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The primary place the symposium will be held is the Power Center, which is centrally located on Duquesne's campus. We will be here on Monday, August 5 and Wednesday-Friday, August 7-9. On Tuesday, August 6, we will be in the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, which is located on the first floor of the library at Duquesne (Gumberg Library). We will make sure to point out the way to the library from the Power Center on Monday, so it's easy for everyone to find it. 

There will be two sessions each day, a morning session from 10am-1pm and an afternoon session from 3pm-6pm. Iain Grant will lead each of the morning sessions, and Jason Wirth will lead the afternoon sessions. However, on the first day of the conference, we will start a bit earlier (9:30am) in order to accommodate for introductory announcements and welcomings. We will open at 9:45 usually, because there will be light food and coffee in the mornings, but Iain Grant's sessions will start promptly at 10.

 

 

MON. 5 Aug. Power Center
 

9:30AM-1PM Grant – <Real> <and> <Ideal>

  1. Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature, trans. Errol E. Harris and Peter Heath (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp. 9-42

  2. First Outline of a System of A Philosophy of Nature, trans. Keith R. Peterson (Albany: SUNY, 2004), pp.13-19

  3. The Nature of the Copula: Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom, trans. James Gutmann (Chicago: Open Court, 1986), SW VII, 341-7; 357 (first full paragraph)-end 362; [I am using the SW pagination to facilitate the use of ANY translation, but Gutmann’s has the edge in my view.]

  4. Ueber das Verhältniß des Realen und Idealen in der Natur, oder Entwickelung der ersten Grundsätze der Naturphilosophie an den Principien der Schwere und des Lichts (1806 version), translated by Iain Hamilton Grant
     

3-6 PM Wirth

  1. Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature, trans. Errol E. Harris and Peter Heath (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp. 9-42

  2. Ueber das Verhältniß des Realen und Idealen in der Natur, oder Entwickelung der ersten Grundsätze der Naturphilosophie an den Principien der Schwere und des Lichts (1806 version), translated by I.H. Grant

  3. BACKGROUND READING: Wirth, The Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His Time (New York: SUNY Press, 2003), chapters 1, 2, and 3

  4. BACKGROUND READING: Wirth, “Mass Extinction: Schelling and Natural History”

 

TUES. 6 Aug. Phenomenology Center
 

9:45AM-1PM Grant – Motion, Derivation, Stufenfolge

  1. The Motions of Thought: Darstellung des rein rationalen Philosophie (DrP), Lecture 13, especially SW XI, 310ff, tr. I.H. Grant

  2. Allgemeine Deduktion des dynamischen Prozesses, SW IV 1-78, tr. I.H. Grant

  3. BACKGROUND READING: I.H. Grant, Philosophies of Nature After Schelling (London and New York: Continuum, 2006, pp.138-152, 188-90

  4. BACKGROUND READING: First Outline of a System of A Philosophy of Nature, trans. Keith R. Peterson (Albany: SUNY, 2004), pp.53-70

  5. BACKGROUND READING NOTE: The Aristotelian influence is huge in the Darstellung’s lectures, particularly De anima, Metaphysics, On the Motion of Animals, On the Generation of Animals

 

3-6 PM Wirth

  1. Über das Verhältnis der bildenden Künste zu der Natur [Concerning the Relation of the Plastic Arts to Nature] (1807) Trans. Michael Bullock

  2. BACKGROUND READING: Philosophy of Art, trans. D. Stott (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1989) “Introduction,” pp. 3-19

  3. BACKGROUND READING: Sixth and final section of the System of Transcendental Idealism

 

WED. 7 Aug. Power Center
 

9:45AM-1PM Grant – What am I thinking when I think what is?

  1. Darstellung des Naturprozesses, SW X, 301-390, tr. I.H. Grant

  2. BACKGROUND READING: DrrP Lecture 17, tr. I.H. Grant

 

3-6 PM Wirth

  1. All three versions of the Ages of the World

      a. From the first [1811] we will be doing only a few pages, translations of which will be provided
      b. Schelling, Ages of the World [1813], trans. Judith Norman, with an essay, The Abyss of Freedom, by          Slavoj Žižek (Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, 1997)
      c. Schelling, Ages of the World [1815], trans. Jason M. Wirth (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000)

 2.  BACKGROUND READING: "The Stuttgart Private Lectures," in: Idealism and the Endgame of Theory,              trans. T. Pfau (Albany: SUNY, 1994)

 

THUR. 8 Aug. Power Center
 

9:45AM-1PM Grant – Powers

  1. Darstellung des Naturprozesses, SW X, 301-390, tr. I.H. Grant

  2. BACKGROUND READING: First Outline of a System of A Philosophy of Nature, trans. Keith R. Peterson (Albany: SUNY, 2004), 19-34

  3. BACKGROUND READING: The Motions of Animals and Nature’s Topology: DrrP Lecture 19, tr. I.H. Grant

 

3-6 PM Wirth

  1. Same as Wednesday (Ages of the World)

 

FRI. 9 Aug. Power Center
 

9:45AM-1PM Grant – Schelling’s Two Sciences and the Outflanking of Idealism

  1. Other Deduction of the Principles of Positive Philosophy (1839)

  2. BACKGROUND READING: ALL THE ABOVE!

 

3-6 PM Wirth

  1. The Deities of Samothrace. We will be using a new and as yet unpublished new translation by David Krell (ed. Wirth)

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