top of page

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

bottom of page