On Friday, April 5th Matthias Haase from the University of Chicago will give a talk entitled: Knowing by Doing The talk will take place from 10:30am to 12:20pm in Wieboldt 408. For more details click here.
On Friday, April 5th Matthew Boyle from the University of Chicago will give a talk entitled: Armchair Psychology Defended The talk will take place from 3:00pm to 5:20pm in Wieboldt 408. For more details click here.
Prof. Vicki Spencer (University of New Zealand) will workshop her paper "Herder and Relativism" next Monday, April 8, 1-3 p.m. at Northwestern University, Kresge Hall 3-438. If you are interested in attending this workshop, please send an email to haoliang2014@u.northwestern.edu in order to receive the paper.
On April 8th from 4 to 6 pm, Allen Wood from Indiana University, Bloomington will give a talk at the Law and Philosophy Workshop entitled: Marx and Kant on Capitalist Exploitation The talk will take place in Room F of Laird Bell Law Quadrangle, 1111 East 60th Street.
Hegel’s Kantian Logic of Purposiveness: Reframing the Point of Transition from Critical to Absolute Idealism . Gerad Gentry (Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy of Law, Lewis University; Associate to Germanic Studies, University of Chicago) . Literature and Philosophy Workshop . The University of Chicago 5pm April 11th (Foster 505) . In this paper, I argue that Hegel adopts Kant’s […]
Moishe Postone, who died in March of last year, was a preeminent interpreter of Marx’s critical theory, a thinker of international renown, and a major intellectual presence at the University of Chicago, where he was the Thomas E. Donnelley Professor in the History Department and the College. Sponsored by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, […]
On April 12th, 2019 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM our very own Lawrence Dallman will give a talk at the Theoretical Philosophy Workshop entitled: Myths and Models in Sellars The talk will take place in Social Sciences 302.
On Friday, April 12th Michael Kolodziej from the University of Chicago will give a talk entitled: Kant’s Functions of Relation as Ways of Subordinating The talk will take place from 3:00pm to 5:20pm in Wieboldt 408. For more details click here.
please be warmly invited to the first and only screening outside of Germany of Hans Blumenberg—Der unsichtbare Philosoph (2018) accompanied by a discussion with Prof. Robert B. Pippin and Prof. David E. Wellbery. on April 12, 7.30 pm Logan Center 201 This new documentary explores the life and thought of philosopher, historian, and […]
Mat Messerschmidt (PhD student, Committee on Social Thought), “‘A Higher History than Any History Hitherto’: Nietzsche’s Death of God and the Future of Historical Interpretation” (Foster 305) The death of God is a transformative moment in history for Nietzsche, as it is the death of a certain kind of sense-making of the world. My intention here […]
On Friday, April 19th Christopher Lebron from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore will give a talk entitled: The Sense and Sensibility of Equality The talk will take place from 10:30am to 12:20pm in Wieboldt 408. For more details click here.
On Friday, May 10th Ryan Simonelli from the University of Chicago will give a talk entitled: Frege and the Logical Act of Judgment The talk will take place from 3:00pm to 5:20pm in Wieboldt 408. For more details click here.
This is the second iteration of an annual workshop on Goethe organized and led by Joel Lande (Princeton), Dorothea von Mücke (Columbia), and David Wellbery (Chicago). Participating are graduate students from the three institutions. In each case, a particular text by Goethe is discussed. Prior meetings have addressed Faust I (New York, 2017) and Hermann […]
HUTOPIA I: "Wittgenstein’s Hut" A discussion about the meaning of the hut for Wittgenstein and his philosophy. Professor Ray Monk (University of Southampton, UK) is the author of *Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius* and James Conant. Philosophy professor Jim Conant will open the question period. Please click here for more information. Please click here […]
On Friday, April 26th Rory O'Connell from the University of Chicago will give a talk entitled: Productive Knowledge The talk will take place from 3:00pm to 5:20pm in Wieboldt 408. For more details click here.