Naturalism and Human Life

Naturalism and Human Life

Potsdam University

Centre for Post-Kantian Philosophy

In collaboration with the Naturalism, Modernity and Civilization International Research Network (NMCIRN)

Website: https://cpkp.net/event/naturalism-and-its-vicissitudes/

Organized by Thomas J. Spiegel, Paul Giladi & Thomas Khurana

To attend, register (for free) with : [email protected] & [email protected]

20. & 21. April 2023

University of Potsdam, Campus Am Neuen Palais, House 8, Room 0.58

Thursday 20th April 2023 - Day 1

09:30 – 10:00   Welcome (Thomas Jussuf Spiegel & Paul Giladi) + Coffee

10:00 – 11:00   Talia Morag (via Zoom) - Liberal Naturalism and the Explanations of Sexual Behaviour

11:00 – 12:00   Mario De Caro - The Place of Facts in a World of Values

12:00 – 13:00   Lunch

13:00 – 14:00   Carla Bagnoli - The Political Significance of Second Nature Naturalism

14:00 – 15:00   Thomas J. Spiegel - Naturalism and Alienation          

15:00 – 15:30   Coffee

15:30 – 16:30   Andrea Staiti - The Limits of Naturalism in the Philosophy of Character

16:30 – 17:30   Akeel Bilgrami (via Zoom) - Culture, the Commons, and the Law in our Modernity

18:30               Conference Dinner

Friday 21st April 2023 - Day 2

09:30–10:00     Coffee

10:00 – 11:00   David Macarthur (via Zoom) - Naturalism as an Imaginative Schema

11:00 – 12:00   Paul Giladi - Nomological Nets and Flattening Affectivity

12:00 – 13:00   Lunch

13:00 – 14:00   Thomas Raleigh - The Emptiness of Naturalism                

14:00 – 15:00   Giuseppina D’Oro - Beyond the Layered Model of the Sciences           

15:00 – 15:30   Coffee

15:30 – 16:30   Thomas Khurana - Dialectical Naturalism 

16:30-16:45      Closing Remarks