We are glad to inform you that on May, 20th at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich will be held the Workshop «Causality in Hegel / Kausalität bei Hegel» organized by Christopher Yeomans (Purdue University / LMU Munich) and Ansgar Lyssy (LMU Munich).
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Dina Emundts (FU Berlin)
James Kreines (Claremont McKenna College)
Julia Peters (Tübingen)
The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the various conceptions of causation at play in Hegel’s philosophy and its development.
While historical conceptions of causality have recently managed to attract comprehensive attention, many researchers have largely ignored Hegel’s take on this issue. This is a striking contrast to the fact that the concept of causality plays a major role in Hegel’s philosophy. It plays a role in the early Dissertatio, it is discussed both in Hegel’s early systematic writings in Jena and in his writings on natural philosophy. It is closely connected to the concept of force in the Phenomenology of Spirit and receives detailed attention in the Science of Logic and the Encyclopedia.
The Workshop is interested in understanding Hegel’s particular concept of causation, its development and its function within the overall outline of Hegel’s system. It is apparently closely related to the concepts of objectivity, mechanism, chemism and teleology, but also to force, progress, action, development, contingency, nature and laws of nature. It still has to be understood how his concept of causation is influential for his philosophy of science, his philosophy of nature, his critiques of atomism and traditional substantivist metaphysics, and for his own outline of rationalist metaphysics.
The conference aims at providing a space for fruitful exchanges between established scholars, junior researchers and PhD students. Presentation time will be approx. 30 minutes + 20 minutes for discussion. We may be able to provide a limited amount of financial support for PhD-students or Postdocs without travel funding from their own institutions, but we will not be able to fully cover all travel expenses.
The conference will be bilingual (English/German). Abstracts in either language and between 500 and 1000 words should be sent as pdf or standard text-document as attachment to:
causationinhegel@gmail.com
All abstracts should be prepared for double-blind review by removing any identification details. The author’s name, paper title, institutional position and affiliation, as well as contact information, should be included in the body of the e-mail.
Deadline: January 15th, 2017
Notification of acceptance: January 31st, 2017
