Conference Papers

Program

Thursday October 29

10:15-12:15 Matt Boyle (Harvard): "Essentially Rational Animals"
Reading:
Essentially Rational Animals
Kant on Logic

Recommended reading:
Kant's Hylomorphism

2:00-4:00 Gabriel Richardson Lear (Chicago): "Plato's Form of the Beautiful"
Reading:
Plato on Splendor, Appearance and the Kalon

4:30-6:30 Andrea Kern (Leipzig): "Kant on Knowledge as Self-Constituting Capacity"
Reading:
Kant on Knowing as Self-Constituting Capacity

Friday October 30

10:00-12:00 Aryeh Kosman (Haverford): "Matter and Form in the Being of Animals"

Reading:
The Activity of Living Being, Ch. 4 from The Activity of Being

Recommended Reading:
Matter and Form in Aristotle's Metaphysics

2:00-4:00 Stephen Engstrom (Pittsburgh): "Understanding Autonomy: Form and Content of Practical Knowledge"
Reading:
Understanding Autonomy: Form and Content of Practical Knowledge

4:30-6:30 Thomas Khurana (Leipzig): "The Life of Form: Practical Reason in Kant and Hegel"
Reading: 
The Life of Form: Practical Reason in Kant and Hegel

Recommeded Background Reading:
Life and Autonomy: Forms of Self-Determination in Kant and Hegel

Saturday October 31

10:00-12:00 Michael Fried (Johns Hopkins): "Gericault's Romanticism"

Reading:
Gericault's Romanticism, Ch. 3 from Another Light

Recommended Background Reading:
David/Manet: The "Anacreonic" Paintings, Ch. 1 from Another Light

2:00-4:00 Sebastian Roedl (Leipzig): "The Power"

Reading:
The Power