The German Philosophy Workshop

Our concluding meeting of the 2011-12 year will be on May 18. We are pleased to host Emily Hartz (Southern University of Denmark), who will present a paper entitled:

“Subjective Freedom in the Medieval Ages – Hegel’s Response”

The paper will be posted a week prior to the meeting and should be read in advance.

We will meet in Social Sciences 302 at :130pm.  We hope to see you there!

This Friday, we are delighted to host Johannes Haag (Potsdam), who will present his paper entitled:

“The First Act of Self-Knowledge Traced in Its Pure Consequence: Fichte on Kant’s Categories”

As background reading, Prof. Haag has recommended §1 (SW 91-101) as well as §§2-3 (SW 101-123) of the 1794 The Science of Knowledge.  The German is available on Google Books.

We will meet in Social Sciences, room 302 at 1:30pm, after which there will be a reception.

If any graduate students are interested in meeting with Professor Haag between now and Friday, please email Daniel Smyth, who will put you in touch with him: dsmyth@uchicago.edu

This Friday, April 20th, Thomas Land (Cambridge) will present his paper entitled:

“The Nonconceptualist Reading of Kant and the Transcendental Deduction”

The paper will not be distributed in advance, though Thomas has suggested the following article as background reading: Lucy Allais, “Kant, Non-Conceptual Content, and the Representation of Space,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 47 (2009), 383-413.

We will meet at our usual time (1:30pm) but NOT in our traditional location. All meetings during Spring quarter will be held in Social Sciences 302.

We are very pleased that Prof. Ulrich Schlösser (Toronto) will deliver a talk entitled

“Concept Formation, Synthesis, and Judgment: Kant’s Theory of the Logical and Cognitive Activities of the Mind”

Please note that we are not meeting in our usual place. All Spring quarter meetings will be held in Social Sciences 302, at our usual time (1:30pm).

This Friday, our very own Tucker McKinney will present a talk entitled

“Self-Interpretation and the Tragedy of Meaning in Being and Time”

The paper will not be distributed in advance.

This concluding meeting of Winter Quarter will be held in our usual place (Wieboldt 408) at our usual time (1:30pm).

This week we are pleased to have with us Jose Torralba (Universidad de Navarra), who will present his paper:

The Individuality and Sociality of Action: the Kingdom of Ends as a Relational Theory of Action

Please read the paper in advance, as it will only be briefly summarized in our session.  We will meet in our usual place (Wieboldt 408) at our usual time (1:30pm).

This Friday, February 24th, our very own Alptekin Sanli will present his paper entitled,

“The Concept of Right and Objectivity – Some Preliminary Considerations; or, a very rough draft of a future paper that will be able to come forward as a dissertation chapter”

Alptekin recommends that participants read at least sections I, II, III, IV, and VI.  Section V will be of interest to anyone exercised by Kant’s pre-critical works.

We will meet in our usual place (Wieboldt 408) at our usual time (1:30pm).

This Friday, February 17th, we are very pleased to have with us Matt Boyle (Harvard), who will present a talk entitled:

“Transparent Self-Knowledge”

We will meet in our usual place (Wieboldt 408) at our usual time (1:30pm).

This Thursday, February 9th, our very own Daniel Smyth will present his paper:

“Infinity and Givenness: Kant on the Intuitive Roots of Spatial Representation”

The paper should be read in advance.  Please note the irregular meeting time: Thursday, Feb. 9th, at 4:30pm in Wieboldt 408.

This Monday, February 6th, one of our PhD. graduates, Thomas Land (Cambridge University), will be giving a mock job-talk entitled:

“Judgment and Construction: On Kant’s Conception of the Understanding”

The talk will be held in Wieboldt 408 at 10:30am.