The Future of Realism
in the
American Tradition of Pragmatic Naturalism

A Conference in Honor of Peter H. Hare

October 20 and 21, 2000

University at Buffalo
Center for Inquiry
1310 Sweet Home Road
Amherst, New York

Sponsored by:
Marvin Farber Memorial Fund
The Charles S. Peirce Professorship in American Philosophy
Samuel P. Capen Chair in Philosophy
UB Department of Philosophy

SCHEDULE OF  EVENTS

Friday, October 20

10:30-10:45    Opening Remarks: Jorge J. E. Gracia (University at Buffalo)

10:45-11:45    Chair: Richard T. Hull (University at Buffalo)
                       Speaker: Randall Dipert (University at Buffalo)
                            "The Varieties of Realism Worth Seeking"
                       Commentator: Robert Almeder (Georgia State University)

11:45-12:00    Coffee/Tea Break

12:00-1:00      Chair: Marilyn Myerson (University of South Florida)
                       Speaker: Peter Manicas (University of Hawaii, Manoa)
                            "Empirical vs. Critical Realism: A Choice for Pragmatism"
                       Commentator: John Ryder (SUNY at Cortland)

1:00-2:30        Lunch

2:30-3:30        Chair: Timothy Madigan (Rochester)
                       Speaker: Murray Murphey (University of Pennsylvania)
                            "A Pragmatic Realism"
                       Commentator: Richard Robin (Mount Holyoke College)

3:30-3:45        Coffee/Tea Break

3:45-4:45        Chair: John Corcoran (University of Buffalo)
                       Speaker: Chi-Chun Chiu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
                            "Scepticism and Pragmatic Realism"
                       Commentator: Kenneth Lucey (University of Nevada, Reno)

4:45-5:00        Coffee and Tea Break

5:00-6:00        Chair: Thomas Donahue (Mercyhurst College)
                       Speaker: Vincent Colapietro (Pennsylvania State University)
                            "Realism Thick and Thin"
                       Commentator: Richard Gale (University of Pittsburgh)

6:00-7:00        Reception

Saturday, October 21

9:30-10:30      Chair: Mariam Thalos (University of Buffalo)
                       Speaker: Kenneth Westphal (University of East Anglia)
                            "Can Pragmatic Realists Argue Transcendentally?"
                       Commentator: Henry Jackman (York University)

10:30-10:45    Coffee/Tea Break

10:45-11:45    Chair: Carolyn Korsmeyer (University of Buffalo)
                       Speaker: Joseph Margolis (Temple University)
                            "The Benign Antimony of a Constructive Realism"
                       Commentator: Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto)

11:45-12:00    Coffee/Tea Break

12:00-1:00      Chair: Newton Garver (University of Buffalo)
                       Speaker: Sami Pihlstrom (University of Helsinki)
                            "Pragmatic Realism and Ethics"
                       Commentator: Beth Singer (Brooklyn College, CUNY)

1:00-2:30        Lunch

2:30-3:30        Chair: John Lincourt (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
                       Speaker: John Shook (Oklahoma State University)
                            "A Pragmatically Realistic Philosophy of Science"
                       Commentator: Tom Burke (University of South Carolina)

3:30-3:45        Coffee/Tea Break

3:45-4:45        Chair: Jason Adsit (Washington D.C.)
                       Speaker: Robert Meyers (SUNY at Albany)
                            "Immediacy, Knowledge and Naturalism"
                       Commentator: John Capps (Rochester Institute of Technology)

4:45-5:00        Coffee/Tea Break

5:00-6:00        Chair: Shannon Kincaid (Brooklyn)
                       Speaker: Sandra Rosenthal (Loyola University, New Orleans)
                            "The Pragmatic Reconstruction of Realism: A Pathway for the Future"
                       Commentator: Kenneth Barber (University at Buffalo)

7:00-10:00      Dinner and Roasting