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SUMMARY:Nature’s Vicissitudes: Richard J. Bernstein’s final pragmatic naturalism
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DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>The New York Pragmatist Forum</strong></p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>CALL FOR ABSTRACTS</strong></p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>NATURE&rsquo\;S VICISSITUDES: RICHARD J. BERNSTEIN&rsquo\;S FINAL PRAGMATIC NATURALISM<br>September 29-30\, 2023<br>Fordham University (Lincoln Center Campus)\, New York City</strong></p>\n<p>Richard J. Bernstein first encountered John Dewey&rsquo\;s pragmatist naturalism as a graduate student at Yale University\, where&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&ldquo\;Dewey&rsquo\;s naturalistic vision of the relation of experience and nature&mdash\;how human beings as natural creatures are related to the rest of nature&mdash\;spoke deeply to me.&rdquo\; This early enthusiasm for Dewey&rsquo\;s naturalistic vision never left him. During the final years of his long life\, Bernstein finished two books that return to issues of pragmatist naturalism.</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;His&nbsp\;<em>Pragmatic Naturalism: John Dewey&rsquo\;s Living Legacy&nbsp\;</em>(2020)\, traces differing versions of Deweyan naturalism in the works of contemporary philosophers\, including&nbsp\;Robert Brandom\, John McDowell\, Richard Rorty\, Wilfrid Sellars\, Peter Godfrey-Smith\, Philip Kitcher\, Bjorn Ramberg\, David Macarthur\, Steven Levine\, Mark Johnson\, Robert Sinclair\, Huw Price\, and Joseph Rouse.</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;In his final book\,&nbsp\;<em>The Vicissitudes of Nature</em>&nbsp\;(2022)\,<em>&nbsp\;</em>Bernstein clarifies his own pragmatist naturalism in relation to the thinking of earlier modern philosophers: Spinoza\, Hume\, Kant\, Hegel\, Marx\, Nietzsche\, and Freud.</p>\n<p>This conference will critically assess and expand the legacy of Bernstein&rsquo\;s final pragmatic naturalism as expressed in these two books. Accepted papers will be collected for publication.<br><br><strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Paper topics may include:&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Bernstein&rsquo\;s discussion of Dewey&rsquo\;s thinking in relation to contemporary philosophers&rsquo\; formulations of naturalism in&nbsp\;<em>Pragmatic Naturalism: John Dewey&rsquo\;s Living Legacy.</em></p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Bernstein&rsquo\;s interpretation of an earlier thinker&rsquo\;s understanding of naturalism or nature in&nbsp\;<em>The Vicissitudes of Nature</em>&nbsp\;(Spinoza\, Hume\, Kant\, Hegel\, Marx\, Nietzsche\, or Freud).</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;A larger theme or problem that brings one of these Bernstein&rsquo\;s texts into conversation with philosophical naturalism\, either particular expressions or conceptual issues.</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;The consequences of one or both of these texts for questions of naturalism in relation to wider social and political questions\, e.g.\, democracy\, praxis\, critique.</p>\n<p><strong>Abstracts:</strong>&nbsp\;Please submit an abstract of no more than&nbsp\;<strong>500 words</strong>&nbsp\;to&nbsp\;<u>tara@newschool.edu.</u></p>\n<p><strong>Submission Deadline: May 22\, 2023&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p>NYPF Conference Committee:&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Sergio Gallegos\, John Jay College of Criminal Justice&nbsp\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Judith Green\, Fordham University&nbsp\;<br>Brendan Hogan\, New York University&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Tara Mastrelli\, New School for Social Research</p>\n<p>David Woods\, New York University&nbsp\;</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Judith M. Green;CN=Sergio A. Gallegos-Ordorica;CN=Tara Mastrelli;CN=Brendan Hogan:
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