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JAMES FERGUSON CONANT Curriculum Vitae
Address
Department of Philosophy
University of Chicago
1115 E. 58th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Personal Data
U.S. citizen; born on June 10, 1958 in Kyoto, Japan
Academic Employment
1991-1992, 1993-1998 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of
Pittsburgh
1998-1999 Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of
Pittsburgh
1999-2004 Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of
Chicago
2004-present Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities, University of Chicago
2004-2011 Chair of the Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago
2014-2015 Chair of the Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago
2017-2022 Alexander von Humboldt Professor, University of Leipzig
Education
1982-1990 Harvard University, Department of Philosophy
Ph.D. Program (Ph.D. June, 1990)
1976-1977 Harvard College (B.A. June, 1982)
1978-1982 Dual Major, Philosophy & History of Science
1977-1978 Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
1975-1976 Universität Göttingen, Germany
1973-1975 Phillips Exeter Academy
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Academic Distinctions
2017-2022 Alexander von Humboldt-Professur – five-year grant from the Alexander von
Humboldt foundation at Universität Leipzig
2015-2017 Neubauer Faculty Project: The Idealism Project
2012-2013 Lichtenberg-Kolleg Fellow
2012-2017 Anneliese Maier-Forschungspreis five-year grant from the Alexander von
Humboldt foundation
2011-2012 SIAS Grant (with Sebastian Rödl): The Second Person: Comparative
Perspectives
2011-2013 Humboldt Transcoop-Projekt with Christoph König and David Wellbery: From
Goethe to Wittgenstein
2011 The Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto in Portugal hosted a
conference titled The Logical Alien at 20, on the 20th anniversary of the
publication of my essay “The Search for Logically Alien Thought”.
2011 On June 10, 2011, the journal Philosophical Investigations published a special
jubilee issue which features the ten best articles published in the journal from
1980 to the present day and includes my 1998 article "Wittgenstein on Meaning
and Use".
2008-2009 Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Fellow
2008-2010 Humboldt Transcoop-Projekt with Pirmin Stekeler on From Transcendental Logic
to the Analysis of Practice
2006-2007 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship with David Wellberry: Sawyer
Seminar on Non-Discursive Thought From Goethe to Wittgenstein
2005-2006 Franke Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellow
2004-2006 Humboldt Transcoop-Projekt with Sebastian Roedl, on General and
Transcendental Logic in the Tradition of Kant, Frege and Wittgenstein
1995-1996 University of Pittsburgh Distinguished Teaching Award
1994-1995 University of Pittsburgh Curriculum Development Grant
1992-1993 Michigan Society of Fellows, Junior Fellow
1990 George Plimpton Adams Prize for Outstanding Dissertation, Harvard University
1988-1989 Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellowship
1985-1986 Harvard Graduate Academic Merit Fellowship
1983-1984 Harvard University Distinguished Teaching Fellow Award
1981-1982 Harvard College Class of 1982 Phi Beta Kappa Academic Top Twelve Award
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Other Professional Activities
Co-Director, FAGI, Institute for the Study of Analytic German Idealism, University of
Leipzig
Editorial Board, Wittgenstein-Studien, De Gruyter, Berlin
Editorial Board, Iride, il Mulino, Firenze
Academic Advisory Board, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Academic Advisory Board, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen
Academic Advisory Board, Berlin Center for Knowledge Research
Co-Chair, International Wittgenstein Society
Advisory Board, University of Dortmund, Institute of Advanced Study
Advisory Board, Technical University of Berlin, Excellence Center in Philosophy
North American Nietzsche Society, Board of Directors.
Workshop Coordinator, Wittgenstein Workshop, University of Chicago.
Referee for Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University
Press, Routledge, Stanford University Press, Ashgate, Hackett, and University of Chicago
Press.
Co-member of international 5-year research project on Wittgenstein and the Possibility of
Philosophical Therapy funded by the Norwegian Research Council.
Co-member of Inter-Nordic Research Council Project on the relation between philosophy
and science.
University of Chicago Faculty Senate Representative.
International Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Board of Directors
AHRC Project on Methodological Issues in Analytic Philosophy & Logic, Advisory
Board
Publications
The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy: After Kant (Volume 2: The
Analytic Tradition), lead editor, W. W. Norton & Company, 2017.
"Die Einheit des Erkenntnisvermögens bei Kant," in Selbstbewusstes
Leben, ed. by Andrea Kern and Christian Kietzmann, 2017, pp. 229-269.
