The Inter-University Workshop on Philosophy and Cognitive Science was created in 1989 with the aim of enhancing the development of original research in philosophical questions related to the empirical research in cognitive science. Philosophical discussions encouraged by this workshop have focused on problems in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and epistemology. The workshop is hosted by a different Spanish university each year and is organized with the support of the Spanish Society of Analytical Philosophy (SEFA).

The workshop tries to make easier the incorporation of young researchers to these areas of debate by facilitating the contact with prominent philosophers. These are invited to give three lectures during the workshop; about ten other people are invited to discuss different aspects of his/her work with contributed papers blindly reviewed by the scientific committee of the workshop. During the last 14 years, influential philosophers such as Daniel Dennett, Jerry Fodor, Fred Dretske, Ruth Millikan, Tyler Burge, John Searle, Jaegwon Kim, Christopher Peacocke, François Récanati, Barry Stroud, John McDowell have been invited to the workshop.

The 15th edition of the Workshop will be held in the Autonomous University of Madrid (Department of Linguistics, Logic and Philosophy of Science). The invited speaker on this occasion will be the American philosopher Robert Brandom, whose work has exerted a remarkable influence in the last decade, mainly after the publishing of his book Making it Explicit. Reasoning, Representing and Discursive Commitment (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1994).

The organizing committee invites the people interested in those topics discussed in R. Brandom's work to submit his/her contributions. Preferably, complete papers, though the submission of long abstracts (not less than 1500 words) will also be accepted for review.

The deadline for the submission of the papers is February 15th, 2005.

The program of the workshop will be published in this web around March 15th, 2005. Please, those interested in attending the Seminar are asked to notify it to the organization. (jesus.vega@uam.es).

Correspondence and submissions:

Jesús Vega Encabo

Departamento de Lingüística, Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

E-28049 Madrid (Spain)

There is no registration fee. However, you have to contact professor Jesús Vega (jesus.vega@uam.es) in order to attend the Seminar.

Enrique Alonso (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Josep Corbí (Universitat de Valencia)

Antoni Gomila (Universitat de les Illes Balears)

Enrique Romerales (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Jesús Vega Encabo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Alfonso García Suárez (Universidad de Oviedo)

Jennifer Church (Vassar College)

Josefa Toribio (Universidad de Edimburgo)

Carlos Thiebaut (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Manuel García Carpintero (Universidad de Barcelona)

Eduardo Bustos (UNED)

Diego Lawler (Universidad de Warwick)

Fernando Broncano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Spanish Ministery of Education

Departamento de Lingüística, Lenguas Modernas, Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia

Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Vicerrectorado de Extensión Universitaria y Cooperación de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Spanish Society of Analytical Philosophy

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11:30 Juan José Acero (Universidad de Granada), Compositionality and substitution

12:45 Martin Francisco Fricke (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos), Brandom's "Expressive Deduction" of Singular Terms.

16:30 Javier Hernández Iglesias (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Brandomizing Alternative Possibilities

17:45 Josep Lluis Prades (Universitat de Girona), Brandom on practical reasoning

19:15 Tanja Pritzlaff (Universität Bremen), A Change of Perspectives - Freedom and Constraint in Joint Decision Making

11:30 Jaroslav Peregrin (Academy of Sciences and Charles University, Praga), Viable inferentialism

12:45 María José Frapolli (Universidad de Granada), The question of truth in an inferentialist context

16:30 Manuel de Pinedo (Universidad de Granada) y Hilan Bensusan (Universidad de Brasilia), Showing the inferentialist fly the way out of the bottleneck

17:45 Pierre Steiner (Université de Provence, Lab. CEPERC), Brandom's Pragmatism and Varieties of Implicitness

9:30 Jesús Zamora Bonilla (UNED), How to (make others) do things with words?

10:45 Mauricio Suárez (Universidad Complutense), An inferential conception of scientific representation