The 1996 Laureates / Creative Arts and Moral Sciences Category / Philosophy

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Willard Van Orman Quine

U.S.A. / June 25, 1908 - 2000
Philosopher; Professor Emeritus, Harvard University

Workshop

Workshop: "Language, Holism, and Naturalism"

Coordinator/Moderator:
Michiko Kobayashi
Member, the Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences;
Professor, Faculty of Literature, Osaka City University
Keiichi Noe
Member, the Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences;
Professor, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University

13:00
Greetings
Toyomi Inamori
Managing Director, The Inamori Foundation
 
Greetings
Natsuhiko Yoshida
President, The Japan Association for Philosophy of Science;
Professor, Faculty of Literature, Rissyo University
 
Greetings
Norio Fujisawa
Chairman, the Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences;
Director, Kyoto National Museum
13:10
Introduction of the Laureate
Akira Oide
Professor, Faculty of Letters, Soka University
13:25
Commemorative Lecture
Willard Van Orman Quine
Laureate in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences;
"Instinct, Reification and Extensionality"
14:25
Chairperson
Hide Ishiguro
Member, the Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences;
Professor, Faculty of Letters, Chiba University
 
Lecture I
Takashi Iida
Professor, Faculty of Letters, Chiba University
"Number and Individuation"
14:55
Chairperson
Keiichiro Kamino
Professor, Faculty of Business Administration and Information, Setsunan University
 
Lecture II
Nobuharu Tanji
Professor, Department of Philosophy, Tokyo Metropolitan University
"Theory-Ladenness of Observation Sentences"
15:25
Discussion
 
15:45
Intermission
 
16:00
Chairperson
Junichiro Takeo
Professor, Faculty of Letters, Kansai University
 
Lecture III
Kenzo Hamano
Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology
"Naturalism and Norms"
16:30
Chairperson
Hyakudai Sakamto
Professor, Philosophy Department, Nihon University
President, Philosophy of Science Society, Japan
 
Lecture IV
Yasuhiko Tomida
Associate Professor, Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, Kyoto University
"Reification and Naturalism"
17:00
Discussion
17:20
Closing
 

Workshop Program and Abstract(PDF)