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Call for Papers:
Ph.d.-kursus: Wahrheit und Methode – 50 år

Forskningsgruppen for Filosofisk Hermeneutik (PHH) og Nordisk Netværk for Tysk Idealisme (NNGI) ved Aarhus Universitet arrangerer et ph.d.-kursus i anledning af 50 års jubilæet for udgivelsen af Hans-Georg Gadamers Wahrheit und Methode. Dette værk har fået status som hovedværket for den filosofiske hermeneutik. Bogen er blevet til en af de få klassikere indenfor det 20. århundredes filosofi og har haft stor indflydelse også på den kultur- og socialvidenskabelige teoridannelse og den tilsvarende metodologiske refleksion. Kurset sigter på at undervise interesserede ph.d.-studerende fra de nordiske lande i den filosofiske hermeneutik og at vurdere dens aktualitet indenfor udvalgte områder.

Tid: 15.-17. november 2010
Sted: Sandbjerg Gods, Sønderborg (http://www.sandbjerg.dk/)

Kurset vil indeholde to masterclasses om hhv. hermeneutikken og den tyske idealisme (Kristin Gjesdal, Temple University) og hermeneutikken og den filosofiske æstetik (Dorthe Jørgensen, Aarhus Universitet). Derudover vil der være to ph.d.-sektioner, hvor ph.d.-studerende kan fremlægge papers relateret til filosofiske emner indenfor fænomenologi, hermeneutik, filosofisk æstetik og tysk idealisme.

Et foreløbigt program vil se ud som følgende (med forbehold for ændringer):

Mandag, 15. november
15.00-16.00: Ankomst og kaffe
16.00-18.00: Thomas Schwarz Wentzer: 50 år Wahrheit und Methode – filosofisk hermeneutik eller hermeneutisk filosofi?
19.30-21.00: I samtale med Gadamer (TV-foredraget: Die Vielfalt der Sprachen und das Verstehen der Welt)

Tirsdag, 16. november
9.15-12.30: Dorthe Jørgensen: Hermeneutikken og den filosofiske æstetik
14.30-18.00: Ph.d.-sektion 1
19.00: Dinner

Onsdag, 17. november
09.15-12.30: Kristin Gjesdal: Hermeneutikken og den tyske idealisme
14.00-15.30: Ph.d.-sektion 2
15.30: Kaffe
16.00: Afrejse

Interesserede ph.d.-studerende skal indsende et abstract på ca. 500 ord med deadline den 1. oktober 2010. Det endegyldige paper på maks. 4000 ord skal være færdig senest den 7.11.2010 og vil blive distribueret til alle deltagere. Ph.d.-studerende, der vil deltage uden paper, skal regne med at få opgaven som opponent.

Takket være en bevilling fra den nationale forskerskole PHIS er ophold og forplejning formentlig gratis (afhænger af antallet af deltagere). Transportudgifterne refunderes imidlertid ikke.

Tilmelding samt abstract sendes til:

Thomas Schwarz Wentzer, AU (filts@hum.au.dk)
Anders Moe Rasmussen, AU (filamr@hum.au.dk)

Download dette call for paper som Word-dokument her.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Spirit of German Idealism

In the period from 2009 – 2011 the Nordic Network for German Idealism (www.NNGI.org) is arrang-ing various conferences and workshops for researchers and post-graduate students with interest and expertise in the vast and varied field of philosophy, which takes the philosophies of Kant, Fichte Schelling, Hegel and Kierkegaard as its most crucial point of reference.

The third session will be from the 26th to the 28th of May 2010 at the Siemens Stiftung in Mu-nich, Germany. It is a joint venture between the Department of Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilian University, the Department of Philosophy at Aarhus University and the NNGI. At the third session there will be a conference on the 26th and 27th with invited speakers and a workshop for students (primarily at the PhD.-level) on the 28th.

The papers for the workshop are not restricted with regards to theme, but they should discuss or deal with the philosophies of Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel or Kierkegaard. Since the general theme for work within the NNGI is Spirit (Geist), we particularly welcome papers that deal with this theme. They may be historically oriented or deal with systematic issues as the authors see fit.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is April 15th 2010.

Abstracts should be submitted to the following e-mail address: filamr@hum.au.dk

Practical issues:
The NNGI will provide funding for travel reimbursement and accommodation during the conference for all participating students up to a maximum of 5000 DKR (about 660EURO). There is a maximum of 15 participating PhD-students. There will be lunch provided for all participants and an optional conference dinner. More information to come in this regard.

Download a PDF-version of the call for papers here.

