Unless otherwise indicated, all workshop meetings will take place in Stuart 209, beginning at 10:30 am. All papers will be posted on this website a week in advance of the presentation, and members of the workshop will be notified via email. Papers will not be read during the workshop. To be added to the email list, please contact Dasha Polzik (polzik at uchicago dot edu).
Autumn 2009
Friday, October 2 || Erica Holberg (University of Chicago, Philosophy), “The Importance of Pleasure in the Moral for Kant’s Ethics”
Friday, October 16 || Chris Meckstroth (University of Chicago, Political Science), “Democracy without Foundations: Kantian Autonomy and the Socratic Elenchus”
Friday, November 6 || Samuel Fleischacker (University of Illinois at Chicago, Philosophy; visiting faculty at the University of Chicago in Autumn 2009), “True to Ourselves? – Adam Smith on Self-Deceit”
Friday, November 13 || Ben Laurence (University of Chicago (visiting faculty 2008-10)), “Resources in Ideal Theory”
Winter 2010
(Week I) Friday, January 8 || Thomas Land (University of Chicago, Philosophy)
(Week III) Friday, January 22 || Rafeeq Hasan (University of Chicago, Philosophy), “Artificiality in Rousseau and Hume”
(Week IV) Friday, January 29 || Jon Garthoff (Northwestern), “Mimicking Korsgaard.” Co-sponsored by the Practical Philosophy Workshop. (Please note new location and date: Classics 405, Friday, January 29, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm. (This workshop session was originally scheduled for February 5.))
(Week VII) Friday, February 19 || JJ McFadden (University of Chicago, Political Science)
(Week IX) Friday, March 5 || “Hume Fest”! Ted Morris and Charlotte Brown (Illinois Wesleyan University) (please note unusual time: Friday, March 5, 10-2 pm, Stuart 209)
(Week X) Friday, March 12 || Fred Neuhouser (Barnard/Columbia)
Spring 2010
(Week I) Friday, April 2 || Ian Storey (University of Chicago, Political Science), “The Democracy of Taste: In Defense of Kantian Judgment”
(Week II) Monday, April 5 || Tracy Strong (University of California San Diego), “Rousseau: politics, language, and music.” Co-sponsored by the Political Theory Workshop (please note unusual location and time: Monday, April 5, 12-1:30 pm, Pick 506)
(Week III) Friday, April 16 || Gregory Freeman (University of Chicago, Social Thought), “Rousseau’s ‘Political Theory’”
(Week IV) Thursday, April 22 || Josh Cohen (Stanford). (Please note unusual time: Thursday, April 22, 6-8 pm, Stuart 209)
(Week V) Friday, April 30 || Dasha Polzik (University of Chicago, Philosophy)
(Week VII) Friday, May 14 || Jason Rosensweig (University of Chicago, Social Thought)
(Week IX) Friday, May 28 || Jonathan Bruno (Harvard, Department of Government), (title t.b.a.)
