Perfectionism after Kant

PERFECTIONISM AFTER KANT: A HISTORY
5–6th June 2014, Humanities Research Institute
University of Sheffield

Thursday 5th June

12.30 – 1.45 John Skorupski (St Andrews): ‘Perfectionisms and their Foundations’

2.00 – 3.15 Christopher Bennett (Sheffield): ‘Symbols and Self-Realisation: The
Idea of Expressive Needs in Post-Kantian Philosophy’

3.15 – 3.45 Coffee

3.45 – 5.00 David James (Warwick): ‘Perfectibility in Fichte’s First Philosophy
of History’

5. 15 – 6.30 Douglas Moggach (Ottawa): ‘Perfectionism Before and After Kant’

Friday 6th June

9.30 – 10.45 Robert Stern (Sheffield): ‘Hegel, Nature and Perfectionism’

11.00 – 12.15 David Brink (USCD): ‘The Prospects of Normative Perfectionism’

12.15 – 1.30 Lunch

1.30 – 2.45 Simon Robertson (Cardiff): ‘Nietzschean Perfectionism’

3. 00 – 4.15 Gordon Finlayson (Sussex): ‘Perfectionism and Critical Theory’

4.15– 5.30 Clare Carlisle (KCL): ‘In Need of God: Kierkegaard on the
Problem of Perfectionism’

To register, or get further information on the conference, please email [email protected]

We gratefully acknowledge the support of Mind, the British Society for the History of Philosophy
and the University of Ottawa.