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The History of Philosophy Roundtable

  University of California, San Diego
    Fridays, 2:15-3:45pm, HSS 8025 [map]
    contact: Clinton Tolley (ctolley [at] ucsd.edu)
overview current schedule previous years

Overview

The History of Philosophy Roundtable [HOPR] meets regularly during the academic year to discuss work in progress by graduate students and faculty on topics in the history of philosophy.  Most of the papers are by UCSD department members, but we also welcome occasional visitors.  If you are in the area or will be visiting San Diego and would like to participate, please contact Clinton Tolley (ctolley [at] ucsd.edu). 

All meetings are held in the Philosophy Department library, HSS 8025.  Papers to be discussed are circulated electronically approximately one week before the scheduled meeting. 

To receive announcements about the HOPR schedule and receive the HOPR papers electronically, you may subscribe to the HOPR email list (HOPR-L) by following the instructions at the HOPR-L info page. 

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2009-2010 Schedule
Fall 2009
Oct 2
 		James Messina
 		"Kant's hidden ontology of space"
Oct 16
 Michael Friedman
(Stanford)
 "Kant on geometry and spatial intuition"
[Oct 24-25]
 		Robert Pippin (Chicago), keynote


 		"On Hegel's Claim that
'Self-Consciousness is Desire Itself (Begierde ueberhaupt)'"
 Pacific Study Group meeting, North American Kant Society
schedule and other information here
Nov 6
 Daniel Schwartz
 "Baconian Foundationalism and the Problem of Certainty"
Nov 13
 		Marcy Lascano
(CSU Long Beach)
 		"Kant on Leibnizian Emanation, Creation, and God's Freedom"
Nov 20
 		Timothy Rosenkoetter
(Johns Hopkins)
 		"Groundwork III: A Space for Kantian Non-Cognitivism?"



Winter 2010
Jan 15
 Jeremy Heis
(UC Irvine)		 "Ernst Cassirer's Neo-Kantian philosophy of geometry"
Jan 29
 Eric Watkins and Kimberly Brewer
 "A Difficulty Still Awaits: Kant, Spinoza, and the Threat of Theological Determinism"
Feb 5
 Monte Johnson "A syllogistic, mathematical, and mechanistic model of Aristotelian explanation and answer to Socratesʼ criticism of natural science in Platoʼs Phaedo"
Feb 26
 Tim Jankowiak
 "Kant on Sensation and the Matter of Appearances"
Mar 5
 Matthew Shockey
(Indiana, South Bend)
 Heidegger on the role of mood in philosophical methodology
Spring 2009

Sam Rickless
 on 17th century accounts of qualities

Don Rutherford
 tbd

Clinton Tolley
 tbd

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Schedule of previous years

2008-9

SPRING 2009
Lara Ostaric (St. Michael's), on aesthetic judgment in German Idealism
Peter Myrdal (Uppsala/UCLA), on Leibniz on happiness
Daniel Schwartz, "Leaping to Conclusions Inductively: The Case of Francis Bacon"
Tim Jankowiak, on Kant, sensation, reality, and phenomenalism
Nate Rockwood, on Locke and personal identity
Josef Cressotti (UC Riverside), on Kant, pleasure, and judgments of taste

WINTER 2009
Karolina Huebner (Chicago/UCSD), on Spinoza and the reality of finite things
Clinton Tolley,  on Kant, logic, and truth
Aaron Garrett (Boston Univ), on Bishop Butler and 'bullshit'
Erin Frykholm,  on Hume on character

FALL 2008
Sam Rickless,  "Berkeley on the perception of physical objects    
Kristen Irwin, "The Autonomy of Reason: Bayle's Skeptico-Rationalist Conception of Reason"
Matt Brown, "Evidence in John Dewey's Theory of Inquiry"

2007-8

SPRING 2008
Daniel Schwartz, "On Communicating to Cavemen: Plato and the Problems of Didactic Persuasion"
Tim Jankowiak, "The Subjects of Singular Judgments in Kant's Logic and Theory of Experience"
Karolina Huebner (Chicago), "Spinoza, Hobbes, and rhetoric"
Elliot Paul (Yale), "Cartesian notions of certainty and doubt"
Don Rutherford, "The History of Philosophy as Philosophy"

