Author Archives: nir

We are delighted to welcome Jennifer Johnson (Chicago, graduate student) to the PPW to present a paper entitled “Striving and Unity in Aristotelian Virtue”. The meeting will take place on Friday February 1st from 10.30am – 12.20pm in Stuart 102 (PLEASE NOTE THE IRREGULAR … Continue reading →

For our first meeting of the winter quarter we are delighted to welcome Nir Ben Moshe (Chicago, graduate student) to the PPW to present a paper entitled “How to Solve “The Moral Problem”: Why Humeans should not Aspire to be Kantians”. … Continue reading →

Our schedule for the winter is below. A couple of comments: 1)  All meetings will run from 10.30am – 12.20pm on Friday. 2) Our meetings this quarter are on even weeks, with the exception of March 8th. 3) Our meetings this quarter will … Continue reading →

For our final meeting of the quarter we are delighted to welcome Ben Laurence (Chicago) to the PPW to present a paper entitled “The Priority of Ideal Theory”. The meeting will take place on Friday November 30th from 10.30am – … Continue reading →

We are delighted to welcome Joe Lubenow (Chicago, graduate student) to the PPW to present a paper entitled ”Rawls as a Rights Theorist”. The meeting will take place on Friday November 16th from 10.30am – 12.20pm in Social Sciences 302. … Continue reading →

We are delighted to welcome Martin Gustafsson (Abo Akademi University) to the PPW to present a paper entitled “Anscombe’s Bird, Wittgenstein’s Cat: Intention, Expression and Convention”. The meeting will take place on Friday November 9th from 10.30am – 12.20pm in Social Sciences 302. … Continue reading →

We are delighted to welcome Santiago Mejia (Chicago, graduate student) to the PPW to present a paper entitled “On Why Self-Knowledge is Important for Iris Murdoch’s Project”. The meeting will take place on Friday October 26th from 10.30am – 12.20pm in … Continue reading →

For our first meeting of the year – a joint session with the German Philosophy Workshop –  we are delighted to welcome Sally Sedgwick (UIC) to the PPW to present a paper entitled “Freedom and Necessity in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right and Philosophy … Continue reading →

Welcome back to Chicago, and to the fourth year of the Practical Philosophy Workshop! Our schedule for the fall is below. A couple of comments: 1) The workshop will usually meet on even weeks this year. However, since it is occasionally … Continue reading →