Practical Philosophy Workshop

We are delighted to welcome John Bengson (University of Wisconsin at Madison) to the PPW to present a paper entitled “Practical Perception”. The meeting will take place on Friday May 24th from 10.30am – 12.20pm in Wieboldt 408.

In accordance with our usual practice, Prof. Bengson will be making a brief presentation on the main points of the paper at the start of the session. To download the full paper, please visit our download page and enter the password “praxis”.

As usual, bagels and coffee will be served at the start of the meeting.

We are delighted to welcome Jason Bridges (Chicago) to the PPW to present a paper entitled “The Ecology of Reasons”. The meeting will take place on Friday May 10th from 10.30am – 12.20pm in Wieboldt 408.

In accordance with our usual practice, Prof. Bridges will be making a brief presentation on the main points of the paper at the start of the session. To download the full paper, please visit our download page and enter the password “praxis”.

As usual, bagels and coffee will be served at the start of the meeting.

We are delighted to welcome Zack Loveless (Chicago, graduate student) to the PPW to present a paper entitled “‘Consequentialism’ in and after “Modern Moral Philosophy””. The meeting will take place on Friday April 26th from 10.30am – 12.20pm in Wieboldt 408.

In accordance with our usual practice, Zack will be making a brief presentation on the main points of the paper at the start of the session. To download the full paper, please visit our download page and enter the password “praxis”.

As usual, bagels and coffee will be served at the start of the meeting.

We are delighted to welcome Tim Scanlon (Harvard) to the PPW to present a paper entitled “Metaphysical Objections to Normative Truth”. The meeting will take place on Friday April 19th from 10.30am – 12.20pm in Wieboldt 408.

In accordance with our usual practice, Prof. Scanlon will be making a brief presentation on the main points of the paper at the start of the session. To download the full paper, please visit our download page and enter the password “praxis”.

As usual, bagels and coffee will be served at the start of the meeting.

For our first meeting of the spring quarter, which is a co-sponsored event with the Human Rights Workshop,  we are delighted to welcome Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) to the PPW to present a paper entitled “What (if Anything) Is Wrong with Capitalism? Three Paths of the Critique of Capitalism”. The meeting will take place on Wednesday April 10th from 16.30 – 18.00 in Social Sciences 224.

To download the full paper, please visit our download page and enter the password “praxis”.

Our schedule for the spring is below. This quarter our meetings will run from 10.30am – 12.20pm on Friday in Wieboldt 408, with the exception of Wednesday, April 10th (see below).

Spring 2013

4/10 (16:30-18:00, Social Sciences 224) – Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) – “What (if Anything) Is Wrong with Capitalism? Three Paths of the Critique of Capitalism”  *Joint Session with the Human Rights Workshop*

4/19 – Tim Scanlon (Harvard) – “Metaphysical Objections to Normative Truth”

4/26 – Zack Loveless (Chicago, graduate student) – “‘Consequentialism’ in and after “Modern Moral Philosophy””

5/10 – Jason Bridges (Chicago) – “The Ecology of Reasons”

5/24 – John Bengson (University of Wisconsin at Madison) – “Practical Perception”

6/7 – Jonny Thakkar (Chicago, graduate student) – “Plato As Critical Theorist: Craftsmanship and Moneymaking in Adam Smith, Karl Marx and Michael Mann”

For our final meeting of the quarter, we are delighted to welcome Alyssa Luboff (Chicago, graduate student) to the PPW to present a paper entitled “Three Kinds of Universal”. The meeting will take place on Friday March 15th from 10.30am – 12.20pm in Cobb 402.

The paper will not be circulated in advance.

As usual, bagels and coffee will be served at the start of the meeting.

We are delighted to welcome Justin Coates (Chicago, Law and Philosophy Fellow) to the PPW to present a paper entitled “Freedom and Resentment in the Key of Kant”. The meeting will take place on Friday March 8th from 10.30am – 12.20pm in Cobb 402.

In accordance with our usual practice, Justin will be making a brief presentation on the main points of the paper at the start of the session. To download the full paper, please visit our download page and enter the password “praxis”.

As usual, bagels and coffee will be served at the start of the meeting.

We are delighted to welcome Elijah Millgram (University of Utah) to the PPW to present a paper entitled “Millian Metaethics”. The meeting will take place on Friday March 1st from 10.30am – 12.20pm in Cobb 402.

In accordance with our usual practice, Prof. Millgram will be making a brief presentation on the main points of the paper at the start of the session. To download the full paper, please visit our download page and enter the password “praxis”.

As usual, bagels and coffee will be served at the start of the meeting.

We are delighted to welcome Sarah Buss (University of Michigan) to the PPW to present a paper entitled “The Possibility of Action as the Impossibility of Certain Forms of Self-alienation”. The meeting will take place on Friday February 15th from 10.30am – 12.20pm in Cobb 402.

In accordance with our usual practice, Prof. Buss will be making a brief presentation on the main points of the paper at the start of the session. To download the full paper, please visit our download page and enter the password “praxis”.

As usual, bagels and coffee will be served at the start of the meeting.