WINTER 2008
Matt Brown, "John Dewey's theory of inquiry"
Helmut Heit (Hannover), "Truth and Effect: Background, Content and Current Topicality  of Nietzsche's Philosophy of Science"
Rolf-Peter Horstmann (Humboldt/Berkeley), "The Unity of Reason and the Diversity of Life: The Idea of a System in Kant and in Nineteenth Century Philosophy"
Juhana Lemetti (Helsinki), "Late Hobbes and maker's knowledge"

FALL 2007
James Messina, "Spatial Relations, Different Places, and the Possibility of Coordination: The First Metaphysical Exposition Revisited"
Erin Frykholm, "Feeling and Sentiment in Hume's Moral Theory"
Clinton Tolley, "Logical Forms as Objects of Intuition in Husserl's Sixth Logische Untersuchung"
David Owen (Arizona), "Belief, Causal Reasoning, and the Passions"
Kristen Irwin, "Corrosive Reason and Epistemic Immunity: Pierre Bayle on Reason and the Mysteries"

2006-7

SPRING 2007
James Messina, "Unity Amidst Diversity: The Place of Space in Kant's Account of Self-Awareness and Objective Experience"
Susan Castro (UCLA), "Kant's Aristotelian Path from Experience to Moral Metaphysics in the First Critique and the Groundwork"
Tim Jankowiak, "Berkeley's 'Master Argument': Its Shape and Where It Doesn't Fail"
Dan Garber (Princeton), "Activity and Causality"
Wayne Martin (Essex), "Hegel's Failed Confessional Enterprise"

WINTER 2007
Doug Hutchinson (Toronto) and Monte Johnson, "Reconstructing Aristotle's Lost Protrepticus"
Lisa Shapiro (SFU), "Rethinking Descartes's Institution of Nature: The Passions of the Soul and Body-Mind Causation"
Mary Domski (New Mexico), "Naturalism, Nominalism, and the Mathematical Treatment of Nature: Reconsidering Locke's Relationship to Newton"
David Brink, "Mill's Ambivalence about Duty"

FALL 2006
Matt Kisner (South Carolina), "Virtuous Passions: Spinoza on the Power of Passivity"
Henry Allison (UC Davis), "Hume's Philosophical Insouciance: A Reading of Treatise 1.4.7"
James Messina, "Catching Kant's 'I': Knowing Oneself as an Object in the First Critique"
Monte Johnson, "Aristotle on the Value of the Sciences"
Eric Watkins, "Kant on the Hiddenness of God"

2005-6

SPRING 2006
Susan Castro (UCLA), "The Transcendental Analytic of Groundwork II"
Wayne Martin (Essex), "Conscience and Consciousness: Rousseau's Critique of the Stoic Theory of Oikeosis"
Stefano Di Bella (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), "Subjects, Things and Properties: On Leibniz's Ontological Approach"
Matt Brown, "To See Like a Child: John Dewey, the Tao, and Nonconceptual Experience"
Holly Andersen (Pittsburgh) and Rick Grush, "The History of the Specious Present Doctrine: From Reid to Hodgson and 'E.R. Clay'"
R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford), "Is Modus Ponens Analytic sensu Kant?"

WINTER 2005
Helmut Heit (Hanover/UCSD) , "Origins of Scientific Thought in Ancient Ionia?"
John Whipple (UC Irvine), "Hobbes on Miracles in Leviathan"
Dale Dorsey, "Humean Constructivism and the Relativity Problem(s)"
Adam Streed, "Mill's Radical Feminism"
Babette Babich (Fordham), "The Genealogy of Morals and Right Reading: On the Nietzschean Aphorism and the Art of the Polemic"

FALL 2005
Don Rutherford, "Nietzsche's Philosophy of Experience"
Jens Timmermann (St Andrews), "Acting from Duty"
Michael Tiboris, "Stoic Children: The Moral Psychology of the Cradle"
James Messina, "Making Raum for Nonconceptual Content: The Place of Intuitions in Kant's Epistemology"

