, USA, 27-30 December 2004. (Paper published in M. Beaney and E.
Reck, eds., Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers,
Vol. IV, 2005.)
- Über den Sinn und die Bedeutung der Titel, Christian-Thiel-Kolloquium, 4th International Leibniz-Forum, Altdorf, Nürnberg, 30 June – 2 July 2005.
- Presuppositional Analysis and the Presuppositions of
Analysis, Collingwood Conference, Monk Coniston, Lake District, 6-9 July
2005.
- Thought and Thinking: Tracking Tensions in Freges Thought, Conference on Mental Processes: Representing and Inferring, Genoa, Italy, 19-21 October 2005.
- Freges Conception of Function-Argument Analysis and the Appeal to Truth-Values, Conference on Freges Conception of Truth, Santa Maria, Brazil, 7-9 December 2005.
- ‘Analytic Philosophy and Historiography’, BSHP Conference on ‘Philosophy and Historiography’, Robinson College, Cambridge, 3-5 April 2006.
- ‘Wittgenstein’s Debt to Frege’, Conference on ‘Wittgenstein’s Tractatus’, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, 29 April 2006.
- ‘The Imaginary Nature of Imagining’, Conference on ‘The Imagination and Thought Experiments’, Bristol, 12-13 May 2006.
- ‘Reply to Kulenkampff, “Spoken without assertoric force?”’, Conference on ‘Literature, the Literary and the Literal’, York, 8 June 2006.
- ‘Wittgenstein on the Foundations of Language: From Simples to Samples, Gesellschaft für analytische Philosophie 6, Berlin, 12 September 2006.
- ‘Analytic Philosophy and the Foundations of Mathematics, Conference on ‘The Problem of the Foundations of Mathematics in the Analytic Tradition, UNAM, Mexico City, 24-26 September 2007.
- ‘Collingwoods Critique of Oxbridge Realism, Conference on ‘Collingwood and Twentieth-Century Philosophy, UQAM, Montreal, 18-21 October 2007.
Research Seminar Papers
- Frege and Carnap: From Analysis to Explication, Jena, 4
January 2000.
- Carnaps Quasi-analysis, Erlangen, 2 February
2000.
- Rationalität und Vernünftigkeit, Erlangen, 12
April 2000.
- Conceptions of Analysis, Bonn, 18 May 2000.
- Moore and the Open Question Argument, Erlangen, 24 May
2000.
- Analysis and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy,
Freiburg, 19 July 2000.
- Der Hund und die Kuh: Freges and Russells Relations
and Wisdom, Erlangen, 26 July 2000.
- Analysis: The Holy Trinity, OU Department of Philosophy
Conference, Maryland College, Woburn, 18-19 January 2001.
- Historical Indexicality and the Paradox of Analysis, OU
Department of Philosophy Conference, Maryland College, Woburn, 30-31 January
2002.
- Imagination, Creativity and Euclidean Problem-solving, OU
Creativity Centre, 14 January 2003.
- Empirical and Transcendental Imagination, OU Department
of Philosophy Conference, Maryland College, Woburn, 28-29 January 2003.
- Einbildungskraft und Kreativität: Kant und die euklidische
Geometrie, Erlangen, 9 July 2003.
- Logical and Phenomenological Analysis, Cardiff, 9
February 2004.
- Imagination, Externalism and Evaluativism, OU Department
of Philosophy Conference, St. Edmunds Hall, Oxford, 16-17 March
2004.
- Imagination, Mediation and Evaluation, Lille, 25 March
2004.
- Is Imagining a State of Mind?, OU Philosophy Department
Postgraduate Conference, Commonwealth Hall, London, 16-17 April 2004.
- Frege and the Role of Historical Elucidation, OU
Department of Philosophy Conference, St. Edmunds Hall, Oxford, 16-17
March 2005.
- Sinn, Bedeutung and the Paradox of Analysis, York, 21 April 2005.
- Collingwood on Rationality, Presuppositions and Historical Understanding, OU Rationality Working Group, 23 June 2005.
- Frege and the Paradox of Analysis, National Academy of Sciences of Buenos Aires, 14 December 2005.
- Imagination and Creativity, National Academy of Sciences of Buenos Aires, 15 December 2005.
- ‘The Significance of Function-Argument Analysis in the Development of Analytic Philosophy’, Paderborn, Germany, 9 February 2006.
- ‘Was ist analytische Philosophie?, Jena, 27 June 2007.
- ‘Frege, Russell and Bradley: An Analysis of their Relations on the Analysis of Relations, York, 10 October 2007.
- ‘Frege, Russell and Bradley: An Analysis of their Relations on the Analysis of Relations, McMaster, 26 October 2007.
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