Philosophy of Right: Kant, Fichte, Hegel
A Conference at the University of Leipzig, 16-18 July 2018
Download the conference flyer with the full program here.
Submissions
Graduate students at the universities of Leipzig and Chicago can apply for giving one of the presentations. In order to do so, please send a paper of up to 10000 words to dawa.ometto@uni-leipzig.de (for students at Leipzig) or mathis.koschel@gmail.com (for students at Chicago). The deadline is April, 30th, 2018. Submissions will be evaluated by two committees of faculty members — one at Leipzig and one at Chicago respectively. The final decision will be made jointly by both committees. You will be informed about the acceptance of your paper by June 1st, 2018.
Contact:
Location:
Felix-Klein-Hörsaal of the Paulinum building
Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig
List of speakers
Keynote speakers:
- Katrin Flikschuh (LSE)
- Frederick Neuhouser (Columbia)
- Japa Pallikkathayil (Pittsburgh)
- Rafeeq Hasan & Martin J. Stone (Amherst & Cardozo)
Graduate student speakers:
- Michael Frey (Leipzig)
- Jenna Zhang (Chicago)
- Michael Powell (Chicago)
- Michael Kolodziej
- Robert Reimer (Leipzig)
- Andrew Beddow (Chicago)
Program (download)
Monday July 16th
10.00 Opening remarks
10.15-12.15: Rafeeq Hasan (Amherst) & Martin J. Stone (Cardozo)
“What is Provisional Right?”
Moderator: Andrea Kern (Leipzig)
12.15-14: Lunch
14-15:30: Michael Frey (Leipzig) – “Relational Subjectivity”
Moderator: Warren Wilson (Chicago)
16-17:30: Jenna Zhang (Chicago)
“Unethical Laws and Lawless Ethics: Right and Virtue in Kant’s Rechtslehre”
Moderator: Dawa Ometto (Leipzig)
Tuesday July 17th
10.00-12.00: Katrin Flikschuh (LSE) – “Kant on the Dignity of the State”
Moderator: Sebastian Rödl (Leipzig)
12.00-14.00: Lunch
14.00-15:30: Michael Powell (Chicago)
“Self-Ascription of Free Efficacy in Fichte’s Foundations of Natural Right”
Moderator: Till Hoeppner (Potsdam)
16.00-17:30: Michael Kolodziej (Chicago)
“Fichte’s Deduction of the Body as Ground of Right”
Moderator: Bianca Ancillotti (HU Berlin)
Wednesday July 18th
9:30-11:30 Japa Pallikkathayil (Pittsburgh)
“A Kantian Account of Free Speech”
Moderator: Matthias Haase (Chicago)
11:30-13:30 Lunch 15:15-16:45
13:30-15:00 Andrew Beddow (Chicago)
“Kant on Property and Territory”
Moderator: Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer (Leipzig)
15:15-16:45 Robert Reimer (Leipzig)
“Hegel on Intention”
Moderator: Eric Marcus (Chicago)
17.00-19.00: Frederick Neuhouser (Barnard-Columbia)
“The Dialectic of Freedom as Method in the ‘Philosophy of Right‘”
Moderator: James Conant (Leipzig/Chicago)
Dates:
16-18 July 2018
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