"Zur Möglichkeit Eines Sowohl Subjektiven Als Auch Objektiven
Gedankens" in Perspektive und Fiktion Taschenbuch, ed. By Thomas Hilgers and
Gertud Koch, Fink, Wilhelm; Auflage: 2017
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"Why Kant is Not a Kantian," in Philosophical Topics, Vol. 44, No. 1,
Spring 2016 Issue. (Appeared in 2017)
With Silver Bronzo, "Resolute Readings of the Tractatus," in A
Companion to Wittgenstein, ed. by Hans-Johann Glock and John Hyman, Hoboken:
Wiley, 2017, pp. 175 - 194.
“Kant’s Critique of the Layer-Cake Conception of Human Mindedness in the B-
Deduction,” in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: a Critical Guide, ed. James O’Shea
Oxford UP, 2016.
“Die Einheit der Anschauung,” in Die anthropologische Differenz, ed. Andrea Kern and
Christian Kietzmann, Suhrkamp, 2016.
Co-authored with Silver Bronzo: “Resolute Readings of the Tractatus”, for a volume
edited by Hans Johann Glock, The Blackwell Companion to Wittgenstein, Wiley-
Blackwell, 2017.
co-editor (with Jay Elliott), and author of numerous entries, The Norton Anthology of
Philosophy, Volume V: After Kant: The Analytic Tradition, W. W. Norton & Co., New
York, NY, 2017.
“ Zur Möglichkeit eines sowohl subjektiven als auch objektiven Gedankens" in Thomas
Hilgers und Gertrud Koch (Hgs.) Perspektive und Fiktion, Wilhelm Fink, 2017.
“Kant’s Critique of the Layer-Cake Conception of Human Mindedness in the B-
Deduction”, in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: A Critical Guide, James R. O’Shea (ed.),
Cambridge University Press, 2017.
“Philosophie als Lebenspraxis und Philosophie als Schreibpraxis,” in Geschichte der
Germanistik 49/50, 2016. pp. 134-144
„Wie Philosophen Probleme (auf)loesen,“ LVZ, January 2016.
With Sebastian Roedl, „The Fundamental Character of the Second Person as a Form of
Consciousness,” in The Second Person, ed. by James Conant and Sebastian Roedl,
Philosophical Topics, 42:1, Spring 2016.
“Kants Kritik des Schichtenmodells des menschlichen Geistes”, in Das Neue Bedürfnis
nach Metaphysik ed. Andreas Speer, Suhrkamp 2015, pp. 137-149.
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"The Emergence of the Concept of the Analytic Tradition as a Form of Philosophical
Self-Consciousness", forthcoming in Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide, ed. by
Jeffrey Bell, Andrew Cutrofello and Paul Livingston, New York: Routledge, 2015.
"Die Unsichtbarkeit einer perfekten Regie: Über Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, USA 1960)”
in Angela Keppler, Judith-Frederike Popp u. Martin Seel (Hrsg.) Gesetz und Gewalt im
Kino Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2015, pp. 258- 280
James Conant and Andrea Kern,"Analytischer Deutsche Idealismus: Vorwort zur
Buchreihe” in Robert B. Brandom, Wiedererinnerter Idealismus, Suhrkamp Verlag 2014,
pp. 9-12
Friedrich Nietzsche: Perfektionismus & Perspektivismus, Konstanz University Press,
2014
“Das Exemplarische bei Emerson und Nietzsche" in Christian Benne and Enrico Müller
(eds.) Ohnmacht des Subjekts – Macht der Persönlichkeit, Basel: Schwabe 2014, pp.207-
225
“Amerika als das philosophische Telos von Schillers literarischem Kantianismus" in
Geschichte der Germanistik: Historische Zeitschrift für die Philologien vol. 43/44, 2013,
pp.12-20
“Die Suche nach logisch fremdem Denken: Kant, Frege und der Tractatus", tr. by Bastian
Reichardt, forthcoming in Bastian Reichardt and Alexander Samans (eds.) Freges
Philosophie nach Frege. Münster: Mentis, 2013
“Interview. From Positivist Rabbi to Resolute Reader: James Conant in Conversation
with Niklas Forsberg, Part 1”, in Nordic Wittgenstein Review. Volume 2, Issue 1, (Aug,
2013) Pages 131–160
Συμμετρíες και ασυμμετρíες στον πρακτικó και τον θεωρητικó λóγο [Symmetries and
Assymetries in Practical and Theoretical Reason] in ΔΕΥΚΑΛΙΩΝ [Deucalion], Vol.29,
Issue 1-2, December 2012.
“Nos pouvoirs cognitifs peuvent-ils atteindre les objets eux-mêmes ?” in Lire L’esprit et
le monde de John McDowell, co-edited by Anne Le Goff and C. Al‐Saleh, Vrin, Paris,
Fall, 2012.