2010 ISRLC Conference, University of Oxford

Abstracts are now being sought for a panel on German Idealism at the 2010 International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture conference taking place at the University of Oxford next September on the topic, “Attending to the Other: Critical Theory and Spiritual Practice”.

German Idealism and Religion Panel

Our contemporary preoccupations with self/other relations can be traced back directly to the German Idealist dialectic of Same and Other. The task of this panel will be to uncover critical theory’s presuppositions and prejudices on this topic by excavating their philosophical and theological origins in German Idealism. Questions that may be considered include: To what extent does Hegel’s master-slave dialectic still determine how we conceive the other? Did Kantian phenomenalism foreclose the possibility of experiencing otherness? Is Hölderlin’s expectant anticipation of the coming god an appropriate manner in which to attend to the other? The panel welcomes papers that focus not just on German Idealism narrowly considered (Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel), but also the various theologies, romanticisms and materialisms which emerged out of it in the first half of the nineteenth century, as well as its legacy in contemporary critical and religious theories.

Deadline: March 30, 2010.

Please see the conference website: www.theology.ox.ac.uk/ISRLC for more details on submitting abstracts and the call for papers for other panels running at the conference (including critical theory and continental philosophy of religion).

CALL FOR PAPERS:

HEGEL AND GERMAN IDEALISM

Graduate Student Conference
University of Notre Dame
March 6-8, 2009

Deadline for Submission: December 15, 2008

Invited Speakers:
Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh
Paul Franks, University of Toronto

Graduate students of the Notre Dame philosophy department invite papers relating to the philosophy of Hegel and the tradition of German Idealism. 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.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• The philosophical origins of German Idealism (in Kant, the post-Kantians, the Romantics, etc…).

• 19th century critiques of Hegel and German Idealism.

• Influence of Hegel/ German Idealism on 19th and/or 20th century political developments.

• The impact of Hegel/ German Idealism on contemporary philosophy.

• The revival of interest in Hegel and German Idealism in contemporary analytic philosophy.

Papers should be suitable for 20-minute presentation (10-12 pages) and should be submitted in blind review format. Deadline for submission is December 15, 2008. Please include author’s name, title, and institutional affiliation in email. Notifications will be made no later than February 1, 2009. Selected presenters will be provided with
meals and campus hotel accommodations for the conference.

Submissions and questions should be emailed to hegel.graduateconference@gmail.com.

For more details, please visit our website: http://nanovic.nd.edu/hegel.html

Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the University of Notre Dame Graduate School.

The KANT YEARBOOK

is now accepting submissions for its second issue in 2010. The KANT YEARBOOK is an international journal that publishes articles on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. It is the KANT YEARBOOK’s goal to intensify innovative research on Kant on the international scale. For that reason the KANT YEARBOOK prefers to publish articles in English, however articles in German will also be considered. Each issue will be dedicated
to a specific topic.

The second issue’s topic is: METAPHYSICS.

All papers, historical or systematic, related to the problem of METAPHYSICS in Kant’s philosophy are welcome, though there is a strong preference for papers focusing on the classical theoretical meaning of METAPHYSICS like in metaphysica specialis (soul, world/universe, God) and metaphysica generalis (ontology). However, contemporary approaches to METAPHYSICS as they relate to Kantian topics like appearance–thing-in-itself, primary and secondary qualities, substance, causality, freedom, idealism, realism, etc. are also welcome.

The KANT YEARBOOK practices double-blind review, i.e. the reviewers are not aware of the identity of a manuscript’s author, and the author is not aware of the reviewer’s identity. Submitted manuscripts must be anonymous; that is the authors’ names and references to their work capable of identifying them are not to appear in the manuscript.

Detailed instructions and author guidelines are available at
www.hofstra.edu/Academics/Colleges/HCLAS/PHI/phi_Kant_Yearbook.html.

For further information contact the editor or the publisher Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York (www.degruyter.com).

Paper submissions should go to dietmar.heidemann@uni.lu

Deadline for submission is May 10, 2009.

Editor: Dietmar H. Heidemann (Hofstra University/University of Luxembourg).

Editorial Board: Henry E. Allison (University of California at Davis), Karl Ameriks (Notre Dame), Gordon Brittan (Montana State University), Klaus Düsing (University of Cologne), Daniel O. Dahlstrom (Boston University), Kristina Engelhard (University of Cologne), Hannah Ginsborg (University of California at Berkeley), Michelle Grier (University of San Diego), Thomas Grundmann (University of Cologne), Paul Guyer (University of Pennsylvania), Robert Hanna (University of Colorado at Boulder), Georg Mohr (University of Bremen), Angelica Nuzzo (Brooklyn College/CUNY), Robert Stern (Sheffield University), Dieter Sturma (University of Bonn), Ken Westphal (University of Kent), Markus Willaschek (University of Frankfurt).

