Call for Participation: International Conferences

Nietzsche on Mind and Nature

September 11–13, 2009

St Peter's College, University Of Oxford

The Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford will host the 2009 International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 11–13 September 2009, at St. Peter's College, Oxford.

This conference seeks for the first time to consider Nietzsche's philosophy of mind in relation to his philosophical naturalism. We hope to consider papers by Nietzsche experts with a background in analytical or continental philosophy as well as from those working in the fields of philosophy of mind and naturalism with a strong interest in Nietzsche.

Keynote speakers:

Professor Günter Abel, Faculty of Philosophy, TU Berlin, Germany.

Professor Brian Leiter, Faculty of Law, University of Chicago, U.S.

Professor Graham Parkes, Faculty of Philosophy, Cork, Ireland.

Professor Peter Poellner, Faculty of Philosophy, Warwick University, U.K.

Professor Bernard Reginster, Faculty of Philosophy, Brown University, U.S.

Professor John Richardson, Faculty of Philosophy, NYU, U.S.

Professor Galen Strawson, Department of Philosophy, Reading Univer sity, U.K.

Potential parallel session topics include:

Nietzsche's theory of subjectivity              Nietzsche and the body

Intentionality                                            Memory and self

Consciousness and self-consciousness     Nietzsche and biology

Epiphenomenalism                                  Nietzsche and psychology

Mind-body problem                               Awareness, emotion, cognition

Unconsciousness                                   Perspectivism and the self

Self and otherness                                 Self-awareness and

                                                            self-knowledge

Mind as emergent phenomenon             Nietzsche and neuroscience

Nietzsche's naturalism                           Agency and freedom

Mind, world, brain                                Intersubjectivity and value

Art, mind, nature                                  Narrative/non-narrative self

For further details regarding registration and accommodation, please visit the conference website at http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/events/nietzsche_mind_conference or contact the organizers at fnsox/at/philosophy.ox.ac.uk

Organizers: Dr. Peter Kail and Dr. Manuel Dries, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford.

Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life

November 2, 3, and 4, 2009

Institute of Humanities, Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile

This conference offers an occasion for a wide-ranging exploration and analysis of Nietzsche's conception of life. While it is generally acknowledged that Nietzsche throughout his writing career advocated the affirmation of earthly life as a way to counteract nihilism and asceticism, the question of what this affirmation entails is still very much up for discussion. This conference wishes to consider the multiplicity of meanings—metaphysical, aesthetic, ethical, political, and scientific—that the idea of life recovers in Nietzsche's work. Additionally, this conference wishes to provide a space for the presentation and discussion of Latin American Nietzsche scholarship.

Confirmed plenary speakers include:

Christa Davis Acampora, Hunter College, City University of New York, U.S.

Keith Ansell-Pearson, Warwick University, U.K.

Mónica Cragnolini, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Germán Cano Cuenca, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain

José Jara, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile

Herman Siemens, University of Leiden, Holland

Dieter Thomä, Universität St. Gallen, Switzerland

Sessions are expected to cover topics relevant to the conference theme, including the following:

• • Nietzsche and biology, evolutionary theory, and psychology

• • Nietzsche's conception of the body, of the lives of animals/plants, and of nature

• • Life and historicity; life, culture, and memory; the future of life

• • Fate and freedom; will to power; guilt, responsibility, and the innocence of becoming

• • Dionysus and Apollo; tragedy and comedy; life and literature; the philosophical life

• • Nietzsche and philosophies of life

• • Nietzsche and biopolitics

• • Nietzsche, geopolitics, and the meaning of the earth

Conference languages are Spanish and English. We will work with simultaneous translation during plenary sessions.

For more information and registration, please send an e-mail to Nietzsche.Santiago@gmail.com.

Organizer: Vanessa Lemm, Institute of Humanities, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile; Vanessa.Lemm@udp.cl, www.udp.cl.