The Modern Philosophy Workshop
is moving to a new home!!
You can find the new blog at
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/workshops/modernphilosophy/
More details and the new schedule coming soon…
The Modern Philosophy Workshop
On Friday, May 29, the Modern Philosophy Workshop presents:
Daniel Smyth | Chicago
10:30am | Stuart Hall | Rm 209
We will discuss his paper titled:
“The Role of Concepts in Kant’s Theory of Taste”
Coffee and snacks will be provided and a lunch will follow.
The paper will not be read during the workshop so please read the paper in advance.
>>>Download the paper: Smyth Workshop [.pdf]
On Friday, May 22, the Modern Philosophy Workshop presents:
Rachel Zuckert | Northwestern
10:30am | Stuart Hall | Rm 209
We will discuss her paper titled:
“What Kant Does not have to Say about Art:
Is There Kantian Art Criticism?”
Coffee and snacks will be provided.
The paper will not be read during the workshop so please read the paper in advance.
>>>Download the paper: Zuckert Workshop[.pdf]
Following the workshop, there will be a subsidized lunch with Prof. Zuckert, open to graduate students and faculty. Please e-mail Daniel Smyth if you are interested in attending.
On Friday, May 1, the Modern Philosophy Workshop presents:
Erica Holberg | University of Chicago
10:30am | Stuart Hall | Rm 209
We will discuss her paper titled:
“Kant on Pleasure in the Moral”
Coffee and snacks will be provided.
The paper will not be read during the workshop so please read the paper in advance.
Midwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
2-3 MAY 2009
Organizing Committee:
Daniel Garber (Princeton University)
Lea Schweitz (Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago)
Mogens Lærke (University of Chicago)
All sessions will take place in
The Franke Institute conference room in the Regenstein Library
Saturday 2 May
12.00-13.15
Ohad Nachtomy (Bar Ilan University) “…nisi… Deus existeret, nihil possibile foret.” Leibniz and Kant on Possibility and Existence
13.15-14.30
Marcy Lascano (University of California, Long Beach)Leibniz and Kant on Creation and Emanation
Break
15.00-16.15
Joseph Tinguely (New School of Social Research)What is Orientation not in Thinking? A Reconsideration of Kant and the Role of Feelings in Knowledge
16.15-17.30
Jeffrey K. McDonough (Harvard University)Leibniz’s Meta-Conciliatory Account of Substance
Break
17.45-19.00
Eric Stencil (University of Wisconsin-Madison)Arnauld’s Actualism
20.00. Conference Dinner
Sunday 3 May
9.00-10.15
Fatima R. R. Evora (State University of Campinas) and Marcio A. D. Custodio (Princeton University)The Concept of Matter in Philoponus and its Repercussions in the Beginning of Modern Science
10.15-11.30
Eric Schliesser (Leiden University)Newtonian Emanation, Measurement and the Baconian Origins of the Laws of Nature
Light Lunch
12.45-14.00
Lynn S. Joy (University of Notre Dame)Dispositions and Intentionality in Boyle, Newton, and Hume
* For further information, please contact Mogens Lærke on mlaerke@uchicago.edu
On Friday, April 17, the Modern Philosophy Workshop presents:
Jennifer Lockhart | University of Chicago
10:30am | Stuart Hall | Rm 209
We will discuss her paper titled:
“Practical Necessity and the A Priori”
Coffee and snacks will be provided.
The paper will not be read during the workshop so please read the paper in advance.
Announcing the Spring 2009 Schedule for the Modern Philosophy Workshop.
All Spring workshops will take place Fridays at 10:30am in Stuart 209 unless otherwise noted.
Papers will be posted on the workshop blog beforehand and should be read in advance.
- April 17 | Jennifer Lockhart | University of Chicago
“Practical Necessity and the A Priori” - May 1 | Erica Holdberg | University of Chicago
TBA
- May 22 | Rachel Zuckert| Northwestern
TBA
- May 29 | Daniel Smyth | University of Chicago
TBA
The spring schedule is still being finalized. Please check back here for updates.
On Friday, February 27, the Modern Philosophy Workshop presents:
Linda Zerilli | University of Chicago
10:30am | Stuart Hall | Rm 209
We will discuss her paper titled:
“From Willing to Judging: Hannah Arendt’s Copernican Revolution”
Coffee and snacks will be provided.
