Dear all!

Just letting you know:

Peter Winch and the Idea of Social Science

        An International Conference to be Held at Burwalls Conference 
Centre, Bristol, UK

                       Friday 8th September - Sunday 10th September 2000

Conference Themes: Social Explanation - Culture and Relativism - Discourse, 
Talk and Meaning - Rationality -
Ethics and Agency - The Political Responsibility of Intellectuals - Power 
and Authority

Speakers and Papers Include:

     Lillian Alweiss (Trinity College, Ireland) - 'Ethics and Agency'
     Barry Barnes (University of Exeter, UK) - 'Peter Winch and the 
Cattle-Prod
     Ted Benton (University of Essex, UK) - 'Winch, Wittgenstein and Nature'
     David Bloor (University of Edinburgh, UK) - 'Winch, Kripke and 
Rule-Following
     Barry Brown - 'The Accomplishment of Representation'
     Richard Hamilton (Birbeck College, UK) - 'Understanding Winch, 
Understanding Ourselves'
     Austin Harrington (University of Leeds, UK) - 'The German Reception of 
Winch: From Schutz to Habermas'
     John Horton (University of Keele, UK) - 'Political Authority'
     Gavin Kitching (University of New South Wales, Australia) - 'Peter 
Winch as Wittgenstein-in-Social-Science'
     Stephanie Koerner (University of Pitsburgh, USA and University of 
Sheffield, UK)
     Robert Layton (University of Durham, UK) - 'Aboriginal Creationism and 
Aboriginal Rights'
     Berel Lerner (Western Galilee College, Israel) - 'Language Goes on a 
Hawaiian Holiday'
     Herminio Martins (St. Antony's College, Oxford, UK) - 'Winch, Gellner 
and Social Ontology'
     Denis McManus (University of Southampton, UK) - 'The limits of 
Intelligibility and the Will to Metaphysics'
     Alan Montefiore (Balliol College, Oxford, UK & Middlesex University, 
UK) - 'Peter Winch and the Political
     Responsibility of Intellectuals: Commitment and Personal Choice'
     Mark Peacock (Witten/Herdecke University, Germany) - 'The Desire to 
Understand and the Limits of
     WISSENSCAHFT: An Analysis of the HISTORIKERSTREIT'
     D Z Phillips (University of Wales, Swansea) - 'Winch and Romanticism'
     Rupert Read (University of East Anglia, UK) - 'Philosophy without 
Theses or Theories: In Defence of a
     Wittgensteinian Winch'
     Paul Roth (University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA) - 'Mistakes'
     David Rubinstein (University of Chicago, USA) - ‘Language Games and 
Primitive Reactions'
     Ted Schatzki (University of Kentucky, USA) - 'On Understanding Other 
Cultures'
     Charles Turner (University of Warwick, UK) - 'Rules, Practices and the 
Idea of a Shared Culture'

   See: History of the Human Sciences, Volume 13, Issue No.1, Special Issue 
on Peter Winch and ‘The Idea of a
                                          Social Science’

   The Conference starts at 3.00 p.m. on Friday 8th September and ends after 
lunch on Sunday 10th September.

              For further details email Nigel Pleasants or telephone him on 
+44 (0)1392 263253

             
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Principal Organisers: Harriet Bradley & Gregor McLennan (Dept. Sociology, 
University of Bristol); Mauricio
Suarez & Carolyn Wilde (Dept. Philosophy, University of Bristol); Nigel 
Pleasants (Centre for Philosophy of the
Social Sciences, University of Exeter)

Conference Supported by: BSA Theory Group; Department of Political Science 
and International Studies,
University of Birmingham; Centre for the History of the Human Sciences, 
University of Durham
http://www.ex.ac.uk/shipss/sociology/about.htm

Philosophy at Exeter:
http://www.ex.ac.uk/shipss/sociology/philosophy.htm

Peter Winch and Social Science, an International
Conference:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Sociology/hhs/winch.htm


Sincerely Yours
Seyed Javad
Department of sociology
University of Bristol, England
             
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