Workshop: Metaphysics and Method in Modern Philosophy and Phenomenology

CONFERENCE: METAPHYSICS AND METHOD

IN MODERN PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGY

Paderborn University, June 12-13, 2025

Building L.1.102 & 202

Program

Thursday, 12 June

9:00               Welcome (from Conference Organizers)

Session I:  Methodology, Ontology and Facticity

Moderation:  Daria-Leona MacAward (Paderborn)

9:15-10:00    Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ “Real-Ontological“ Categories

Dr. Daniel Neumann (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz)

10:00-10:45  Is Res Cogitans Just a Piece of the World? Some Remarks on Husserl’s Critique of Descartes

Stefano Franchini (Scuola Normale Superiore)

10:45-11:00  Coffee Break

11:00-11:45  Merleau-Ponty’s Descartes: The Philosopher in Factical Situation

Dr. David Suarez (University of Toronto)

11:45-12:30  What’s in a Cogitatio? Descartes, Husserl, and Kant on the Possibility of a Distinctio Phaenomenologica

Dr. Tom Poljanšek (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

12:30-14:00  Lunch

Session II:  Practical Philosophy

Moderation:  Aaron Wells (Denver Metropolitan University)

14:00-14:45  Rereading Spinoza: the Epoché of Religion According to Levinas

Benedetta Catoni (La Sapienza University of Rome)

14:45-15:30  From Bundles to Habits:  A Double Theory of the Self in Hume and Husserl

Dr. Marco Cavallaro (Universität zu Köln, Husserl Archive)

15:30-16:15  Husserl’s Re-Reading of Hume’s Moral Theory During his Freiburg Years

Michele Vinai (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)

16:15-17:00  Coffee Break

Keynote I

17:00-18:30  Finding Necessity Within Contingency:  The Epistemic Role of Examples in Kant and Husserl

Michela Summa (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)

19:00            Conference Dinner

Friday, 13 June

Session III:  Philosophy of Mind and Epistemology

Moderation:  Sebastian Luft

9:00-9:45      Phenomenology as an Aristotelian Metaphysics of Mind

Dr. Gustav Melichar (Ruprechts-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)

9:45:10:30    Husserl on Concepts: From Bolzano to Kant?

Victor Portugal (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

10:30-10:45  Coffee Break

10:45-11:30  Synthesis and Diaresis: The Secondary Nature of Kantian Understanding

Dr. Michael Blézy (University of Toronto)

11:30-12:15  Evidence Beyond Immanence: Descartes and Husserl on Mathematical and Eidetic Certainty

Dr. Alexis Delamare (Paris)

12:15-13:30  Lunch

Session IV:  Speculative Metaphysics

Moderation:  Dimitris Apostolopoulos (Loyola Chicago)

13:30-14:15  Neither a Witness Nor a Wave: Jacobi, Fichte, and Husserl on Nihilism

Dr. G. Anthony Bruno (Royal Holloway University of London)

14:15-15:00  Negativity, History and Dialectics of Reality in Jan Patočka's Reception of the Phenomenology of Spirit

Lorenzo Toro (University of Macerata)

15:00-15:45:The Metaphysics of Sleep and Dreams: A Cartesian Legacy in the Early Heidegger

Dr. Aengus Daly (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

15:45-17:30  Coffee Break

Transfer to Deelenhaus, Downtown.

Keynote II

17:30-19:00  The Phenomenology (and Metaphysics) of Spirit:

Hegelian Themes in Scheler, Stein, and Walther

Clinton Tolley (University of California, San Diego)

19:00-           Reception (Drinks & Finger Food)

Evening at Leisure

End of Conference