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), Title TBA
February 14: Kate Petroff (UChicago), “Was Marx a Republican?”
February 28: Jonas Held (Leipzig), Title TBA
March 7: Gray Reichl (UChicago), “Kant on Empirical Moral Concepts”
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?”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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)
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 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”