2004-5

SPRING 2005
Eric Watkins, "Kant on Transcendental Laws"
Kristen Irwin, "Bayle seulement philosophe?  Challenging Gianluca Mori's Reading of Bayle"
Holly Andersen (Pittsburgh, HPS) and Rick Grush, "History of the 'Specious Present' I: From Reid to Hodgson and Clay"
Don Rutherford, "Leibniz as Idealist"

WINTER 2005
Eric Watkins, "Making Sense of Mutual Interaction: Simultaneity and the Equality of Action and Reaction"
Kory Schaff, "Hegel's Solution to Poverty?"
Charlie Kurth, "Dissolving Wilson's Puzzle About Spinoza's Theory of Falsity"
Matt Brown, "A Deweyan Inquiry into Rorty's Attack on Inquiry into Inquiry"
Robert Merrihew Adams (Oxford), "The Priority of the Perfect in the Philosophical Theology of the Continental Rationalists"
Susan Castro (UCLA), "The Method of Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: Groundwork I"

FALL 2004
Rick Grush, "Berkeley and the Spatiality of Vision"
Sam Rickless, "Is Locke's Theory of Knowledge Inconsistent?"
Luke Robinson, "Ross, Conflicts of Obligation, and the Concept of a Prima Facie Obligation"
Lex Newman (Utah), "Descartes on the Will"
Ryan Hickerson, "Where Do (Kantian) Concepts Come From?"
Michael Gill (Arizona), "Rationalism, Sentimentalism, and Ralph Cudworth"

2003-4

SPRING 2004
Joseph Schear (Chicago), "Heidegger on Ontological Difference"
Kory Schaff, "Perpetual Peace or Endless Politics?  Kant, Hegel, and the Politics of Globalization"
Eric Watkins, "On the Necessity and Nature of Simples: Leibniz, Wolff, Baumgarten, and the Early Kant"
Melissa Johnson, "Is Kant's General Logic Extensional or Intensional?"
Greg Shirley, "Heidegger and the Old and New Logic"

WINTER 2004
Matthew Kisner, "Descartes's Psychologism"
Matt Egan, "The Issue of Unity in Hegel's Critique of Kant's Theoretical Philosophy"
Carl Sachs, "Is Truth a Useful Fiction? Nietzsche Between Idealism and Empiricism"
Wayne Martin, "Fichte's Transcendental Phenomenology of Agency"

FALL 2003
Kristen Irwin, "Heidegger's Transcendental Phenomenology"
Kory Schaff, "Hegel on Work, Freedom, and Community"
Ryan Hickerson, "What Was Brentano's Problem?"
John Vella, "Euripides and the Limits of Reason"
Falk Wunderlich (Berlin), "Kant's Theory of Consciousness in Context"

2002-3

SPRING 2003
Matthew Kisner, "Descartes' Psychologism"
P.D. Magnus, "Reid's Dilemma and the Uses of Pragmatism"
Don Rutherford, "Hobbes's New Science of Ethics"
Ryan Hickerson, "Logical Normativity and Husserlian Fulfillment"

WINTER 2003
Karl Ameriks (Notre Dame), Discussion of Kant and the Fate of Autonomy
Don Rutherford, "A Leibnizian Theory of Spontaneity"
Kristen Irwin, "'True' Kantian Pluralism"
Wayne Martin, "An Exercise in Kantian Logic"
Andrew Youpa (UC Irvine), "Spinoza's Ethical Objectivism"

FALL 2002
Rick Grush, "What Berkeley Should Have Said"
Matthew Kisner, "Skepticism and Idealism in the Early Descartes"
Wayne Martin, "The Judgment Stroke and the Truth-Predicate: Frege and the Phenomenology of Judgment"
Eric Watkins, "Kant's Model of Causality"

2001-2

SPRING 2002
Matthew Kisner,"Lions, Polecats and Foxes: Would Hobbesian Subjects Agree to Covenant?"
Ryan Hickerson,"Phenomenology without Phenomena: The Riddle of Intentional Objects in Husserl's Logical Investigations"
Carl Sachs, "Subspecie Spinozae: The Spinoza-Nietzsche Connection"
Kory Schaff,"Socializing the Mind? McDowell's Hegelianism Revisited"
P. D. Magnus, "Underdetermination and Aspirations of Certainty"

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