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Force All the Way Down. Kant, Problematic Judgments, the Force-Content Distinction

14 February 2025, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

Kant’s Denial and the Metaphysics of Existence

21 February 2025, 1o.5o am, APA Central Division Meeting, online

Comments will be provided by Andrew Stephenson.

Conferences & colloquia

  • ‘Analytic Inclusion and Synthetic Addition,’ New York, 01/2025

    ‘Needs of Theoretical Reason,’ Reggio Emilia, 12/2024

    ‘Kant’s Metaphysics of the Non-Existent,’ Catania, 10/2024

    ‘Analytic Inclusion and Synthetic Addition,’ Bonn, 09/2024

    ‘The Ideal of Pure Reason,’ Princeton, 04/2024

    ‘Real Possibilia,’ Bucharest/online, 04/2024

    ‘Kant on Possibilia,’ Fribourg, 04/2024

    ‘The Dilemma of Analyticity. Kant’s Long Argument against the Possibiliy of an Ontological Argument,’ Princeton, 03/2024

    ‘Kant on Merely Possible Objects’, NY/NJ Resarch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, 02/2024

    ‘Kant on Existence’ (with P. Blum), University of Lucerne, 11/2022

    ‘Judging Existentially’, University of Lucerne, 11/2021

    ‘Kant on the Syntheticity of Existence Judgments’, University of Fribourg, 10/2021

    ‘Thinking is Judging: Frege, Kimhi, Kant’, Columbia University in the City of New York, 12/2019

    ‘Hegel’s Critique of Kant’ Separatism, Unitism, and Integration, University of Lucerne / Ligerz, 09/2020

    ‘Manifestation. Die Überwindung der kantischen Darstellungsproblematik in Hegels Wesenslogik’ [Manifestation. Overcoming Kant’s Problem of Presentation with Hegel’s Logic of Essence], Darstellung in Farbe, ETH Zürich, 01/2019

    ‘Die Spontaneität des Verstandes’ [The Spontaneity of the Understanding]

    • University of Basel, 09/2015

    • XII. International Kant Congress, University of Vienna, 09/2015

  • ‘Created Possibilities and Possible Creations,’ Princeton 04/2024

    ‘The Contingent, the Necessary, and Ground’, Southhampton 10/2023

    ‘Possibility, Actuality, and Determinacy. Baumgarten’s Theory of Ontological Status, Fribourg 10/2023

    ‘Galilei’s Annihilation of Colours. From Irreality to Subjectivity’, Florence, 06/2023

    ‘Supreme Perfection, Second-Order Properties, and the Ontological Argument. A Variation on Frege’, University of Fribourg, 11/2018

    ‘I think, I am, God exists. An Inquiry about Existence-Arguments’, Workshop with Lucy O’Brien, University of Fribourg, 10/2017

    ‘On the Plenitude of Worlds. David Lewis & Stealing a Glance at Leibniz’, University of Fribourg, 12/2016

    ‘The Power of Thought’, Intentionality, Rationality, and the Subject, University of Fribourg / Trogen, 06/2016

  • ‘What is Hegel's Project in the Science of Logic?’, University of Fribourg, 10/2020

    ‘Hegel’s Critique of Kant’, Separatism, Unitism, and Integration, University of Lucerne / Ligerz, 09/2020

    ‘Manifestation. Die Überwindung der kantischen Darstellungsproblematik in Hegels Wesenslogik’ [Manifestation. Overcoming Kant’s Problem of Presentation with Hegel’s Logic of Essence], ETH Zurich, 01/2019

    ‘Kontingenz und mögliche Welt’ [Contingency and Possible Worlds], University of Fribourg, 10/2016

    Von der Phänomenologie zur Noumenologie und zurück’ [From Phenomenology to Noumenology and Back], Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler. Schwerpunkte und Kontexte seiner Philosophie, University of Basle, 03/2016

    ‘Geschichte als “andere Zeit”’ [History as ‘the Other Time’], University of Bochum, 05/2016

    ‘Dialectic of the Soul. Platonic Heritage in Schelling’s Philosophy of Nature’, University of Quebec at Montreal, 07/2015

  • ‘Supreme Perfection, Second-Order Properties, and the Ontological Argument. A Variation on Frege’, University of Fribourg, 11/2018

