The Humboldt Seminar
Program: Winter 2021
Meetings take place in: GWZ 2116, from: 11:00-13:00 (s.t.)
Dates: November 1 / November 15 / November 29 / December 13
Format
In the Winter of 2021, the Humboldt Seminar will take the form of an in-depth book discussion.
Readings
Suggested readings for the seminar are distributed to registered participants through our mailing list. For more details, please contact jonas.held [at] uni-leipzig.de .
Program: Winter 2020
Meetings take place from 15:00-17:00 (s.t.)
November 9 – Alec Hinshelwood
TBA
November 16 – Gilad Nir
TBA
November 23 – Joris Spigt
Hegel and the Principle of (Non-)Contradiction
November 30 – Dawa Ometto
TBA
January 11 – Martijn Wallage
Human Names
January 18 – Jonas Held (with Gilad Nir)
TBA
January 25 – Andrew Stephenson
TBA
February 1 – Bianca Ancillotti
quotes and reflections on the topic of productive imagination
February 8 – Dawa Ometto
TBA
Format
This series of seminars will take place online due to the covid-pandemic.
The first 45 minutes of each meeting will be devoted to presenting the papers; the rest of the time will be devoted to discussion.
Readings
Suggested readings for the seminar are distributed to registered participants through our mailing list. For more details, please contact gilad.nir [at] uni-leipzig.de .
Program: Winter 2019
Meetings take place in: GWZ 2116, from 11:00-13:00 (s.t.)
October 21 – Bianca Ancillotti
Elements of Kantian Two-Dimensionality
November 4 – Gilad Nir
Philosophical Riddles and Ethical Transformations
November 18 – Wolfram Gobsch
Autonomy and radical evil: a Kantian challenge to constitutivism
November 25 – Sabrina Bauer
Kant’s Epistemological Distinction between Appearances and Things in Themselves
December 2 – Jonas Held
Dealing with the Tortoise: How can logic be normative?
December 9 – Dawa Ometto
Anscombe, Causality and Determinism
January 6 – Alec Hinshelwood
On Practical Thought
January 13 – Vanessa Carr
The Significance of Transitive Action Verbs
January 20 – Joris Spigt
Skepticism as the Negative Side of Philosophy: Hegel’s Early Skepticism Essay
Format
The first 45 minutes of each meeting will be devoted to presenting the papers; the rest of the time will be devoted to discussion.
Readings
Suggested readings for the seminar are distributed to registered participants through our mailing list. For more details, please contact gilad.nir [at] uni-leipzig.de .
Program: Winter 2018
Meetings will take place in the GWZ, room 2116, from 11am-1pm
29.10 Alec Hinshelwood: “Making Do With Events”
5.11 Vanessa Carr: “No Objection to Object Causation”
19.11 Dawa Ometto: “The Factivity of Practical Knowledge”
26.11 Bianca Ancillotti: “How to Become a Transcendental Idealist”
3.12 Martijn Wallage: “Am I Anonymous?”
10.12 Gilad Nir: “The Tractarian Account of Inference”
7.1 Jonas Held: “Kant on Syllogistic Reasoning”
Format
Readings
The reasings for the seminar are distributed to registered participants through our mailing list. For more details, please contact gilad.nir [at] uni-leipzig.de .