Workshop "Ontological Failure: Heidegger and Beyond"
Programme:
Monday, 1 June
| 09:50 – 10:00 |
Welcome and opening remarks |
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10:00 – 11:10 |
Joseph Schear (Oxford): ‘On the Very Idea of an Understanding of Being’ |
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11:10 – 11:30 |
Break |
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11:30 – 12:40 |
Fridolin Neumann (Warwick): ‘Idle talk, untruth, and entities in Being and Time’ |
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12:40 – 14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00 – 15:10 |
Kate Withy (Georgetown): ‘What Breakdown Reveals about World’ |
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15:10 – 15:30 |
Break |
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15:30 – 16:40 |
Sacha Golob (KCL): ‘Not with a bang, but a whimper? Comfort and ontological failure’’ |
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16:40 – 16:50 |
Break |
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16:50 – 18:00 |
Tobias Keiling (Warwick): ‘Heidegger on Enteignis’ |
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19:00 |
Dinner in Leamington Spa (Limited spaces, registration required for non-speakers) |
Tuesday, 2 June
|
10:00 – 11:10 |
Irene McMullin (Essex) ‘Leaping In during the Technological Age: Moral Indifference as Ontological Failure’ |
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11:10 – 11:30 |
Break |
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11:30 – 12:40 |
Jussi Backman (Tampere): ‘Perilous Failure: The Conversion of the Technical Setup and the End of Late Modernity’ |
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12:40 – 14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00 – 15:10 |
Ian A. Moore (Loyola Marymount): ‘Medieval Ontological Failure’ |
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15:10 – 15:30 |
Break |
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15:30 – 16:40 |
Denis McManus (Southampton): ‘Ontological Failure and the Constitution of Dasein: Lessons from Lafont’s reading of Heidegger’ |
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16:40 – 17:00 |
Break |
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17:00 – 18:10 |
Lucas Janz (Oxford): ‘Who would Dasein have to become to achieve Ontological Success?’ |
The theme of this workshop is inspired by John Haugeland’s monumental paper Truth and Finitude: Heidegger’s Transcendental Existentialism (2013 [2000]).
The workshop is followed by a WMA & PKEP Collab - "Problems from Eckhart"Link opens in a new window on 3 June, featuring Ian A. Moore, Tobias Keiling, and Christoph Hoerl (Warwick).
Organisation and contact: fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk
Funding
The workshop is funded by generous grants from the British Society for the History of Philosophy, the Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy at the University of Warwick, and the Department of Philosophy's Student Events Fund.
Additional information
The workshop complies with the BPA/SWIP guidelines for accessible conferences, the BPA/SWIP good practice scheme for gender equality, and the BPA environmental travel scheme (ETS).