Modern Philosophy Workshop » Schedule http://lucian.uchicago.edu/workshops/earlymodphil The workshop is a forum for graduate students and faculty from various departments to engage with Modern thinkers. The meetings are devoted to a discussion of papers by visiting speakers and graduate students from philosophy, divinity, social thought and other departments. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:42:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Spring 2009 Schedule http://lucian.uchicago.edu/workshops/earlymodphil/2009/03/30/spring-2009-schedule/ http://lucian.uchicago.edu/workshops/earlymodphil/2009/03/30/spring-2009-schedule/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:44:39 +0000 cntodd http://lucian.uchicago.edu/workshops/earlymodphil/?p=243 Announcing the Spring 2009 Schedule for the Modern Philosophy Workshop.

All Spring 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.

  • April 17 | Jennifer Lockhart | University of Chicago
    “Practical Necessity and the A Priori”
  • May 1 | Erica Holdberg | University of Chicago
    TBA
  • May 22 | Rachel Zuckert| Northwestern
    TBA
  • May 29 | Daniel Smyth | University of Chicago
    TBA

The spring schedule is still being finalized. Please check back here for updates.

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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



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All Fall 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.

  • Oct 3 | Nate Zuckerman | University of Chicago
    “Pre-conceptual Intuitions, the B-Deduction, and the Myth of the Given”

  • Oct 10 | Matt Boyle | Harvard University
    “Kant on the Nature of Logic”

  • Oct 31 | Sally Sedgwick | University of Illinois-Chicago
    “The Conditions of Critique: Kant vs. Hegel”

  • Nov 7 | Allen Wood | University of Indiana-Bloomington
    “Kant on Lying”

  • Nov 14 | Thomas Land | University of Chicago & Universitaet Basel
    “Intuition and Judgment”

  • Dec 5 | Justin Shaddock | University of Chicago
    Kant and the B-Deduction
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Coffee and refreshments will be provided.

  • April 4 – Dan Kaufman | Colorado
    “Understanding the Real Distinction Between Descartes’ Corporeal Substances”
  • April 11 – Lydia Moland | Babson
    “A Global Rabble? Civil Society and Cosmopolitanism in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right”
    This workshop is co-sponsored by the Political Theory Workshop
  • April 18 – Karolina Hubner | Chicago
    “Spinoza’s Two Ethics”
  • April 25 – Alex Anderson | Chicago
    “The Use of the Principle of Sufficient Reason in the Proofs of God’s Existence: Avicenna, Descartes, and Spinoza”
  • May 2 – Scott Ferguson | Chicago
    “On Spinoza’s Identification of Appetite and Desire”
  • May 16 – Rafeeq Hasan | Chicago
    “Virtues Natural and Artificial: Rousseau and Hume”
  • May 23 – Justin Shaddock | Chicago
    “The Dual-Argument Structure of Kant’s Transcendental Deduction”
  • May 30 – Thomas Pavel | Chicago
    “What the Early Modern Novel Can Tell Philosophers”
    This workshop is co-sponsored by the 18th & 19th Century Cultures Workshop

Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, please call Charles Todd in advance at 617.888.1331.

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  • Jan. 11 | Matthew Schockey | Indiana
    “Malebranche on Knowing One’s Own Mind”
  • Jan. 25 | Dawn Eschenhauer | UofC
     “Spinoza’s Idealism”
  • Feb. 1 | Thomas Land | UofC
     “Apperception: Was Kant a Wolffian?”
  • Feb. 15 | Mogens Laerke | UofC
    “Spinoza’s Monism: What Monism?”
  • Feb. 29 | Lea Schweitz | UofC
    “Leibniz on the Species Problem in the New Essays, or the Trouble With Changelings, Sea-pigs, Brutes, and Beasts”
  • Mar. 7 | Andreas Blank | Herzog August Bibliothek
    “Existential Dependence and the Question of Emanative Causation in Protestant Metaphysics, 1570-1620”

Download Winter 2008 Poster [pdf]

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  • Oct. 19 | Sam Fleischacker | UIC
    “Sympathy and Imagination in Hume and Smith”
  • Oct. 26 | Robert Fogelin | Dartmouth
     “Hume on the Ancients”
    *4:30pm | Stuart 209
  • Nov. 2 | Kenneth Seeskin | Northwestern
     “Maimonides and Spinoza on God and Contingency”
  • Nov. 9 | Minna Koivuniemi | ENS-Lyon
    “Being One with the Body: the Mind-Body Union in Descartes and Spinoza”
  • Nov. 16 | Carlos Fraenkel | McGill
    “On the Relationship Between Philosophy and Religion in Averroes, Elijah Delmedigo, and Spinoza”
  • Nov. 30 | Ohad Nachtomy | Princeton/Bar-Ilan
    “What’s Leibniz’s distinction between natural and artificial machines got to do with his view of possibility?”

Download Fall Schedule Poster [pdf]

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