Nietzsche: Instinct and Language (conference)

Nietzsche: Instinct and Language
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal), 9-10 November 2009

Monday, 9 November 2009
11h00 – Welcome by the organizers
11h15 – Prof. João Constâncio (IFL / UNL-FCSH), “Instinto, Consciência e Linguagem no Para Além do Bem e do Mal”
12h00 – Coffee-break
12h15 – André Muniz Garcia (UNICAMP/ Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität Greifswald), “Da interpretação nietzscheana dos modos de fala dos moralistas à semiótica dos afetos morais: considerações sobre o aforismo 187 de Para Além de Bem e Mal”
13h00 – Lunch
15h00 – Andrea Bertino (Università degli Studi di Genova/ Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität Greifswald), “‘Wie bei den Bienen’? Instinkt und Sprache im Kontext eines nicht reduktionistischen Naturalismus bei Nietzsche und Herder”
15h45 – Coffee-break
16h00 – Prof. Werner Stegmaier (Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität Greifswald), “Furchterregende Erkenntnisse. Instinkt und Sprache im V. Buch von Nietzsches Fröhlicher Wissenschaft“

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
09h30 –  IFL’s Nietzsche Seminary: “Instinct, Conscience and Language in Daybreak 115 and 116″
With the contributions of: André Muniz Garcia, Andrea Bertino, João Cachopo, João Constâncio, João Proença, Katia Hay, Maria João Branco, Marta Faustino, Nuno Ribeiro, Werner Stegmaier
13h00 – Lunch

CFP: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Science

Nietzsches Wissenschaftsphilosophie / Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Science
International Conference at the Technische Universität Berlin  18–21 July 2010

Keynote speakers:  Günter Abel (Berlin), R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford),  Babette E. Babich (Fordham), Christian Benne (Odense),  Tilman Borsche (Hildesheim), Thomas H. Brobjer (Uppsala), Marco Brusotti (Lecce / Berlin), Giuliano Campioni (Pisa),  Maudemarie Clark (Hamilton), Klaus Fischer (Trier),  Ronald N. Giere (Minnesota), Helmut Heit (Berlin),  Andrea Orsucci (Cagliari), John Richardson (NYU),  Richard Schacht (Urbana-Champaign), Werner Stegmaier (Greifswald), Paul van Tongeren (Nijmegen).

Science in the wide sense of the German word Wissenschaft, covering the natural and the social sciences as well as the humanities, is one of the most significant and efficient features of modern culture. Nietzsche’s philosophical work counts among the most prominent and influential reflections on this modern culture and he always put special emphasis on Wissenschaft. From Nietzsche’s philosophical point of view, science on the one hand is a specific mode of
constructing and defending knowledge-claims, which could be qualified epistemologically, but on the other hand it is a historically contextualized and socially relevant cultural technique. On the basis of these ideas, this conference focuses on the significance and current topicality of Nietzsche’s philosophy of science. Moreover, we would like to contextualize Nietzsche within the framework of his contemporary debates and investigate how his thoughts about “the problem of science” influenced the development of 20th and 21st-century philosophy of science. Therefore, we will have keynote-lectures and contributed papers on these four internally connected fields:

1.    Topicality: What would be Nietzsche’s contribution to current issues in the philosophy of science?
2.    Reception: How were Nietzsche’s ideas adopted by philosophers of natural and social sciences and humanities in the 20th and 21st centuries?
3.    Content: How should we understand central themes and motives of Nietzsche’s philosophy of science?
4.    Context: What is the significance of Nietzsche’s reception of the sciences and contemporary and classical text for his philosophy of science?

Conference languages are German and English.

Send a one-page abstract of your paper and a brief CV to Dr. Helmut Heit. Further information can be found here.

The deadline for submissions is 17 January 2010.

Schopenhauer on Radio 4

On Thursday, 29 October the BBC Radio 4 programme “In our Time” was devoted to a 45-minute discussion of Schopenhauer’s philosophy. It can be listened to in its entirety on the BBC iPlayer (for a limited time, at least); the panel includes AC Grayling and Chris Janaway.

Nietzsche Society 2009

Here is the programme for the 2009 annual meeting of the Nietzsche Society .

Nietzsche + geography

ACME, “an international e-journal for critical geographies”, has produced a special issue on the theme of Nietzsche and geography.

FNS conference 2009

Barry Stocker (Istanbul Technical University) has posted a report of the recent 2009 FNS conference in Oxford on his blog.

