Online Leuven Seminar in Classical German Philosophy: Program Fall 2024

Online Leuven Seminar in Classical German Philosophy: Program Fall 2024

We are very pleased to announce the new program of our online seminar series.

Unless otherwise noted the sessions take place on Thursdays, 5.00-6.30 pm CET. For more details, including abstracts, and to register for the Zoom link, please visit https://hiw.kuleuven.be/cmprpc/events/leuvenseminarinclassicalgermanphilosophy/index.html

Email: classicalgermanphilosophy@kuleuven.be

Events are recorded and made available on YouTube. See https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCnH9a9ss3qR48yMNkTPAVA?

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Karin de Boer, Luis Garcia, Manuel Tangorra, and Pierpaolo Betti

September 26

Discussion based on pre-circulated paper: Hegel’s Philosophy of Right and the Idea of the World: Dialectic’s “Political Cosmology”

Angelica Nuzzo (Brooklyn College/CUNY)

Respondent:  Charlotte Baumann (FernUniversität Hagen)

October 10, 5-7 pm     

Book Launch: Fichte in the Americas, edited byMaría Jimena Solé and Elizabeth Millán Brusslan (Brill 2023)

October 31

Rereading Kant’s Theory of Incentives: C. C. E. Schmid's Turn to Empirical Psychology

Manja Kisner (Radboud University)

Respondent: David James (University of Warwick)

November 14, 5-7 pm

Two talks and a discussion on Kant and Herder:

The philosophy of life: Herder, Kant, and the cognitive scientific theory of enactivism

Nigel de Sousa (University of Ottawa)

The Herder-Kant Debate on Reason and Purposes Revisited

Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern University)

November 21  

Discussion based on pre-circulated paper: The German Scholastic Tradition and Kant’s Concept of Purposiveness

Nabeel Hamid (Concordia University, Montréal)

Respondent: Courtney Fugate (Florida State University)