AMSTERDAM 2010 COLLOQUIUM JEWISH PHILOSOPHY

The Center for Jewish Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy, VU University, Amsterdam will host a conference on the theme:

Die Natur des Denkens und das Denken der Natur – Spinoza, Trendelenburg, und H. Cohen.

The conference is organized in collaboration with the Hermann Cohen Gesellschaft, in Zürich.

The list of speakers includes: Franco Biasutti ( Padua ), Emanuela Scribano ( Siena ), Detlev Pätzold ( Groningen ), Andrea Poma ( Turin ), Ursula Renz ( Klagenfurt ), Wouter Goris ( Amsterdam ), Marco Giovanelli ( Turin ), Erik Kreiter ( Amsterdam ), Pierfrancesco Fiorato ( Sassari ), Robert Gibbs ( Toronto ), Luca Bertolino ( Turin ), and Reinier Munk ( Amsterdam ). The two languages of the conference will be English and German.

The colloquium is scheduled to take place June 21-23, 2010. Venue of the colloquium will be the Conference Hotel ‘Oud Poelgeest’, which is located in the vicinity of Leiden , The Netherlands.

If you would like to participate in the conference, please let us know by returning email at: NaturDesDenkens@gmail.com You will subsequently receive information about the conference fee and the full program of the colloquium. The program offers the possibility for PhD-students in the field of Neo-Kantianism and esp. Cohen to present their research program. We would like to welcome proposals for PhD-presentations at the email address mentioned above, and encourage PhD-students to apply.

Please be informed that there is a maximum number of 35 participants for this conference.
We look forward to receiving your reply.


Best regards,

Dr Erik Kreiter
Prof. Reinier Munk


Please send all your emails related to the colloquium to the conference’s email address: NaturDesDenkens@gmail.com

Prof. Reinier Munk
Chair History of Modern Philosophy and Modern Jewish Philosophy
Faculty of Philosophy
VU University
Amsterdam

Panels at the Eastern APA

Kant’s Responses to Newton on Space and Causality
Wednesday, December 30, 2009, from 11:15 AM - 1:15 PM

Abraham Stone (University of California–Santa Cruz) “Kant’s Qualified Defense of Newton’s Thesis that Space is a Direct Emanation of the First Cause”
Lydia Patton (Virginia Polytechnic Institute) “Why Kant Needs the Principles”
Robert DiSalle (University of Western Ontario) “Kant and Newton”

Neo-Kantianism and Twentieth Century Philosophy
Monday, December 28, 2009, from 9 AM - 11 AM

Scott Edgar (University of British Columbia): “The Neo-Kantian Origins of Mach’s Positivism”
Alan Kim (Colgate University): "Natorp and Husserl on Space”
Hartwig Wiedebach (University of Zurich): “Kantianism versus Religious Aesthetics: Hermann Cohen’s Concept of God”

The location of the panels will be advertised in the conference program.

Classical Neo-Kantianism conference at Cornell: Philosophical Forum issue

Articles and responses by Paul Guyer, Michael Friedman, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Vasilis Politis, Dina Emundts, Frederick Beiser, Andrew Chignell, Peter Gordon, Peter Gilgen, and Michelle Kosch.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120736308/issue

The new Nicolai Hartmann Society

Founded in March 2009, the Nicolai Hartmann Society is a learned society bringing together scholars interested in Hartmann’s philosophy. The Society’s goal is to promote and foster the study of the philosophy of Hartmann, its situation in the history of philosophy, and its contemporary relevance. A temporary homepage of the Society was built (http://nicolaihartmann.blogspot.com). The page will provide a platform to host contributions on Hartmann, keep an updated bibliography of works on his philosophy, and advertize relevant events. The Society entertains a number of projects, among which is to organize “Hartmann conferences.” The first of these conferences shall serve as an occasion to inaugurate the Society. A mailing list is available to each member; it is intended to broadcast new information posted on the website, such as upcoming events. Membership subscription is provisionally free of charge. If you intend to become Member of the Society, please
click here to express your interest by sending an email to Roberto Poli..

Kant, Copernicanism, and cosmology

*Collapse V: The Copernican Imperative*

This volume contains in-depth interviews with philosopher of science James Ladyman, philosopher of neuroscience Thomas Metzinger, theoretical physicist Julian Barbour, mathematician Ian Stewart, and reproductive biologist Jack Cohen; new papers by theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli, astrobiologist Milan Cirkovic, and philosophers Paul Humphreys, Nick Bostrom, Alberto Gaulandi, Martin Schönfeld, Iain Hamilton Grant, and Gabriel Catren; a new translation of a chapter from Immanuel Kant's 1755 cosmology _Universal History of Nature_; and new work from acclaimed contemporary artists Nigel Cooke, Conrad Shawcross and Keith Tyson. For further details about this volume, please click on the following link:

http://blog.urbanomic.com/urbanomic/archives/2008/12/collapse_v_dela.html

"Natorp's Foundationalism" in Liège, Belgium

Le fondationalisme de Natorp

Click here for website

26 février 2009, Université de Liège

Infos et inscriptions: Arnaud Dewalque (a.dewalqueulg.ac.be) – +32 (0)4 366 55 92

9h Arnaud Dewalque (ULg): Priorité de la fondation objective dans la théorie natorpienne de la connaissance
10h Julien Servois (Université de Toulouse le Mirail): La fondation logico-transcendantale du nombre chez Natorp
11h Éric Dufour (Université de Toulouse le Mirail): La méthode de reconstruction de Natorp
12h Pause déjeuner
14h Robert Brisart (Facultés universitaires St-Louis): Sur la théorie de l'objet: Natorp vs Husserl
15h Denis Seron (ULg): L’objectif et le subjectif: Questions natorpiennes dans la théorie de la connaissance de Theodor Celms
16h Débat autour de la Psychologie générale de Natorp
17h Fin

Current Neo-Kantian Research

Current Neo-Kantian Research (Neukantianismus-Forschung Aktuell) is planned as a twice-yearly, brief publication with all the latest secondary and primary literature on Neo-Kantianism, from the Continent, England, and even with some US material. The website for the updates is in German, but many of the texts listed are in English (and French, and Italian).

The publication is edited by Christian Krijnen (Amsterdam), and contributors are: Fabien Capeillères (Caen / Paris), Arnaud Dewalque (Liège), Massimo Ferrari (Torino), Tapani Laine (Tampere), Sebastian Luft (Milwaukee), Dermot Moran (Dublin), Jacco Verburgt (Amsterdam), and Hartwig Wiedebach (Frankfurt/M. / Zürich).

Here is the link: http://neukantianismusforschung.googlepages.com/home

A note on Cohen in translation

A reader of this blog asked whether Kant's Theorie der Erfahrung or other philosophical works were available in an English translation. The answer is: no. The same reader (Thank you, Matthew Anderson) then provided a link to the French translation of the third edition (1918) of that work, published by Les Editions du Cerf (see http://www.editionsducerf.fr/html/fiche/fichelivre.asp?n_liv_cerf=5390). There is also a French translation of Cohen's commentary on Kant's First Critique (1918), but I would not recommend this highly either as an introduction to Cohen or to Kant. It is really too bad that the first edition of Kant's Theorie der Erfahrung or of Kant's Begründung der Ethik is unavailable in English or any other language, except in the German original. Any volunteers?