September 2023 at St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Conference Programme
Wednesday, 6 September:
4.30: Conference registration
5.30-7.00: Karen Ng (Vanderbilt University): “Self-Consciousness as Species-Consciousness”.
Chair: Jessica Leech, Pontigny Room
7.30: Dinner
Thursday, 7 September:
9.30-11.00: Parallel sessions.
Session 1: Chair: Christoph Schuringa, Old Dining Hall
Jensen Suther (Harvard University): “The Concept of Rational Life in Hegel and Marx”.
Kobe Keymeulen / Iben Bollaert (Ghent University): “The Supreme and Ultimate Purpose of Science. On the Teleology and Immanency of Hegel’s Logic”.
Session 2: Chair: John Callanan, Pontigny Room
Stephen Howard (KU Leuven): “Kant on the regulative use of the cosmological ideas for the investigation of nature”.
Mathis Koschel (University of Southern California): “The Essential Open-Endedness of Nature”.
Coffee break
11.30-1.00: Joe Saunders (University of Durham): “Freedom in Kant: A Practical Critique”.
Chair: Jonathan Head, Pontigny Room
1.00 Lunch
2.00-3.30: Parallel sessions.
Session 3: Chair: Richard Bell, Old Dining Hall
Lorenzo Sala (Universität Trier): “In what sense does Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature proceed entirely a priori?”
George Webster (University of Oxford): “Hegel and Quantum Gravity”.
Session 4: Chair: Martin Sticker, Pontigny Room
Matthew King (University of Bristol): “Kant and Crimes against Nature”.
Michael Walschots (Martin Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg): “Kant on Moral Impossibility”.
Coffee break
4.00-5.30: Julia Peters (Universität Heidelberg): “Hegel and Kant on human natural drives and inclinations”. Chair: Eliza Starbuck Little, Pontigny Room
6.00-7.00: HSGB AGM, Old Dining Hall / UKKS AGM, Pontigny Room
7.30: Dinner
Friday, 8 September:
9.30-11.00: Parallel sessions.
Session 5: Chair: Andrew Jones, Old Dining Hall
John Callanan (King’s College London): “Thinking of Things in Themselves”.
Ahilleas Rokni (University of Warwick): “The Contingency of Nature: A Refutation”.
Session 6: Chair: Susanne Herrmann-Sinai, Pontigny Room
Simone Nota (Trinity College Dublin): “Kant the Naturalist?”
Connie Wang (Columbia University): “Seele as Nature Which Has Sublated Itself: Hegel’s Conception of the Soul in Light of the Transition Between Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature and Anthropology”.
Coffee break
11.30-1.00: Parallel sessions.
Session 7: Chair: Sebastian Stein, Old Dining Hall
Lorenzo Spagnesi (Universität Trier): “Natures and Essentialism in Kant”.
Achim Wamssler (Freie Universität Berlin): “Hegel on the Problem of Nature’s Diversity”.
Session 8: Chair: Jan Derry, Pontigny Room
Martin Sticker (University of Bristol): “Kant on Being a Useful Member of the World and Universal Basic Income”.
Tatiana Llaguno Nieves (University of Groningen): “Environmental Exhaustion as Bad Infinity: A Hegelian Approach to Sustainability and Freedom”.
1.00 Lunch
2.00-3.30: Peter Dews (University of Essex): “Nature, Potentiality and Freedom in Hegel and Schelling”. Chair: Stephen Houlgate, Pontigny Room
3.30 Conference ends
This conference is generously supported by the British Society for the History of Philosophy and the Aristotelian Society.