Nietzschean Thinking: Beyond the “Two Cultures”

Papers are sought for a workshop on “Nietzschean Thinking” as part of the 12th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI) in Ankara, Turkey, which is taking place from August 2-6, 2010. The topic of the conference is “Thought in Science and Fiction”. Workshops are four hours long and consist of eight to ten papers.

Examining Nietzsche’s approach to scientific and literary traditions of thought is particularly relevant at a time when scientific knowledge continues to make inroads into areas of human culture once deemed the preserve of the humanistic disciplines. Developments in genetics, evolutionary biology, environmental  science, physiology, and neuropsychology have radically increased science’s relevance to the study of topics as diverse as religious
experience, empathy and emotion, language acquisition and cognition, social interaction, and cultural development. At the same time, scientists are increasingly aware of the”feedback loop” between culture, body, and natural environment, such that scientific reductionism has become increasingly untenable. More than ever, the openness and plasticity of individual and cultural imagination is recognized as complementary to, rather than a refutation of, the latest developments in science and medicine.

In light of science’s increasing application to the disciplines of philosophy, cultural studies, religious studies, psychology, and anthropology, this workshop explores the relation between (and potential synthesis of) the scientific and imaginative dimensions of Nietzsche’s thought. The workshop also welcomes papers that explore the relevance of
Nietzsche or Nietzschean approaches to problems in social, political, and cultural life that raise issues of science and imagination. Therefore, papers that focus on Nietzsche’s work, as well as papers that apply a broadly Nietzschean approach to contemporary social and cultural issues, are welcome.

Submissions should be sent by email to Dr. Saul Tobias and should comprise an approximately 500-word proposal and the author’s full contact details. Invited participants will be informed by the end of the calendar year.  A conference description and complete details of this workshop (Section V) are available here.

Agonist

Vol II, Issue 2 of The Agonist, the journal of the Nietzsche Circle, is now available online.

Download the entire issue as a single pdf here.  Download individual pdfs or read online in html here.

ESSAY Zarathustra and the Children of Abraham by James Luchte

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT Nietzsche Conferencia Internacional: “El de venir de la vida/The becoming of life.”

INTERVIEW Babette Babich interviewed by Nicholas Birns

REVIEWS Maria João Mayer Branco (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) on Nietzsche and the Rebirth of the Tragic  by Mary Ann Frese Witt;  Hugo Drochon (St. John’s College, Cambridge) on Aesthetic Transformations: Taking Nietzsche at His Word by Thomas Jovanovski;  David van Dusen (University of Wales) on Redeeming Nietzsche: On the Piety of Unbelief by Giles Fraser and Pious Nietzsche: Decadence and Dionysian Faith by Bruce Ellis Benson; Martine Prange (University of Amsterdam & Maastricht) on Nietzsche and the “English”: The Influence of British and American Thought on his Philosophy by Thomas H. Brobjer;  Katrina Mitcheson on On the Seventh Solitude: Endless Becoming and Eternal Return in the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by Rohit Sharma;   Véronique M. Fóti (Pennsylvania State University) on Pandora’s Senses: The Feminine Character in the Ancient Text by Vered Lev Kenaan.

Nietzsche Source

Nietzsche Source is a web site devoted to the publication of scholarly content on the work and life of Friedrich Nietzsche. The contents of  the site and its internet addresses are stable and can be freely consulted and used for scholarly purposes. Two editions are currently being published in Nietzsche Source: the digital version of the  
standard critical edition and the facsimile edition of the entire Nietzsche estate.

The genetic editions of two of Nietzsche’s works The Wanderer and his  Shadow and Dawn, including the reproduction of all related  manuscripts, are in preparation. The website is managed by the  Nietzsche Source Organization (formerly, the Association HyperNietzsche), a non-profit organisation hosted at the École normale supérieure in Paris. Its main purpose is to continue work on the edition, commentary and interpretation of Nietzsche’s work.

Nietzsche, Mind, Nature

NIETZSCHE ON MIND AND NATURE
St Peter’s College, Oxford, UK
11 – 13 September 2009

Forty-eight parallel session presentations & seven keynote adresses by

Günter Abel -  Consciousness, Language, and Nature. Nietzsche’s  Philosophy of Mind & Nature
Brian Leiter – Who is the ‘Sovereign Individual’?  Nietzsche on Freedom  & Agency
Graham Parkes - Nietzsche on Soul in Nature: an Ecological Perspective
Peter Poellner - Nietzsche’s Ethics and the Philosophy of Mind
Bernard Reginster - The Genealogy of Guilt
John Richardson - Nietzsche’s Dualism?
Galen Strawson - Nietzsche’s Metaphysics

Registration for this event is now open to the public here. Download the current version of the programme here.