Recent Conferences

Perspectives on the Lekton: A Conference on Contemporary Work on Mental Representation and Context in Semantics, Philosophy of Mind, and Epistemology

This conference brings together philosophers and linguists to debate contemporary issues concerning contextualism and relativism in semantics, the philosophy of mind, and epistemology. Topics will include the explanation of genuine disagreement, the semantics of predicates of personal taste, the context-dependence of thought, and the role of egocentric perspective.

Featuring talks by François Recanati (CNRS, Paris), Pranav Anand (UCSC), Michael Glanzberg (UC Davis), Peter Lasersohn (UIUC) and John McFarlane (UC Berkeley)

November 12 - 13, 2009

The Franke Institute

Conference Coordinators: Josef Stern and Chris Kennedy

Website: http://lucian.uchicago.edu/workshops/semantics/perspectival-thought/

KANT'S 5 QUESTIONS: A Symposium

November 12 – 13, 2009
The Institute for the Humanities,
Lower Level Stevenson Hall, 701 S. Morgan Street, UIC.
This conference is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is encouraged, at huminst@uic.edu or the conference website: www.uic.edu/depts/huminst/conferences

 

The Darwin Celebration at University of Chicago

A conference celebrating 200th Anniversary of Charles Darwin's Birth, 150th Anniversary of the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection and the 50th Anniversary of the Darwin Centennial Celebration held at the University of Chicago in 1959.

Thursday, October 29 – Saturday, October 31, 2009

Website: http://darwin-chicago.uchicago.edu

Conference Coordinator: Robert J. Richards, Fishbein Center for the History of Science

Conference Administrator: Rachel Feinmark, rfeinmark@uchicago.edu

 

Rethinking the Genealogy of Morals

October 2 and 3, 2009

The University of Chicago Law School

Speakers:  Dan Batson, Agnes Callard, Michael Forster, Peter Kail, Robin Kar, John Mikhail, Martha Nussbaum, Jesse Prinz, Robert Richards

Contact: Brian Leiter, John P. Wilson Prof. of Law and Dir., Ctr. for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values

Website: http://www.law.uchicago.edu/genealogyofmorals

IMAGO DEI: Made in the Image and Likeness of God

A Philosophy Conference presented by The Lumen Christi Institute and The Committee on Social Thought

Saturday, October 10, 9:30 am – 5:00 pm
Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall

Contact: Ursula Pawlowski

Website: www.lumenchristi.org

 

Philosophy of Physics Work in Progress Mini-Conference

Thursday, August 20

Social Science Tea Room

10:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Conference Coordinator: Kevin Davey

 

3rd Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

May 30, 2009

Faculty Coordinator: Michael Kremer

Moderator: Ted Cohen

 

Shakespeare and the Law

May 15th and 16th, 2009 

The University of Chicago Law School

This interdisciplinary conference will bring together thinkers from law, literature, and philosophy to investigate the legal dimensions of Shakespeare's plays.   Participants will explore the ways in which the plays show awareness of law and legal regimes and comment on a variety of legal topics, ranging from general themes, such as mercy and the rule of law, to highly concrete legal issues of his time.  Other papers will investigate the subsequent influence of his plays on the law and explore more general issues concerning the relationship between law and literature.

Organized by:
Martha Nussbaum, Judge Richard Posner, Richard Strier

Website: http://www.law.uchicago.edu/shakespeareandthelaw

 

Midwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

May 2-3, 2009

This seminar is generously supported by the Franke Institute, the Philosophy Department, and the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. 

Organizing Committee: Daniel Garber (Princeton University), Lea Schweitz (Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago), Mogens Lærke (University of Chicago)

 

Anscombe's Intention

A two-day Lipkind Conference in honor of the 50th Anniversary of Intention, by G.E.M. Anscombe. April 24 - 25, 2009.

Website: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/blogs/anscombe/

Faculty contact: Anton Ford

Graduate student coordinator: Charles Todd

 

Nietzsche: Style and Thought - A Colloquium

February 8 - 9, 2008

Sponsors: The Mellon Distinguished Scholar Award, The Center For Interdisciplinary Studies on German Literature and Culture, The Department of Philosophy

Website: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/blogs/nietzsche/

 

Chicago Consortium in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Biennial Conference: Beauty, Harmony, and the Good

October 3-4, 2008
Northwestern University, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, University of Chicago

Website: http://www.uic.edu/orgs/ancientphilosophy/conf2008.html

 

Franke Institute for the Humanities Sawyer Seminar Conference: “The Problem of Non-Discursive Thought from Goethe to Wittgenstein”

Oct. 6 - 8, 2006
Swift Hall, 1025 East 58th St.

The conference is the opening event of a yearlong Sawyer Seminar at the University that will investigate the problem of non-discursive thought as it arose in German philosophy, literature and science in reaction to Kant. The conference will explore both early formulations of the problem in Goethe, Hegel and other post-Kantians, and later re-incarnations in the work of Wittgenstein, Benjamin and some of their contemporaries.