Le perfectionnisme de Nietzsche, translated by Pascal Duval, published by Amazon
Kindle, Fall 2012
Orwell ou le pouvoir de la vérité, Agone, Paris, 2013
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“Two Varieties of Skepticism” in Rethinking Epistemology, Vol. 2, edited by Guenter
Abel and James Conant, Walter De Gruyter, Berlin, 2012.
“Spielarten des Skeptizismus” in Skeptizismus und Metaphysik edited by Markus Gabriel,
Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 2012, pp. 21-72.
“Von der mathematischen Logik zur Sprache: Wittgensteins spätere Kritik des
Tractatus”, in Wittgenstein: Zu Philosophie und Wissenschaft, edited by Pirmin Stekeler,
Felix Meiner Verlag, Berlin, 2012, pp. 30 - 62.
“Grenzen der Sprache: Eine Skizze von Wittgensteins Spätkritik am,Tractatus,” in XXIst
Deutschen Kongreß für Philosophie, ed. Hans Julius Schneider und Carl Friedrich
Gethmann, Academie Verlag, Leipzig, 2011.
"The Triumph of the Gift over the Curse in Stanley Cavell's Little Did I Know"
in MLN Comparative Literature Issue, Vol. 126, No. 5 (December 2011), pp. 1004-1013.
“Three ways of Inheriting Austin”, in La philosophie du langage ordinaire: Histoire et
actualité de la philosophie d’Oxford / Ordinary Language Philosophy: The History and
Contemporary Relevance of Oxford Philosophy, eds. Christoph Al-Saleh and Sandra
Laugier, Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, 2011.
Co-authored (with Ed Dain), "Throwing the Baby Out: A Reply to Roger White"
in Beyond The Tractatus Wars: The New Wittgenstein Debate Edited by Rupert Read,
Matthew A. Lavery, Routledge,
"Wittgenstein’s Methods" in The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein, eds., O. Kuusela and
M. McGinn, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011.
"The World of a Movie", in Making a Difference, edited by Niklas Forsberg and Susanne
Jansson, Thales, Stockholm, 2011.
James Conant and Cora Diamond, Rileggere Wittgenstein (with a Foreword by
Piergiorgio Donatelli and an Afterword by Silver Bronzo), Carocci, Rome, 2010
“Eine Skizze von Wittgensteins Spätkritik am Tractatus,” XXIst Deutschen Kongreß für
Philosophie, ed. Hans Julius Schneider und Carl Friedrich Gethmann, Academie Verlag,
Leipzig, 2010
"A Development in Wittgenstein’s Conception of Philosophy: From 'The Method' to
Methods", in Sprachspiele verstrickt - oder: Wie man der Fliege den Ausweg zeigt, edited
by Stefan Tolksdorf and Holm Tetens, Berlin, De Gruyter Verlag, 2010, pp. 55–80
“Absorption – Die Ontologie einer Spielfilmwelt”, in Geschichte der Germanistik,
Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, 2009
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“The American Scholar,” in New Literary History of America, ed. Greil Marcus and
Werner Sollors, Harvard University Press, April, 2009.
“Josiah Royce and the Problem of Error,” in New Literary History of America, ed. Greil
Marcus and Werner Sollors, Harvard University Press, April, 2009.
“Continuity and Discontinuity in Wittgenstein’s Philosophy”, in Ludwig Wittgenstein:
Ingenieur—Philosoph—Kuenstler, Parerga Verlag GmbH, 2008.
“Subjective Thought”, Cahiers Parisiens, edited by Robert Morrissey, Volume 3, 2007.
“Mild Mono-Wittgensteinianism”, in Wittgenstein and the Moral Life: Essays in Honor
of Cora Diamond, edited by Alice Crary, M.I. T. Press, 2007.
“Wittgenstein’s Later Criticism of the Tractatus”, in Wittgenstein: The Philosopher and
his Works, edited by A. Pichler and S. Säätelä, Ontos Verlag, 2006.
“Φιλοσοφία & Κινηματογράφος: συνέτευξη του James Conant στη Βάσω Κιντή”
(“Philosophy & Cinematography: interview with James Conant by Vasso Kindi”), Cogito
vol.5, 2006 (Greek philosophical journal).
“The Dialectic of Perspectivism, I”, SATS, Autumn, 2005 issue.
“The Dialectic of Perspectivism, II”, SATS, Spring, 2006 issue.
“The Recovery of Greece and the Discovery of America”, in Reading Cavell, edited by
Alice Crary and Sanford Shieh, Routledge, 2006.
“Die Welt eines Films”, Deutsche Zeitschrift Fuer Philosophie, Band 54, Heft 1 (Jan
2006).
“What ‘Ethics’ in the Tractatus is Not”, in Religion and Wittgenstein’s Legacy, edited by
D.Z. Phillips, Ashgate Publishing, 2005.
