BU Workshop on Late Modern Philosophy

The BU Workshop on Late Modern Philosophy is an annual forum for presenting new work on late-eighteenth through early-twentieth-century philosophy.    

THEME FOR 2013: 
The theme for the 2013 workshop is history’s relevance for philosophy.  Speakers might address the role of historical, genealogical, and narrative explanation in philosophical arguments; the possibility that historical or genealogical arguments provide a unique method of philosophical critique; the way in which historical approaches to philosophy disclose new philosophical problems; the relevance of conjectural or fanciful histories in philosophical argumentation; and the views of particular philosophers, including Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, on history’s relation to philosophy.

FORMAT: The Workshop provides speakers with an opportunity to receive constructive feedback on work in progress.  Papers are distributed in advance.  At the workshop, the participants give brief summaries of their papers; this is followed by an hour of discussion per paper.  The discussion is open to all audience members.  

Program:

BU WORKSHOP ON LATE MODERN PHILOSOPHY

Friday, October 11

10:00-11:20  Charles Griswold (Boston University): Genealogy as Explanation: Rousseau’s Second Discourse

11:30-12:50  Kristin Gjesdal (Temple University): Taste, Value, and Historical Understanding: Some Thoughts on the Young Herder’s Philosophy of History

1:00-2:30       Break for lunch

2:30-3:50       Allen Speight (Boston University): On the Origin of Art and Aesthetics: Competing Philosophical Narratives

4:00-5:20       Fred Beiser (Syracuse University): Two Traditions of Idealism

5:30-6:15       Reception

Saturday, October 12

10:00-11:20  Judith Norman (Trinity University): Marx, Nietzsche, and the Workshops of History

11:30-12:50  Robert Guay (SUNY Binghamton): Why a (Nietzschean) Naturalist Should be a Historicist Should be a Genealogist

1:00-2:30       break for lunch

2:30-3:50       Paul Katsafanas (Boston University): Vision, History, and Conceptual Change

4:00-5:20       John Richardson (New York University): Nietzsche’s Freedom through History

5:30-6:15       Reception