CONF: Martin Hollis Memorial Conference
Stephen Clark
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:11:23 -0400
From: "BRENDAN J. Hogan" <391...@NEWSCHOOL.EDU>
Greetings,
Below please find a conference program and a flyer for the Martin
Hollis Memorial conference. I would like to extend an invitation to
any interested members of the discussion list to the conference.
A web site with the conference program can be found at
http://www.newschool.edu/gf/news/events/041012_hollis.htm
Sincerely,
Brendan Hogan
The New School
Rationality, Action, and Value in the Philosophy of Social Science
A conference in honor of Martin Hollis will take place at the following
time and place
November 18-20, 2004 at the
Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science,
The New School for Social Research
65 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10003
Organizers: Edward Nell, Department of Economics and Brendan Hogan,
Department of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research
The aim of the conference is to honor the memory of Martin Hollis by
engaging his work in the several areas to which he made significant
contributions. More information about Martin Hollis and his writings
can be found at the following website
www.uea.ac.uk/phi/martin_hollis/welcome.html
The conference program is also available online at
http://www.newschool.edu/gf/news/events/041012_hollis.htm
Any questions please contact Brendan Hogan and Edward Nell at
391...@newschool.edu
Conference participants
Margaret Archer, Professor of sociology, University of Warwick
James Bohman, Danforth professor of philosophy, St. Louis University
Adrian Favell, Associate professor of sociology, UCLA
Karim Errouaki, Special advisor to the President, European Research
Council,
Madrid and Brussels
Margaret Gilbert, Professor of philosophy, University of Connecticut
Russell Hardin, Professor of politics, New York University
Shaun Hargreaves Heap, Professor of economics, University of East
Anglia
Bernard Hodgson, Professor of philosophy, Trent University
Brendan Hogan, PhD candidate, Philosophy, The New School
Tony Lawson Lecturer in economics, University of Cambridge
Isaac Levi, John Dewey professor of philosophy, Columbia University
Steven Lukes, Professor of sociology, New York University
Richard Miller, Professor of philosophy, Cornell University
Edward Nell, Malcolm B. Smith professor of economics, The New School
for Social Research
Timothy O'Hagan, Professor of Philosophy, University of East Anglia
Alex Rosenberg, R. Taylor Cole professor of philosophy, Duke
University
Conference Program
All panels to take place in the Ernst Wolff Conference room, 2nd floor,
Graduate Faculty Building, 65 Fifth Ave
Thursday November 18, 2004
4 -6 pm
Belief, inference, and inquiry
Brendan Hogan "Plasticity, autonomy and Hollis's Models of Man"
Isaac Levi "tba"
6-8 pm:
Plenary address:
Steven Lukes
"The Problem of Apparent Irrationality"
8-9:30: pm Reception
Friday November 19, 2004
10:30 -11 am: Coffee, Bagels
11 am- 1 pm
Accounting for agency in social science: James Bohman "Powers,
Freedom and the Social World"
Margaret Archer "Two Stories or One about Structure and Agency?"
1-2 pm lunch break.
2- 4 pm:
Structures of rationality- individual and collective:
Margaret Gilbert "Rationality in Collective Action"
Russell Hardin, "Intending to Win at Chess"
4:30- 6:30 pm
Critical Realism and the science of economics:
Edward Nell and Tony Lawson "Critical Realism and Econometrics in
Dialogue"
Karim Errouaki, "Rereading Hollis and Nell (1975): Laying Down the
Blueprints for Reconstructing Structural Econometrics"
6:30-7:30 pm. reception
Saturday November 20, 2004
11 -11:30 am Coffee and Bagels
11:30 am-1:30 pm
Rationality, evolution, and mechanisms:
Alexander Rosenberg "Evolutionary Game Theory and Human Evolution"
Adrian Favell "Nuts and Bolts and Hollis for the Social Sciences"
1:30-2:30 lunch break
2:30-4:30 pm
Reasons and values
Shaun Hargreaves Heap "Rationality and Ethics"
Bernard Hodgson "Economic Rationality and Autonomous Virtue"
4:45 -6:45
Problems of empire, ethics, and citizenship:
Richard Miller "Empire, Ethics, and Agency"
Timothy O'Hagan, "Citizen of the World"
6:45-7:00: Closing comments
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