The 1996 Kyoto Prize Workshops

Language, Holism, and Naturalism

Willard Van Orman Quine

/　　Philosopher

Arts and Philosophy

Thought and Ethics

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1996

11 /12 Tue

13:00 - 17:20

Place： Kyoto International Conference Center

Address：Takaragaike, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-0001 Japan

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Program

13:00

Greetings	Toyomi Inamori Managing Director, The Inamori Foundation
Greetings	Natsuhiko Yoshida President, The Japan Association for Philosophy of Science; Professor, Faculty of Literature, Rissyo University
Greetings	Norio Fujisawa Chairman, the Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences; Director, Kyoto National Museum

13:10

Introduction of the Laureate	Akira Oide Professor, Faculty of Letters, Soka University

13:25

Commemorative Lecture	Willard Van Orman Quine Laureate in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences; “Instinct, Reification and Extensionality”

14:25

Chairperson	Hide Ishiguro Member, the Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences; Professor, Faculty of Letters, Chiba University
Lecture I	Takashi Iida Professor, Faculty of Letters, Chiba University “Number and Individuation”

14:55

Chairperson	Keiichiro Kamino Professor, Faculty of Business Administration and Information, Setsunan University
Lecture II	Nobuharu Tanji Professor, Department of Philosophy, Tokyo Metropolitan University “Theory-Ladenness of Observation Sentences”

15:25

Discussion

15:45

Intermission

16:00

Chairperson	Junichiro Takeo Professor, Faculty of Letters, Kansai University
Lecture III	Kenzo Hamano Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology “Naturalism and Norms”

16:30

Chairperson	Hyakudai Sakamto Professor, Philosophy Department, Nihon University President, Philosophy of Science Society, Japan
Lecture IV	Yasuhiko Tomida Associate Professor, Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, Kyoto University “Reification and Naturalism”

17:00

Discussion

17:20

Closing

Laureates

Willard Van Orman Quine

Philosopher

Developing countless sensational arguments filled with insight covering fields from epistemology to philosophy of language and science, Dr. Quine has created a new paradigm of philosophy for the second half of the 20th century.

＊This category then was Category of Creative Arts and Moral Sciences.

＊This field then was Field of Philosophy.

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date: Tuesday, November 12, 1996
place: Kyoto International Conference Center
Coordinator/Moderator: Michiko Kobayashi Member, the Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences; Professor, Faculty of Literature, Osaka City University Keiichi Noe Member, the Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences; Professor, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University