The German Philosophy Workshop

May 31: Marko Malink on Bolzano and Aristotle

Gilad Nir — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:27:40 +0000

On Friday, May 31 we will host Prof. Marko Malink, whose paper is entitled “Bolzano’s Reception of Aristotle’s Logic”.

The paper will not be distributed in advance.

We meet at Cobb 115, at 1:30.

Friday, May 17: Anja Jauernig (Pitt)

Gilad Nir — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:27:39 +0000

This week the Early Modern and German Philosophy workshops will be jointly hosting Anja Jauernig (Pitt). Professor Jauernig will present a paper entitled:

“Kant on Leibniz-Wolffian things in themselves”.

The paper will not be distributed in advance.

Please note special time and place: The meeting will take place on Friday, May 17 from 10:30am to 12:30pm in Stuart 102.

[This post corrects a previous post which gave a different room number]

May 10: Tom Evnen on Reason and Nature

Gilad Nir — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:00:55 +0000

Next Friday, our very own Tom Evnen will present his paper entitled ”Is Reason a Natural Principle? On Three Kinds of Naturalism: Naive, Relaxed, Hegelian.”

The paper will be made available here soon.

Please notice a change in time and place: we will meet 12:30-3:20, at Cobb 430.

More details coming soon!

April 19: Steven Crowell on Responsibility, Autonomy and Affectivity

Gilad Nir — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:27:19 +0000

Please join us on Friday, April 19 to hear and discuss Prof. Steven Crowell (Rice) on Responsibility, Autonomy, Affectivity: a Heideggerian approach.

We meet at Cobb 115 at 1:30pm. Reception to follow at the Anscombe lounge.

April 12: Mary Domski (UNM) on Kant and Newton

Gilad Nir — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:54:21 +0000

On Friday, April 12, at 10:30am, we will host Prof. Mary Domski (UNM) to discuss her paper “Kant and Newton on the a priori necessity of geometry” .

Domski will also visit the Early Modern Philosophy Workshop on Thursday, April 11, at 5pm. Please check out their website for more details.

Please note the special time and place: both meetings will take place at Harper 103. This will be a two-hour meeting, 10:30am-12:20pm.

April 5: Smyth on Kant

Gilad Nir — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:32:52 +0000

On Friday, April 5, we will kick off the Spring quarter with a presentation by our very own Daniel Smyth. The long version of Daniel’s paper, entitled ”Meta-Critique and Method: Kant on our Cognitive Faculties“, will be made available here, soon. Daniel will read a shorter version of the paper to start off our meeting.

Our regular meeting time and place for this quarter is friday, 1:30-4:30, at cobb 115.

Friday, March 8: Kumar on Kant’s Philosophy of Right

Gilad Nir — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:51:11 +0000

This Friday, our very own Sheela Kumar will present her paper, ”Contradictions in the Normative Status of Rights in Kant’s State of Nature, and the Normative Drive to Self-Sufficiency (Selbständigkeit) in the Civil State”.

The paper is now available here. Sheela will read most of it in our meeting, skipping most of pp. 11-18.

We meet at 1:30 at Cobb 115. Reception to follow at the Anscombe lounge.

February 22: Rachel Zuckert on Kant on Religion

Gilad Nir — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:37:10 +0000

On Friday, February 22, we will host Prof. Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern) who will discuss her paper, Kant’s Hidden Antinomy.

Here are some additional relevant background readings:

We meet at 1:30pm in Cobb 115.

February 8: Clinton Tolley on Kant, Bolzano, and Frege

Gilad Nir — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:31:06 +0000

Dear All,

Next Friday, February 8th, we will host Clinton Tolley (UCSD) who will discuss his paper ’Kant, Bolzano, Frege, and the universalist conception of logic’. The paper itself will be not be distributed in advance. Recommended background readings:

John Macfarlane–Frege, Kant and the Logic in Logicism; Pat Blanchette–Frege’s Conception of-Logic–selections; Tolley-Bolzano, Kant and the Nature of logic; Tolley-Frege’s Elucidatory Holism; Goldfarb – Frege’s Conception of Logic

We meet at 1:30pm at our new location for the Winter quarter, Cobb 115.

January 26: Andy Werner on Hegel’s Logic

Gilad Nir — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:35:29 +0000

This Friday, our very own Andy Werner will present his paper, “Immediacy in Hegel’s Science of Logic”.

A note from Andy: I am not going to read section 2 in the workshop; this is a draft of my PE and very much a work in progress.