Publisher: De Gruyter Berlin/New York

Dietmar H. Heidemann
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY 11549 USA
email: dietmar.heidemann@hofstra.edu
phone: 516.463.1001
www.hofstra.edu/Academics/HCLAS/Philosophy/PHI_faculty_Heidemann.cfm

UK Kant society annual conference
Second call for papers
Lancaster University 27-29 August 2009
 
Kant: morality & society

Keynote speakers: Arthur Ripstein, Onora O’Neill* Stephen Darwall
(* to be confirmed)
 
Call for papers & graduate sessions

Papers are invited from academics and graduate students across the broad theme of the conference. Deadline 31 January 2009.

For further details please see the conference website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/kant.
In case of query or to submit papers please e-mail Garrath Williams:
g.d.williams@lancaster.ac.uk

UK Kant Society website: http://www.keele.ac.uk/UKKS
Conference website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/kant

Der er selvfølgeligt lidt langt til British Columbia, men Kredsens medlemmer skal da have buddet

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Society for German Idealism will meet on 8-12 April 2009 at the Pacific APA in Westin Bayshore, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

http://apa-pacific.org/ has information about the Pacific APA.

Papers must not exceed a length of 3000 words. Include the following nine items:

 (1) word count — 3000 words maximum!
 (2) author’s name
 (3) academic status (professor, unaffiliated, graduate student)
 (4) institutional affiliation (if any)
 (5) mailing address
 (6) email address
 (7) telephone number
 (8) the paper’s title
 (9) an abstract — 100 words maximum!

Email a copy of your paper, as an attachment, in rich text format to

idealism@lclark.edu

Also, paste a copy in the body of the email (in case the attachment is unreadable).  Please label your attachment as follows:

Lastname_Firstname.rtf — for example, Hegel_Georg.rtf

Papers must be received by OCTOBER 1.

Papers will be reviewed by a committee.

Three papers will be selected for presentation, and each paper will have a commentator.

Notification of acceptance will be made via email in late October.

Submissions whose authors cannot be contacted through email will be rejected.

http://www.lclark.edu/~idealism/SGI.html is the SGI’s website.

During the general meeting held in Mainz on 22 October 2005 the Kant-Gesellschaft e.V. has authorized the Società Italiana di Studi Kantiani to organize in collaboration with the University of Pisa the 11th International Kant Congress in Pisa, Italy. The congress will take place from 22 to 26 May 2010. The official languages of the congress are German,
English, French, and Italian. The congress will include plenary sessions featuring keynote speakers and parallel sessions followed by discussion. Simultaneous translation will be available for plenary sessions.

The general topic of the congress is “Kant and Philosophy in a Cosmopolitan Sense”. This topic refers to the “cosmopolitan concept” (Weltbegriff, conceptus cosmicus) of philosophy. According to Kant, philosophy in a cosmopolitan sense concerns that which necessarily interests everyone. Philosophy in this sense is the “science of the relation of every cognition to the essential ends of human reason”. This cosmopolitan sense of philosophy provides the opportunity for reflection on the meaning and function of philosophy in its relation to every form of knowledge and to every aspect of human life.

The congress will consider all aspects of Kant’s philosophy. However, contributions on Kant’s concept of philosophy will be especially welcomed. Sessions are planned on the following topics:

(1) Kant and thephilosophical tradition
(2) Theory of cognition and logic
(3) Science, mathematics, and philosophy of nature
(4) Ontology and metaphysics
(5) Ethics
(6) Law and justice
(7) Politics and history
(8) Anthropology and psychology
(9) Religion and theology
(10) Aesthetics
(11) Kant’s concept of philosophy
(12) Kant’s heritage
(13) Kant and the Leibnizian tradition
(14) Kant and Schopenhauer (in collaboration with the Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft).

Everyone interested is encouraged to participate.

Papers can be written in any of the four official languages mentioned above. Papers must be submitted electronically through the congress website (www.kant2010.it), along with an abstract of up to 10 lines. The maximum length of papers is 10 pages (font: Times New Roman 12, line spacing: 1,5). Papers must specify which session they are intended for. Papers must not contain any information enabling referees to identify the author (for instance references to one’s own works, indicated as such). Only papers written in correct grammar in any of the four congress languages will be considered for selection. The deadline for submissions is 31 May 2009. Authors will be notified by 31 December 2009 as to whether their paper has been accepted. Plenary session papers and parallel session papers will be published in the congress proceedings.

