CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
Conferences
Metaepistemology and History of Perspectivism
[2023] Round table: "Metaepistemology and History of Perspectivism"
Round table at the conference “Homo Loquens: Logic – Language – Culture”, with V. Chaly, S. Lugovoy, and L. Kornilaev (IKBFU Kaliningrad 2023).
Part of the project “Perspectivism as an Epistemological Program”. PI Michael Lewin, Funding: Russian Science Foundation.
The Epistemology of Perspectivism
[2022] Round table: "The Epistemology of Perspectivism"
Round table at the conference “Homo Loquens: Logic – Language – Culture”, with V. Chaly, S. Lugovoy, and L. Kornilaev (IKBFU Kaliningrad 2022).
Part of the project “Perspectivism as an Epistemological Program”. PI Michael Lewin, Funding: Russian Science Foundation.
[2022] Conference: "What is Metaphilosophy?"
Send me an email to register. Click here: Program MP22 for the conference program in PDF.
September 7, 2022
14:45 Greetings and Introduction
15:00 – 16:00 Nicholas Rescher (University of Pittsburgh) Positioning Metaphilosophy
16:00 – 17:00 Jelscha Schmid (University of Basel) Metaphilosophy as First Philosophy: from Kant to Fichte
17:00 – 18:00 Richard Raatzsch (EBS University for Business and Law) How Weird is Philosophizing!
September 8, 2022
10:00 – 11:00 Fausto Fraisopi (University of Freiburg) Metaphilosophy: Doctrine, Threshold or Dimension?
11:00 – 12:00 Joachim Horvath (Ruhr University Bochum) Thought Experiments and Arguments
14:00 – 15:00 Anna-Maria Eder (TU Dresden / University of Cologne) Idealizations in Epistemology
15:00 – 16:00 Insa Lawler (University of North Carolina), in cooperation with Finnur Dellsén und James Norton (University of Iceland) Would Disagreement Undermine Progress?
16:00 – 17:00 Paul Hoyningen-Huene (Leibniz University Hannover / University of Zurich) In Which Sense is Philosophy Scientific?
September 9, 2022
10:00 – 11:00 Thomas Arnold (Heidelberg University) Socratic Shifts. Notes on Plato’s Metaphilosophy
11:00 – 12:00 Michael Lewin (University of Koblenz and Landau) Metaphilosophy as a Unified Discipline
14:00 – 15:00 Daniel Minkin (University of Marburg) Metaphilosophical Skepticism: A (New) Threat to Philosophy as a Rational Enterprise?
15:00 – 16:00 Timothy Williamson (University of Oxford) Reflecting on One’s Own Philosophical Practice
* All times are CET.
[2021] Workshop for Early Career Researchers: "Ideas in Kant's Transcendental Philosophy"
Online Workshop for Early Career Researchers
December 17–18, 2021
Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (IKBFU), Kaliningrad
Organized by the “Kantian Rationality Lab”
Organizers:
Prof. Dr. Vadim Chaly (IKBFU, Kaliningrad)
Dr. Michael Lewin (IKBFU, Kaliningrad)
Dr. Rudolf Meer (University of Graz)
WORKSHOP PROGRAM (All time CET)
December 17, 2021
Section 1
13.00-14.00 Keynote presentation: Marcus Willaschek: Content and function of Kantian ideas
14.00-15.00 Stephen Howard (Leuven) The twofold use of the cosmological ideas
15.00-16.00 Is there, despite of different types of ideas, a general concept of ideas in Kant? (discussion led by Michael Lewin, as a spontaneous replacement for the cancelled talk by Daniel Pepe (Chicago) Kant’s theory of history: the idea of universal history in the critical philosophy)
Section 2
16.30-17.30 Keynote presentation: Thomas Sturm Beyond God, world, and soul: Kantian ideas in the special sciences
17.30-18.30 Mathis Koschel (Chicago) The idea of mechanism
December 18, 2021
13.00-14.00 Görg Erdmann (Bochum) On Kant’s conception of space as a mere idea – The twofold nature of space in the works of Newton and Kant
Section 3
14.00-15.00 William Marsolek (Ohio) The Unity of arithmetic in Kant’s ‘Architectonic’
15.00-16.00 Luciana Martínez (IKBFU) Some remarks on Kantian doctrine of aesthetic ideas
16.00-17.00 Keynote presentation: Karin de Boer: What does it mean to determine ideas of reason in thought? The case of Kant’s transcendental theology
More infos and the link to zoom: https://philevents.org/event/show/92698
[2018] J.G. Fichte: Wissenschaftslehre 1812 (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Philosophisches Seminar, 03/2018).
A close reading course I have organized and designed with Dr. Max Rohstock. We have discussed the relation between transcendentality and transcendence in general and in the later Fichte, and focused on the introduction and the first two parts of the Doctrine of Science 1812.
[2017] J.G. Fichte: 25 Synthesen als Struktur der Wissenschaftslehre 1804/II (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Philosophisches Seminar, 03/2017).
A ‘spring school’ I have co-organized with Prof. Dr. Alexander Schnell that was dedicated to an in-depth exploration of his theory of the twentyfivefold structure of the Doctrine of Science 1804/II (see Réflexion et spéculation. L’idéalisme transcendental chez Fichte et Schelling, Millon 2009, pp. 41-42).
Official course program as PDF
[2016] J.G. Fichte: Wissenschaftslehre 1804/II (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Institut für Philosophie, 03/2016).
A close reading course I have organized and designed with Simon Schüz (Tübingen). We have discussed more than a half of the 28 lectures (skipping a few in the middle) focusing on the question whether or not (and if yes, to what extent) there has been a change in Fichte’s basic views and principles. Prof. Dr. Andreas Schmidt joined us at Fichte’s 15th lecture.