“Rorty and Orwell on Truth”, in On Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell and the Future, edited
by Abbot Gleason, Jack Goldsmith, and Martha Nussbaum, Princeton University Press,
2005.
"Cavell and the Concept of America", in Contending with Stanley Cavell, edited by
Russell Goodman, Oxford University Press; 2005.
"How Wittgenstein’s Ladder Turned into a Fly-bottle", in New History of German
Literature, edited by David Wellbery, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Anton Kaes, Dorothea
von Muecke, and Judith Ryan, Harvard University Press; 2004.
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--German translation: “Eine Leiter wird zum Fliegenglas,” Eine Neue Geschichte der
Deutschen Literartur, ed. David Welberry, Judith Ryan and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht,
Berlin University Press, Fall, 2008.
co-author (with Cora Diamond), "On Reading the Tractatus Resolutely", in The Lasting
Significance of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy, edited by Max Kölbel and Bernhard Weiss,
Routledge, 2004.
"Varieties of Skepticism", in Wittgenstein and Skepticism, edited by Denis McManus,
Routledge Press, 2004.
"Why Worry About the Tractatus?", in Post-Analytic Tractatus, edited by Barry Foster,
Ashgate, 2004.
(with Hilary Putnam and Richard Rorty), "What is Pragmatism? A Discussion", in Think,
Issue 8 Autumn 2004.
– German translation: “Was ist Pragmatismus?”, in Wittgenstein Jahrbuch 2003, edited
and translated by Richard Raatzsch.
"Jeter l’échelle", in Europe, Vol. 82, No. 906, October 2004.
"Concept of America", in Society, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2003.
"On Going the Bloody Hard Way in Philosophy", in The Possibilities of Sense, edited by
John Whittaker, Macmillan, 2003.
"Können unsere kognitiven Vermögen die Gegenstände selbst erreichen?", in Hilary
Putnam und die Tradition des Pragmatismus, edited by Marcus Willaschek and Marie-
Louise Raters, Suhrkamp, 2002.
"Le premier, le second & le dernier Wittgensein", in Wittgenstein, dernières pensées,
edited by Jacques Bouveresse, Sandra Laugier and Jean-Jacques Rosat, Agone, 2002.
"The Method of the Tractatus", in From Frege to Wittgenstein: Perspectives on Early
Analytic Philosophy, edited by Erich H. Reck, Oxford University Press, 2002.
"Kafka en Floride", in Esprit, January 2002.
"A Prolegomenon to the Reading of Later Wittgenstein", in Deconstruction and
Pragmatism, edited by Chantal Mouffe and Ludwig Nagl, Peter Lang Press, 2001.
"Two Conceptions of Die Überwindung der Metaphysik", in Wittgenstein in America,
edited by Timothy McCarthy and Peter Winch, Oxford University Press, 2001.
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– French translation: "Deux conceptions de l’Überwindung der Metaphysik: Carnap et le
premier Wittgenstein", in Carnap et la philosophie analytique, edited by Sandra Laugier,
Vrin, 2001.
"Philosophy and Biography", in Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy, ed. James
Klagge, Oxford University Press, 2001.
– Norwegian translation: "Filosofi og Biografi", in Erfaring og Forståelse - Biografiens
Teori og Praksis (Experience and Understanding - The Theory and Practice/Praxis of
Biography), Unipub Forlag, 2008.
—Italian translation: “Filosofi e biografia”, translated by Matteo Falomi, in Iride, anno
XIX n. 48 maggio-augusto 2006, pg. 303-318.
"Coming to Wittgenstein", in Philosophical Investigations, Vo. 24, No.2, 2001.
"In the Electoral Colony", in Critical Inquiry, Summer 2001.
"Nietzsche's Perfectionism: A Reading of Schopenhauer as Educator", in Nietzsche’s
Postmoralism, edited by Richard Schacht, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
2000.
"Frege and Early Wittgenstein on Elucidation", in The New Wittgenstein, edited by A.
Crary and R. Read, Routledge, London, 2000.
"Freedom, Cruelty and Truth: Rorty versus Orwell", in Richard Rorty and His Critics,
edited by Robert Brandom, Blackwell, Oxford, 2000.
– German translation of abridged version: "Freiheit, Wahrheit und Grausamkeit: Rorty
und Orwell", in Philosophie:Wissenchaft – Wirtschaft, edited by Rainer Born und Otto
Neumaier, ÖBT & HPT, Vienna, 2001.
"Cavell et ses critiques a propos de la signification et de l’usage ", in Cycnos, vol. 17, no.
