Conference Schedule

Friday 11th November

13:30 - 13:50

Registration;

13:50 - 14:00

Conference welcome

14:00- 14:45

Paper: David Chandler (UCL)

Meaningfulness in Social Conventions

14:45 - 15:30

Paper: Martin Magnus Petiz (São Paulo)

Peter Winch's Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to the Concept of Law

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee & Tea

16:00 - 17:15

Keynote Lecture: Rachael Wiseman (Liverpool)

Degrees of Understanding: Winch and Midgley on Rules, Reasons, and the Limits of Sense

09:30 -10:00

Tea and Coffee

10:00 - 10:45

Paper: Lawrence Espino (UP Diliman)

Three Different Research Paradigms in Social Research: Why We Ought to be Critical Realists

10:45 - 11.30

Paper: Stephen Welch

'Look and See': Wittgensteinian Implications for Interpretivism, Social Constructionism and Positivism in the Social Sciences

11:30 - 12:00

Tea and Coffee

12:00 - 13:15

Keynote Lecture: Nigel Pleasants (Exeter)

The Idea of 'Wittgenstein and the Idea of a Social Science'

13:15 - 14:15

SandWich lunch

14:15 - 15:00

Paper: Michel Le Du (Aix-Marseille)

Are Beliefs Social Realities?

15:00 - 15:45

Paper: Amadeusz Just (Warsaw)

Anything but Rules? Jaeggi and the Concept of Social Practice?

15:45 - 16:15

Tea and Coffee

16:15 - 17:30

Keynote Lecture: Arif Ahmed (Cambridge)

Social Dimensions of Meaning

17:30 - 17:45

Conference Roundup

19:00 - 21:00

Conference dinner (Bowes Dining Room)