J.L. Austin Centenary Conference - April 5-7, 2011

Conference programme

Tuesday April 5th

9 a.m. registration opens

Parallel session 1a: Frankland Colloquium, Faraday Building

10.00 am - 10.45 am: Action and responsibility, Marina Sbisà, University of Trieste

10.45 - 11.30: Perlocutions as affordances, Charles Lassiter, Fordham University

Parallel session 1b: Cavendish Colloquium, Faraday Building

10.00 am - 10.45 am: Austin's Promising Slip of the Pen, Harm Boukema, Radboud University, Nijmegen

10.45 - 11.30: Performative and non-performative bet proposals, Dan Ponsford, Lancaster University

Parallel session 2a: Frankland Colloquium, Faraday Building

12.00 - 12.45: Slips, Santiago Amaya, Washington University in St Louis

12.45 - 1.30: Etiolations, Joe Friggieri, University of Malta

Parallel session 2b: Cavendish Colloquium, Faraday Building

12.00 - 12.45: On the identification of individual actions, Federico José Arena, Bocconi University, Milan

12.45 - 1.30: Normative Acts and Constitutive Rules, Chiara Sernagiotto, University of Milano Bicocca, Edoardo Colzani, University of Milan, and Andrea Rossetti, University of Milano Bicocca

1.30 - 2.30 lunch

Parallel session 3a: Frankland Colloquium, Faraday Building

2.30 - 3.15: From armchair philosophy to general intellect: Austin, illusions and insanity defence, Alessandro Dell'Anna, University of Genoa, and Filippo Santoni de Sio, University of Turin

3.15 - 4.00: Concealed Motives for the Phenomenal Principle: An Austinian Explanation of Philosophical Intuitions, Eugen Fischer, University of East Anglia

Parallel session 3b: Cavendish Colloquium, Faraday Building

2.30 - 3.15: Performative Utterances, Agnieszka Kulacka, King's College London

3.15 - 4.00: Disjunctive Verdictives and the Umpire's Dilemma, Roy Sorensen, Washington University in St. Louis

Parallel session 4a: Frankland Colloquium, Faraday Building

4.30 - 5.15: Austin and the logical dynamics of illocutionary acts, Tomoyuki Yamada, Hokkaido University

5.15 - 6.00: Searle's Thesis of Dependency: Is it possible to perform a propositional act without an illocutionary act?, Christiana Werner, Universität Duisburg-Essen

Parallel session 4b: Cavendish Colloquium, Faraday Building

4.30 - 5.15: Giving Austin the Silent Treatment: Sacks, Cicero, Sequencing and Sermones, Tom Grimwood, Lancaster University, and Paul K. Miller, University of Cumbria

6.15 - 7.15 Plenary session: Covert Exercitives and the Psychology of Bias, Jennifer Saul, University of Sheffield

Cavendish Colloquium

7.30 Conference Dinner

Lancaster House Hotel

Wednesday April 6th

Parallel session 5a: Frankland Colloquium, Faraday Building

10.15 - 11.00am: Austin on Conceptual Polarity and Sensation Deception Metaphors, Dale Jacquette, University of Bern

Parallel session 5b: Cavendish Colloquium, Faraday Building

10.15 - 11.00: Sense and Sensibilia: A forgotten lesson, Roberta Locatelli, University Paris 1 Sorbonne-Panthéon

Parallel session 6a: Frankland Colloquium, Faraday Building

11.30 - 12.15: Adolf Reinach and John L. Austin: Two different approaches to speech acts, Alessandro Salice, University of Basel

12.15 - 1.00: Knowing what we say, Byron Davies, Harvard University

Parallel session 6b: Cavendish Colloquium, Faraday Building

11.30 - 12.15: Getting the Philosopher out of the Armchair: The Contrasting Responses to Logical Positivism of J. L. Austin and Arne Naess, Siobhan Chapman, University of Liverpool

12.15 - 1.00: Argumentative dynamics and parsimony of meaning, Hanno Birken-Bertsch, independent scholar

1.00 - 2.00 lunch

Parallel session 7a: Frankland Colloquium, Faraday Building

2.00 - 2.45: Ordinary language, emotions and motives, Harry Lesser, University of Manchester

Parallel session 7b: Cavendish Colloquium, Faraday Building

2.00 - 2.45: Austin: Sense and Sensuality, Gordon Bearn, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

2.45 - 3.30: Sense and Introspection, Kevin Reuter, Birkbeck College, University of London

Parallel session 8a: Frankland Colloquium, Faraday Building

4.00 - 4.45: Prichard's Heresy and Austin's Orthodoxy, Sandy Berkovski, Bilkent University

Parallel session 8b: Cavendish Colloquium, Faraday Building

4.00 - 4.45: Two Epistemic Directions of Fit, Boris Hennig, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

5.00 - 6.00 Plenary session: Austin on the Philosophy of Perception, Paul Snowdon, University College London

Frankland Colloquium

7.30 - 9 John Searle lecture [Title TBA]

Franklandlecture theatre, by live video link-up

Thursday, April 7th

12.00: Trip to Lancaster for unveiling of commemorative plaque at Austin's birthplace

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This conference and its associated events have been made possible with the generous help of the following people and institutions:

The Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion Research Incentivisation Fund

Lancaster Civic Society

Dr Ann Lendrum (sister of J.L. Austin)

Mrs Fanny Mitchell (daughter of J.L. Austin)