Further information on the congress and on the registration will be made available on the congress website. Until the official congress website is launched, requests for information can be addressed to the President of the Società Italiana di Studi Kantiani, Prof. Claudio La Rocca, e-mail: Claudio.LaRocca@unige.it, Università di Genova, Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, C.so A. Podestà 2, 16128 Genova, Italy.

CFP: Transcendental Philosophy: Its History and Nature

Annual Conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy 2009
14th-17th April 2009 Manchester Metropolitan University

Thinking about the notion of the “transcendental” in the history of philosophy touches on a number of distinct topics that have proved of central significance. These include the understanding of the a priori, the nature of necessity claims in experience, the question of the nature of experience itself and its possibility, and the understanding of what is  essential in claims of knowledge.

Whilst transcendental philosophy as a venture has tended in recent years to be identified with the Kantian project it is not exclusively connected to it since successors to Kant have contested the understanding and significance of the transcendental. Included amongst alternatives to the Kantian conception are those of the German Idealists (Fichte, Schelling and Hegel) all of whom have either described themselves or been described by others as transcendental philosophers. Similarly the revival of interest in Kant in the late nineteenth century produced significant revisions in the understanding of transcendental methods and arguments. The traditions of European philosophy include significant re-inventions of the concept of the transcendental in the works of Husserl, Derrida and Deleuze and the analytic tradition includes such transcendental projects as those of Wilfrid Sellars and Peter Strawson.

By contrast, in considering the place of the concept of the transcendental in philosophy it is also important to consider its usage prior to the work of Kant in, for example the medieval tradition of describing the transcendentals as providing us notions that exceed those of categorial determination.

In responding to this topic contributors might focus, inter alia, on any of the following:

Transcendental philosophy: its nature and scope; Transcendental arguments; the nature of transcendental idealism; the viability of transcendental realism; transcendental phenomenology; the role of the transcendentals in medieval philosophy; transcendental
empiricism; transcendental philosophy and metaphysics; the synthetic a priori; transcendental deductions; transcendental psychology; analytic philosophy and the transcendental; the intuition of essences; categorial intuition; transcendental subjectivity; science and experience; transcendental apperception; transcendental imagination; transcendental logic; the logic of experience; transcendental ontology; transcendental pragmatism; semiotics and the transcendental; transcendental dynamics; mathematics and experience; nature and world; mind and world; transcendental aesthetics; transcendental dialectic; transcendental methods.

Please send abstracts to the following:

Gary Banham, Reader in Transcendental Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University (g.banham@mmu.ac.uk)

James Clarke, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of York (jac505@york.ac.uk)

Call for Papers: Pacific Study Group of the North American Kant Society

October 25-26, 2008, University of California, Irvine, California

The North American Kant Society would like to announce a call for papers for the seventh annual Pacific Study Group meeting to be held October 25-26, 2008 at the University of California, Irvine. The invited speaker will be Eckart Förster (Johns Hopkins University).

The best paper submitted by a graduate student will be awarded a stipend of $100 to offset expenses for the conference. Graduate students who would like to be considered for this stipend should specify their status as a graduate student in the cover letter/e-mail accompanying their submission. The winning essay is eligible for the Annual Markus Herz Award for the best paper by a graduate student read at any of the regional NAKS study group meetings.

The Pacific Study Group is an informal group that meets once a year (historically, in the fall) to facilitate interaction among Kant scholars by means of 5 or 6 45-minute presentations followed by informal discussion. One should be a member of NAKS to present a paper at the PSG meeting. However, attendance at the PSG meetings is free and open to all. The PSG receives financial support from the North American Kant Society and from host universities.

Papers submitted for the meetings may discuss any topic in Kantian Studies. The term “Kantian Studies” is broadly conceived to include not only contemporary “Kantian” approaches to philosophical problems but also the discussion of Kant’s immediate predecessors, contemporaries, and successors such as the German Idealists.

Programs of earlier meetings of the Pacific Study Group were:

2002 University of California, San Diego (Invited Speaker: Allen Wood)
2003 University of California, Berkeley (Invited Speaker: Michael Friedman)
2004 Pomona College (Invited Speaker: Henry Allison)
2005 Stanford University (Invited Speaker: Paul Guyer)
2006 University of California, Riverside (Invited Speakers, Karl Ameriks & Tyler Burge)
2007 University of California, Los Angeles (Invited Speaker, Beatrice Longunesse)

Papers no longer than 25 pages to be considered for presentation at the next meeting should be sent as an e-mail attachment to Eric Watkins (ewatkins@ucsd.edu) by July 1, 2008 (in Word, pdf, or Rich-Text-Format).

Papers may not be submitted to both the Pacific Study Group and another Study Group in the same year. More information on hotel accommodations and the program will be available by September.