[2015] J.G. Fichte: Wissenschaftslehre 1794/95 (Würzburg, 04/2015).
A private close reading meeting in Gramschatz near Würzburg I have co-organized with students of Dr. Michael Gerten (Bamberg). We have focused on the first three principles of the Doctrine of Science 1794/95 and their development in the theoretical and practical parts.
Presentations
28. “From the Transcendental Apperception to Reason. Can ‘I’ and ‘Reason’ be Synonyms?” (Sixteenth Biennial Conference of the North American Fichte Society at the University College London, June 2024).
27. “Linguistic Originalism as a Form of Etymological Orientation in Philosophy” (Research colloquium of the Hodges Foundation for Philosophical Orientation, October 24, 2023, invited presentation).
26. “Kant on Philosophy as Conceptual Analysis” (Conference “Existence, Cognition, Action: Kant’s Legacy for the 21st Century”, University of Belgrade, March 1-3, 2023, invited keynote presentation).
25. “Relativism and Perspectivism” (International conference “Homo Loquens: Logic – Language – Culture”, IKBFU Kaliningrad, December, 9 – 11, 2021). (Rus.).
24. “Metaphilosophy as a Unified Discipline” (Conference: “What is Metaphilosophy?”, Oestrich-Winkel, September 7-9, 2022).
23. “Fichte’s Metaphilosophy” (Conference of the North American Fichte Society, Chicago, May 2022).
22. “Perspectivism as Logical Analysis of Positionality” (International conference “Homo Loquens: Logic – Language – Culture”, IKBFU Kaliningrad, December, 9 – 11, 2021). (Rus.).
21. “Metaphilosophie als einheitliche Disziplin” (Universität Koblenz-Landau, Institut für Philosophie, Campus Landau, November 2021).
20. “Metaphilosophy as a Discipline: Challenges and Prospects” (Workshop “Multi-, Inter-, Trans-Disciplinary Philosophy?”, Cologne, August 20, 2021, invited presentation).
19. “Hegel’s Logic of Forces and the Faculty Psychology” (Hegel-Congress Warsaw, June 2021).
18. “Transcendental Turn and the Idea of Philosophy” (Transcendental Philosophy Conference, Moscow, April 22, 2021, invited plenary presentation). (Rus.).
17. “Transcendental Philosophy as a Scientific Research Program. Combining Kantian Architectonics with Lakatosian Methodology” (Kant-Lecture, Academia Kantiana, IKBFU Kaliningrad, November, 26, 2020). (Rus.).
16. “Methodological Principles of and in Sciences in Kant”, Academia Kantiana, IKBFU, III. Summer School, Kaliningrad (July 22-28, 2019).
15. “The First Principle in the Later Fichte: The (not) ‘surprising insight’ in the 15th Lecture 1804/II”, Conference of the North American Fichte Society, Xavier University, Cincinnati (May 22-24, 2019).
14. “Was versteht Fichte unter der Tathandlung? Die Dialektik von vier Grundbestimmungen in der Wissenschaftslehre nova methodo“, University of Wuppertal, Department of Philosophy, Colloquium A. Schnell (October 23, 2018).
13. “Das Grundvermögen der Vernunft, sich selbst zu setzen. Die Ideenbildung der Vernunft von sich selbst als Ausgangspunkt der Wissenschaftslehre“, International Fichte-Congress, Aix-en-Provence (October 04-06, 2018).
12. “Ideas and Reason in Classical German Philosophy“, Saint Petersburg State University, Department of Philosophy (June 14, 2018). (Rus.).
11. “Hegel’s Critique of Kant’s Concept of Reason: The Problem of Different Demands”, XXXII. International Hegel-Congress, Tampere (June 06-08, 2018).
10. “Die Macht als ein subjekt(un-)abhängiges Prinzip(?)”, 4th Forum for the Young Nietzsche Research, Oßmannstedt (March 13-16, 2017).
9. “Ist die theoretische Vernunft selbst eine Idee? Fichtes Umgang mit Kantischen Ideen um 1810”, University of Wuppertal, Department of Philosophy (January 30, 2017).
8. “Der Erfolg der Seele und der Misserfolg des Herren. Ein Beitrag zur intersubjektiven Interpretation der Herr-Knecht-Dialektik“, XXXI. International Hegel-Congress, Bochum (May 17-20, 2016).
7. “Psychologischer Skeptizismus. Nietzsches Kritik am Deutschen Idealismus”, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin Nietzsche-Colloquium (January 20, 2016).
6. “Der Stachel der Selbsttätigkeit und das Ausschöpfen der Freiheit. Zur Vollständigkeit der fünf Weltansichten beim späten Fichte“, IX. International Fichte-Congress, Madrid (September 08-11, 2015).
5. “Der Übergang von der Logik zur Natur in Hegels Enzyklopädie”, weekend course, Prof. Dr. Klaus Vieweg “Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature“, Siegmundsburg (January 09-11, 2015).
4. “Die offenbare Religion”, weekend course, Prof. Dr. Klaus Vieweg “Absolute Knowledge in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit”, Siegmundsburg (February 10-12, 2014).
3. “Die Vernunft in der Philosophie – Nietzsches Beitrag zur allgemeinen Krise der Vernunft“, Nietzsche-Workshop “Twilight of the Idols”, Weimar (August 21-25, 2013).
2. “Reinholds Rezeption der transzendentalen Apperzeption“, weekend course, Prof. Dr. Klaus Vieweg and Prof. Dr. Andreas Schmidt, Siegmundsburg (June 28-30, 2013).
1. “Die Bewusstseinsgestalten in Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes und aktuelle KI-Forschung”, XXIX. International Hegel-Congress, Istanbul (October 03-06, 2012).