Panels on Neo-Kantianism at the seventh congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS)

The conference took place at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., June 18-21, 2008. For the full conference program, click here.

The Natural and the Neo-Kantian:
Empirical Science and Neo-Kantianism
Chair: Alex Klein

In What Ways Was Helmholtz Kantian?
Gary Hatfield, University of Pennsylvania

Empirical Psychology, Physiology, and the A Priori
Lydia Patton, Virginia Tech

Empirical Psychology and Marburg School Neo-Kantianism on the Object of Psychology
Scott Edgar, Bryn Mawr College

Function and Symbol in Marburg Philosophy of Science
Alan Kim, Hamilton College

Cassirer on Logic, Mathematics, and Science
Chair: Scott Edgar

"Critical philosophy begins at the very point where logistic leaves off":
Cassirer’s response to Frege and Russell
Jeremy Heis, University of California at Irvine

Cassirer and Dedekind: On the significance of structural mathematics
Erich Reck, University of California at Riverside

Conference: Hermann Cohen and the Graphic Arts

International conference of the Hermann Cohen-Gesellschaft (Zürich), in cooperation with the Cohen-Gesellschaft (Coswig, Anhalt) and the Max Liebermann- Gesellschaft (Berlin). The conference took place from June 15-18, 2008 in Coswig (Anhalt).

Speakers include:

Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. HELMUT HOLZHEY (Zürich)
"Zum Verhältnis der Ästhetik des reinen Gefühls zu Kants Begründung der Ästhetik"

Prof. Dr. MYRIAM BIENENSTOCK (Tours/Paris)
"Über die Ironie der Kunst: Cohen und Solger"

Prof. Dr. STEFAN NACHTSHEIM (Aachen)
"Der zeitgenössische theoretische Kontext von Cohens Ästhetik"

Dr. LYDIA PATTON (Blacksburg, USA)
"Humor, the Beautiful, and the Ethical Ideal: Hermann Cohen and Kant on Portraiture"

Dr. DIETER ADELMANN (Bonn)
"Hermann Cohens Theorie der Landschaftsmalerei"

For the full program click here.