1, 2000.
co-author (with John Haugeland) Introduction to Thomas Kuhn’s The Road Since
Structure, University of Chicago Press, 2000.
co-author (with Aristides Baltas and Vasso Kindi) "Αληθειαα ’ή Ελευθερια" ["Truth or
Freedom"], Ο Ρολιτης, Ιούυιος 1999.
"Wittgenstein on Meaning and Use", in Philosophical Investigations, Vol. 21, No. 3,
1998.
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"Stanley Cavells Wittgenstein", in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie (1998, Heft 2).
--English version: “Stanley Cavell’s Wittgenstein”, Harvard Review of Philosophy, 2005
--Norwegian translation: “James Conant: Stanley Cavells Wittgenstein,” Agora: Journal
of Metafysisk Spekusasjon, nr. 1-2, 2008, kr 170.
"Emerson as Educator", in Emerson Society Quarterly (Spring, 1998).
"The James/Royce Dispute and the Development of James's 'Solution'", in The
Cambridge Companion to William James, edited by Ruth Anna Putnam, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, U.K.: 1997.
"Martha Nussbaum e il problema della forma di filosofia", Iride (April, 1997)
"How to Pass from Latent to Patent Nonsense", Wittgenstein Studies (No. 2, 1997)
"Putting Two and Two Together: Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein and the Point of View for
Their Work as Authors", in The Grammar of Religious Belief, edited by D.Z. Phillips, St.
Martins Press, NY: 1996.
"On Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics", The Proceedings of the Aristotelian
Society (Fall, 1996), pp. 195-222.
"Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Anscombe on Moral Unintelligibility", in Religion and
Morality, edited by D. Z. Phillips, St. Martins Press, NY: 1996.
Introduction to Hilary Putnam's Words and Life, Harvard University Press, Cambridge:
1994.
"The Search for Logically Alien Thought: Descartes, Kant, Frege and the Tractatus" in
The Philosophy of Hilary Putnam, Philosophical Topics, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 115-180.
"Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein and Nonsense", in Pursuits of Reason, edited by Ted Cohen,
Paul Guyer and Hilary Putnam, Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock: 1992, pp. 195-
224.
"Throwing Away the Top of the Ladder", The Yale Review, Vol. 79, No. 3 (1991), pp.
328-364.
"On Bruns, on Cavell", in Critical Inquiry, Vol. 17, Spring 1991.
Introduction to Hilary Putnam's Realism with a Human Face, Harvard University Press,
Cambridge: 1990.
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– French translation: Le Réalisme à Visage Humain, Editions du Seuil, Paris: 1994.
– Italian translation: Realismo dal Valto Umano, Societa editrice il Mulino, Rome: 1995.
"Must We Show What We Cannot Say?" in The Senses of Stanley Cavell, edited by R.
Fleming and M. Payne, Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg: 1989, pp. 242-283.
"Introducing Cavell" in The Senses of Stanley Cavell, edited by R. Fleming and M.
Payne, Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg: 1989, pp. 21-34.
"On Philosophical Ground", Harvard Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 1988).
Forthcoming Publications
The Logical Alien, forthcoming from Harvard University Press in Spring, 2019. The book
contains an opening essay by James Conant, eight critical essays on Conant by leading
philosophers, and fourteen further essays by James Conant, eight of which are essay-
length replies to each of his critics.
Wittgenstein on Objectivity, Intuition and Meaning, edited by James Conant and
Sebastian Greve, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, January, 2019.
Engaging the Philosophy of Hilary Putnam, edited by James Conant and Sanjit
Chakraborty, Oxford University Press, forthcoming, October, 2019.
"Reply Denis Schulting, "The Unity of Cognition and the Subjectivist vs. Transformative
Approaches to the B-Deduction”,forthcoming in Critique, November, 2018
Reply to Sascha Golub, “Why Kant is Not a Kantian Revisited”, forthcoming in Critique,
January, 2019.
“Socratic Aspects of Wittgenstein’s Conception of Philosophy”, in Wittgenstein on
Objectivity, Intuition and Meaning, edited by James Conant and Sebastian Greve,
Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, January, 2019.
"Thomas Kuhn on Puzzles and Problems”, in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie,
forthcoming, February, 2019.
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"The Invisibility of Directorial Perfection” in Philosophy and Film, ed. by Ludwig Nagl,
De Gruyter.
"Early and Later Wittgenstein on the Ordinary, on Language, and on Ordinary Language”
in Danièle Moyal-Sharrock (ed.), De Gruyter (in Progress)
“Nietzsche als Exemplar,” in Nietzsche Studien
“The Puzzle of Perception,” in Hilary Putnam’s Philosophy, ed. Maria Baghramian.