The fifth UK Kant Society graduate conference
10-11 July 2008
University of Manchester

Call for papers
Deadline for submission of papers: May 10th 2008

The 5th UK Kant Society Graduate Conference will take place on Thursday 10th and Friday 11th July 2008 at The University of Manchester.

We are pleased to announce that our guest speakers this year are Professor Robert Pippin (University of Chicago) and Jens Timmermann (University of St. Andrews).

We invite papers from postgraduate students and from those who have recently completed their PhD to be considered for presentation at the 2008 UK Kant Society Graduate Conference. The conference will consider papers related to any aspect of Immanuel Kant’s philosophy from 1781 onwards.

Please submit papers of no more than 5000 words that are suitable for a presentation of around 35 minutes, allowing 20 minutes for discussion. All papers should be suitable for blind review. Please include a cover page consisting of the paper’s title and abstract, as well as personal contact details including an email address.

Submissions should be sent by email no later than 10th May 2008 to ukksgradconf@aol.co.uk marking the subject line ‘2008 UKKS Graduate Conference Submission’.

Further details will be publicised nearer the date of the conference.

More information about the UK Kant Society can be found at their website

If you have any queries, please: ukksgradconf@aol.co.uk

Paula Satne Jones (conference organiser)
Philosophy
Arthur Lewis Building
The University of Manchester
M13 9PL

27. Internationaler Hegel-Kongress der Internationalen Hegel-Gesellschaft
Leuven Belgien
Thema: „Geist?“
Dienstag, 9. September bis Samstag, 13. September 2008
Homepage: http://www.hegel-gesellschaft.de/sites/geist.html

Kontaktadresse:
Hegel-Konferenz 2008
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte
Kardinaal Mercierplein 2
B-3000 Leuven
Belgien
e-mail: Hegel_Conference2008@hiw.kuleuven.be
 
Geist?
 
In den gegenwärtigen wissenschaftlichen und philosophischen Diskussionen ist der umfassende Schlüsselbegriff ‚Geist’ nahezu obsolet geworden. Unter dem Einfluss der an der Alltagssprache sich orientierenden analytischen Philosophie einerseits und der methodisch an den Naturwissenschaften sich orientierenden Psychologie und der Sozialwissenschaften andererseits ist er auf das einzelne Bewusstsein oder aber auf das, was man heute ‚mind’ zu nennen pflegt, verengt worden.

In dieser Lage drängt sich die Frage auf, ob und inwiefern Hegels Begriff des Geistes in seiner Anwendung auf Psychologie, Politik, Geschichte, Kunst und Religion noch objektive Gültigkeit beanspruchen und ob er in den Diskussionen der Gegenwart noch irgendwelche Orientierung bieten kann.

Ist es sinnvoll, den Begriff des Geistes weiter zu benutzen, und wenn überhaupt, in welcher Bedeutung? Deutet die Verwendung des Terminus ‚Geist’ generell auf ein antiquiertes metaphysisches Denken hin, ein Denken, das in der hegelschen Philosophie des Geistes eine seiner letzten Gestalten gefunden hat? Kurz: Inwiefern kann die hegelsche Philosophie des Geistes noch Aktualität beanspruchen?

Im Rahmen dieser allgemeinen Fragestellung stellen sich etwa folgende speziellere Fragen, auf die der Hegel-Kongress Antworten zu finden versuchen sollte:

