We are glad to give notice of the conference, What is Metaphilosophy?, which will take place on September 7th-9th, 2022, at the EBS University for Business and Law, Oestrich-Winkel and online via Zoom. The conference is organized by Michael Lewin (Universität Koblenz – Landau) and Richard Raatzsch (EBS Universität Für Wirtschaft Und Recht).
Keynote speakers will be Paul Hoyningen-Huene (Universität Hannover), Richard Raatzsch, (EBS Universität Für Wirtschaft Und Recht), Nicholas Rescher (University of Pittsburgh), Timothy Williamson (Oxford University).
To register, write to michael.lewin.di@gmail.com.
You can find the program of the conference below and you can download it at this link.
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September 7, 2022 (all Times are in CET)
14:45 Greetings and Introduction
15:00 – 16:00 Nicholas Rescher (University of Pittsburgh): Positioning Metaphilosophy
16:00 – 17:00 Jelscha Schmid (University of Basel): Metaphilosophy as First Philosophy: from Kant to Fichte
17:00 – 18:00 Richard Raatzsch (EBS University for Business and Law): How Weird is Philosophizing!
September 8, 2022
10:00 – 11:00 Fausto Fraisopi (University of Freiburg): Metaphilosophy: Doctrine, Threshold or Dimension?
11:00 – 12:00 Joachim Horvath (Ruhr University Bochum): Thought Experiments and Arguments
14:00 – 15:00 Anna-Maria Eder (TU Dresden / University of Cologne): Idealizations in Epistemology
15:00 – 16:00 Insa Lawler (University of North Carolina), in cooperation with Finnur Dellsén und James Norton (University of Iceland): Would Disagreement Undermine Progress?
16:00 – 17:00 Paul Hoyningen-Huene (Leibniz University Hannover / University of Zurich): In Which Sense is Philosophy Scientific?
September 9, 2022
10:00 – 11:00 Thomas Arnold (Heidelberg University): Socratic Shifts. Notes on Plato’s Metaphilosophy
11:00 – 12:00 Michael Lewin (University of Koblenz and Landau): Metaphilosophy as a Unified Discipline
14:00 – 15:00 Daniel Minkin (University of Marburg): Metaphilosophical Skepticism: A (New) Threat to Philosophy as a Rational Enterprise?
15:00 – 16:00 Timothy Williamson (University of Oxford): Reflecting on One’s Own Philosophical Practice