jtizzard – The German Philosophy Workshop

This Friday and Saturday: Graduate Research Conference

This Friday and Saturday, the German Philosophy Workshop will jointly present several talks with the Philosophy department as part of the annual Graduate Research Conference, which features the research of University of Chicago Philosophy PhD students currently on the academic job market. Three of these talks will be on German Idealism. See below:

Friday, December 2nd, 9:00-10:30: Anastasia Artemyev Berg, “Evil or only Immature? Acquiring Moral Character in Kant”

Friday, December 2nd, 3:00-4:30: Jessica Tizzard, “Making Room for Evil: Kant’s Cognitivism and the Human Predisposition Towards Goodness”

Saturday, December 3rd, 10:45-12:15: Andrew Werner, “Objective Thought”

All talks will take place in Rosenwald 405. See the attached poster for more details about the conference.

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November 11th, Laura Papish on Kant on Self-Deception

Please join us this Friday, November 11th when Laura Papish (George Washington University) will present her paper entitled “Kant on Self-Deception, Rationalization, and the Hell of Self-Cognition.” This paper was presented at the Eastern APA as part of a panel on Kant in January, and its content will be included in her forthcoming book manuscript. The paper has been posted to the website in the ‘Papers’ section.

We meet in the usual place at the usual time: Cobb 219, 1:30pm.

This Thursday, November 3rd, Carl Posy

Join us this Thursday, November 3rd, when Carl Posy (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) will present his paper “Realism, Idealism and All That: Kant’s Fourth Paralogism and the Critical Standpoint”. The paper will not be distributed in advance.

Note the unusual day, time, and location: we meet from 4:30-6:30 on Thursday evening in Wiebolt 408.

Hope to see you there.

October 14th- Tom Schulte on Hegel’s Epistemic Subject

Join us this Friday, October 14th, when Tom Schulte (Chicago) will present his paper “Hegel on the Social Constitution of the Epistemic Subject: The Emergence of Recognition in the Phenomenology of Spirit.” The paper has been posted to the website, and will be presented at the workshop.

We meet from 1:30-4:20pm in Cobb 219.

Hope to see you there.

October 7th- Klaus Vieweg on The Concept of Action in Hegel

Join us this Friday, October 7th, when Klaus Vieweg (Jena) will present his paper “The Concept of Action in Hegel’s Practical Philosophy and Aesthetics”. The paper will not be distributed in advance, it will be presented at the workshop.

We meet from 1:30-4:20pm in Cobb 219.

Hope to see you there.