{"id":2676,"date":"2018-09-17T10:54:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T08:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/?p=2676"},"modified":"2020-05-04T11:33:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T09:33:30","slug":"colloqium-philosophy-of-the-brentanian-language-and-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/brussels\/en\/2018\/09\/17\/colloqium-philosophy-of-the-brentanian-language-and-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloqium \u2018Philosophy of the Brentanian language and tradition\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Franz BRENTANO<\/strong>\u00a0is at the heart of a veritable philosophical tradition which spread via his pupils and their pupils in Europe between the end of the XIXth century and the Second World War, particularly in Poland. It led to various significant schools or philosophical movements: other than the movement led by Brentano himself (Kazimierz TWARDOWSKI<\/a>, Ehrenfels, Meinong, the young Husserl, Stumpf, Marty), there were those founded by his pupils, such as the\u00a0Lvov-Warsaw School<\/a>\u00a0(Jan \u0141UKASIEWICZ<\/strong>,\u00a0Stanis\u0142awz LE\u015aNIEWSKI<\/strong>,\u00a0Tadeusz KOTARBI\u0143SKI<\/strong>,\u00a0Kazimierz AJDUKIEWICZ<\/strong>,\u00a0Izydora D\u0104MBSKA<\/strong>,\u00a0Alfred TARSKI<\/strong>), the realist current in phenomenology (Ingarden, Pf\u00e4nder, Stein, Scheler and Reinach), or the Graz (Ameseder, H\u00f6fler, Mally, Vitasek, Martinak), Berlin (Wertheimer, Koffka, Koehler) and Prague (Kraus, Kastil) schools.
The important contributions made to psychology, both of a descriptive and phenomenological nature, as well as the debt owed to it by ontology and value theory are well known today. Yet far less is known about the way it shaped language. Indeed, reflections on the philosophy of language among the members of this tradition have been studied little, other than in the contributions made by Anton Marty \u2013 Brentano\u2019s \u2018minister of linguistic affairs\u2019 \u2013 and Husserl. Nevertheless, the Brentanian tradition is undeniably marked by an interest in language, be this in and of itself or as a way to resolve philosophical problems.
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The conference „Philosophy of the Brentanian Language and Culture<\/strong>” will take place at the\u00a0Salle de l’Horloge<\/strong>\u00a0at the\u00a0University of Li\u00e8ge<\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0Monday 17 until Wednesday 19 September 2018<\/strong>. The Polish Institute Brussels has invited two internationally-renowned researchers to participate:\u00a0Jan HERTRICH-WOLE\u0143SKI<\/strong>\u00a0from the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, and\u00a0Arkadiusz CHRUDZIMSKI<\/strong>\u00a0from Szczecin University.<\/p>\n

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PRACTICAL INFORMATION<\/strong>
>>>\u00a0University of Li\u00e8ge<\/strong>, Salle de l’Horloge (Rue du 20-Ao\u00fbt, 4000 Li\u00e8ge, building A1, entrance 7, second entresol) – see map\u00a0HERE<\/a>
>>> Monday\u00a017<\/strong>, Tuesday\u00a018<\/strong>\u00a0and Wednesday\u00a019 September<\/strong>\u00a02018 –\u00a09h30 > 17h<\/strong>
>>>\u00a0free entrance
<\/strong>>>>\u00a0The conference will be held mainly in English
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ARGUMENT<\/strong>
The Brentanian tradition shares with analytical tradtition the conviction that linguistic analysis must not focus solely on a grammatical analysis of utterances, but rather that it should hightlight their 'profound structure’. Only by undertaking work of this kind can one hope to resolve the philosophical problems which do not, at first glance, seem to be of a linguistic nature. However, where these two major philosophical traditions part ways is when it comes to the essence of this 'profound structure’: whilst Brentanian tradition holds that it is of a mental nature, analytical tradition views it as being logical.
Indeed, at the heart of the Brentanian tradition, linguistic analysis aims to highlight the mental acts expressed by utterances, sometimes attributed themes along the lines of 'internal form’. This divergence within the programme explains to a large extent why Brentanian tradition has never truly adopted the 'linguistic turn’ taken up at a later stage by Wittgenstein and Oxford’s philosophers of ordinary language.
What the colloquium primarily sets out to do is evaluate the hypothesis which states that Brentanian tradition offers a genuine programme of original research into the philosophy of languages. The speeches will thus deal with the folowing themes which are present in Brentanian tradition:
1) The theory of signification :
1.1) Subjective and objective signification (psychologism and anti-psychologism regarding signification);
1.2) The communicational and contextual aspects of signification;
2) The internal form of language;
3) Linguistic functions;
4) The relationships between linguistic\u00a0 expressions and mental acts, and notably the issue of the language\/thought parallelism;
5) The distinction between categorametic and syncategorametic expressions, as well as the issue of pure grammar;
6) Linguistic analysis as a tool to resolve philosophical problems;
7) The question of nominalism;
8) The question of indexical expressions;
9) Analysing proper nouns and common nouns;
10) Analysing utterances;
11) Linguistic fiction and paraphrasing.<\/p>\n

