Conference Conferences

Naturalism and Human Life

April 20-21, 2023 University of Potsdam
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