2009 BSHP Conference
Transcendental Philosophy: Its History and Nature
Wednesday 15th April
11.00 BSHP Management Committee Meeting
12.00 Registration
1.30 Opening Address: Robert Stern (Sheffield) “Moral Scepticism and Transcendental Arguments: Can Korsgaard's Strategy Work?”
3.00 First Parallel Session
Session 1:
Sacha Golob (Cambridge) “Transcendental Philosophy and Fundamental Ontology”
Avery Goldman (De Paul) “Kant, Heidegger and the Circularity of Transcendental Inquiry”
Session 2:
Christian Onof (Birkbeck) “Some Thoughts on Kant’s Conception of the Self”
Dennis Schulting (Amsterdam) “Transcendental Religious Arguments”
4.30 Tea
4.45 BSHP AGM
6.15 Buffet Dinner and Wine Reception
8.15 Plenary Session:
Wayne Martin (Essex) “Stoic Transcendentalism?”
Thursday 16th April
9.00 Second Parallel Session
Session 3:
Adrian Piper (Berlin) “Kant’s Transcendental Analysis of Action”
Brian O’Connor (Dublin) “Critical Theory and Transcendental Criticism”
Session 4:
Julia Jansen (Cork) “Imagination in Transcendental Philosophy”
Nigel Hems (MMU) “A New Interpretation of Kant’s Refutation of Idealism”
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Third Parallel Session
Session 5:
Richard Fincham (American University of Cairo) “The Role of Humean Scepticism in the Development of Post-Kantian Transcendental Philosophy”
Keren Gorodeisky (Auburn) “No Poetry, No Reality: Friedrich Schlegel’s Transcendental Method in the Face of Post-Kantian Scepticism”
Session 6:
Joel Smith (Manchester) “Can Transcendental Intersubjectivity be Naturalised?”
Ulrich Schlösser (Sheffield) “Kant on Communicability and Idealism”
12.30 Lunch
2.00 Plenary Session
Joanna Hodge (MMU) “Retrieving Husserl’s Horizon for Transcendental Philosophy”
3.15 Tea
3.45 Fourth Parallel Session
Session 7 (Postgraduate Session):
Ro Smith (York) “Stroud and Transcendental Arguments”
Gabriele Gava (Pisa) “Does Peirce Reject Transcendental Philosophy?”
Michael Kolkman (Warwick) “Fichte’s Philosophy of Freedom”
Session 8 (Postgraduate Session):
Rachel Wiseman (York) “Reading Wittgenstein as Kant: McDowell’s therapeutic transcendentalism”
Silvia De Bianchi (Rome) “Kant’s Transcendental Idealism: Dynamics of Synthesis”
Erman Kaplama (Birkbeck) “Kant’s Opus Postumum and Cosmological Transcendentalism”
5.15 Break
5.30 Plenary Session
Dietmar Heidemann (Luxembourg) “Appearance and thing-in-itself: A transcendental or a sceptical distinction?”
7.30 Conference Dinner
Friday 17th April
9.00 Fifth Parallel Session
Session 9:
Anil Gomes (Birkbeck) “Was Kant a Disjunctivist?”
Session 10:
Marco Sgarbi (Verona) “The Shift in the Notion of ‘Transcendental’ From Metaphysics to Logic: Genesis and Sources of Immanuel Kant’s Transcendental Philosophy”
Wolfgang Ertl (Tokyo) “Kant’s Scholastic Conception of the divine intellect and the distinction between things in themselves and appearances”
10.45 Coffee
11. 00 Plenary
Lucy Allais (Witwatersrand/Sussex) “Kant’s Transcendental Deduction”
Gary Banham (MMU) “Kant’s Transcendental Philosophy of Nature”
12.45 Closing Address: Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths) “Transcendental Heat: From Telesio to Kant”
1.30 Lunch (own arrangements)
2.00-3.30 Session for postgraduate speakers provided by The Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies.