Programme
Monday, 20 May
10.00-12.00
Opening words
The Nature of Normativity
Joseph Margolis (Temple University)
Prospects of Nonreductive Materialism: Margolis and Popper on Cultural
Entities
Ilkka Niiniluoto (University of Helsinki)
Chair: Sami Pihlström
12.00-13.00
Lunch
13.00-15.00
Margolis and Protagorean Relativism
Ugo Zilioli (University of Pisa)
Bipolarity, Many-valued logic, and Pluralism
Dirk-Martin Grube (University of Utrecht)
Relativism, Cooperation, and the Practice of Inquiry
Philip Chodrow (University of Oslo)
Chair: Henrik Rydenfelt
15.00-15.30
Coffee
15.30-17.30
An Enlightened Distinction? Questions concerning Historicity and
Artifactuality
Brendan Hogan (New York University)
Cognitive Symbiosis: Elaborating on Margolis?s Thesis of the Entanglement
Between the Knower and the Known
Roman Madzia (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
Phenomenology, pluralism and constituted scientific realism
Mirja Hartimo (University of Helsinki)
Chair: Risto Vilkko
18.00-20.00
Reception
Tuesday, 21 May
10.00-12.00
Community, Recognition, and Interpretation
Christopher Hookway (University of Sheffield)
Of Typewriters and Pipes
Robert Main (West Chester University)
Margolis on the Progress of Pragmatism
Dale Jacquette (University of Bern)
Chair: Arto Haapala
12.00-13.00
Lunch
13.00-15.00
Margolis?s Advantage: the Pragmatism of Continuity
David Hildebrand (University of Colorado Denver)
The Poverty of Pragmatism
Phillip Honenberger (Rowan University)
Margolis on Quine: Fact or Fiction?
Robert Sinclair (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
Chair:
15.00-15.30
Coffee
15.30-17.30
The Artist as Cultural Agent: A Theory of Artistic Practice Extrapolated
from the Philosophy of Joseph Margolis
Aili W. Bresnahan (University of Dayton, Ohio)
Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Culture
Russell Pryba (Niagara University)
Responses
Joseph Margolis (Temple University)
Chair: Kalle Puolakka
19.30-
Dinner
Wednesday, 22 May
Public lecture by Joseph Margolis: Toward a Metaphysics of Culture.
University of Helsinki Main building (Fabianinkatu 33, lecture room 10),
at 3-5 pm.