Winter 2024 Schedule

All meetings will take place on Fridays from 3:00-5:20pm in Wieboldt Hall, Room 408.

January 12: Thomas Pendlebury (UChicago), “The Kantian’s Desire”

January 19: Maggie Sandholm (UChicago), “The Character of Self-experience”

January 26: Amy Levine (UChicago), “The “anxious possibility of being able” and the “enigmatic word”: Seeking a Theory of Agency in Kierkegaard’s The Concept of Anxiety”

February 9: Michael Powell (UChicago), “Anscombe and Strawson on ‘I'”

February 16: Adrian Haddock (Leipzig), “‘I’ and ‘NN’: Self-Consciousness and Mutual Recognition”

March 1: Adam Katwan (UChicago), “Kant on Purposiveness, the Peculiarity of Human Reason, and the Supersensible”

Fall 2023 Schedule

All meetings will take place on Fridays from 3:00-5:20pm in Wieboldt Hall, Room 408.

September 29: Paskalina Bourbon (UChicago), “Justification Reconsidered”

October 13: Greg Brown (UChicago), “Ontology Made Difficult”

October 27: Irad Kimhi (UChicago), “Of What Must One Remain Silent?”

November 3*: Jed Lewinsohn (University of Pittsburgh), “The ‘Natural Unintelligibility’ of Normative Powers”. (*Joint meeting with the Practical Philosophy Workshop. The paper will be distributed, and is to be read in advance of the meeting.)

November 10: Alix Cohen (University of Notre Dame), “In Defense of Epistemic Autonomy: A Kantian Proposal”

November 17: Laurenz Ramsauer (UChicago), “The Emotional Labor of Enlightenment”

Spring Schedule 2023

Spring Schedule:

March 24: Andrew Beddow, “Kant as a Lutheran Apologist” 

March 31: Jason Bridges “The Unity of Inference” (joint meeting with Theoretical Philosophy Workshop at GPW’s normal time/place)

April 14: Angelica Nuzzo (CUNY), “Spirit as the Other to Nature—A Reflection in Hegel’s Aftermath”

May 12: Michael Powell, “Anscombe on ‘I’ and the Logical Role of Referring” 

Winter 2023 Schedule

Note: All Winter Quarter meetings will take place in a new location, Cobb Hall 102, at our usual day and time (Fridays from 3:00-5:20pm) 

January 6:  David Wellbery (UChicago Germanic Studies), “Goethe on Tragedy” (Joint Session with the Literature and Philosophy Workshop

January 20: Brook Ziporyn (UChicago Divinity), “Missed Exit: How the Hegel of 1802 Almost Became a Chinese Philosopher”  

January 27: Irad Kimhi (UChicago Social Thought), “On the Exhibitionism that Modesty Hides (Logical Understanding and the Theory of Meaning)” 

February 3: Michelle Kosch (Cornell), “Recognition After Fichte”  

February 10: Andrew Beddow (UChicago Philosophy), “Kant as a Lutheran Apologist”  

February 24: David Kretz (UChicago Germanic Studies/Social Thought), “Kant on the Forms of Historical Agency” (meeting will take place over Zoom

March 3:  Kristen De Man (UChicago Philosophy), (title TBD)

 

Fall 2022 Schedule

September 30:  Michael Kremer (UChicago), “Margaret MacDonald’s Wittgenstein: What She Learned from Him, and What She Did with It.”

October 14  Paskalina Bourbon (UChicago), “Getting out of the Race: Deduction and Lewis Carroll’s Achilles and the Tortoise Paradox”

*Monday* October 24:  Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen):  “Observation, Interaction, Communication: the Role of the Second Person” (Note: This is a Joint Session with the Practical Philosophy Workshop, taking place from 6:00-8:00pm in Cobb Hall 202.)