• Ist „Geist“ der Hauptbegriff der hegelschen Philosophie? Wie unterscheidet sich Hegels Geistphilosophie von den traditionellen metaphysischen Entwürfen, in denen Geist – ob als endlicher oder als unendlicher Geist – als eine notwendig vorauszusetzende Entität betrachtet wird?
• Ist die Natur selbst oder aber der Begriff der Natur das Andere des Geistes? Oder ist Geist selbst nur ein Epiphänomen der Natur und diese als die einzige Realität aufzufassen? Sind naturwissenschaftliche Methoden geeignet oder gar notwendig, um die mit „Geist“ bzw. anderen verwandten Termini bezeichneten Phänomene zu begreifen?
• Ist Freiheit das Wesen des Geistes oder zumindest dasjenige, wodurch Geist sich auszeichnet? Was geht verloren, wenn man nur noch menschliche Leiber und ihr Tun sowie die Aktivität von menschlichen Gehirnen als „geistige“ Realitäten anerkennt?
• Wodurch unterscheidet sich eine ‘Phänomenologie des Geistes’ im hegelschen Sinne von einer Philosophie des Geistes, wie sie heute als ‘philosophy of mind’ aktuell ist? Gelingt es einer Phänomenologie des Geistes, die naturalistischen Reduktionsversuche einer materialistischen Philosophie des Geistes zu widerlegen oder nicht?
• Wieso hat Hegel den Begriff ‚Geist’, der in seinen Jugendschriften noch unbestimmt ist und in zahlreichen verschiedenen Bedeutungen auftritt, dazu benutzt, damit das Hauptthema seiner ersten wichtigen Schrift zu bezeichnen? (Und tat er dies zurecht?)
• Wie entwickeln sich die (alte) Metaphysik des endlichen, substantiellen Geistes und die (in Ansätzen gegebene) empirische Psychologie zu einer Philosophie des subjektiven Geistes? Braucht man in einer Philosophie des Mentalen noch den Geistbegriff und insbesondere den hegelschen Geistbegriff? Sind im Begriff des Mentalen alle Ressourcen des Geistes aufgehoben? Welches sind die positive Ergebnisse einer ‘philosophy of mind’?
• Warum wird die Jenaer Philosophie der Sittlichkeit zu einer Philosophie des objektiven Geistes? Ist es heute noch möglich, eine Gemeinschaft als Substrat oder Substanz zu denken, die sich (holistisch) auf einen Geist bezieht? Oder ist jede Idee einer ihrer selbst bewussten und wissend auf sich selbst bezogenen Gesellschaft nur ein zu überwindendes metaphysisches Relikt und ein zu verabschiedendes philosophisches Hirngespinst?
• Hat der hegelsche Geistbegriff ein kritisches Potential, das mit der Soziologisierung und Ökonomisierung der teilweise immer noch ‚Geisteswissenschaften’ genannten Wissenschaftszweige verloren zu gehen droht?
• Ist die Geschichte die Tat des Weltgeistes? Gibt es sonst noch Taten und Geschichte(n) des Geistes? Oder wird der Geist von der Zeit überwunden?
  Ersetzt die Philosophie des absoluten Geistes (oder der ‚Religion überhaupt’) die ehemalige dogmatische Metaphysik oder stellt sie diese in ihren höchsten Ausprägung wieder her? Hat es noch Sinn über den Geist der Religion, der Literatur, der Malerei oder der Musik zu reden?

Wir planen Sektionen zu folgenden Themen:

• „Geist“ in Hegels Jugendschriften (und seine neuplatonische und theologische Voraussetzungen)
• Geist in Jena? Wieso führt Hegel den Begriff des Geistes erneut als umfassende Kategorie in die Philosophie ein?
• Geist in der Phänomenologie des Geistes?
• Der Begriff ‘Geist’; seine historische Voraussetzungen und seine systematische Einordnung
• Subjektiver Geist: Geist und ‚philosophy of mind’
• Objektiver Geist: Geist und politischer Holismus; Geist und Zeit, bzw. Geschichte
• Absoluter Geist: Geist und Kunst, Geist und Religion, Geist und Philosophie

Folgende Kollegen haben zur Zeit schon zugesagt, einen Vortrag zu halten:

Emilio Brito (Louvain-la-Neuve)
Michael Forster (Chicago)
Jens Halfwassen (Heidelberg)
Valentin Kanawrow (Sofia)
Anton Friedrich Koch (Tübingen)
Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer (Leipzig)

Wer sich mit einem Sektionsvortrag (20 Minuten plus 10 Minuten Diskussion) an dem Hegel-Kongress 2008 beteiligen möchte, sollte bis zum 1. Mai 2008 den genauen Titel des Vortrags sowie eine Zusammenfassung von etwa 10 Zeilen an folgende E-Mail-Adresse schicken: Hegel_conference2008@hiw.kuleuven.be. Ferner bitten wir um einen Einordnungsvorschlag in eine dem Thema des Vortrags entsprechende Sektion.

Wenn keine solche Anmeldung vorliegt, ist es uns aus Raum- und Zeitgründen nicht möglich, die aktive Teilnahme am Hegel-Kongress 2008 zu sichern.

Für das örtliche Organisationskommitee:
 
Paul Cruysberghs, Lu De Vos und Peter Jonkers

Call for papers
 14th International Philosophy Colloquium Evian
What is Second Nature? – Reason, History, Institutions
 Evian (Lake Geneva), France
July 13-19, 2008

Conference website:
http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/eviancolloquium/

Contact:
Georg W. Bertram
Freie Universitaet Berlin, Institut für Philosophie, Habelschwerdter Allee
30, D-14195 Berlin
evian@philosophie.fu-berlin.de

Human beings have always understood themselves as beings that are not (merely) natural in certain respects. They are faced for this reason with the question of how their way of life should be understood as distinct from their “first nature”. As a response to this question, there is widespread agreement that understanding the human way of life involves clarifying how it is essentially shaped through human beings’ engagement in practices, an engagement through which they also shape themselves. Familiarly, the concept of culture expresses this basic situation of being human in manifold ways. But insofar as human beings comprehend themselves as beings with a particular first nature, it is also legitimate to account for the human way of life in terms of the workings of this first nature.

