Tagungen & Workshops

7. – 9. Februar; ESA W 221

Belief in Context

SprecherInnen:

Hannes Leitgeb (München)
Roger Clarke (Belfast)
Jennifer Nagel (Toronto)
Peter Baumann (Swarthmore)
Liz Jackson (Notre Dame)
Katalin Farkas (CEU)
Andrew Moon (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Orin Percus (Nantes)

Weitere Informationen unter https://thesmcsl.wordpress.com/events/ und https://knowledgeanddecisions.wordpress.com/events/

Workshop

Early Modern Conceptions of Freedom, Rationality and Practical Reasons

Wann: Mi, 27.02.19, 14: 00 Uhr bis Do, 28.02.19, 15: 00 Uhr
Wo: Universität Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 8, 20146 Hamburg, Raum 08.

It is essential for our self-understanding to conceive of ourselves not only as rational, but also as free agents. As a matter of fact, it is far more controversial what “free” exactly means in this context than what it means to act “rationally”. According to the voluntarist (the predecessor of the libertarian), the possibility of acting freely presupposes a “real” choice between alternative ways of acting in every situation, whereas for the rationalist such as Leibniz, acting freely just means to act free from non-rational factors and on the sole basis of insight into the best reason. If acting for a reason is a minimal condition for acting rationally, then questions such as the following arise: What makes a reason a good one? What kinds of practical reasons (moral, rational) are to be distinguished? And how are free, rational and moral action compatible after all? The goal of the workshop is to investigate some of the central early modern positions with respect to how they conceive of the relation between freedom, rationality and morality of actions, focusing on conceptions of obligation, the (morally) right and good and others.

Programme:

• February 27th
  • 13:30 coffee
  • 14:00 Ariane Schneck (Bielefeld): The Two-Component Model of Cartesian Freedom
  • 15:30 Ulrich Steinvorth (Hamburg): The Working of the Brain and Free Will in Descartes and Later Authors
  • 17:00  Katerina Deligiorgi (Sussex): Best of All Possible Worlds, Modality, Freedom
  • 19:00 dinner
• February 28th
  • 09:00 Katerina Mihaylova (Halle): Physical vs. Moral Affection of the Free Will: Pufendorf on Rationality as an Essential Condition for Intersubjectivity
  • 10:30 Sonja Schierbaum (Hamburg): How Many Kinds? – Wolff and Crusius on Practical Reasons
  • 12:00 lunch break
  • 13:30 Fiorella Tommasini (Halle/Erfurt): Kant and the natural law tradition
  • 15:00 end of workshop

Kontakt: Sonja.Schierbaum"AT"uni-hamburg.de

Organisation: DFG-Projekt “Handeln: Zwischen Freiheit und Rationalität – Leibniz, Crusius und der Satz vom zureichenden Grund”
(PI: Sonja Schierbaum)

Der Mensch und das Absolute bei Spinoza
Eine Tagung in Anknüpfung an Wolfgang Bartuschats Spinoza-Lektüren

(15. März 2019, Universität Hamburg, ESA West Raum 221)

• 14:00 Uhr Begrüßung und Einführung (Stephan Schmid und Birgit Recki)
• 14:30-16:00 Ursula Renz (Klagenfurt) „Mensch und menschliche Lebensform in Spinozas Philosophie“
• 16:00-16:30 Pause
• 16:30-18:00 Martin Saar (Frankfurt) „Nichterpresste Versöhnung. Das Einzelne und das Ganze in Metaphysik und Politik“
• 18:00 Ende der Tagung

Die Tagung ist öffentlich und kostenlos.
Interessierte registrieren sich bitte bei stephan.schmid@uni-hamburg.de(_stephan.schmid"AT"uni-hamburg.de)

Organisation: Stephan Schmid, Universität Hamburg

Internationale Konferenz:

The Principle of Sufficient Reason in the History of Philosophy

Wann: Di, 12.03.19 – Do, 14.03.19

Wo: Universität Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 8, 20146 Hamburg, Raum 106

According to the principle of sufficient reason (PSR for short), or at least to one version of it, everything must have a reason. Depending on the interpretation of each of the principle’s essential components, this is a bold and controversial claim. In the history of philosophy, the PSR has its friends and foes. For rationalists such as Leibniz, it guarantees the intelligibility of the world, whereas for voluntarists, it poses a threat to the possibility of acting with free will.

The conference aims at discussing a wide range of topics related to the foundation, justification, scope and applications of the PSR (or kindred principles) in the history of philosophy, that is, in the ancient, medieval and early modern period – and beyond.

