Mind and Society 15 – Collingwood and Toulmin
5-6th September, School of Psychological Sciences
The 2nd Floor Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building, The University of Manchester
Program
Thursday 4th September
Evening – arrival, drinks at Grafton Arms, Grafton Street from 6 p.m., and a meal at Tai Pan Restaurant, Upper Brook Street
Friday, 5th September
9.00 – 9.45: Professor Ivan Leudar, Psychology, Manchester University, Is psychology history? What can R.G. Collingwood do for Psychology today?
10.15 - 11.00: Dr Giuseppina D'Oro, Philosophy, Keele University,
Re- enactment, Simulation and Folk-psychology
11.30 – 12.15: Professor Alan Costall, Psychology, Portsmouth University, Psychology as history: Frederic Bartlett and the myth and promise of 'Cambridge psychology'
12.45 - 2.15: Lunch
2.15 - 3.00: Professor John Pickstone, CHSTM, Manchester University, Collingwood, Whewell and Ways of Knowing: reflections on historicism and idealism in the study of science.
3.30 - 4.15: Professor Baudouin Dupret, CNRS, The Judge, the Spirits and the Law: Devil Possession, Personal Agency and Mind/Body Dichotomy in an Egyptian Courtroom
5.00-5.45: General Discussion,
6.30 - Drink reception, Conference Dinner
Saturday 6th September
9.00 – 10.00: Professor James Connelly, Politics, Hull University,
From anthropology to metaphysics: Collingwood, culture and civilization.
10.30 - 11.15: Professor Mike Lynch, Cornell University, Ethnomethodology and History
11.45 -12.30 Professor Wes Sharrock, Social Science, Manchester University, Perennial arguments about intelligibility and rationality in the philosophy of the social sciences.
13.00 - 14.30: Lunch
14.30 – 15.15: Professor Mathieu Marion, Philosophy, Université du Québec à Montréal, Collingwood and Relativism: A Rejoinder
15.45 - 17.45 Meeting Plenary - discussant Ivan Leudar, Manchester University
18.00 Conference closes