Autumn 2025 Schedule

Unless indicated otherwise, all meetings will take place Fridays from 3:00-5:20pm in Wieboldt Hall, Room 408.

October 3: Please join us for an event co-sponsored by the University of Chicago German Philosophy Workshop and the University of Notre Dame as part of the “Kant at the Lake” series. The event will run from 2pm to 5:30pm and will consist of the following two talks:
               Christopher Benzenberg (Notre Dame), “Kant’s Probabilistic Argument for Immortality”
               Nick Stang (Toronto), “How to Think About Things in Themselves”

October 24: Jaden Yang (UChicago), “Two Sorts of Meaning Skepticisms in the Investigations”

November 14: Martin Gustafsson (Åbo Akademi University), “Two Ways of Inheriting Frege”

December 5: Michael Powell (UChicago), “On the Very Idea of Privileged Self-Knowledge”

Spring 2025 Schedule

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

March 28: Anton Ford (UChicago), “Help”

April 11: Jean-Philippe Narboux (University of Strasbourg), “The Passive Direction of the Problem of Other Minds: Husserl, Sartre, Cavell”

April 18: Jack Fantini (UChicago), “Linguistic Turns, Dummettian and Fregean”

May 2: Karl von der Luft (UChicago), “Art and the Picture of the World: Heidegger, Fried, Wall”

May 9: Gus Law (UChicago), “Is It Our Nature to Become Good? Conversation with Aristotle and Mengzi”

May 16: Chandler Hatch (Nazarbayev University), “Kant’s Natural Law Argument Against Suicide”

Winter 2025 Schedule

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

January 17: Greg Brown (UChicago), “Anscombe on Soul and Substance”

January 24: Samuel Wheeler (UChicago), “‘Why Just This One Bogey?’: Wittgenstein on the Fear of Contradiction”

January 31: Thomas Pendlebury (UChicago), “The Objects of Kant’s Copernican Assumption”

February 14: Kate Petroff (UChicago), “Was Marx a Republican?”

February 28: Jonas Held (Leipzig), “An Asymmetry Within the First Person: Wittgenstein on Moore’s Paradox and the Use of the Verb ‘Believe'”

March 7: Gray Reichl (UChicago), “Kant on Empirical Moral Concepts”

 

Autumn 2024 Schedule

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

October 11: Anastasia Berg (UC Irvine), “Kant’s Subordination Thesis”

October 25: Rose Flinn (Cambridge), “Frege’s Puzzle and Forms of Perception”

November 8: Jacob McDowell (UChicago), “Charles Travis and Wittgenstein on Senses and Shadows”

November 22: Andrew Beddow (UChicago), “How is Humanity the Matter of the Moral Law?”

Spring 2024 Schedule

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

March 29*: Anton Ford (UChicago), “The Objectification of Agency”. (*Joint meeting with the Practical Philosophy Workshop. The meeting will be held in Wieboldt 408, from 3:00-5:20pm.)

April 5: Mike Kołodziej (UChicago), “The Concrete Composite: Hegel’s Dialectic of Mechanism as a Response to Kant’s Second Antinomy”

April 12: Karl Schafer (UT Austin), “Alienation, Intelligibility, and Idealism in Post-Kantian Metaethics”

April 26: Jacob McDowell (UChicago), “Thomas Kuhn and the Causal Theory of Reference”

May 3**: Cora Diamond (University of Virginia, Emerita), “When does something have a function in the language? Thoughts about Michael Kremer on mathematics and meaning”. (**Workshop meeting with Cora Diamond will be online-only, via Zoom.)

May 17: Karl von der Luft (UChicago), “A Critique of Heidegger’s Account of Truth”

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))