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New Blog!

cntodd — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:41:28 +0000

The Modern Philosophy Workshop
is moving to a new home!!

You can find the new blog at
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/workshops/modernphilosophy/

More details and the new schedule coming soon…

Hegel Conference

cntodd — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:43:12 +0000

Hegel and German Idealism

Graduate Student Conference
University of Notre Dame
March 6-8

What:

This conference, sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, is designed to provide graduate students in philosophy and all areas of the humanities the opportunity to present research on issues related to the philosophical and historical roots, development, and impact of Hegel’s philosophy and German Idealism.

Keynote speakers:

Paul Franks, University of Toronto
Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh

When:

Friday, March 6th – Sunday March 8th, 2009

Where:

University of Notre Dame
McKenna Hall

For more information: Conference Website

Midwest Seminar Call For Abstracts

cntodd — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:47:35 +0000

2009 Midwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

May 2-3, 2009
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Submission Deadline

March 2, 2009

Guidelines

Abstracts welcome on any topic in early modern philosophy (broadly defined, ranging from late Renaissance philosophy to the Enlightenment). We particularly encourage proposals which consider early modern philosophy in relation to other related disciplines, such as theology, intellectual history and/or the history of science.

Please submit an abstract (of between 500 and 750 words) by March 2, 2009.

(Please note: Final papers should be approximately 45 minutes in reading length.)

Submissions

Abstracts should be sent by email to: mlaerke@uchicago.edu

More Information

For more information download the Call For Abstracts here.

Winter 2009 Schedule

cntodd — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:59:32 +0000

Announcing the Winter 2009 Schedule for the Modern Philosophy Workshop.

All Winter workshops will take place Fridays at 10:30am in Stuart 209 unless otherwise noted.

Papers will be posted on the workshop blog beforehand and should be read in advance.

Jan 23 | Dasha Polzik | University of Chicago
“Rousseau’s Ideal: the Happy, ‘Natural’ Citizen”
Feb 13 | Julie Cooper| University of Chicago
“Spinoza’s Critique of Humility”
Feb 20 | Rafeeq Hasan | University of Chicago
“Rousseau and the Attraction of Obligation”
Feb 27 | Linda Zerilli | University of Chicago

Bristow Book Discussion | Saturday, Nov. 15

cntodd — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:25:12 +0000

Chicago Area Consortium on German Philosophy

co-sponsors:
the Northwestern Department of Philosophy
and the DePaul Department of Philosophy

Book Discussion

Hegel and the Transformation of Philosophical Critique
William F. Bristow

Saturday, November 15, 2008
2:00-4:00

Dorothy Day Room, LPC 400
John T. Richardson Library
DePaul University

2350 North Kenmore Avenue
Chicago, IL 60614

For further information contact:

Kevin Thompson
Associate Professor of Philosophy
DePaul University
773.325.4866
kthomp12@depaul.edu

Modern Philosophy Workshop

cntodd — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:10:43 +0000

We are excited to announce that the Early Modern Philosophy Workshop will expand in the 2008-2009 year to become the Modern Philosophy Workshop. With this shift in emphasis we hope to accommodate the broader interests of graduate students at the University of Chicago working on philosophers across the entire Modern period, roughly from Descartes through the post-Kantian idealists. All graduate students and faculty interested in the Modern period are welcome.

Our new faculty advisors are Robert Pippin and Anton Ford.

The workshop will continue to meet on Fridays at 10:30am in Stuart 209 unless otherwise posted.

Also, we are currently filling in our schedule of speakers for the 2008-2009 year. University of Chicago graduate students interested in presenting on Modern Philosophy please contact dsmyth@uchicago.edu.

Andreas Blank | Friday, March 7

cntodd — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:40:04 +0000

This Friday, March 7, the Early Modern Philosophy Workshop presents:

Andreas Blank | Herzog August Bibliothek

10:30am | Stuart Hall | Rm 209

Coffee and snacks will be provided.

We will discuss his paper:

“Existential Dependence and the Question of Emanative Causation in Protestant Metaphysics, 1570-1620”

The paper will not be read during the workshop so please read the paper in advance. For a copy of the paper, e-mail cntodd@uchicago.edu.

Feb 1 | Canceled

cntodd — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:03:49 +0000

This Friday’s EMP workshop for February 1 with Thomas Land has been canceled.

Call For Grad Student Papers

cntodd — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:31:52 +0000

The EMP Workshop is currently filling in our schedule for Winter and Spring 2008. If you are a graduate student at the University of Chicago with a relevant paper on Early Modern Philosophy, then we invite you to contact us at: cntodd@uchicago.edu. Students from Philosophy, Divinity, Social Thought and other departments welcome.