Dem Prinzip des zureichenden Grundes zufolge muß alles einen Grund haben. Dies ist eine kontroverse Behauptung, auch wenn jedes der wesentlichen Bestandteile des Prinzips der Interpretation bedarf. In der Geschichte der Philosophie hat das Prinzip seine Gegner und Befürworter. Für Rationalisten wie Leibniz garantiert es die Intelligibilität der Welt, für Voluntaristen hingegen stellt es eine Bedrohung für die Möglichkeit dar, mit freiem Willen zu handeln. Die Konferenz zielt auf eine Vielfalt von Themen zu Begründung, Rechtfertigung, Reichweite und Anwendungen des Prinzips (und damit verwandter Prinzipien) in der Geschichte der Philosophie von der Antike bis zur frühen Neuzeit und darüber hinaus.

Speakers:

• Sebastian Bender (Berlin)
• Omri Boehm (New York)
• Richard Cross (Notre Dame)
• Michael della Rocca (Yale, New Haven)
• Jari Kaukua (Jyväskylä)
• Robert Hanna (Boulder, Independent Scholar)
• John Marenbon (Cambridge)
• Yitzak Melamed (Baltimore)
• JT Paasch (Washington)
• Stephan Schmid (Hamburg)
• Benjamin Schnieder (Hamburg)
• Mikko Yrjönsuuri (Jyväsklyä)

Organisation:
DFG-Projekt "Fundierung und ontologische Abhängigkeit in der spätmittelalterlichen Philosophie" (PI: Magali Roques)

DFG-Projekt “Handeln: Zwischen Freiheit und Rationalität – Leibniz, Crusius und der Satz vom zureichenden Grund” (PI: Sonja Schierbaum)

 Kontakt:
magali.roques@uni-hamburg.de

Sonja.Schierbaum@uni-hamburg.de

Mitglieder des Philosophischen Seminars sind herzlich willkommen teilzunehmen. Bitte senden Sie in diesem Fall eine Nachricht an eine der Kontaktpersonen.

18.-20. Juli 2019

Agency, Past and Future

We feel that there is a fundamental difference between the past and the future. The past seems to us fixed and settled, whereas the future is open and up for grabs. This sense of an asymmetry grips us most strongly in our capacity as agents: we think of ourselves as capable of settling how thing ago in the future, whereas the past is something we have to come to terms with and accept. How should we understand this phenomenon? Is there an absolute metaphysical difference between the past and future, or is any apparent difference rather a product of our perspective as agents? How, if at all, does our sense of the difference between past and future relate to the directionality of causation, and to our status as causal beings? And how does this asymmetry structure practical rationality and deliberation? This conference aims to bring together a variety of approaches to these questions, uniting common themes from the history of philosophy, the philosophy of time and causation, and the philosophy of action.

Speakers:
Simona Aimar (UCL)
Julian Bacharach (UCL)
Alison Fernandes (Trinity College Dublin)
Florian Fischer (Bonn/Siegen)
Jennifer Hornsby (Birkbeck)
Julia Jorati (Ohio)
Roberto Loss (Hamburg)
Erasmus Mayr (Nürnberg-Erlagen)
Anne Sophie Meincke (Southampton)
D. H. Mellor (Cambridge)
Calvin Normore (UCLA)
L. A. Paul (Yale)
Thomas Pink (King’s College London)
Sebastian Rödl (Leipzig)
Magali Roques (Hamburg)
Antje Rumberg (Konstanz)
Stephan Schmid (Hamburg)
Michael Thompson (Pittsburgh)

Zeit: 18-20 Juli 2019
Ort: Universität Hamburg
Organisation: Magali Roques (Hamburg), Florian Fischer (Bonn/Siegen) und Julian Bacharach (UCL).
Details: https://s-p-o-t.weebly.com/agency-past-and-future.html

Am Freitag, den 12.10.2018,  findet von 10 bis 18 Uhr der Kick-Off Workshop des Emmy Noether Projekts Relevance statt.

"Varieties of Relevance"

Das Programm und Informationen zur Veranstaltung finden Sie unter (www.relevanceproject.wordpress.com/events/varieties-of-relevance/).

Mitglieder des Philosophischen Seminars sind herzlich willkommen teilzunehmen. Bitte senden Sie uns in diesem Fall eine Email unter hamburgrelevance"AT"gmail.com.

2nd Hamburg-Japan Workshop

Next week there we will be a joint workshop with a number of philosophers from Japan. This is a follow up event to a workshop that took place in Japan in 2016. The schedule for the event is detailed below. It would be great to see many of you there and have a good attendance!

