Hegel and the Unity of Science
Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN)
G.W.F. Hegel was adamant that any philosophy worthy of the name had to be systematic, and thus to do justice to the specific spheres of knowledge as well as demonstrating their unity. Only so could our knowledge become scientific, and our (natural) science become knowledge. This conference will explore different aspects of this problem from the scientific nature of philosophical thinking itself to the philosophical nature of Hegel’s reflections on natural science.
Schedule
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The conference will be held in the East Faculty Lounge of the Purdue Memorial Union (PMU 240).Monday, February 24th, 2020
| Time | Speaker | Talk Title | Commentator |
| 10:00am | Elise Frketich (KU Leuven/Purdue) |
“Kant and Hegel on Biology and Individuation” | Brian Johnson (Purdue) |
| 11:20am | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:35am | Christian Martin (LMU Munich) |
“Our three attitudes towards nature” | Joshua Wretzel (Penn State) |
| 12:55pm | Lunch | ||
| 2:25pm | Marina Bykova (NC State) |
“Hegel's concept of nature and the systematic place of his philosophy of nature” | Michael Kolodziej (Chicago) |
| 3:45pm | Coffee Break | ||
| 4:00pm | Andreja Novakovic (UC Berkeley) |
“Self-Surprise in Hegel’s Science of Logic” | Eliza Little (Chicago) |
| 5:20pm | Coffee Break | ||
| 5:35pm | Clinton Tolley (UC San Diego) |
“The unity of logic as a science” | Yang Chen (Purdue) |
| 6:55pm | Finish | ||
Tuesday, February 25th, 2020
| Time | Speaker | Talk Title | Commentator |
| 9:00am | Sebastian Stein (Heidelberg) |
“Hegel on the truth-conditions of empirical and philosophical knowledge about nature” | Jim Elliot (Purdue) |
| 10:20am | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:35am | Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer (Leipzig) |
“Nature, Spirit, and their Logic. Hegel‘s Encyclopedia as an order of the Sciences” | Shana Crandell (Chicago) |
| 11:55am | Lunch | ||
| 1:25pm | Ansgar Lyssy (Heidelberg) |
“Understanding things by using them – Causation, purpose and life in Hegel” | Morganna Lambeth (Purdue) |
| 2:45pm | Coffee Break | ||
| 3:00pm | Luca Corti (Padova) |
“Hegel, Naturalism and Cognition” | Kevin Harrelson (Ball State) |
| 4:20pm | Coffee Break | ||
| 4:35pm | Elvira Basevich (UMass Lowell) |
“What is an Anti-Racist Philosophy of Race in Kant and Hegel?” | Tiffany Montoya (Purdue) |
| 5:55pm | Finish | ||