The Australian National University
Centre for Consciousness
Philosophy Program, RSSS
document location: http://consciousness.anu.edu.au/events/concepts.html

Concepts and Conceptual Analysis

 

The Centre for Consciousness held a conference on "Concepts and Conceptual Analysis" on January 20-21, 2005 (Thursday-Friday).

The focus was on the nature of concepts and on the nature of conceptual analysis, and especially on the relationship between these two issues. The conference was held in the National Europe Centre on Liversidge Street on the ANU campus. The conference program is below and take a look at the photos.

  THURSDAY, JANUARY 20

1-3pm

David Braddon-Mitchell (Sydney)
"What Do We Need From a Theory of Concepts"

3.30-5.30pm

Frank Jackson (ANU)
"Two Kinds of Content and Conceptual Analysis"

 

  FRIDAY, JANUARY 21

10am-12pm

Laura Schroeter and John Bigelow (Monash)
"A Priori Reductions and the Improv Model of Concepts"

1-3pm

Anna Wierzbicka (ANU, Linguistics)
"Colour and Shape in Language and Thought and
the Nature of Conceptual Analysis"

3.30-5.30pm

David Chalmers (ANU)
"Primitive Concepts"