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The Second Annual HPS Workshop in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences

HPS Seminar Room 1

Day One (Friday 21 April)
9:30–10:30	Peter Lipton (HPS): 'Testimony and the Growth of Knowledge'
10:30–11:30	Nigel Pleasants (Philosophy & Sociology, Exeter): 'Social Wrongdoing and Critical Moral Reflection'
Coffee Break
12–1	Alix Cohen (HPS): 'A Functionalist Interpretation of "Nature's Intentions" in Kant'
Lunch Break
2–3	Boaz Miller (Toronto): 'Interpretation or Puzzle Solving? On the Debate between Kuhn and Taylor about the Proper Demarcation Criterion between the Natural and the Human Sciences'
3–4	Axel Gelfert (Collegium Budapest): 'Georg Simmel's Social Epistemology of History'
Coffee Break
4:30–5:30	Joab Rosenberg (HPS): 'Commun-dividualism: Stanley Cavell on Ordinary Language Philosophy'
5:30–6:30	Bill Grundy (HPS): 'Speaker and Society'
Dinner (Bangkok City, Green Street)
Day Two (Saturday 22 April)
10–11	Patrick Baert (SPS, Cambridge): 'Neo-pragmatism and Gadamerian hermeneutics: a proposal'
11–12	David Tyfield (Exeter): 'Philosophical Investigations and Transcendental Arguments – A Realist Immanent Critique of Wittgenstein'
Lunch Break
1–2	Ismael Al-Amoudi (Judge Institute, Cambridge): 'Revisiting Rules: An Ontological Study of Social Rules'
2–3	Caroline Baumann (HPS): 'Rules as Reasons'
Coffee Break
3:30–4:30	Lorenzo Bernasconi (HPS): 'On The Scope of the Social Sciences: Winch, Kripke and Wittgenstein'
4:30–5:30	Martin Kusch (HPS): 'Searle on Rule Scepticism'

Organised by: Caroline Baumann, Lorenzo Bernasconi, Bill Grundy, Martin Kusch