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Conference - The Philosophy of the History of Ideas   
A one-day conference at Goldsmiths College on Thursday 28 June 2001.  
 
 
The Conference  
The conference is in part a response to Mark Bevir's The Logic of the 
History of Ideas (Cambridge University Press, 1999). This is perhaps the 
only full-length book in English to offer a systematic exploration of 'the 
forms of reasoning appropriate to the history of ideas' dealing with such 
'central questions as: what is meaning? What constitutes objective 
knowledge of the past? What are beliefs and traditions? How can we explain 
why people held the beliefs they did?'  
 
The papers to be presented will range widely over philosophical issues 
raised by the historical studies of ideas, usually holding Mark Bevir's 
views particularly in mind, but giving consideration also to the thinking 
of Gramsci, Gadamer, Husserl, Derrida, Giddens, Sewell, Bourdieu, Geertz, 
the Cambridge School, among others.  
 
Copies of Mark Bevir's book are available at a 25% discount from the 
published price of £40 to all those who register for the conference.  
 
The conference will begin at 10am and end at 5.40pm with lunch at 1.30pm.  
 
 
The Speakers  
Mark Bevir (Berkley) The Author as Reader: Post Hoc Reflections on the 
Logic of the History of Ideas  
 
Robert Burns (Goldsmiths, London) The Socio-Historical Milieu of Meaning  
 
David Craig (Durham) Empires of Meaning: the relation between Intellectual 
and (Socio-) Cultural History  
 
Jane Garnett (Wadham, Oxford) Whose Logic? Reflections on Gender in the 
History of Ideas.  
 
Melissa Lane (King's Cambridge) Why History of Ideas at all?  
 
James Martin (Goldsmiths, London) The Political Logic of Discourse: A 
Neo-Gramscian View  
 
Alun Munslow (Staffordshire) Objectivity and the Writing of History  
 
Hugh Rayment- Pickard (London) Derrida and Fidelity to History  
 
 
Registration 
The fee for the conference is £16 and covers a buffet lunch and morning 
coffee and afternoon tea. The buffet lunch will include vegetarian items. 
The cost to undergraduate and postgraduate students is £8.  
 
Cheques should be made payable to 'Goldsmiths College'. There is no 
possibility of paying by credit or debit card. Please do not send cash.  
 
Registration applications must be received by Monday 18 June.  
 
 
Further information  
Please contact:  
 
Dr Robert Burns  
Dept of Historical and Cultural Studies  
Goldsmiths College  
New Cross  
London SE14 6NW  
 
(Telephone: 020 7919 7495, e-mail: [log in to unmask])  
 
  
Time:  
10.00 - 17.40 
 
Location:  
Goldsmiths College 
Contact: Robert Burns 
Ext: 7495  
 
 
 
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