Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Theoretische Philosophie / Philosophiegeschichte

Workshop on "Teleology in Nature and Human Action"

  • Wann 21.02.2015 09:00 bis 22.02.2015 13:30
  • Wo HAN 6, 1.03
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Saturday, February 21

 

9.00     Welcome

9.10     Stephan Schmid (HU Berlin): “Finality without Final Causes? Suárez’s Account of Natural Teleology” 

9.30     Comments by Franz Knappik (HU Berlin)

9.50     Discussion

 

11.00   Coffee

 

11.20   Johannes Haag (Potsdam): “Teleology in Nature? - The status and consequences of teleological reasoning in Kant’s Third Critique”

11.40   Comments by Till Hoeppner (Potsdam)

12.00   Discussion

 

 

13.10   Lunch

 

14.10   Georg Toepfer (ZfL Berlin): “Preservation teleology versus transformation teleology”

14.30   Comments by Sanja Dembić (HU Berlin)

14.50   Discussion

 

16.00   Coffee

 

16.20   Marianne Schark (Hamburg): “Can the biological notion of function be naturalized?”

16.40   Comments by Beate Krickel (Bochum)

17.00   Discussion

 

19.00   Dinner

 

Sunday, February 22

 

9.30     Matthias Haase (Universität Leipzig): “Realizing a Concept: Action and Teleology”

9.50     Comments by Benjamin Kiesewetter (HU Berlin)

10.10   Discussion

 

11.20   Coffee

 

11.40   Erasmus Mayr (HU Berlin): “Acting sub specie boni

12.00   Comments by Simon Gaus (HU Berlin)

12.20   Discussion

 

13.30 End of Workshop

 

Everyone is welcome to attend. But, since the workshop is a 'pre-read'

event, please contact one of the organizers (erasmusmayr@yahoo.com

or schmidsz@philosophie.hu-berlin.de) in advance in order to

register and for the texts.