2012
THE SOCIETY FOR GERMAN IDEALISM
The SGI had two sessions during the 4-7 April 2012 Pacific APA at the Westin Seattle Hotel in Seattle.
There was an author-meets-critics session on Katerina Deligiorgi's book, The Scope of Autonomy: Kant and the Morality of Freedom (Oxford University Press, 2011), as well as a paper session celebrating the two-hundredth anniversary of the publication of Hegel's Science of Logic.
7:00-10:00 PM, Wednesday, 4 April
Author-Meets-Critics Session
The Scope of Autonomy: Kant and the Morality of Freedom, (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Author: Katerina Deligiorgi (Sussex University)
Critic: Carla Bagnoli (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Critic: Michael Morris (University of Southern Florida)
Critic: Susan Meld Shell (Boston College)
Chair: Aaron Bunch (Washington State University)
7:00-10:00 PM, Friday, 6 April
Paper Session Celebrating the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of the Publication of Hegel's Science of Logic
Victoria I. Burke (University of Toronto at Scarborough)
Hegel and the Normativity of the Concept
The opening of Book III of Hegel's Science of Logicshows the concept [der Begriff] to be structured by two reciprocally dependent moments, the cause and the effect. I offer a reading of this concept that shows it to exhibit the normativity of meaning. The two reciprocally dependent moments are the rule and the following of a rule inherent in any lexical ideality. These moments, and their reciprocity, are mirrored in the two shapes of consciousness that Hegel calls the master and slave in thePhenomenology of Spirit.
Commentator: John McCumber (University of California, Los Angeles)
Adam Moeller (Emory University)
Dialectic and Method: Rejections and Affirmations of the Organon Theory of Knowledge in Hegel’s Science of Logic
This paper presents arguments both for and against the dialectic's status as a method or an instrument of cognition. Hegel’s reasons for refusing the status of method are routinely raised in passages on Kant’s critical philosophy, but in the final section of the Greater Logic he has a sustained engagement with the dialectic in which he unproblematically refers to it as a method. Through an exposition of this section, I provide an interpretation of the dialectic that substantiates its methodological rigor and argue, ultimately, that we can uphold as a speculative proposition that the dialectic is indeed a method.
Commentator: Jeffrey A. Gauthier (University of Portland)
Christina Rawls (Duquesne University)
Presupposing/Positing Notions of Reverse Causality in Hegel's Science of Logic
This essay demonstrates the ways in which we can trace an implicit reliance and use of notions of reverse causality by Hegel in his work the Science of Logic. I hold that Hegel relies on conceptual relations between cause and effect in order to ground his larger argument, even if indirectly. More specifically, the relations between presupposition, existence, possibility, actuality, and necessity are examined to demonstrate Hegel's conceptual reliance on notions of reverse causal processes to bind these larger conceptual relations together.
Commentator: Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves (Morgan State University)
Chair: J. M. Fritzman (Lewis & Clark College)
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