
Pittsburgh Summer Symposium in Contemporary Philosophy
Duquesne University
Department of Philosophy
Pittsburgh, PA
Schelling and Naturphilosophie
Participants’ Conference (August 3-4):
In order to facilitate a further exchange of ideas and research, a participants’ conference will be held the weekend before the seminar begins. Applicants who receive notice of acceptance as participants will be asked - if interested - to submit an abstract of up to 500 words on any theme related to the topic of the seminar. The participants’ conference will take place on Saturday and Sunday, August 3-4, 2013.
Participants’ Conference Schedule
Location: Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center (1st Floor of Gumberg Library)
Saturday, August 3rd and Sunday, August 4th, 2013
Presenters are each allotted 20 minutes of reading time plus ten minutes for question/answer.
Saturday, August 3
Session 1: Ground and the Advent of a World 10:00-11:30am
Tyler Tritten – Armstrong Atlantic State University
Necessary But Insufficient: Toward a Factual Ontology
Clayton Shoppa – New School for Social Research
Schelling and the Ontology of Creation
Mahmoud Rasmi – University of Salamanca
Schelling's Philosophy of Mythology as a Grounding Ground
Session 2: Early and Late Schelling 11:45am-1:15pm
Anton Kabeshkin – The Johns Hopkins University
Schelling’s Theory of Organism in the First Outline
Kevin Brennan – Emory University
Beginning Philosophy: Intellectual Intuition and the Origins of Schelling’s Naturphilosophie
Diana Khamis – American University of Beirut
The Ungrounding of Negative Philosophy
Lunch 1:15-2:45pm
Session 3: Abstraction, Ab-grund, Process 2:45-4:15pm
Dan Whistler – Liverpool University
Schelling on Abstraction
Marco Altamirano – Louisiana State University
Nature and Eventuality
Ben Woodard – University of Western Ontario
Ungrounding Dynamics: The Contemporary Need for Schelling's Speculative Physics
Session 4: Nature, Spirit, and Revolution 4:30-5:30pm
Benjamin Berger – University of Warwick
The Nature-Spirit Relation in Schelling's early Naturphilosophie
Kirill Chepurin – National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Nature and Revolution: Situating Hegel’s Naturphilosophie
Sunday, August 4:
Session 5: Dynamics of the Dark Principle 10:00-11:00am
Marina Denischek – Boston College
Psychology and Ontology of Evil in Schelling
Wes Furlotte – University of Ottawa
The Dynamics of Material Nature in Schelling's Freiheitsschrift and Stuttgart Seminars
Session 6: Other Essential Idealists: Fichte, Peirce, Kierkegaard 11:15am-12:15pm
Anthony Bruno – University of Toronto/University of Bonn
Freedom and Pluralism in Schelling’s Critique of Fichte’s Jena Wissenschaftslehre
Rebekah Spera – Emory University
Resilient Bacilli: The Influence of Schelling's Philosophy on Peirce's Objective Idealism
Lunch 12:15-1:45pm
Session 7: Getting a Sense for Hegel and Schelling 1:45-2:45pm
Anna Katsman – New School for Social Research
The Exigency of Art: On the Authority of the Sensuous in Hegel's Aesthetics
Graham Bounds – University of New Mexico
Jon Cogburn – Louisiana State University
Identitätphilosophie and the Sensibility that Understands: Preparatory Analysis for a
Discussion of Heidegger’s Anti-Transcendentalism
Session 8: The Many Lives of Plants and Animals 3:00-4:00pm
Chris Noble – Villanova University
Living Mechanism in Leibniz
Andrew Mitchell – Emory University
The Botany of Romanticism: Plants and the Exposition of Life