Philosophy of the History of Philosophy

17th Annual Boston College Philosophy Graduate Conference
"Philosophy of the History of Philosophy"
8-9 April, 2016 - Hovey House Library - Boston College Chestnut Hill Campus, Massachusetts

Friday, April 8, 2016 –
 
Session 1 | Ancient | 9:30 am – 10:45 am
Sean Driscoll (Boston College) "Reading Plato as Historiography"
Respondent:Ryan Brown/Stephen Mendelsohn (Boston College)
Jaron Neufeld (Loyola Marymount University) "Against Searle’s “Biological Naturalism”: Why Ignore Hylemorphism?"
Respondent: Drew Alexander (Boston College)
 
15-minute break
 
Session 2 | Ancient Keynote | 11 am – 12:30 pm
Wolfgang R. Mann (Columbia University) "'A Never-Ending Task of Approximation': Friedrich Schleiermacher, August Boeckh, and Christian August Brandis on the Proper Way to Write the History of Philosophy".
 
Lunch break | 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
 
Session 3 | Medieval | 1:30 pm – 2:45 pm
Joshua Blander (The King's College) "Great Scot! Forward to the Past: What Duns Scotus Offers to Contemporary Theories of Identity and Distinction"
Respondent: Benjamin Rusch (Boston College)
August Faller (Cornell University) "On the Significance of Suárez's Empirical Arguments for Substantial Forms"
Respondent: Jordan Lavender (Boston College)
 
15-minute break
 
Session 4 | Medieval Keynote | 3 pm – 4:30 pm
Claude Panaccio (Université du Québec à Montréal) "What's so Philosophical about Medieval Philosophy?"
 
30-minute break
 
Session 5 | Roundtable "Why the History of Philosophy” | 5 pm – 6:30 pm
Patrick Byrne, Richard Kearney, and Eileen Sweeney (Boston College)
 

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Saturday, April 9, 2016 –
 
Session 6 | Modern | 9:30 am – 10:45 am
Norman Whitman (Rhodes College) "Spinoza’s Use of Definition: A Historical Tool for Philosophical Emendation"
Respondent: Sam Fazekas (Boston College)
Adam Shmidt (Boston University) "Ethics after Moore or: How I Learned to Chop up Hume on Someone Else’s Guillotine"
Respondent: Max Racine/Michael Pope (Boston College)
 
15-minute break
 
Session 7 | Modern Keynote | 11 am – 12:30 pm
Daniel Garber (Princeton University) "Consider the Monads...: What's the Point of Studying Outdated Metaphysics?"
 
Lunch break  | 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
 
Session 8 | Contemporary | 1:30 pm – 3 pm
Eugenio Petrovich (Università degli Studi di Milano) "From Little Philosophy to Big Philosophy. Some Methodological Remarks on the Notion of Author in the History of Contemporary Philosophy"
Respondent: Matthew Ray (Boston College)
Olga Knizhnik (The New School for Social Research) “Intellectual History between Art and Science: Cassirer as Historian of Philosophy”
Respondent: Sarah Horton (Boston College)
Rylie Johnson (Boston College) “Thinking the Abyss of History: Heidegger’s Critique of Hegelian Metaphysics”
Respondent: John Bagby (Boston College)
 
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Contact:
Vicente Muñoz-Reja ([email protected])
Melissa Fitzpatrick ([email protected])