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1997

The Role of Pragmatics in Contemporary Philosophy. The 20th International Wittgenstein Symposium. Kirchberg am Wechsel, 10-16 August 1997. Invited participants included: Nicholas Rescher, Gerhard Schurz, Peter Hare, Paul Gochet, Risto Hilpinen, John Pollock, Patrick Suppes, and David Pears.

1998

The 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Marquette University, 5-7 March 1998. Theme: Science, Technology, and Democracy, and Why Experience Matters.

The 96th Annual Meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association. Chicago, 6-9 May, 1998 . Events include:

Colloquium: Social Philosophy. Paper by Judith Green, "Transformative Communication Toward Democratic Communities: Pragmatism or Critical Theory?"

Colloquium: Pragmatism. Papers by Scot D. Yoder, "Can a Pragmatist Teach Philosophy? Some Problems with Problems." Paul Saka, "Relativism in Pragmatic Epistemology." Andrew Bailey, "William James, Chaos Theory, and Conscious Experience."

Joint Session of the Society for Women in Philosophy and the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Topic: Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving The Social Fabric, by Charlene Haddock Seigfried. Speakers: Marilyn Fischer, Eugenie Gatens-Robinson, Lisa M. Heldke, Patricia Huntington. Responding: Charlene Haddock Seigfried.

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy: Native American Philosophy. Papers by James Cheney, "Ceremonial Worlds." Scott Pratt, "Learning from Experience: Native American Thought and the History of Philosophy."

Colloquium: Philosophy of Language. Paper by Russell B. Goodman, "James and Wittgenstein on Language."

Special Session organized by the APA Committee on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy: "The Early Formation of Some Famous Philosophers." Paper by Charles Seibert, "The Young Charles Peirce: Aspirations and Achievements."

Symposium on Pragmatism and Idealism. Académie du Midi and the Institut für Philosophie at Alet les Bains, France, June 1-5, 1998.

Summer Institute in American Philosophy 1998. Theme: "Revisiting the Texts." University of Vermont, 22-28 July 1998.

Paideia: The 20th World Congress of Philosophy. Boston, Massachusetts, 10-15 August 1998. The Proceedings are published by the Philosophy Documentation Center. More papers are available online at the archive of the 20th World Congress Website.

Events included:

Symposium: "Pragmatism: What it is, and What it is not."

Invited Session: "Dewey."

FISP Section: "American Philosophy."

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy: "John Dewey: Educating for the 21st Century," "Pragmatic Bioethics."

The Charles S. Peirce Society: "Peirce and the Metaphysics of Truth."

John Dewey Society: "Society Meeting."

Alain L. Locke Society: "Society Meeting."

International Institute for Field Being: "Contemporary Marxism, Pragmatism, and Field-Being."

Computing and Philosophy: "Pragmatism and Philosophical Media Theory."

Roundtables: "The Pragmatism of Jane Addams," "Peirce and the Metaphysics of Truth," "American Philosophy," "Alain L. Locke: Pragmatism and Democracy."

American Neopragmatism. A Conference Honoring Hilary Putnam's Philosophy. Copernicus University, Turun, Poland, 8-11 September 1998.

The Contribution of American Pragmatism to Contemporary Literary and Cultural Studies. John F. Kennedy-Institut fur Nordamerikastudien and Freie Universitat Berlin, 12-14 November 1998. Speakers: Ross Posnock, Charles Altieri, Hans Joas, Mark Bauerlein, Joan Richardson, Susanne Rohr, John Sheriff, David Marr, Peter Carafiol, Donald Pease, Steven Mailloux, Herbert Grabes, Richard Shusterman, Lothar Bredella, David Hildebrand, Megan Bahr, Winfried Fluck.

The 95th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. Washington, D.C., 27-30 December 1998. Events included:

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Papers by Glenn McGee, "Dewey on the Role of Institutions in Ethical Inquiry: The Cloning Case"; Jacqueline A. Kegley, "Pragmatic Bioethics: Facilitating Better Genetic Decision-making"; Xiaosi Yang; Marjorie Miller.

Charles S. Peirce Society. Papers by Isreal Scheffler, "A Plea for Plurealism"; Peter Skagestad, "Peirce's Inkstand as an Embodiment of Mind."

Alain Locke Society. Papers by Sally Scholz, "Locke and the Language of World Solidarity"; Kenneth Stikkers, "Locke and John Dewey"; Jesse Taylor, "Locke and Values"; Rudolph Vanterpool, "Locke and Aesthetics."

Association for the Philosophy of the Unconscious. Papers by Joe Brent, "Peirce's Semiotic and Psychoanalysis"; Wilfried Ver Eacke, "Peirce and the Therapeutic Function of Language."