Where to go Registration and keynote sessions take place in Senate Room 4.

722, located in the Department of Psychology, Square 1. Refreshments will be served in room 1.N.3.3 (the Foyer for the Network Centre), Square 1. Parallel sessions A1, A2, and A3 take place in the Senate Room 4.722. Parallel sessions B1, B2 and B3 take place in 1N1.4.1, Square 1. Programme 09.30 10.00: Registration 10.00 10.05: Welcome Introduction 10.05 11.35: Keynote: Fiona Hughes (University of Essex), Alpha, Omega and Everything in Between? Merleau-Pontys Late Philosophy of Nature; chair: Batrice Han-Pile (University of Essex) 11.35 11.45: Coffee 11.45 13.30: Session A1 or B1 13.30 14.15: Lunch 14.15 16.00: Session A2 or B2 16.00 16.10: Coffee 16.10 17.55: Session A3 or B3 17.55 18.00: Break 18.00 19.30: Keynote: Bob Stern (University of Sheffield), Natural Goodness? Eudaimonism After Kant; chair: Fabian Freyenhagen (University of Essex) 19.30 - late: Reception in Top Bar, Square 4. Parallel sessions Parallel Session A1 (Senate Room 4.722) Bart Zantvoort (University College Dublin) - Inertia and Relativity in Hegel Ben Berger (University of Warwick) - The 'Release' of the Absolute Idea: The Transition from Logic to Nature in Hegel's System Paul Giladi (University of Sheffield) - Nature, Spirit, and Naturalism Chair: Pavel Reichl (University of Essex) Parallel Session B1 (1N1.4.1) Charlotte Alderwick (University of Sheffield) - Merleau-Ponty's Ontology as Philosophy of Nature Jonas Indregard (University of Oslo) - Kant, Lovecraft, and the Ugliness of Nature Fintan Neylan (Dublin Unit for Speculative Thought) - The Question Concerning Nature Chair: Lorcan Whitehead (University of Essex)

Parallel Session A2 (Senate Room 4.722) Giovanni Maria Mascaretti (Essex) - History and Nature in Constellation Sean Murphy (University College Dublin) - Adorno's Addendum: Freedom and the Renaturalization of the Will Daniel Mourenza (University of Leeds)- Nature, Technology, Humanity: The Key Triangle for Walter Benjamins aisthesis Chair: John Lumsden (University of Essex)

Parallel Session B2 (1N1.4.1) Emanuel John (Potsdam University) - The Moral Evil and Natural Defects Nicole Osborne (University of Essex) - Pleasure and Human Nature in Spinoza Dan Swain (University of Essex) - Marx, Human Nature, and the Human Good Chair: Jonathan Wood (University of Essex)

Parallel Session A3 (Senate Room 4.722) Tom Whyman (University of Essex) - Nature and Community in the McDowell-Pippin Debates Alexis Papazoglou (University of Cambridge) - McDowell's First-Second Nature Distinction vs. Hegel's Nature-Spirit Distinction John Lumsden (University of Essex) Self-reassuring Rationality or its Other? No Thanks! Chair: David Batho (University of Essex)

Parallel Session B3 (1N1.4.1) Neil Williams (University of Sheffield) - Towards an Environmentalist Interpretation of William James' Ethics Gesa Wellmann (FU Berlin/KU Leuven) - Nature in Schelling: An Answer to our Environmental Crisis Today? Chair: Nicole Osborne (University of Essex)