2011

Workshop: Knowledge and Meaning in Literature

June 23-25, 2011

Robert Stecker (Mount Pleasant, MI)
Thomas Petraschka (Regensburg)
Oliver Scholz (Münster)
Vittorio Hösle (Notre Dame)
Daniel Hartenstein (Regensburg)
Christian Kohlross (Mannheim and Jerusalem)
Eileen John (Warwick)
Eva-Maria Konrad (Regensburg)
Tilmann Köppe (Göttingen)
Peter Larmarque (York)
Maria-Elisabeth Reicher-Marek (Aachen)
Wolfgang Huemer (Parma)

Thursday, June 23, 2011

14.00 Robert Stecker (Mount Pleasant, MI): "Fiction, Truth, Knowledge
and Cognitive Value, or Literature as Thought"

15.30 Thomas Petraschka (Regensburg): "Locating Literary Meaning. Literary
Interpretation and the Principle of Charity"

16.45 Oliver Scholz (Münster): "On the Very Idea of Textual Meaning"

Friday, June 24, 2011

9.00 Vittorio Hösle (Notre Dame): "Reductionisms in Hermeneutics"
10.30 Daniel Hartenstein (Regensburg): "The Cognitive Value of Fictional
Names"

11.30 Christian Kohlross (Mannheim and Jerusalem): "From a Philological Point
of View Or: Towards a General Theory of Meaning"
LUNCH
14.00 Eileen John (Warwick): "Caring about Characters"

15.30 Eva-Maria Konrad (Regensburg): "Why No One's Afraid of Stanley Fish -
On Panfictionalism and Knowledge"

16.45 Tilmann Köppe (Göttingen): "Knowing the Impossible? On Inconsistent
Fictional Worlds"

Saturday, June 25, 2011

9.30 Peter Larmarque (York): "Thought Theory and Literary Cognition"

11.00 Maria-Elisabeth Reicher-Marek (Aachen): "Knowledge from Fiction"

12.00 Wolfgang Huemer (Parma): "Aesthetic and Cognitive Dimensions of
Achieving (and Failing) in Literature"