[REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED]
‘Real Objects or Material Subjects’
Department of Philosophy, University of Dundee
March 27-28, 2010
SCHEDULE
Saturday
11am-12pm: registration
12pm-12:15pm: Introductory Remarks
12:15pm-1:30pm: James Williams (Dundee) “Contemplating Pebbles”
1:30pm-2:30pm: Lunch
2:30pm-4:00pm: Nathan Coombs (Royal Holloway, University of London) Platonism and Realism: Badiou contra Harman
Sid Littlefield (Georgia College & State University): Inflationary and Deflationary Metaphysics
Mike Olson (Villanova University) On the Dogmatic Limitations and Speculative Resources of Transcendental Idealism
4:30pm-6:00pm: Graham Harman (American University, Cairo) “I Am Also of the Opinion that Materialism Must Be Destroyed”
Sunday
10:00am-10:15am: Introductory Remarks
10:15am-11:30am: Adrian Johnston (University of New Mexico) “‘Naturalism or anti-naturalism? No, thanks–both are worse!’: Science, Materialism, and Slavoj Zizek.”
11:45am-1:15pm:
Austin Smidt (Nottingham) The Beyond In Our Midst: Sartre’s Robust Materialism as a Root of Revolution
Tom Eyers (Middlesex) Lacanian Materialism and the Question of the Real
Colby Dickinson (KU Leuven) Materialism as pantheistic animality: Giorgio Agamben and the silence of transcendence
1:15pm-2:00pm: Lunch Break
2:00pm-3:00pm:
John Van Houdt (KU Leuven): The Necessity of Contingency or Contingent Necessity? Meillassoux, Hegel, and the Logic of Modal Necessity
Paul Ennis (University College Dublin) Phenomenology and the Ancestral
3:15pm-4:30pm: Peter Hallward (CRMEP, Middlesex) “Self-Emancipation between Hegel and Marx”
4:30pm-5:00pm: Closing Discussion
Registration is ESSENTIAL, please email mykeburns@gmail.com with Name/Address/Institutional Affiliation/Email Address by March 8th.
Cost is £10 unwaged/ £20 waged. Checks can be made out to University of Dundee and sent to:
Department of Philosophy c/o Mike Burns, University of Dundee, Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4HN, Scotland, UK
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