“Brandom and Wittgenstein on Rule Following,” in Philosophical Topics
“On the Ontology of the Cinematic Image”, paper for Critical Inquiry, commissioned by
Richard Neer
Co-authored with Ed Dain: “On So-Called Third Way Readings of the Tractatus”, for a
special issue on the Tractatus of Philosophical Topics, edited by Ed Minar
“Perspicuous Representation in Early Wittgenstein”, for a special issue on the Tractatus
of Philosophical Topics, edited by Ed Minar
“Kuhn’s Response to Crisis in the Dominant Epist” Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of
Scientific Revolution Revisited, ed. Vasso Kindi.
“Kierkegaard on Indirect Communication”, The Self edited by Jean-Luc Marion.
"A Contradiction Between Form and Content", in International Studies in Philosophy.
"Putnam’s Diagnosis of the Sources of Skepticism”, in The Philosophy of Hilary Putnam,
edited by Lewis Hahn, Open Court Press.
Editorial Projects
co-editor (Sebastian Roedl), The Second Person, Philosophical Topics, 42:1. 2016.
co-editor (with Andrea Kern), Skepticism in Context: Essays after Kant, Wittgenstein,
and Cavell , Walter De Gruyter, Berlin, 2014
co-editor (with Guenter Abel) Rethinking Epistemology, Vol. 2, Walter De Gruyter,
Berlin, 2012
co-editor (with Guenter Abel) Rethinking Epistemology, Vol. 1, Walter De Gruyter,
Berlin, 2012.
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editor, Issue on Analytical Kantianism, Philosophical Topics Vol. 34, #1 & 2 Spring and
Fall 2008, University of Arkansas Press.
co-editor (with Urszula Zeglen), Hilary Putnam: Pragmatism and Realism, Routledge,
London, 2002.
– Spanish translation: El camino desde la estructura, Paidós, Barcelona, 2002.
co-editor (with John Haugeland), The Road Since Structure (a collection of philosophical
essays by Thomas Kuhn), University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2000.
editor, Hilary Putnam: Words and Life, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1994.
editor, Hilary Putnam: Realism with a Human Face, Harvard University Press,
Cambridge, MA, 1990.
– French translation: Le Réalisme à Visage Humain, Editions du Seuil, Paris, 1994.
– Italian translation: Realismo dal Valto Umano, Societe editrice il Mulino, Rome, 1995.
Forthcoming Editorial Projects
co-editor (with Jay Elliott), The Norton Anthology of Philosophy, Volume V: After Kant:
The Analytic Tradition, W. W. Norton & Co., New York, NY
co-editor (with John Haugeland), Thomas Kuhn’s The Plurality of Worlds, University of
Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
co-editor (with Cora Diamond), Ludwig Wittgenstein: Lectures on Personal Experience,
Cambridge, Michaelmas Term, 1935, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
co-editor (with Cora Diamond), Readings on Early Wittgenstein, Oxford University Press
co-editor (with Richard Schacht), The Norton Anthology of Philosophy: The Concise
Edition, W. W. Norton & Co., New York, NY
Invited Lectures and Colloquia
Invited Lecture, Conference on “The Form of our Life with Language,” Ways of Living, Life Forms and
Forms of Life, Munich, May 23, 2016
Invited Lecture, On Doubt, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, May 5, 2016
Invited Lecture, Kant’s Critique of the Layer-Cake Conception of Human Mindedness, German
Philosophy Workshop, April 1, 2016
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Invited Lecture, Two Forms of Skepticism, Dartmouth College, March 24, 2016
Invited Lecture, Die Autonomie der Geisteswissenschaften als eigene Form der Erkenntnis, Symposium
with Sebastian Roedl, January 28, 2016
Invited Lecture, Thomas S. Kuhn: Die Strukture der Wissenschaftlichen Revolutionen, Symposium with
Konrad Lindner January 27, 2016
Invited Lecture, Symposium on the Philosophy of Brandom, Leipzig, “Brandom on Rule-Following”,
December 14, 2015
Invited Lecture, Leibniz Lectures at Leipzig (a five part series), “The Search for Logically Alien Thought
I: The Problem of Creation in Early Modern Philosophy”, November 11, 2015
II: Descartes and the Creation of Eternal Truths, November 25
III: Kant’s Hylomorphic Conception of Logic, November 30
IV: Frege’s Encounter with the Logical Alien, December 2
V: Wittgenstein on logically Alien Thought, December 9
Invited Lecture, Festival of Philosophy, Ichia, Italy, “The Invisibility of What is Right Before our Eyes:
Hitchcock’s Psycho”, September 25, 2015
Invited Lecture, Conference on the Philosophy of Cora Diamond, University of Zurich, “Diamond on the
relation between philosophical problems logic and ethics,” August 22, 2015
