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.
Registration
To register for the conference:
- please complete the registration form that can be downloaded here, and submit as instructed on the form: HSGB_registration_2023
- pay for registration either using PayPal below, or by sending in a cheque with the registration form
If you pay by PayPal, please make sure to submit a registration form too, as we will otherwise not have a record of your preferences (including your dietary preferences).
Please note that the number of en-suite rooms is limited, so if you want one of these, please check availability before registering, by contacting Sebastian Stein (sebastian.stein@oxon.org). The deadline for registration is 14 August 2023.
Childcare
This conference is generously supported by the British Society for the History of Philosophy, which includes up to £500 to support attendees with parenting responsibilities. Please email andrew.j.cooper@warwick.ac.uk if you would like to apply for a childcare bursary.
Graduate Bursaries
There are several small graduate student/unsupported early career researcher bursaries available to defray some of the travel and conference costs. If you would like to be considered, please send a brief paragraph outlining the (un)availability of institutional support to andrew.j.cooper@warwick.ac.uk by Wednesday 9 August.
Payment
| Standard (Non-en-suite) single room Bed & Breakfast, Wed 6th Sept @ £60. | |
| Standard (Non-en-suite) single room Bed & Breakfast, Thurs 7th Sept @ £60.00 | |
| Single en-suite room Bed & Breakfast, Wed 6th Sept @ £75.00 | |
| Single en-suite room Bed & Breakfast, Thurs 7th Sept @ £75.00 | |
| Twin En-suite Bed & Breakfast, Wed 6th Sept @ £105.00 | |
| Twin En-suite Bed & Breakfast, Thurs 7th Sept @ £105.00 | |
| Dinner, Wed 6th Sept (w/o wine) @ £28.00 | |
| Dinner, Thurs 7th Sept (w/o wine) @ £28.00 | |
| Lunch, Thurs 7th Sept @ £21.00 | |
| Lunch, Fri 8th Sept @ £21.00 | |
| Tea/coffee, morning Thurs 7th Sept @ £3.50 | |
| Tea/coffee, afternoon Thurs 7th Sept @ £3.50 | |
| Tea/coffee, Fri 8th Sept @ £3.50 |