Recent decades have witnessed the concept of normativity slowly moving to centerstage in philosophical discussions. While some fifty years ago, norms and rules appeared to interest mainly ethicians, political philosophers, and logicians, nowadays they have become central for other philosophers working in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind etc. One source of this movement was certainly the later Wittgenstein and the post-Wittgensteinian discussion of rule following as stimulated especially by Kripke's book "Wittgenstein and private language". Another largely independent source was Wilfrid Sellars with his view of man as "a creature not of habits, but of rules". Sellars' legacy has been elaborated by a host of followers into a picture which sees the human world as an essentially normative matter. Other incentives to focus upon the very phenomenon of rules have arisen from the generalization of meta-ethical considerations of the nature of ethical norms to other areas of philosophy, from recent approaches in social sciences to the varieties of human normative behavior (using, for example, game-theoretic tools), from considerations concerning the nature of human rationality and also from considerations of the kinds of normativity arising from various functions bestowed on living organisms by natural selection.

This conference aims to bring together people approaching rules and normativity from all perspectives, but especially from the Wittgensteinian and Sellarsian ones. We welcome contributions addressing the nature of rules, the nature of rule following, as well as the logic, semantics and ontology of normativity.

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Nature of Rules and Normativity

Prague international colloquium

organized by the

Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

September 17-19 2014, Villa Lanna, Prague, Czech Republic

The colloquium continues the series of international meetings organized in Prague by the department. The present colloquium aims to bring together people interested in the nature of normativity and in the way rules exist and are followed within human communities. The invited speakers of the colloquium are Alice Crary (New York), Mark Okrent (Lewiston), Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer (Leipzig), and Michael Williams (Baltimore).

The conference fee is EUR 60 (covering participation, refreshments, a register of abstracts & the banquet. Some accommodation is available (a limited number of rooms) directly on the conference site.

Extended abstracts of 2 pages in pdf format prepared for a blind reviewing should be submitted via EasyChair by 31st March, 2014. The program committee consists of Ondřej Beran, Christopher Gauker, Ladislav Koreň, Jaroslav Peregrin, Mark Risjord, Vladimír Svoboda and Bernhard Weiss. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by 31st May. Contributed papers are scheduled for 40 minutes including discussion.

The organizing committee consists of Jaroslav Peregrin, Ondřej Beran and Petra Ivaničová.

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