Social Studies Building, Ground Floor, SO.21

Thursday, 29 May 2008

9.15-9.45: Registration

9.45-11.15: Paul Franks (Toronto), An Old Man at the Revels: Hegel, Truth, and History

11.15-11.30: Break (Coffee-Tea) 

11.30-13.00: Graduate session

1. Henry Southgate (Northwestern), The transcendental background of Hegel's concept of contradiction [abstract]
2. Christian Martin (LMU, Munich), The truth well lost [abstract]

13.00-14.00: Lunch (own arrangements; a variety of restaurants on campus)

14.00-15.30: Robert Stern (Sheffield), Doubt, Fallibilism and Presuppositionlessness: Can Hegel be Read as a Pragmatist? [abstract]

15.30-16.00: Break (coffee-tea)

16.00-17.30: Stephen Houlgate (Warwick), Truth in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: The Case of Perception

18.00: Dinner (own arrangements; a variety of restaurants on campus; conference dinner) *

Friday, 30 May 2008

9.15-9.45: Registration

9.45-11.15: Robert Pippin (Chicago), Literary Truth in Hegel's Phenomenology

11.15-11.30: Break (coffee-tea)

11.30-13.00: Graduate session

1. Jose Luis Fernandez (Stony Brook), The eschatological design of truth in Hegel's philosophy of art [abstract]
2. Arthur Kok (Humboldt, Berlin), The role of social interaction in truth finding: The relation between objective nature and recognition in the master-slave dialectic in the 'Phenomenology of Spirit' [abstract]

13.00-14.00: Lunch (own arrangements; a variety of restaurants on campus)

14.00-15.30: Anton Friedrich Koch (Tübingen), Truth and Metaphysics in Hegel's Philosophy [abstract]

15.30-16.00: Break (coffee-tea)

16.00-17.30: Angelica Nuzzo (CUNY), “… As if Truth Were a Coin!”—Hegel’s Developmental Theory of Truth [abstract]

18.00: Dinner (own arrangements; a variety of restaurants on campus)

* There will be a conference dinner on Thursday night at the Radcliffe, but this costs £23 per person. If you would like to attend, please let Ioannis know as soon as possible (I.D.Trisokkas@warwick.ac.uk). Please specify if you have any special dietary requirements.