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Workshop "Ontological Failure: Heidegger and Beyond"

Poster Ontological Failure 2026

Programme:

Monday, 1 June

10:00 – 11:10

Joseph Schear (Oxford):

‘On the Very Idea of an Understanding of Being’

11:10 – 11:30

Break

11:30 – 12:40

Fridolin Neumann (Warwick):

‘Idle talk, untruth, and entities in Being and Time

12:40 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:10

Kate Withy (Georgetown):

‘What Breakdown Reveals about World’

15:10 – 15:30

Break

15:30 – 16:40

Sacha Golob (KCL):

‘Not with a bang, but a whimper? Comfort and ontological failure’’

16:40 – 17:00

Break

17:00 – 18:10

Tobias Keiling (Warwick):

‘Heidegger on Enteignis

19:00

Dinner in Leamington Spa

 

Tuesday, 2 June

10:00 – 11:10

Irene McMullin (Essex)

‘Leaping In during the Technological Age: Moral Indifference as Ontological Failure’

11:10 – 11:30

Break

11:30 – 12:40

Jussi Backman (Tampere):

‘Perilous Failure: The Conversion of the Technical Setup and the End of Late Modernity’

12:40 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:10

Ian A. Moore (Loyola Marymount):

‘Medieval Ontological Failure’

15:10 – 15:30

Break

15:30 – 16:40

Denis McManus (Southampton):

‘Heidegger on ontological success: Is explaining the emergence of Dasein a task for philosophy?’

16:40 – 17:00

Break

17:00 – 18:10

Lucas Janz (Oxford):

‘Who would Dasein have to become to achieve Ontological Success?’

 

Contact: fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk

 

Funding

The workshop is supported by generous grants from the British Society for the History of Philosophy and the Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy at the University of Warwick.

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).

Faculty of Social Science

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