Workshop: A Philosophical History of the ConceptWorkshop, 7–9 June 2023

7. Juni 2023

A Philosophical History of the Concept

This workshop is about the history of the concept of concept, in the course of which it became increasingly significant: while the concept of concept was originally introduced (at least) in (Western) philosophy to describe certain outcomes of understanding, it ended up in determining whole metaphysical and epistemological world-views, which take reality (or at least some aspects of it) to be constituted by or dependent on our concepts. Indeed, the concept of concept was even conceived of as the proper object of philosophical investigation, both in the analytic and continental traditions.

The present workshop will bring together international scholars who will shed light on different episodes of the history of the concept of concept from Antiquity until the present in both the Western and non-Western tradition alike. The papers discussed at this workshop will be published in a collective volume at Cambridge University Press.

Organized by Stephan Schmid (Hamburg) and Hamid Taieb (HU Berlin)

Participants

Gábor Betegh (Cambridge)
Margaret Cameron (Melbourne)
Taylor Carman (Columbia)
Victor Caston (Michigan)
Monima Chadha (Monash)
Riccardo Chiaradonna (Roma Tre)
Graciela T. De Pierris (Stanford)
Nicolas de Warren (Penn State)
Gary Ebbs (Bloomington)
Hans-Johann Glock (Zurich)
Jari Kaukua (Jyväskylä)
Catherine Legg (Deakin)
Huaping Lu-Adler (Georgetown)
Jennifer S. Marušić (Edinburgh)
Franklin Perkins (Hawaii)
Sarah Sawyer (Sussex)
Stephan Schmid (Hamburg)
Dimitry Shevchenko (Ashoka)
Henry Somers-Hall (Royal Holloway)
Hamid Taieb (HU Berlin)
Mark Textor (KCL)
Voula Tsouna (UC Santa Barbara)

Venue:
Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies
Jungiusstraße 11c, Room C319 (3rd Floor)
20355 Hamburg

Program

Wednesday, 7 June

9:45  Welcoming words by the editors

10:00-10:45  Monima Chadha (Monash; online): Concepts in Ancient Buddhist Philosophy

Break

11:00-11:45  Victor Caston (Michigan): Concepts in Classical Greece

Break

14:15-15:00  Riccardo Chiaradonna (Roma Tre; online): Concepts in Greek Philosophy: Late Antiquity

15:00-15:45  Franklin Perkins (Hawaii; online): Concepts in Ancient Chinese Philosophy

Break

16:00-16:45  Jari Kaukua (Jyväskylä): Concepts in Islamic Philosophy

16:45-17:30  Stephan Schmid (Hamburg): Concepts in the Late Scholastic and Cartesian Tradition

Break

18:00-18:45  Graciela T. De Pierris (Stanford; online): The Leibnizean Alternative: Logical-Conceptual versus Presentational Models

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Thursday, 8 June

10:00-10:45  Margaret Cameron (Melbourne; online): Concepts in Latin Philosophy of the Middle Ages

Break

11:00-11:45  Jennifer S. Marušić (Edinburgh): Concepts in the British Empiricist Tradition

Break

14:15-15:00  Huaping Lu-Adler (Georgetown): Kant on (Scientific) Concepts

15:00-15:45  Nicolas de Warren (Penn State; online): Concept, Value, and World: Neo-Kantianism, Dilthey, and Nietzsche

Break

16:00-16:45  Hamid Taieb (HU Berlin): Concepts in the School of Brentano, Husserl, and Early Phenomenology

16:45-17:30  Mark Textor (KCL): Two Concepts of Concepts in Early Analytic Philosophy

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Friday, 9 June

9:15-10:00  Catherine Legg (Deakin): Concepts and Pragmatism (Dewey, Peirce, James)

10:00-10:45  Hans-Johann Glock (Zurich; online): Concepts, Meaning and Use: Wittgenstein and his Legacy

Break

11:00-11:45  Taylor Carman (Columbia): Concepts and Conceptuality in Heidegger, Gadamer, and Derrida

11:45-12:30  Henry Somers-Hall (Royal Holloway): Poststructuralist Approaches to the Concept

Break

14:15-15:00  Gary Ebbs (Bloomington) : On Sameness of Concepts Across Time: Philosophical Theories of Concepts from 1945–2020

15:00-15:45  Sarah Sawyer (Sussex): Concepts and Conceptual Engineering

Break

16:00-17:30  Concluding discussion

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The workshop is designed as a pre-read and hybrid event. Attendance is free, but registration is requested.

In order to register for the conference and to receive further information about the conference (such as its zoom-link), please contact

katharina.langenbach"AT"studium.uni-hamburg.de