Time: 10—12 September, 2025
Venue: Lecture room 3, Faculty of Letter Building, Kyoto University (map)
Conference Language: English
Keynote speakers: (in alphabetical order)
Wilem A. deVries, University of New Hampshire
Yukio Irie, Osaka University
Naoko Saito, Kyoto University
Speakers: (in alphabetical order)
Takashi Aoki, Gakushuin University
Tony Cheng, Waseda University
Elena Ficara, University of Paderborn
Yael Gazit, Tel Aviv University
Ryo Ito, Waseda University
Kazuya Kawase, Yokohama City University
Chong-Fuk Lau, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Yasutoshi Mori, Seinan Gakuin University
Yuki Nishimoto, Nanzan University
Taiju Okochi, Kyoto University
Shintaro Shirakawa, University of Fukui
Shuhei Shimamura, Hiroshima University
Goran Vranešević, University of Ljubljana
Program
Day 1 – September 10 (Wed.)
9:30 Opening remarks: Taiju Okochi
9:40-10:45 Keynote 1
- Naoko Saito, Pragmatism and the Tragic Sense of Life
Chair: Yuki Nishimoto
10:45-12:45 Session 1
- Chong Fuk Lau, Idealism as Holism: A Brandomian Reading of German Idealism
- Goran Vranesevic, The Wounds of the Spirit: Negativity and the Failures of Speculation in Brandom’s Hegel
Chair: Shintaro Shirakawa
13:45-15:45 Session 2
- Yasutoshi Mori, Authority and legal reasoning – In what sense can the common law offer an illuminating example of the determinateness of concepts?
- Yuki Nishimoto, Responsibility and Normativity in Brandom’s Inferentialism
Chair: Tony Cheng
16:00-18:00 Session 3
- Ryo Ito, An Inferentialist Account of Intuition in Mathematics
- Kazuya Kawase, Ongoing Action and the Limit of Forward Anaphora
Chair: Yukio Irie
Day 2 – September 11 (Thu.)
10:00-12:00 Session 4
- Ficara, Elena, Truth in Hegel and Brandom
- Taiju Okochi, Does Brandom’s Hegel Dispel Habermas’ Concern? Kantian vs Hegelian Pragmatism.
Chair: Kazuya Kawase
13:30-16:30 Session 5
- Shintaro Shirakawa, Aspects of the Space of Reasons
- Shuhei Shimamura, Believing More than What One Takes Oneself to Believe: Why Social Externalists Should be Semantic Inferentialists
- Tony Cheng, The Fate of Geist: Systematic, Therapeutic, Pragmatic
Chair: Ryo Ito
16:45-17:50 Keynote 2
- Wilem A. deVries, Conceptual and Modal Realism: Brandom, Sellars, and Hegel
Chair：Taiju Okochi
Day 3 – September 12 (Fri.)
10:00-12:00 Session 7
- Takashi Aoki, Vocabulary and the Public Use of Reason: Richard Rorty in Linguistic Turns
- Yael Gazit, Brandom’s Coin
Chair: Lau Chong-Fuk
12:00-13:05 Keynote 3
- Yukio Irie, Normativity and Recognition in Question-Answer Relationship: How does Brandom Attempt to Solve the Rule-ollowing Problem?
Chair: Yasutoshi Mori
Closing Remarks: Yuki Nishimoto
Supported by
JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 23K21873 (Principal Investigator: Taiju Okochi) and 23KJ2064 (Principal Investigator: Yuki Nishimoto)
問い合わせ：大河内泰樹（京都大学）okochi.taiju.3r@kyoto-u.ac.jp