CFP: Normativity and German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives
Submission deadline: February 13, 2015
Conference date(s):
May 26, 2015
Conference Venue:
University of Sussex
Brighton,
United Kingdom
Details
Normativity and German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives
25th May 2015
Department of Philosophy University of Sussex
The aim of the conference is to examine whether resources drawn from the German Idealist tradition help address important questions about the nature of normativity. As recent work by Christine Korsgaard and Robert Brandom shows this is a fertile territory.
We construe the topic of normativity broadly to include epistemology and theories of meaning, moral and political philosophy, aesthetics, and theories of practical reasoning and action.
We would especially welcome submissions addressing anything from the following non-exhaustive list topics:
• how we justify to ourselves and to others what is good to do or to believe
• what are norms and what are reasons
• modalities of normativity
• how reasons guide beliefs, actions, values
• reasons and Reason
• how does it mean to think of oneself as a rational being
• normativity and freedom
Please send a 500-700 word anonymised abstract with author details on a separate attachment to [email protected]
Deadline for receipt of abstracts: 13 February 2015
The organisers wish to thank the Hegel Society of Great Britain and the UK Kant Society for their generous support. Without them this event would not have been possible.
Attendance to the conference is free of charge but registration is required- to register please email [email protected]
putting ‘registration’ in the subject field and your name in the body of the message.
Informal inquiries: Katerina Deligiorgi (Sussex) [email protected]
Organising committee: Sorin Baiasu (Keele and Vienna), Katerina Deligiorgi (Sussex), Manuel Dries (Open University), Andrew Huddleston (London), Edward Kanterian (Kent), Joseph Schear (Oxford)