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Naturalism and Human Life
Am Neuen Palais
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In recent years, there has been a wave of thoughtful and considered critical responses to scientific naturalism and more ‘liberal’ varieties of naturalism: a survey of the literature reveals that there have been Kantian, Hegelian, classical pragmatist, neopragmatist, pluralist-realist, later Wittgensteinian, and various critical theoretic responses to the relationship between nature and normativity and the relationship between philosophy and the natural sciences. However, the multitude of such possible avenues to tackle the issue of naturalism and the breadth of human life – as opposed to more ‘technical’ matters – appears to lack unity. This conference, therefore, aims is to bring together researchers from a number of these various camps, whose ultimate interests in the topic are geared towards critically reflecting on the deeper significance of the naturalism debate for human life itself.
Program
April 20, 2023
Universität Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais, House 8, Room 0.58
- 09:30 – 10:00am – Welcome + Coffee (Paul Giladi and Thomas Jussuf Spiegel)
- 10:00 – 11:00am – Talia Morag (online): Liberal Naturalism and the Explanations of Sexual Behaviour – Chair: Paul Giladi
- 11:00am – 12:00pm – Mario De Caro: The Place of Facts in a World of Values – Chair: Karen Ng
- 12:00 – 2:00pm – Lunch
- 2:00 – 3:00pm – Thomas J. Spiegel – Naturalism and Alienation – Chair: Andrea Staiti
- 3:00 – 3:30pm – Coffee
- 3:30 – 4:30pm – Andrea Staiti: The Limits of Naturalism in the Philosophy of Character – Chair: Thomas Raleigh
- 4:30 – 5:30pm – Akeel Bilgrami (online): Culture, the Commons, and the Law in our Modernity – Chair: Isabel Sickenberger
April 21, 2023
Universität Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais, House 8, Room 0.58
- 09:30 – 10:00am – Coffee
- 10:00 – 11:00am – David Macarthur (via Zoom) – Naturalism as an Imaginative Schema – Chair: Alexey Weissmueller
- 11:00am – 12:00pm – Paul Giladi: Nomological Nets and Flattening Affectivity – Chair: Thomas Khurana
- 12:00 – 1:00pm – Lunch
- 1:00pm – 2:00pm – Thomas Raleigh: The Emptiness of Naturalism – Chair: Anton Ford
- 2:00 – 3:00pm – Gustav Melichar: N.N. – Chair: Thomas J. Spiegel
- 3:00 – 3:30pm – Coffee
- 3:30 – 4:30pm – Thomas Khurana: Dialectical Naturalism
- 4:30 – 4:45 Closing Remarks
Participants
With Akeel Bilgrami, Mario De Caro, Paul Giladi, Thomas Khurana, David Macarthur, Talia Morag, Thomas Raleigh, Thomas J. Spiegel, Andrea Staiti
Registration
We ask that in-person participants register via e-mail to: thomas.j.spiegel@gmail.com
Online participants can register under the following link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/naturalism-and-human-life-tickets-585885207427
Organization
Organized in collaboration with Naturalism, Modernity and Civilization International Research Network (NMCIRN)
Organizers: Thomas Jussuf Spiegel, Paul Giladi
Support
Image
Charles Sheeler, The Artist Looks at Nature (1943)