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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