Invited Lecture, Conference on Wittgenstein and Architecture, Vienna, “Ludwig Wittgenstein and Adolf
Loos”, August 18, 2015
Invited Lecture, Conference on Wittgenstein, Vienna, “Socratic aspects of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy”,
August, 2015
Invited Lecture, Conference on Absolute Spirit, Munich, “Spielarten des Skepticismus”, July 21, 2015
Invited Lecture, Conference on Kant, Malbu Norway, Nordlan Academy for Arts and Science, “Kant’s
Critique of the Layer-Cake Conception of Human Mindedness”, July 7, 2015
Symposium Lecture, Austria’s Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Vienna, “Ray Monk on the relation between
philosophy and biography,” June 26, 2015
Invited Lecture, University of East Anglia, “Resolute Readings of Wittgenstein: A overview of some
varieties,” June 24, 2015
Invited Lecture, Conference on Experience and Judgment, Patras University, “Reflectively Unfavorable
Circumstances: A criticism of John McDowell’s account of certain forms of perceptual error,” June,
2015
Invited Lecture, Erlangen University, “Sellars’ Dialectic of the Given,” June 13, 2015
Invited Lecture, Leipzig University, „Die Autonomie der Geisteswissenschaften“ June, 2015
Invited Lecture, University of Osnabruck, „Die Unsichtbarkeit einer perfekten Regie“, June, 2015
Invited Lecture, St. John's College, “Socratic aspects of Wittgenstein’s Conception of Philosophy”, April
2015
Invited Lecture, Nazareth Conference on Love, Respect and the Political, “Solidarity, Truth and The
Political”, December 2014
Invited Lecture, Philosophy Department Colloquium, Tel Aviv University “The Invisibility of Directorial
Perfection”, December 2014
Invited Lecture, Conference on Lawfulness and Forms of Life, Tel Aviv University, “Wittgenstein, Ways
of Living, Forms of Life and the Human Form of Life”, December 2014
Invited Lecture, Skepticism Conference Bonn "Matter and Form: Two Ways of Distinguishing Varieties
of Skepticism”,November 2014
Invited Lecture, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, ”Thomas Kuhn on the Difference between Puzzles and
Problems", November 2014
Invited Lecture, Conference on Robert Pippins philosophische Filmlektüre, University of Vienna, “Die
Unsichtbarkeit einer perfekten Regie: über Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho”, November 2014
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Invited Lecture, 2014 Deutsche Kongress fuer Philosophie an der Universitaet Muenster, “Form und
Inhalt bei Kant”, October 2014
Invited Lecture, Conference on Ways of Living and Forms of Life, University of Rome, “Wittgenstein on
the Human, Forms of Life, and the Human Form of Life”, September 2014
Summer School Seminar, University of Munich, “Wittgenstein über das Zeichen/Symbol-Verhältnis”,
August 2014
Invited Lecture, University of Bonn, Department of Philosophy Colloquium, “Wittgensteins Spätkritik
des Tractatus”, July 2014
Invited Lecture, University of Osnabrück, Symposium on James Conant’s Friedrich Nietzsche:
Perfektionismus und Perfektivismus, “Replik auf König, Haag und Müller”, July 2014
Invited Lecture, Museum für Modernen Kunst, Frankfurt, “Die Unsichtbarkeit einer perfekten Regie: über
Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho”, July 2014
Invited Lecture, Kant-Circle at the University of Frankfurt, “Kant’s Critique of the Layer-Cake
conception of Human Mindedness” July 2014
Invited Lecture, University of Dresden Philosophy Colloquium, “Spielarten des Skeptizismus” July, 2014
Invited Lecture, Conference on The Problem of the Given in the Philosophy of Perception, University of
Patras, “The Dialectic of the Given in Sellars’s Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind”, June
2014
Invited Lecture, University of Zurich, “Two Varieties of Skepticism”, May 2014
Invited Lecture, Tufts University Conference on Philosophical Methods, “Kant and Wittgenstein on non-
dogmatic Methods in Philosophy”, May 2014
Invited Lecture, University of Frankfurt, Bridging Tradition Conference, “Kant’s Critique of the Layer
Cake Conception of Human Mindedness” April 2014
Invited Lecture, University of Amherst “Early and Later Wittgenstein on the Ordinary, on Language, and
on Ordinary Language” March, 2014
Symposium Chair, APA session on CI Lewis and Wilfrid Sellars Symposium, March 2014
Lecture, University of Chicago Conference on Walter Benjamin as Philosopher, ”Benjamin on the Nature
of the Cinematic Medium”, February 2014
Conference Co-Organizer, University of Chicago Conference on Kant and Sellars, February 2014
