Fichte and the Methods of Transcendental Philosophy

Fichte and the Methods of Transcendental Philosophy

Eleventh Biennial Meeting of the North American Fichte Society

Laval University, Québec, Canada

May 16-19, 2012

The Eleventh Biennial Meeting of the North American Fichte Society will be held at the Université Laval in Québec city, Canada, from Wednesday May 16 through Saturday May 20, 2012.  Local arrangements will be coordinated by Professor Luc Langlois (Université Laval) and Claude Piché (Université de Montréal).

The conference will be entirely devoted to exploring questions of transcendental method and methodology as these apply to Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre. Historical, comparative, and systematic approaches to this theme are all welcome.

As is the practice of the North American Fichte Society, this event is open to all interested Fichte scholars, both in North America and elsewhere.  The official languages of this conference will be English and French.   Please send paper proposals, including titles and brief descriptions of contents to Daniel Breazeale, Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40508  USA [email protected] no later than September 1, 2011.

Conference papers should have a maximum reading time of 30 minutes. As in the past, we intend to publish a volume of selected papers from this conference.  Though it may not prove possible to publish all of the conference papers, we nevertheless request that anyone presenting a paper formally grant the North American Fichte Society the “right of first refusal” for the publication of the same.

Please note that no funds will be available from the conference organizers to support either travel costs or living expenses of the participants.  However, an official “letter of invitation” for the purposes of obtaining travel support from one’s own institution, can easily be arranged.  Further details concerning lodging, program, etc. will be forthcoming at a later date.