It is in this theoretical context (among other things) that the invocation of the idea of “second nature” becomes interesting as a possible alternative to that of culture. For what distinguishes the idea of second nature is its insistence that the irreducibly expressive and self-constituting activities of human beings should be understood as broadly natural phenomena, not solely cultural ones. The wide variety of determinations of the concept of second nature brought forward in the course of Western thought from Aristotle through Hume and Hegel to Bourdieu and McDowell (to mention only a very small selection of thinkers), can be arguably captured in terms of the three concepts of reason, history, and institutions. But different philosophical traditions and systematic options intersect in multiple ways in the course of reflecting on the idea of second nature.

The 14th International Philosophy Colloquium Evian invites philosophers to consider and discuss these intersections in an intensive and collective way, transgressing the narrow confines of particular schools and traditions in philosophy. The passive mastery of French, German, and English (the three languages of discussion of the colloquium) is an indispensable prerequisite for its participants.

A detailed exposition of the topic and all relevant information concerning the character and history of the colloquium as well as matters of accomodation and costs can be found on our website.

Call for Papers:
We invite proposals for presentations (maximum length: one page), along with a short CV (maximum length: two pages), by April 1, 2008. Please send these documents via e-mail to the following address: evian@philosophie.fu-berlin.de

Organisation: Georg W. Bertram (Berlin), Robin Celikates (Bremen), David Lauer (Berlin) in cooperation with: Karin de Boer (Groningen), Karen Feldman (Berkeley), Jo-Jo Koo (Pittsburgh), Christophe Laudou (Madrid), Jérôme Lèbre (Paris), Diane Perpich (Clemson), Hans Bernhard Schmid (Basel), Chris Doude van Troostvijk (Strasbourg/Amsterdam).

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Dear Colleagues

After the success of last year’s section on ‘Politics and Metaphysics in Kant’ at the 4th ECPR Conference in Pisa, we are planning to put forward again a section proposal on the same theme for the 5th ECPR Conference in Postdam 10-12 September 2009.

We would like to know whether anyone would like to express at this stage an interest in suggesting a panel title, chairing a panel or giving a paper. The section proposal has to be submitted by the 15th of April 2008, and the more details we can give on the number and content of potential panels, the better our chances might be to be awarded a high number of panel slots for the conference. The previous section outline is copied below to give you some more information about the problems and questions which this section hopes to address, although at this stage we are also open to further suggestions.

Please email Kerstin at BuddeK@Cardiff.ac.uk if you think you might be interested to chair a panel, suggest a panel title or present a paper.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Howard Williams and Kerstin Budde
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Section outline 2007 ‘Politics and Metaphysics in Kant’

The past three decades have witnessed the emergence, at the forefront of political thought, of several Kantian theories. Both the critical reaction to consequentialism inspired by Rawlsian constructivism and the universalism of more recent theories informed by Habermasian discourse ethics trace their main sources of inspiration back to Kant’s writings.

Yet, much of what is Kantian in contemporary theory is formulated with more or less strict caveats concerning Kant’s metaphysics. These range from radical claims that theories of justice must be political, not metaphysical, to more cautious calls for replacing Kant’s metaphysics with a more modest ontology, for instance, one informed by the relatively recent linguistic turn in philosophy.

Given the current “legitimation crisis” of modern liberal democracies, the purpose of this section is to explore the relationship between politics and metaphysics in Kant and Kantian political philosophy, in order to revisit the question concerning the role of metaphysics in political theory.

We welcome papers on these and related issues, whether their primary focus is on Kant’s philosophy or on the relevance of Kant’s philosophy for contemporary political philosophy and theories of justice.

CALL FOR PAPERS
PHILOSOPHY OF SUBJECTIVE SPIRIT
For the Twentieth Biennial Meeting of the Hegel Society of America
Columbia, South Carolina
October 24-26, 2008
Deadline for Submission of Papers: February 15, 2008

The Hegel Society solicits papers on a variety of topics connected with the theme of Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit. Papers interpreting, or engaging in dialogue with, Hegel’s work on topics treated in Hegel’s lectures and writings on subjective spirit will be welcomed for consideration by the Program Committee. Especially welcome are papers that explore the 1827-28 lectures on the philosophy of spirit (ed. F. Hespe & B. Tuschling [Felix Meiner, 1994]), forthcoming in an English translation by Robert R. Williams (Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of Spirit 1827-8, Oxford University Press, summer 2007).

