The German Philosophy Workshop

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.

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.

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.

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.

Join us this Friday, June 3rd, for the last session of the German Philosophy Workshop this academic year. Jessica Tizzard (Chicago) will present her paper “Forms of Rational Determination: A study of practical and theoretical sensibility in Kant,” which is available on our papers page. The paper will be read in part during the session.

As always, we will meet 1:30-4:20pm in Wieboldt 408.

Hope to see you all there!

Join us this Friday, May 20, for a joint session with the Wittgenstein workshop. Claire Kirwin (Chicago) will present her paper “Pulling Oneself Up by the Hair: Understanding Nietzsche on the Freedom of the Will,” which is available on our papers page. Reading the paper in advance is optional.

As usual, we will meet 1:30-4:20pm in Wieboldt 408.

On Friday, April 29th and Saturday, April 30th, the University of Chicago is hosting the 3rd annual Chicagoland Graduate Philosophy Conference.  The full schedule and details are available here.

On Wednesday, April 20th from 4:30-6:30 PM, the GPW is assisting the CEPW to host Markus Gabriel from Universität Bonn, who will discuss his papers “The Meaning of ‘Existence’ and the Contingency of Sense” and “Neutral Realism” which can be found on our papers page. Please read the papers in advance and come ready to discuss.

German Philosophers!

This coming Friday, April 15th, 2:00-4:30 (note the later start time) in Wieboldt 408, Ryan Simonelli will be presenting his paper “Having Knowledge in Experience,” in which he discusses issues in John McDowell’s philosophy of perceptual experience, drawing on various German philosophers, both living and dead, including recent GPW guests Andrea Kern and Sebastian Rödl. The paper will be read in part during the session and is available in full here. Please join us for what is sure to be a lively discussion.