The paper will not be read during the workshop so please read the paper in advance.
>>>Download the paper: Zerilli Workshop paper [.doc]
On Friday, February 20, the Modern Philosophy Workshop presents:
Rafeeq Hasan | University of Chicago
10:30am | Stuart Hall | Rm 209
We will discuss his paper titled:
“Rousseau and the Attraction of Obligation”
Coffee and snacks will be provided.
The paper will not be read during the workshop so please read the paper in advance.
>>>Download the paper: Hasan workshop paper [.doc]
Hegel and German Idealism
Graduate Student Conference
University of Notre Dame
March 6-8
What:
This conference, sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, is designed to provide graduate students in philosophy and all areas of the humanities the opportunity to present research on issues related to the philosophical and historical roots, development, and impact of Hegel’s philosophy and German Idealism.
Keynote speakers:
Paul Franks, University of Toronto
Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh
When:
Friday, March 6th – Sunday March 8th, 2009
Where:
University of Notre Dame
McKenna Hall
For more information: Conference Website
2009 Midwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
May 2-3, 2009
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Submission Deadline
March 2, 2009
Guidelines
Abstracts welcome on any topic in early modern philosophy (broadly defined, ranging from late Renaissance philosophy to the Enlightenment). We particularly encourage proposals which consider early modern philosophy in relation to other related disciplines, such as theology, intellectual history and/or the history of science.
Please submit an abstract (of between 500 and 750 words) by March 2, 2009.
(Please note: Final papers should be approximately 45 minutes in reading length.)
Submissions
Abstracts should be sent by email to: mlaerke@uchicago.edu
More Information
For more information download the Call For Abstracts here.
On Friday, February 13, the Modern Philosophy Workshop presents:
Julie Cooper | University of Chicago
10:30am | Stuart Hall | Rm 209
We will discuss her paper titled:
“Spinoza’s Critique of Humility”
Coffee and snacks will be provided.
The paper will not be read during the workshop so please read the paper in advance.
>>>Download the paper: Cooper Workshop[.doc]
On Friday, January 23, the Modern Philosophy Workshop presents:
Dasha Polzik | University of Chicago
10:30am | Stuart Hall | Rm 209
We will discuss her paper titled:
“Rousseau’s Ideal: the Happy, “Natural” Citizen”
Coffee and snacks will be provided.
The paper will not be read during the workshop so please read the paper in advance.
>>>Download the paper: Polzik Workshop [pdf]
Announcing the Winter 2009 Schedule for the Modern Philosophy Workshop.
All Winter workshops will take place Fridays at 10:30am in Stuart 209 unless otherwise noted.
Papers will be posted on the workshop blog beforehand and should be read in advance.
- Jan 23 | Dasha Polzik | University of Chicago
“Rousseau’s Ideal: the Happy, ‘Natural’ Citizen” - Feb 13 | Julie Cooper| University of Chicago
“Spinoza’s Critique of Humility” - Feb 20 | Rafeeq Hasan | University of Chicago
“Rousseau and the Attraction of Obligation” - Feb 27 | Linda Zerilli | University of Chicago
This Friday, December 5, the Modern Philosophy Workshop presents:
Justin Shaddock | University of Chicago
10:30am | Stuart Hall | Rm 209
We will discuss his paper titled:
“The Idealism of the Transcendental Deduction”
Coffee and snacks will be provided.
The paper will not be read during the workshop so please read the paper in advance.
>>>Download the paper: Shaddock workshop paper [pdf]
Philosophy Events
- Coffee Hour
- Tucker McKinney -German Philosophy Workshop
- Anton Ford, “The Province of Human Agency” - Practical Philosophy Workshop
- Workshop on Greek Linguistic
- Mike Thomas, “Whitehead, Borges, and the Fictional Nature of Concepts”- Literature and Philosophy Workshop
- Philosophy Faculty Meeting
- Dissertation Year Fellowship Applications due to the Department
- 9:15 am - 10:30 am, Office Closed - Humanities Division Staff Meeting
- Nathan Phillips, “Two Temptations for Edmund Husserl” - Contemporary European Philosophy Workshop
- Gerald McKenny, On Barth’s Moral Theology, Religion and Ethics Workshop