    ‘Necessary Existence and the Modal Ontological Argument’, University of Fribourg, 10/2018

    ‘I think, I am, God exists. An Inquiry about Existence-Arguments’, University of Fribourg, 10/2017

    ‘Eine jede Philosophie dreht sich um den ontologischen Gottesbeweis?’ [Every Philosophy Revolves Around the Ontological Argument?], University of Basle, 06/2016

  • ‘What if Existence Belonged to an Essence? A Worry for Naïve Metaphysics’, Workshop with Kit Fine, Ligerz, 06/2023

    ‘Frege on Existence and Number’, The Nature of Existence, University of Lucerne / Ligerz, 11/2017

    ‘“In einem Gespinst von Dunst, Einbildung, Träumerei und Konjunktiven.” The Pertinence of Fallibility, Sensibility, and Finitude to Modality’, University of Fribourg, 11/2017

    ‘Perfection, Property, Predicate. On the Varieties of Existence’, University of Fribourg / Champex-le-Lac, 10/2017

    ‘On the Plenitude of Worlds. David Lewis & Stealing a Glance at Leibniz’, University of Fribourg, 12/2016

    ‘On Leuenberger’s “The Contingency of Contingency”’, University of Basle, 10/2015

  • ‘Thinking is Judging: Frege, Kimhi, Kant’, Columbia University in the City of New York, 12/2019

    ‘Judging and Being’, Transparency and Self-Awareness, University of Fribourg, 06/2019

    ‘Perfection, Property, Predicate. On the Varieties of Existence’, University of Fribourg / Champex-le-Lac, 10/2017

  • ‘Zukunft und Zufall, oder: das Seiende, insofern es erwartet wird’ [Future and Coincidence, or: Being, Insofar as it is Expected], University of Basle, 05/2018

    ‘Spatial Individuation of Times’, University of Quebec at Montreal, 06/2015

    ‘Augenblick’ [Moment], University of Basle, 12/2014

  • ‘Perceptual Irreflexivity’

    • Goethe Epistemology Meeting 2024, 09/2024

    • Contemporary Philosophy Workshop, University of Fribourg, 07/2023

    ‘Why Study the History of Philosophy? Gadamer’s Answer’, Philosophy after 1945, Ligerz, 10/2022

    ‘Political Imagination. On Utopia’, Perceiving, Imagining, and Judging. Themes from The Philosophy of Fabian Dorsch, University of Fribourg, 06/2018

    ‘Phänomen und Pathologie. Merleau Pontys negativistische Phänomenologie’ [Phenomenon and Pathology. Merleau Ponty’s Negativistic Phenomenology], University of Basle, 05/2014

Miscellaneous

  • ‘Irrealität oder Idealität? Zur Metaphysik der Zeit bei McTaggart und Hegel’ [Irreality or Ideality? Metaphysics of Time in McTaggart and Hegel] Lecture series on time, University of Fribourg, 03/2018

    ‘Descartes’ ontologischer Gottesbeweis’ [Descartes’ Ontological Argument], Faculty of Theology, University of Basle, 11/2016

  • ‘A Paralogism is a Paralogism. Comments on Watkins on Willaschek on Kant,’ Colchester, 12/2024

    ‘What if Existence Belonged to an Essence? A Worry for Naïve Metaphysics’, Workshop with Kit Fine, Ligerz, 06/2023

    On Uriah Kriegel: ‘Brentano’s Dual-Framing Theory of Consciousness’, Workshop on Self-Awareness, University of Fribourg, 10/2016

  • ‘Die Qual der Wahl – Konsum und Freiheit’ [The Agony of Choice – Consumption and Freedom] Lecture series on freedom, Solothurn, 06/2021

    ‘Zeitpfeil und Zukunftsreise’ [The Arrow of Time and Time-Travel], Talk and conversation with Prof. Dr. R. Simon; literary festival on time, Basle, 05/2019

    ‘Freiheit – Verantwortung’ [Freedom – Responsibility], Lecture series on the French Revolution, Solothurn, 09/2016

    ‘Was bedeutet Dir die Gegenwart?’ [What Does the Present Mean to You?], Lecture series on time, Solothurn, 04/2016

    ‘Die politischen Rechte’ [The Political Rights], Lecture series on the declaration of human rights, Solothurn, 10/2012