Willem deVries and James R. O’Shea will hold a four-week NEH Summer Seminar (19 June – 19 July) at UNH on ‘After Empiricism: Kant, Hegel, and Sellars’
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The application deadline is two weeks away (March 1st)! The application mainly just requires a CV and a couple of pages expressing your research and teaching interest in attending this seminar: full details are available at https://mypages.unh.edu/
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There is a stipend of $3,300 for living expenses, and of course New Hamphire is a wonderful place to be in the summer. Participants will come from a wide variety of research and teachings backgrounds, all of us sharing an interest in exploring central arguments of these and more recent, related thinkers in depth. After the morning seminars 9–12pm, the afternoons will generally be free for reading, reflection, discussion, and exploring.
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“Description: 18th century empiricism evoked a radical response from Kant and Hegel, the German Idealists, emphasizing the agency involved in knowledge and experience. 20th century empiricism evoked a parallel response from Wilfrid Sellars that has left its mark on contemporary philosophy. Juxtaposing readings from historical and contemporary sources, the central issues in this seminar concern the nature of mind and of sensory experience, the concepts used to make sense of them, the possibility of radical conceptual change, the role of the empirical sciences in ontology, and the sources of the normativity essential to human agency. Participants will also present their work in progress to the group for discussion.
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When: June 19, 2019 – July 19, 2019
Where: University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Application Deadline: March 1, 2019
Acceptance Notifications: March 29, 2019
Stipend: $3,330
Where: University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Application Deadline: March 1, 2019
Acceptance Notifications: March 29, 2019
Stipend: $3,330