Exploring Hegel’s Psychology

Programme

9.00 Opening

9.15-10.15 Michael Inwood (Oxford), Hegel on Physiognomy and Phrenology

Part I – Theoretical Mind

10.15-11.15 Luca Corti (Padova / Chicago), Conceptualism, Non-Conceptualism
and the Method of Hegel's Psychology

Coffee Break

11.45-12.45 Lucia Ziglioli (Oxford / Pavia), The Objectivity of Knowing. An
Inquiry into Hegel’s Philosophical Psychology

Lunch

14.00-15.00 Elisa Magrì (Scuola Normale di Pisa), The Place of Habit in
Hegel's Psychology

Part II – Practical and Free Mind

15.00-16.00 Susanne Herrmann-Sinai (Leipzig / Oxford), What does the
Location of the Section on Practical Mind within Hegel's System tell us
about its Content?

Coffee break

16.30-17.30 Sebastian Stein (Heidelberg), Hegel's Solution to the Theory-
Praxis Problem: The Transition from Subjective into Objective Spirit

17.30-18.30 Louise Braddock (Cambridge), Freud, Hegel and the Mind, and
Philosophy as Retrieval

Hegel’s Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences takes up the topic of
psychology in the last part of ‘Philosophy of subjective Spirit (Geist)’.
Hegel’s investigation into the notion of ‘Geist’ – which is translated into
English by using either ‘spirit’ or ‘mind’, each with different connotations
– bears the potential to challenge our modern understanding of philosophy of
mind. This section has been virtually neglected in comparison with other
parts of Hegel’s system, and this is quite surprising in consideration of
the importance of the issues there faced. In his psychology Hegel deals with
the activity of theoretical, practical and free mind. The development of
cognition is here investigated through its moments –  ‘intuition,’
‘representation,’ ‘imagination,’ ‘language,’ and ‘thought,’ – and the
development of the will is shown through the progressive sublation of
‘practical feelings,’ ‘urges,’ and ‘happiness.’
This workshop is meant to be a forum for presenting various works-in-
progress and to bring together philosophers from different background. The
aim of the workshop is to discuss the possible contribution of Hegel’s
thought to prominent current debates.

Registration is free and open until Sunday 1st December. For registration,
please write an e-mail with your contact details to
[email protected]  or to susanne.herrmann-
[email protected] .

Papers to be given will be circulated one week before the workshop. Speakers
will only provide a brief introduction to their papers, thus freeing up
valuable time for discussion.

With financial support from the Hegel Society of Great Britain and Mind
Association