Kaplan in Lisbon
- Petrus Hispanus Lectures 2006
Professor David Kaplan
University of California at Los Angeles
Lecture 1: RUSSELL’S EPISTEMOLOGY OF LANGUAGE & mine (I)
29 May 2006, 15:00, Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa, Room D. Pedro V
Lecture 2: RUSSELL’S EPISTEMOLOGY OF LANGUAGE & mine (II)
30 May 2006, 15:00, Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa, Room D. Pedro V
The Petrus Hispanus Lectures are delivered every other academic year at the
University of Lisbon by a leading figure in current research about the
nature of mind, cognition and language. Previous Petrus Hispanus Lecturers:
Hilary Putnam (Harvard), 1998; Richard Jeffrey (Princeton), 2000; Ned Block
(New York University), 2002; and Daniel Dennett (Tufts University), 2004.
The Petrus Hipanus Lectures 2006 are part of the Project on Content
(POCI/FIL/55562/2004), a research project carried out at the Philosophy
Centre of the Universisty of Lisbon, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e
a Tecnologia, and coordinated by Adriana Silva Graça.
Contact person: Professor Adriana Silva Graça, Departamento de Filosofia,
Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214 Lisboa. Fax
+ 3517960063. E-mail: adrianasg@netcabo.pt
I was very fortunate to study Philosophy at UCLA in the late 70s and early 80s–then and now, David Kaplan was a giant.