Thursday, March 15^th

4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. : Workshop on Jane Addams – Charlene Haddock Seigfried

Friday, March 16^th 

8:00 a.m.-9:15 a.m.

Imagination & Critique – Crown Center 334

 

Adorno, Imagination, and the Political – Michael Reno, Michigan State University

The Politics of Critique: an Examination of Self-Consciousness in Kant and Marx – Nicholas Mowad, Loyola University Chicago

Early Moderns – Crown Center 534

 

Berkeley’s Pragmatism and the Investigative Role of Figurative Language – Amanda Printz

Spinoza and Strict Necessitarianism — Adam Thompson, University of Wyoming

9:20 a.m.-10:35 a.m.

Pragmatist Politics - 334

 

Elements of a Pragmatist Theory of Social Inquiry – Matthew Brown, UC San Diego

Pragmatic Correspondence and Disequilibrium: One Political Consideration – Gregory Wolcott, Loyola University Chicago

Remedies to Action’s Unpredictability—Arendt, Dewey, and the Place of Thinking in Politics – Paul Ott

Contemporary U.S. Foreign Policy – Crown Center 534

 

Certain Enough: How Cheney Fell Off Chisholm’s Ladder and Broke his Phronesis – Joshua Mason, Loyola Marymount University

Just War Theory and The Principle of Universality – Jesse Kirkpatrick, American University, School of International Service

A Pragmatic Analysis of Recent U.S. Foreign Policy – Jennifer Caseldine-Bracht, IPFW 

10:40 a.m.-11:55 a.m.  

Wittgenstein: Poking the Political – Crown Center 334

“What is a broom?”: Parsing the Dialectic – Roman Briggs, University of Arkansas

The Possibility of the Political: G.E. Moore, Wittgenstein, and Sensus Communis – Daniel Chatman

Saying Something about the Unspeakable – David Krueger, SUNY

Marx, Liberalism, and Humanism – Crown Center 534

 

Rights and Their Critical Potential – Jake Greenblum, Texas A&M University

Ideology and Objectivity: A Review of Marx’s Critical Methodology – Morgan Horowitz

Humanist or Anti-humanist? The Social and Historical Individual in Marx’ Grundrisse – Seth Vanetta, SIUC 

12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. : LUNCH BREAK 

1:00 p.m.-2:15 p.m. 

Foucault: Power, Critique, Method – Crown Center 434

Foucault, Social Inquiry, and Methodology – Doug Walters

The Parallax of Power: Foucault on the Relation of Sovereign and Biopolitical Power – L. Sebastian Purcell, Boston College

Personal Artistry: The Role of Critique in the Formation of the Self – Justin Harrison, Loyola University Chicago

Polis: Polemic, Education, Constitution – Crown Center 534

 

Polemos in the Res Publica: On Rorty, Intellectual Integrity, and Philosophical Aufhebungen – Timothy Chatman

Richard Rorty and Bernard Lonergan on Sentimental Education – Alfredo MacLaughlin, Loyola University Chicago

The FOSS Community as a Polis  - Matthew Butcher & Paul Leisen, Loyola University Chicago 

2:20 p.m.-3:35 p.m.

Difference, Violence, and Normativity – Crown Center 534

 

Between the Necessity and Violence of Community: De/Construction and the Community to Come - Jamal Lyksett, University of Idaho, & Todd Trembley, Washington State University

Deleuze and Normativity – Nathan Jun, Purdue University

Fables: Difference: How do we conceive of the outside of a text? – Nathalie Nya, UC Santa Cruz 

4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. The 2007 Brennan Lecture I

Charlene Haddock Seigfried, "Differences as Revolutionary Forces"

Jane Addams' assumption that women as women would have something unique to bring to politics was proven wrong in the years after they first received the vote in the United States. In seeking to determine whether this was due to a false view of women's nature or to specific historical circumstances, I explore the sense of 'difference' at stake. The pragmatists are often wary of differences because they are so often non-negotiable, and yet they also valorize differences as sources of creativity and seek to protect them in the political realm. In this paper I seek to sort out the difference differences make.

Saturday, March 17^th  

8:00 a.m.-9:15 a.m.

Re-Reading Rawls – Crown Center 334

 

Rawls’s Overlapping Consensus: An Unrealistic Requirement of Stability – Nathaniel Ssharadin, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Political Liberalism, Gender, and the Family – Michael Tiboris, UC San Diego

Ontologies of Race & Racism – Crown Center 534

 

What is Race Really? - Mark Chakoian, Loyola University Chicago

Exposing the Dangers of Racist Fantasies and Fantasies of Racism – Kristin McCartney 

9:20 a.m.-10:35 a.m. 

Being and Beyond: Doing Justice – Crown Center 334

Toward a Politics Untained by Ideology: Levinas and Plato on the Orientation of Justice – Michael Silva, Loyola University Chicago

Icnocuicatl: A Song for Being – Minerva Ahumeda, Loyola University Chicago 

10:40 a.m.-11:55 a.m.

Plenary Session: Papers in Honor of Hans Seigfried

12:00 p.m.-12:45 p.m.: LUNCH BREAK

12:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. : The 2007 Brennan Lectures II & III

Larry Hickman: The Genesis of Democratic Norms

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Richard Bernstein: The Ethical  Consequences of William James' Pragmatic Pluralism

The New School for Social Research

Roundtable

Richard Bernstein, Larry Hickman, and Charlene Haddock Seigfried

Afterward: Banquet at Ethiopian Diamond 

Sunday, March 18^th  

9:20 a.m.-10:35 a.m. 

Kant & the Motive of Duty – Crown Center 334

Kantian Phenomenology and Moral Worth: knowing “what it’s like” to act from duty – Audrey Anton, Ohio State University

‘God and Eternity in their Awful Majesty’: Faith and Moral Motivation in the writings of Immanuel Kant – Michael Burke, Loyola University Chicago

Social Construction – Crown Center 534

 

Bearing Identities – Nathan Palencia

What Kind of Moral Reality can be Socially Constructed? - Joshua S. Heter, Western Michigan University  

10:40 a.m.-11:55 a.m.  

Margins & Science – Crown Center 334

Ecofeminism vs. Deep Ecology - Christina Nelson, University of North Texas

The Values in Science Debate: Reform or Risk - Mark Nasr Youssef, University of Missouri, St. Louis

Phrenology in the Academy :The Manifestation of Objectification – Tiah Balcert, Duquesne University 

Institutions & Interest – Crown Center 534

Mexico’s unresolved primary needs: A philosophical approach - Norma Velasco, Loyola University Chicago

Institutional Lag – Danielle Lake

Does Everyone Have the Duty to Act in the Public Interest? - Jing Long, University of Guelph