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July 2nd to 13th, 2012 ontological.turn@gmail.com Phone contact: +49 163 7525221

Third Annual International Summer School in German Philosophy:

T HE O NTOLOGICAL T URN IN C ONTEMPORARY P HILOSOPHY

Note on texts: Almost all of the assigned texts listed below will be provided in the summer school reader, which will be mailed to all accepted participants. The exception is Quentin Meillasouxs After Finitude, which students will be responsible for acquiring through their library, bookstore, or other means.

First Week

Monday, July 2: Introductory Remarks and Discussion 9am 12pm: Introductory Remarks (Markus Gabriel) 2pm 5pm: Discussion of After Finitude Reading: Quentin Meillasoux, After Finitude

Tuesday, July 3: How to Break Out of Transcendental Correlationism Led by Slavoj Zizek 9am 11am: A Hegelian Reply to Meillasoux 1pm 3pm: A Defense of Hegels Absolute Knowing 5pm 7pm: Ontological Consequences of Quantum Physics Reading: Slavoj Zizek, Less Than Nothing, Interlude 5 and Chapter 14

Wednesday, July 4: The Ontology of Fields of Sense Led by Markus Gabriel 9am 12pm: The Principles of Negative Ontology: Properties, Sets, Domains, Things, Facts, and Objects 2pm 5pm: The Principles of Positive Ontology: Realism, Fields, Sense, and Fractals; Existence and Contingency Reading: Markus Gabriel, Why the World Does Not Exist; The Meaning of Existence and the Contingency of Sense; Ontological Realism: The Argument from Facticity and Meta-metaphysical Nihilism

Thursday, July 5: Appearance and Reality Led by Ray Brassier 9am 12pm: That Which Is Not: Plato and Hegel 2pm 5pm: The Reality of Appearances: Sellars and Hegel Reading: Plato, Sophist; G.W.F. Hegel, Science of Logic, Book II: The Doctrine of Essence, Chapter 1: Shine; Heidegger, Hegel and the Greeks in Pathmarks; Wilfrid Sellars, "Foundations for a Metaphysics of Pure Process: The Carus Lectures"

Friday, July 6: General Discussion (Morning Free) 2pm 5pm: Student-led discussion Led by Juniper Alcorn, Darlene Demandante, Naveen Kanalu, Victor Marques, Christopher Nielsen 8 pm: Conference Dinner

Second Week

Monday, July 9: The Conceptual Problem of Time Led by Martin Hgglund 9am 12pm: The Trace of Time 2pm 5pm: Reading Derridas Ousia and Gramme Reading: Derrida, Ousia and Gramme; Aristotle, Physics IV (last four chapters on time, 10 14); Hegel, Philosophy of Nature 253 261; Martin Hgglund, Radical Atheist Materialism: A Critique of Meillassoux

Tuesday, July 10: Objects and Things Led by Graham Harman 9am 12pm: Objects and Relations 2pm 5pm: More Objects and Relations Reading: Leibniz, Monadology; Heidegger, The Thing

Wednesday, July 11 Led by Iain Hamilton Grant 9am 12pm: Power and Essence 2pm 5pm: Grounding Powers Reading: F.W.J. Schelling, Grounding of Positive Philosophy (Berlin Lectures), pp.141-170, 193-212; Aristotle, Metaphysics 9.1045b-1052a; Heidegger Aristotle's Metaphysics 1-3 On the Essence and Actuality of Force, ch.1

Thursday, July 12: Schellings Ontology 9am 12pm: Schellings Freedom Essay

(Afternoon Free) Reading: Schelling, Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom

Friday, July 13: General Discussion 9am 12pm: Student-led discussion Led by Alice Everly, Daniel Sacilotto, Kevin Temple, Nikolay Tugushev, and Angela Hume Lewandowski All afternoon: Picnic in the Rheinaue