The Practical Philosophy Workshop meets Thursday evenings. Unless otherwise noted, the workshop meets from 6:00-8:00 in the Cobb Hall, Room 107.
Spring 2023:
March 27: Matt Boyle (UChicago), “Ethics and the First Person Perspective”
April 6: Andrew Beddow (UChicago), “Form and Content in Kant’s Ethics”
April 14: Laurenz Ramsauer (UChicago), “Dehumanization and the Logic of Metaphor”
April 27: Talbot Brewer (University of Virginia), “Imago Demiurge: Toward a Platonic Conception of the Human Being”
May 5: C. Thi Nguyen (University of Utah), “Value Collapse”
May 11: Ben Conroy (UChicago), “Pandas, Chickenpox, and Simian Backaches: The Role of Characteristic Defect in Natural Life”
May 18: Stephen Cunniff (UChicago), “The Means and the End: Aristotle on Phronesis”
Winter 2023:
January 23: Kieran Setiya (MIT), “Human Nature, History, and the Limits of Critique”
February 1: Arron Graham (University of Chicago), “A New Response to Ronald Dworkin’s Objection from Theoretical Disagreement”
February 6: Amy Levine (University of Chicago), “Accountability Beyond Autonomy”
February 20: Paskalina Bourbon (University of Chicago), “The Problem of Inference and the Failed Analogy Between Inference and Action”
Autumn 2022:
October 24: Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen), “Observation, Interaction, Communication: The Role of the Second Person.”
November 14: Greg Brown (University of Chicago), “Human Nature and Reasons for Action.”
November 28: Sam Segal (University of Chicago), “The Priority Problem in Joint Practical Deliberation.”
December 2 (Friday): Jed Lewinsohn (University of Pittsburgh), “The ‘Natural Unintelligibility’ of Normative Powers.” (Joint session with the German Philosophy Workshop – Weibolt 408).
December 5 – Regina Rini (York University), “From Descartes to QAnon: The perils of denying epistemic dependence”