Submitted papers are limited to 6,000 words (i.e., about 23 double-spaced pages at 260 words per page). All papers will be blind reviewed by the Program Committee, under the direction of the Program Chair, and the format should be appropriate for such a review process. An abstract of 100 words, accompanied by a short list of principal texts used, must be submitted with the paper. Papers submitted must be complete essays; proposals are not acceptable. Papers accepted for the program must require no more than 40 minutes for presentation.

Fordham University offers the Quentin Lauer Travel Stipend, a $300 grant, for a young scholar whose paper is selected in this process. To qualify as a “young scholar,” the author must be a full-time or part-time M.A. or Ph.D. student at the time of the submission deadline. If more than one young scholar qualifies, the stipend will be awarded to the author of the paper judged best by the Program Committee.

Please send four hard copies and one disk copy (Word or RTF) of the materials to:

David S. Stern, Program Chair
Hamline University
MS-A1775
1536 Hewitt Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55104-1284
U.S.A.

Although papers presented at meetings of the Hegel Society of America are usually published as a collection of essays, publication cannot be guaranteed. By submitting a paper, however, the author agrees to reserve publication for the HSA Proceedings if the paper is accepted for the program, and if the program is accepted for publication.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The new KANT YEARBOOK is now accepting submissions for its first upcoming issue in 2009.

The KANT YEARBOOK is an international journal that publishes articles on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. It is the KANT YEARBOOK’s goal to intensify innovative research on Kant on the international scale. For that reason the KANT YEARBOOK prefers to publish articles in English, however also articles in German will be accepted. Each issue will be dedicated to a specific topic.

The first issue’s topic is KANT’S TELEOLOGY

All papers, historical or systematic, related to KANT’S TELEOLOGY are welcome though there is a preference for the following themes: The theory of organized beings and the concept of life (‘Critique of Judgment’, §§64-66), the antinomy of teleological judgment, the doctrine of the postulates, the final purpose, modalities (§76), intuitive understanding, archaeology of nature (§80), the problem of the two introductions, teleology in history, Kant’s teleology in German Idealism, Kant’s teleology and the theory of evolution/Darwinism, Kantian teleology and modern biology.

The KANT YEARBOOK practices double-blind review, i.e. the reviewers are not aware of the identity of a manuscript’s author, and the author is not aware of the reviewer’s identity. Submitted manuscripts must be anonymous; that is the authors’ names and references to their work capable of identifying them are not to appear in the manuscript. Detailed instructions and author guidelines will be available here.

For further information contact the editor:
dietmar.heidemann@hofstra.edu or the publisher Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York (http://www.degruyter.com/ ).

Deadline for submission is May 15, 2008.

Editor: Dietmar H. Heidemann (Hofstra University)
Editorial Board: Henry E. Allison (University of California at Davis), Karl Ameriks (Notre Dame), Gordon Brittan (Montana State University), Klaus Düsing (University of Cologne), Daniel O. Dahlstrom (Boston University), Kristina Engelhard (University of Cologne), Hannah Ginsborg (University of California at Berkeley), Michelle Grier (University of San Diego), Thomas Grundmann (University of Cologne), Paul Guyer (University of Pennsylvania), Robert Hanna (University of Colorado at Boulder), Georg Mohr (University of Bremen), Robert Stern (Sheffield University), Dieter Sturma (University of Bonn), Ken Westphal (University of Kent), Markus Willaschek (University of Frankfurt)

Publisher: De Gruyter Berlin/New York

CALL FOR PAPERS
German Philosophy since Kant
Graduate Philosophy Conference
Saturday 7 June 2008
Avenue Campus
University of Southampton,
Southampton, UK

Keynote speaker: Stephen Mulhall (University of Oxford), ‘The Meaning of the Question of Being: Wittgenstein and Heidegger Converse’

The University of Southampton’s annual one-day Graduate Conference in Philosophy will this year be devoted to issues in and arising from German-speaking philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Academic staff and research students at Southampton have active interests in Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Arendt. Contributions on any philosophers and themes that fall within the scope of the conference title are equally welcome. Papers are invited from graduate students and we are hoping to attract a wide external audience.

Deadline for submission of papers: 4 May 2008.

Papers should be not more that 3,000 words in length, suitable for a 20 minute presentation followed by discussion. Please submit papers to Professor Christopher Janaway at the address below, or preferably by email to: cjanaway@soton.ac.uk

Registration is free.

For other inquiries, please contact either Adam Dunn, agd205@soton.ac.uk or Dan Clifford, djc302@soton.ac.uk

Philosophy, School of Humanities, Avenue Campus, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BF, UK.