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SUMMARY:Radical Translation: Analytic Philosophy in America - Dr Joel Isaa
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CONTACT:Ruth Rushworth
DESCRIPTION:In this year's Balzan-Skinner Lecture\, Dr Joel Isaac (Queen M
 ary\, University of London) will discuss the analytic tradition of philoso
 phy in the United States. The lecture will be followed by a colloquium on 
 Friday 6 May 2011.\n\nIn his lecture and colloquium\, Dr Joel Isaac will f
 ocus on the reception of the analytic tradition of philosophy in the Unite
 d States. By any measure\, the migration to America of the thinkers and id
 eas of the Vienna Circle\, of the Cambridge school of logical analysis\, a
 nd of Oxford ordinary language philosophy constitutes a major event in twe
 ntieth-century intellectual history. Historians of philosophy and politica
 l thought\, philosophers\, and practitioners of the social sciences gestur
 e toward this moment of encounter when they speak of the rise of positivis
 m in philosophy\, or of the impact of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Inves
 tigation on the post-Second World War human sciences. But the historical s
 ignificance of this shift\, and especially the fine-grained details of the
  ways in which the analytic tradition was formed and remoulded in America\
 , have yet to be fully explored. In the Balzan-Skinner 2011 lecture and co
 lloquium\, Dr Joel Isaac will aim to lay down a framework for an intellect
 ual history of the analytic turn in American philosophy and social thought
 .\n\nIn his lecture\, Dr Joel Isaac will take up questions concerning the 
 reception of the analytic tradition through an exploration of the career a
 nd writings of the philosopher\, trained classicist\, and part-time theori
 st of decision-making\, Donald Davidson (1917-2003). By following Davidson
 ’s path from graduate studies on Plato’s Philebusto experimental work 
 in decision theory to the analytic philosophy of action\, mind\, and langu
 age\, we can assess in concrete terms how the analytic heritage of Vienna\
 , Cambridge\, and Oxford was received\, re-purposed\, and (in certain case
 s) avoided in the United States.\n\nFor more information\, please see http
 ://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1481/.
LOCATION:CRASSH 17\, Mill Lane
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