We’ve added a “Links” page to our website! Here we’ve linked to associated workshops and organizations. Hopefully, with time, the list will grow in keeping with our commitment to interdisciplinarity!
Please feel free to peruse this new (and oh so exciting) content.
Hegel’s writings on religion have recently received enthusiastic embrace, qualified endorsement and sceptical refusal. This paper inquires into the questions that his readers put or attribute to Hegel and considers the significance of their answers for the contemporary study of religious traditions, and especially for theology.
Nicholas Adams is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Ethics at the University of Edinburgh. He has published on the relation of German Philosophy to Theology. He is the author of Habermas and Theology (CUP 2006) and Eclipse of Grace: Divine and Human Action in Hegel (Blackwell 2013).
In anticipation of what is certain to be a lively and stimulating talk, please check out this video from 2006 of Amy Hollywood‘s inaugural lecture as Harvard Divinity School’s Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies. The talk was entitled “Acute Melancholia.”
Now that your intellectual appetite is whetted, we hope you will join us for prof. Hollywood’s talk this Friday at UChicago’s Swift Hall!
Amy Hollywood’s talk “On the True, the Real, and Critique in the Study of Religion” on Friday, October 10th at 3pm in the Common Room in Swift Hall.
Then, hot on the heels of that talk, we will host a luncheon with the impressive
Nicholas Adams (Edinburgh): “Hegel’s Methodological Lessons for Philosophy of Religion Today” on Monday, October 13 at 12noon in Swift Hall room 208.
Welcome back to school! The PR Club & Workshop has a great series of events coming together, and we can’t wait to tell you about it. Join us this WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1st at 4:30pm in Swift 208 to eat lots of good food, drink lots of good drinks, catch up with old friends and colleagues and meet new ones, and look ahead to a year of great conversations. You’ll also be able to get on the calendar to present your work, and suggest outside scholars to invite to speak to us. Looking forward to seeing you soon!
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Thanks to the efforts of former Workshop (and Club) organizer Davey Tomlinson, an archive of past presentations is now available in the Papers tab!
Secondly:
We hope to upload the schedule of talks for the Autumn Quarter very soon!
Former organizer of the PR Workshop, Davey Tomlinson will be teaming up with me to backlog tons of archival material from the past couple years!
Soon visitors to the site should be able to peruse material from our past talks and events.
Greetings colleagues!
Autumn quarter fast approaches, and we all know what that means…
…time for the Workshop on the Philosophy of Religions to reconvene!
At the moment, our website is currently undergoing maintenance so that we can better serve YOU, and better fulfill our general scholarly aims.
Please excuse the dearth of content for the time being while we straighten things out.
Coming Soon:
In the weeks to come, we plan to make this website more navigable and useful for attendees, participants, and anyone else who is interested!
In the weeks leading up to Autumn 2014 we will hope to undertake:
Hope to see you this Fall!
Wednesday, October 30th: Zeke Goggin, University of Chicago
Ontotheodicy- Realism, Historicism, and Sacrifice in the works of Hegel. (Email me for a copy of the paper in advance at dtomlinson@uchicago.edu)
Wednesday, November 6th: Christian Coseru, College of Charleston
The Ineliminable Character of Reflexivity: What is at Stake in a Debate on Consciousness?
“Every consciousness upon whatever object it is primarily directed, is constantly directed upon itself,” wrote Franz Brentano in 1874 in his seminal work, Psychology From an Empirical Standpoint. This assertion of the unity of consciousness as reflexive awareness, which in the West finds its roots in Aristotle, and in India is best articulated by the influential seventh century Indian Buddhist philosopher Dharmakīrti, has been both criticized and vigorously defended. What is significant about the work of Dharmakīrti and his successors on this topic is a striking combination of descriptive accounts of experience with causal theories of reference, and the notion that linguistic and inferential relations do not straightforwardly capture experiential content. In this presentation, I first consider various alternatives to the reflexivist theory of consciousness, specifically representationalist, higher-order, and token-physicalist theories. I then review phenomenological evidence that highlights various problems these theories face in accounting for the character of consciousness. Finally, I entertain the question whether this sort of evidence provides sufficient ground for claiming that something like a pre-reflective self-awareness is prior to the types of consciousness that presuppose conceptual and narrative competence.
Wednesday, November 20th: Joy Brennan, University of Chicago
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