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PROGRAMME

Monday 17 September 2018

9:30\u00a0–\u00a0<\/strong>S\u00e9bastien RICHARD (ULB),\u00a0„Objective and Subjective Meaning in the School of Brentano”
10:30<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Denis SERON (FNRS\/ULi\u00e8ge),\u00a0„Brentano and Mauthner on Grammatical Illusions”
11:30-11:45 – BREAK
11:45<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Maria VAN DER SCHAAR (universiteit Leiden),\u00a0„Modification and Modifying Terms in the Brentano School”

12:45-14:00 – LUNCH

14:30<\/strong>\u00a0– Denis FISETTE (UQAM),\u00a0„Twardowski on Logical Psychologism”
15:00<\/strong>\u00a0– Jan WOLE\u0143SKI (Universit\u00e9 Jagellone de Cracovie),\u00a0Extensionality\/intensionality in Polish Philosophy of Language. From Twardowski to Tarski”
16:00-16:15 – BREAK
16:15<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Bruno LECLERCQ (ULi\u00e8ge),\u00a0 „Meaning and Reference in Twardowski, Meinong and Meinongian Logicians”

Tuesday 18 September 2018

9:30<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Kevin MULLIGAN (Universit\u00e9 de Lugano),\u00a0„On Being Guided: B\u00fchler & Wittgenstein”
10:30<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Janette FRIEDRICH (Universit\u00e9 de Gen\u00e8ve),\u00a0„Questions psychologiques et questions linguistiques : B\u00fchler et Martinak”
11:30-11:45 – BREAK
11:45<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Basil VASSILICOS (Mary Immaculate College\/ University of Limerick), „Wundt and B\u00fchler on Gestural Expression: from Psycho-Physical Mirroring to the Diacrisis”

12:45-14:00 – LUNCH

14:30<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Guillaume FRECHETTE (Universit\u00e4t Salzburg), „The Context Principle in Austro-German Philosophy”
15:30<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Charlotte GAUVRY (FNRS\/ULi\u00e8ge), „A Context Principle in Brentano?”
16:00-16:15\u00a0–\u00a0 BREAK
16:15<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Olivier MALHERBE (ULB): „Roman Ingarden : usage, contexte et signification”

Wednesday 19 September 2018

9:30<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Arkadiusz CHRUDZIMSKI (Universit\u00e9 de Szczecin),\u00a0„Brentanian Intentionality and Demonstrative Reference”
10:30<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Hamid TAIEB (Humboldt Universiteit, Hamburg), „The Early Husserl on Typicality”
11:30-11:45\u00a0– BREAK
11:45<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Claudio MAJOLINO (Universit\u00e9 de Lille), „Husserl on Classifying Signs (as to Describe Speech Actions)”

12:45-14:00 – LUNCH

14:30<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Laurent CESALLI (Universit\u00e9 de Gen\u00e8ve),\u00a0„M\u00e9ta-Marty : Essai d\u2019investigation des\u00a0Untersuchungen<\/em>„<\/p>\n

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