Knowing and Representing: Reading (between the lines of) Hegel’s Introduction to the Phenomenology

December 14, 2015 - December 16, 2015
Forschungskolleg Analytic German Idealism, University of Leipzig

Leipzig
Germany

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Robert Brandom
University of Pittsburgh

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Robert Brandom explains what we can still learn from Hegel today.  In his systematic interpretation of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Brandom brings Hegel’s ideas fruitfully to bear on current action theory, metaphysics, social ontology and philosophy of language.  Brandom shows, among many other things, how Hegel clearly recognized the fundamental problem of rule-following long before Wittgenstein and, indeed, already suggested a solution that rests on the social nature of norms.  Over the course of the next two years Brandom will present and discuss his entire manuscript in the five parts of this lecture series.

The lecture series is made possible by Brandom’s Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation.  It will take place under the aegis of the Forschungskolleg Analytic German Idealism at the University of Leipzig.

The lecture series begins in December 2015 with the first part, which comprises three lectures:

Part I

Knowing and Representing: Reading (between the lines of) Hegel’s Introduction to the Phenomenology

14. 12. 2015:     Conceptual Realism and the Semantic Possibility of Knowledge

15. 12. 2015:     Representation and the Experience of Error: A Functionalist Approach to the Distinction between Appearance and Reality

16. 12. 2015:     Following the Path of Despair to a Bacchanalian Revel: The Emergence of the Second, True, Object

The series will continue in June 2016 with the second part, entitled:

    II.            Mediating the Immediate: Consciousness and the Inferential Articulation of Determinate Empirical Content

Three further parts are to follow.

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