Thursday, June 24, 2010

17:00 - 17:30 Welcome and Conference Opening

Susanne Rohr (Universität Hamburg)
Miriam Strube (Universität Paderborn)

17:30 - 18:30 Keynote Lecture

Joseph Margolis (Temple University)
Bridging the Natural and Human Sciences [abstract]
Moderator: Susanne Rohr (Universität Hamburg)

18:30 Reception

Friday, June 25, 2010

9:00 - 9:45 Featured Lecture

Herwig Friedl (Universität Düsseldorf)
The Ontology of William James: Thinking in Images and Images of Thinking [abstract]
Moderator: Astrid Böger (Universität Hamburg)

9:45 - 10:15 Response to Keynote & Discussion

Heinz Ickstadt (FU Berlin)

10:15 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 Foundations I: Truth and Reality

Logi Gunnarsson (TU Dortmund)
The Key to Reality [abstract]

Helmut Pape (Universität Augsburg)
William James on the Psychodynamical Force of Truth [abstract]

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:45 Foundations II: Human Nature

Kai-Michael Hingst (Bucerius Law School Hamburg)
William James's Idea of Man: The Conditio Humana and the Philosophy of Pragmatism [abstract]

14:45 - 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 - 16:30 Revisions, Intersections, and Ethnicity

Miriam Strube (Universität Paderborn)
Negating Domination: Pragmatism, Pluralism, Power [abstract]

Georg Schiller (Universität Düsseldorf)
Writing the Me and Not-Me: Native American Literature and William James's Radical Empiricism [abstract]

19:00 Conference Dinner

Saturday, June 26, 2010

9:00 - 09:45 Featured Lecture

Joan Richardson (CUNY New York City)
Pragmatism: 'She widens the field of search for God' [abstract]
Moderator: Miriam Strube (Universität Paderborn)

9:45 - 10:15 Response to Keynote & Discussion

Heinz Ickstadt (FU Berlin)

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 - 12:15 William James and Modernism

Alexander Meier-Dörzenbach (Universität Hamburg)
'I can't see you any longer when I look:' James, Stein, Picasso as a Triad of Art [abstract]

Patricia Rae (Queens University Kingston, Ontario)
Verification and the Public Philosopher: George Orwell and William James [abstract]

12:15 - 13:45 Lunch Break

13:45 - 15:15 Pragmatism and Scientific Theories

Jan Kucharzewski (Universität Hamburg)
Pragmatist Physics: William James and Niels Bohr [abstract]

Michael Anacker (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Renewing Philosophy of Science: Transforming Main Issues of the Present Debate Pragmatically [abstract]

15:15 - 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 - 18:00 Current Debates in Politics and Ethics

Klaus Schubert (Universität Münster)
Democratic Faith: William James and Politics [abstract]

Robert Main (West Chester University)
Cultivating Wilderness: Pragmatism and Environmental Ethics [abstract]

Andrew Flescher (SUNY Stony Brook Long Island)
Jamesian 'Over-belief' and the Therapy of Hope [abstract]

18:00 End of Conference