RT list: Fwd: Evolution, Cooperation and Rationality Conference, Bristol, 18th-20th September 2009

Thought list-members would be interested in this. I love an
evolutionary story, and I´m currently doing my best to digest Gricean
pirotechnics (well, his pirotology, rather). D. Sperber´s blog
(cultural anthropology) includes a recent criticism of anything-goes in
evolutionary theory, and I´m trying to see how Grecian Gricean thoughts
were (back to Empedocles, as it were). But what strikes me is that, as
E. Borg notes in the I. R. Pragmatics, Grice´s theory has sometimes
been overlooked regarding the initial narrow view on things: he was,
after all, interested in the ´survival optimality´conditions for a
_special_ type of conversational interaction, notably among Oxonian
philosophical types! No need to postulate, as I have myself elsewhere
tried in the past (ch. 8 of PhD, The Cunning of Conversational
Reasoning) that Malagasy conversationlists need be conversant with
Oxonian, or even Athenian, dialectics, is there? J. L. Speranza

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From: S Okasha, Philosophy <Samir.Okasha@BRISTOL.AC.UK>
To: PHILOS-L@liverpool.ac.uk
Sent: Mon, Jul 27, 2009 3:11 pm
Subject: Evolution, Cooperation and Rationality Conference, Bristol,
18th-20th September 2009

Registration is now open for the Evolution, Co-operation and
Rationality
conference, University of Bristol, 18th-20th September 2009.

Keynote Speakers:
Cristina Bicchieri, Ken Binmore, Gerd Gigerenzer, Werner Güth, Peter
Hammerstein, Alasdair Houston, John McNamara, Samir Okasha=0
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Brian Skyrms, Stuart West

For further details, including the full programme, see:

<http://www.bristol.ac.uk/evolution-cooperation/events/conference2009>

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Head of Department of Philosophy,
Department of Philosophy,
University of Bristol,
Bristol BS8 1TB, U.K.

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Received on Fri Jul 31 19:58:08 2009