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Idioms of Ethical Life: A Conference in Honor of the Work of Dr. Dennis J. Schmidt
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Oct 28, 2016 8:00 AM
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Oct 29, 2016 5:00 PM |
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Where | 111 Pasquerilla Spiritual Center - Eisenhower Chapel University Park, PA 16802 |
Contact Name | Karissa Rodgers |
Contact Phone | 814-863-0314 |
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To pose the question of ethics as an original matter, as an experience shaped above all by our being an idiom, is to shift the terrain, the horizon, in which such questions are posed. - Dennis Schmidt “The Idiom of the Ethical”
The Idioms of Ethical Life is an invitation to think with the work of philosopher, Dennis Schmidt. Schmidt has argued that the transformative character of thinking that constitutes the ethical is a matter of the idiom, that is, it is worked out in the singularity of situations. For Schmidt, ethics belongs to the very nature of thinking, properly understood. Dennis Schmidt, who was actively involved in the Rock Ethics Institute, is now Professor of Philosophy at Western Sydney University. This conference brings together some of the leading philosophers in the area of continental philosophy to reflect on the importance of his contributions to the profession.
This event is free and open to the public and you do not need to be present for the entire conference. An program of events will be published here as it gets closer to the event.
Program of Events
Friday, October 28 Pasquerilla Spiritual Center | |
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9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. |
Opening Remarks Nancy Tuana DuPont/Class of 1949 Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies Penn State |
9:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. |
Lives of Idioms Charles Scott Professor of Philosophy, Penn State Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and Research Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University |
10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m |
In a World Fraught and Tender: Dennis Schmidt’s Contributions to the Promise of an Original Ethics Theodore George Associate Professor and Head of Philosophy Texas A&M University |
12:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. |
Greek Tragedy and the Ethopoietic Event |
2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. |
Dennis Schmidt and the Origin of Ethical Life |
4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. |
From Abode to Dissemination |
Saturday, October 28 Pasquerilla Spiritual Center | |
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9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. |
Death and Sacrifice in Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature |
10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. |
Ethical Hermeneutics |
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. |
Hermeneutics without Meaning: The Comic and the Political in Dennis Schmidt’s Work Jeff Nealon Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Philosophy Penn State |
2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. |
On the Style of Philosophizing: Dennis Schmidt’s Hermeneutics of Writing María del Rosario Acosta López Associate Professor of Philosophy DePaul University |
3:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Some Notes on Art |
4:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. |
Who is Subject to the Ethical? Notes on Dennis Schmidt’s Theory of Ethics Andrew Benjamin Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought, Monash University Melbourne and Distinguished Anniversary Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities, Kingston University London |