Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Consortium Events

Table of Consortium Events
Date & Time Event Location
October 9th
4:00-6:00 p.m.		 Rolf-Peter Horstmann, "The Metaphysics of the Self: Hegel's Metaphysical Conception of Self-Consciousness"

Northwestern University
Kresge Hall 2-345
     
November 12th-13th Conference: "Kant's 5 Questions" University of Illinois Chicago
Nov. 12, 1-6pm

12:00 p.m. Coffee
12:45 p.m.  Welcome and Introduction
Mary Beth Rose, Director, Institute for the Humanities, UIC
Samuel Fleischacker, Philosophy Department, UIC

1:00 p.m.
Michelle Grier, University of San Diego
What can I know?

2:30 p.m.
Julian Wuerth, Vanderbilt University
What should I do?

4:00 p.m.
Andrew Chignell, Cornell University
What may I hope for?

Reception to follow directly

 The Institute for the Humanities
Lower Level, Stevenson Hall
701 South Morgan, MC 206
On the EAST side of the UIC campus
CAMPUS MAP
Nov. 13th,9 am-12:15 pm 9:00 a.m. Coffee

9:30 a.m.
Patrick Frierson, Whitman College
What is the human being?

11:00 a.m.
Sam Fleischacker, University of Illinois at Chicago
What is enlightenment? 		 
 

 

  
  For further information, contact Samuel Fleischacker  

Other Events

Table of Events in the Chicago Area
Date & Time Event Location
September 14th Rachel Zuckert (title of talk TBA) UIC, University Hall,
14th floor
     
September 25th-27th Conference on the Philosophy of Leibniz and Kant
Joint Meeting of the Leibniz Society of North America and the North American Kant Society		 University of Kentucky, Bingham-Davis House (218 E. Maxwell St.), Lexington, KY
September 25th 3:30  Welcome
3:45  Donald Rutherford (UC-San Diego): "Exercises in Amphiboly"
5:15  Martha Brandt Bolton (Rutgers): "Leibniz and the Fallacy of Amphiboly"		  
September 26th 9:00  Nick Stang (Miami): "The Phenomenalisms of Leibniz and Kant"
10:15  Anja Jauernig (Notre Dame): "Kant and Leibniz on Sensible and Intellectual Representations"
11:45  Alison Laywine (McGill): "Leibniz and the Transcendental Deduction"
3:00  Ursula Goldenbaum (Emory): "The Bathos of Experience: Kant's Move from Locke to Leibniz malgré lui within the Battle of Pre-established Harmony vs. Influxus physicus
 4:30  Patrick Kain (Purdue): "The Development of Kant's Conception of Divine Freedom"
5:45  Leibniz Society Business Meeting		  
September 27th 9:00  Brandon Look (Kentucky): "Logic, Analyticity and Truth from Leibniz to Kant"
10:150  Des Hogan (Princeton): "Mathematical Inference in Kant"
11:45  Eric Watkins (UC-San Diego): “Kant, Crusius, and the Notion of Existence”		  
     
October 2nd-3rd 10:00am-6:00pm each day "Rethinking the Genealogy of Morals" Faculty Workshop Room (2nd floor, library), University of Chicago Law School
October 2nd Sessions on October 2 will consider three major historical sources for the project of a genealogy of morals:   Hume, Nietzsche, and Darwin. Speakers will be Michael N. Forster, Peter Kail, and Robert J. Richards (commentators to be announced).  
October 3rd

Sessions on October 3 will look at contemporary approaches to the genealogy of morals, drawing on work in anthropology, psychology, and cognitive science quite generally.
Speakers will be Daniel Batson, John Mikhail, and Jesse Prinz, with commentaries by Agnes Callard, Robin Kar, and Martha Nussbaum.

  
  Note: Space is limited, so if you are interested in attending, please contact Professor Brian Leiter, bleiter@uchicago.edu, right away.  
     
October 28th
4:00 pm		 Michael Forster (title of talk TBA) Notre Dame
TBA
November 13th
3:00 pm		 Michael Rosen, "Freedom in German Idealism" Notre Dame
220 Malloy Hall
January 15th
3:00 pm		 Paul Guyer (title of talk TBA) Notre Dame
220 Malloy Hall