• Venue: ESA-W, Rm. 220
• Organizer: Lukas Skiba

Friday 24 August

• 09:30 - 11:00 Kengo Miyazono (Hiroshima) The Role of Imagination in Philosophical Thought Experiments
• 11:15 - 12:45 Stephan Krämer (Hamburg). Relevance and Minimality in Belief Revision.
• 14:30 - 16:00 Richard Dietz (Hamburg). Confirmation & Aboutness
• 16:15 - 17:45 Tora Koyama (Yamaguchi) On the Plurality of Traditions in Analytic Metaphysics.

Saturday 25 August

• 11:00 - 12:30 Shuhei Shimamura (Tokyo) Expressing Relevances. A Logical Expressivist Approach to Relevances in Material Inference
• 14:30 - 16:00 Martin Glazier (Hamburg). What Time Is It in Other Possible Worlds
• 16:15 - 17:45 John O’Dea (Tokyo). The Varieties of Pictorial Experience

Workshop: Normativity in Philosophy

• Time: Mo, 30.th July .2018, 14:30 Uhr,  Wed, 1st August 2018, 15:30 Uhr
• Venue: Warburg Haus, Heilwigstr. 116 , 20249 Hamburg

This is the closing workshop of the Emmy Noether Project "Ontology after Quine". The topic are issues relating to normativity in various philosophical areas, including Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, the Philosophy of Language, and Logic. The schedule is as follows:

Monday 30th July 

• 14:30 - 16:00 Esa Diaz Leon (Barcelona) 
• 16:15 - 17:45 Robbie Williams (Leeds)

Tuesday 31st July

• 9:45 - 11:15 Moritz Schulz (Hamburg)
• 11:30 - 13:00 Florian Steinberger (Birkbeck)
• 14:45 - 16:15 Louise Hanson (Cambridge)
• 16:30 - 18:00 Shamik Dasgupta (Berkeley)

Wednesday 1st August 

• 11:00 - 12:30 Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers)
• 14:00 - 15:30 Richard Woodward (Hamburg)

Organiser: Lukas Skiba

Workshop: Metaphyical Grounding

A consensus is emerging among philosophers that a wide range of important philosophical questions are best formulated in terms of a distinctive kind of determination or explanation called "ground". A forthcoming anthology will survey the state of the art on ground, including: its history, the kind of explanation or determination it provides, its logic and structure, its connections to other notions, and its applications to other topics. This workshop will provide a forum in which authors writing for this anthology can develop and coordinate their contributions.

• Zeit: 25. - 27. Mai 2018, jeweils 9.00 bis 18 Uhr, 
• Ort: Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, AS Saal
  
• Organisator: Robert Schwartzkopff
• Details

This workshop is funded by Prof. Kit Fine’s Anneliese Maier Research prize from the Alexander von Hum- boldt foundation based at the University of Hamburg and a grant of the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council awarded to Prof. Mike Raven.

Workshop: Fictionalism

• Zeit: 22. + 23. März 2018, jeweils 11.00 bis 18 Uhr, 
• Ort: Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 OSTflügel, Raum 221
  
• Organisator: Lukas Skiba
• Programm:

Donnerstag (22. März)

11:00 - 12:30 Daniel Nolan (Notre Dame)

Lunch break

14:30 - 16:00 Lukas Skiba (Hamburg)

Coffee break

16:45 - 17:45 Fiora Salis (LSE)

Dinner

Freitag (17 . März)

11:00 - 12:30 David Liggins (Manchester)

Lunch break

14:30 - 16:00 Heather Logue (Leeds)

Coffee break

16:45 - 17:45 Stuart Brock (Victoria)

Workshop: Testing Linguistic Intuitions

• Zeit: 16. + 17. März 2018, jeweils 10.00 bis 18.30 Uhr
• Ort: Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 WESTflügel, Raum 221
  
• Organisatorin: Julia Zakkou 
• Programm:

Freitag (16. März)

10:00-11:30 – Josh Knobe

Coffee break

12:00-01:30 – Genoveva Martí

Lunch break

03:00-04:30 – Benjamin Spector

Coffee break

05:00-06:30 – Thomas Weskott

Dinner

Samstag (17 . März)

10:00-11:30 – Kevin Reuter

Coffee break

12:00-01:30 – Guillermo Del Pinal & Brandon Waldon

Lunch break

03:00-04:30 – Stephanie Solt

Coffee break

05:00-06:30 – Janice Dowell