Workshop: Metaphysics and Method in Modern Philosophy and Phenomenology
Paderborn
Germany
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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
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June 11, 2025, 9:00am CET
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