November 4 Laurenz Ramsauer (UChicago) “Kant’s Problem with the Concept of Humanity”

November 18:  Wim Vanrie (Ghent University): “Tautology and Showing in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus

December 2: Jed Lewinsohn (University of Pittsburgh): “The ‘Natural Unintelligibility’ of Normative Powers.” (Joint session with Practical Philosophy Workshop taking place in our (GPW’s) usual time/place (Friday, 3:00-5:20 in Wieboldt 408))

Spring 2021 Schedule

Spring Schedule:

All talks will take place via Zoom, from 3:00 to 5:20pm unless otherwise noted.

Friday, April 16: Andreja Novakovic (Berkeley) “Self-Surprise in Hegel’s Subjective Logic”

Friday, April 30: Melina Garibovic (Chicago) “The Experience of Others”

Friday, May 14: Anastasia Berg (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) Title TBA **Begins at 1pm**

Friday, May 28: Katharina Kraus (Notre Dame) “Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation” *Begins at 11am**

Friday, June 4: Justin Shaddock (Williams College) “Kant on the Highest Good, Happiness, and Hylomorphism”

Winter 2021 Schedule

Winter Schedule: 
All talks will be from 3:00pm-5:20pm. Meetings will take place via Zoom.
 
Friday, January 15: Joe Brewer (Chicago) “Time and Inner Sense”
Friday, January 29: Laurenz Ramsauer (Chicago) “Hegel’s Empty Formalism Charge”
Friday, February 5: Jessica Tizzard (University of Connecticut) “Grounding Kant’s Practical Postulates”
Friday, February 12: Anubav Vasudevan (Chicago) “The Logical Basis of Leibniz’s Metaphysics” (joint with Theoretical Philosophy Workshop)
Friday, February 26: Michael Kolodziej (Chicago) “What may God not do? Spinoza’s argument that right is co-extensive with power”
Friday, March 12: Warren Wilson (Chicago) “Social Agency”

Fall Quarter Schedule

Workshop Meetings in Fall 2020

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the German Philosophy Workshop will meet virtually via Zoom until further notice. All meetings will begin at 3pm CDT unless otherwise noted.

Friday October 16 (at 1:30): Pirachula Chulanon (UChicago) “The Self and the Mind in Kant’s Transcendental Psychology” (**please note special time**)

Friday October 30: Stephen Cunniff (UChicago) “Content and Schema: Kant on Synthesis and the Content of Concepts”

Friday November 13 (at 1:30): Ermioni Prokopaki (UChicago)  (**please note special time**) “The Problem of False Judgment in the Theaetetus”

Friday November 20: Anubav Vasudevan (UChicago) (jointly with TPW) “The Logical Foundations of Leibniz’s Metaphysics”

Friday December 11: Mathis Koschel (UChicago) “Solar Systems, Life, and the Finitude of Our Knowledge”

If you have signed up for the workshop mailing list, you will receive an invitation to the Zoom meeting as well as a link to the paper about one week in advance of the meeting date. If you would like to sign up for the mailing list, please send an email to apitel@uchicago.edu.

Virtual Meetings: Spring 2020

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the German Philosophy Workshop will continue virtually with a partial schedule in the Spring quarter. There will be three meetings, which will take place via Zoom (please note new dates and times):

May 15, 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. CDT: Matthew Boyle (UChicago) – Rationality and Reflection (co-sponsored with the Department of Philosophy)

May 22, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. CDT: Mathis Koschel (UChicago) – Hegel on the Metaphysics of Newton’s Principia

May 29, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. CDT: Laurenz Ramsauer (UChicago) – Fichte’s Separation of Right from Morality

If you have signed up for the workshop mailing list, you will receive an invitation to the Zoom meeting as well as a link to the paper about one week in advance of the meeting date. If you would like to sign up for the mailing list, please send an email to pirachula@uchicago.edu.

February 21: Tobias Rosefeldt (HU Berlin)

The German Philosophy Workshop is delighted to present:

Kant on Decomposing Synthesis and the Intuition of Infinite Space

Tobias Rosefeldt (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Friday, February 21, 03:00 – 05:20 p.m.
Wieboldt Hall 408

The paper is available for download here (password-protected).

The German Philosophy Workshop is committed to being a fully accessible workshop. For any questions or concerns about accessibility, please contact Pirachula Chulanon (pirachula@uchicago.edu).