The  Concept of Will in Classical German Philosophy
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Friday, November 24 (Amalienstraße 73A, Room 101)

1.00: Opening Address

Chair: Jörg Noller

1.05-2.00 p.m.: Keynote Lecture by Sorin Baiasu (Keele University): Kant's Conception of Free Will: An Uncompromising Account

2.00-2.45 p.m.: Markus Kohl (University of North Carolina): Spontaneity and Contingency: Kant's Two Models of Rational Self-Determination

Break

3.00-3.45 p.m.: Halla Kim (Sogang University/University of Nebraska at Omaha): How is the Corruption of the Will Possible? Kant on Natural Dialectic and Radical Evil

3.45-4.30 p.m.: Amit Kravitz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem/LMU Munich): On the real Possibility of a Pure Moral Will: Maimon vs. Kant

Break

Chair: Manja Kisner

4.45-5.30 p.m.: John Walsh (University of South Florida): The Faculty of Desire is not a Will: Reinhold’s Critique of Kant’s Practical Philosophy

5.30-6.15 p.m.: Tom Giesbers (Utrecht University): Drive as a Constitutive Element of Practical Action in Jacobi and Fichte

Break

6.30-7.30 p.m.: Keynote Lecture by Günter Zöller (LMU Munich): Eleutheronomy: Will, Law and Liberty in Kant's Esoterically Political Philosophy

7.30 p.m.: Dinner

Saturday, November 25 (Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, Room M 101)

Chair: Ansgar Lyssy

9.00-9.45 a.m.: Manja Kisner (LMU Munich): Drive and Will in Fichte’s System of Ethics

9.45-10.30 a.m.: Jörg Noller (LMU Munich): “Will is Primal Being”: Schelling’s Rational Voluntarism

Break

Chair: Manja Kisner

11.00-11.45 a.m.: Ansgar Lyssy (LMU Munich): Resistance to Reality: The Concept of the Will in F. Bouterwek’s Idea of an Apodictic

11.45-12.30 a.m.: Daniel Wenz (Buenos Aires/Hagen): Hegel’s logical foundation of the will: Reconciling psychology and social-ontology

Break

2.00-2.45 p.m.: Alex Englander (University of Bonn): Hegel on Willkür and the Constitution of Desire

2.45-3.30 p.m.: Jenny Bunker (Roehampton University): Ethics and Will in Schopenhauer's Philosophy

3.30 p.m.: End of the Conference