The significance of the second person

Over the last few years, philosophers in Chicago and Copenhagen have had an ongoing conversation about the second person. What does it involve to relate to another as a you? What role does it play in social cognition, self-consciousness, recognition and collective intentionality? How is the second-person form of interpersonal nexus significant for human thought, action and life? With this workshop, we take the conversation to a new level and aim to facilitate conversation across the traditions.

The workshop is co-organized between the Chicago Center for German Philosophy at the University of Chicago (co-organizers: James Conant, Matthias Haase & Adam Katwan) and the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen (co-organizers: Dan Zahavi & Julia Zaenker).