Conference Co-Organizer, University of Chicago Conference on Walter Benjamin as Philosopher,
February 2014
Invited Lecture, Graham School, Works of the Mind Lecture Series, “Kant Critique of the Layer Cake
Conception of the Human Mind”, Feb 2014
Invited Lecture, Midwest Faculty Seminar - On Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals, ”Nietzsche on the
Dialectic of Nature and Culture”, January 2014
Invited Lecture, University of Chicago Conference on "Image and Myth" by Luca Giuliani: “Luca
Giuliani on Form and Content”, Dec 2013
Invited Lecture, University of Freiburg Department of Philosophy Colloqioum, "Das Exemplarische bei
Emerson und Nietzsche”, Dec 2013
Invited Lecture, Frankfurt Conference, Gesetz und Gewalt im Kino, “The Invisibility of Directorial
Perfection”, Nov 2013
Invited Lecture, Yale, Conference on Textual Unities: “Kant and Wittgenstein on non-dogmatic Methods
in Philosophy”, Oct, 2013
Invited Lecture, FU Berlin Conference on Perspective and Fiction: “Cinematic Point of View”, Oct 2013
Invited Lecture, at Wittgenstein International Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria: ”Early and Later
Wittgenstein on the Ordinary, on Language, and on Ordinary Language”, August 2013
Summer School, co-taught with Cora Diamond, Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations, 89-133, at
Kirchberg, Austria, August 2013
Invited Lecture, University of Frankfurt, “Wittgenstein on the Nature of Philosophy”, July 2013
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Conference co-organizer and co-symposiast, Rule Following at University of Leipzig, July 2013
Swedish Radio Interview with Niklas Forsberg, June, 2014
Symposium on Disjunctivism with Charles Travis in University of Goettingen, June 2013
Invited Lecture, University of Patras Conference on Sebastian Roedl's Theory of Self-Consciousness:
“Roedl’s Critique of Fallibilism”, June, 2013
Invited Lecture, Nietzsche-Forum Munich: „Das Exemplarische bei Emerson und Nietzsche", June 3,
2013
Invited Lecture, Bergische Universität Wuppertal: "Wittgenstein: Vom Tractatus zu den
Untersuchungen", May 31, 2013
Invited Lecture, HU Berlin: “Wittgenstein, Brandom and McDowell on Rule Following”, May 28, 2013
Invited Lecture, FU Berlin: “Wittgenstein, Brandom and McDowell on Rule Following”, May 27, 2013
Invited Lecture, Åbo Academy Finland, conference on “The Contemporary Significance of Ordinary
Language Philosophy”: “Early and Later Wittgenstien on Ordinary Language”, May 25,
2013
Conference Co-organized at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Goettingen, “Wittgenstein in Relation to
Philosophical Traditions”, 20-22 May, 2013
Invited Lecture, Lichtenberg-Kolleg Fellows Colloquium: “Varieties of Skepticism”, May 14, 2013
Invited Lectures, Uppsala University, Department of Philosophy: “Some Central Philosophical Issues in
Reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason”; “Four Choice-Points in the Interpretation of
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason”, May 6, 2013
Invited Lecture, University of Göttingen, Department of Philosophy: “Spielarten des Skeptizismus”, May
2, 2013
Invited Lecture, BWS Annual Ludwig Wittgenstein Conference at Royal Academy Dublin: "Perspicuous
Representation", April 26, 2013
Conference Co-organized, University of Leipzig, “Practical Knowledge”, April 19-21, 2013
Invited Lecture, LMU Munich, Department of Philosophy: “Kants Kritik des Schichtenmodells des
menschlichen Geistes”, March 27, 2013
Conference Co-organized at WiKo, Berlin: “Philosohpische Gehalt und Literarische Form im Werk
Friedrich Nietzsches”; Lecture: "Das Exemplarische bei Emerson und Nietzsche", March
21, 2013
Workshop at University of Potsdam: “Kant’s Critique of the Layer-Cake Conception of Human
Mindedness”, March 19, 2013
Invited Lecture, University of Potsdam: "Die Ontologie einer Spielfilmwelt”, February 5, 2013
Invited Lecture, FU Berlin Colloquium: “Symmetries and Asymmetries in Practical and Theoretical
Reason”, February 4, 2013
Invited Lecture, University of Frankfurt, Department of Philosophy: “Wittgensteins Spätkritik
amTractatus”, January 31, 2013
Invited Lecture, University of Göttingen, Ringvorlesung Series: "Kants Kritik des Schichtenmodells des
menschlichen Geistes", January 23, 2013
Invited Lecture, Tel Aviv University Conference “Kantian Themes in Analytic Philosophy”: “Kant's
Critique of the Layer-Cake Conception of Human Mindedness”, December 18, 2012
Invited Lecture, University of Potsdam, Inaugural Lecture of the Voltaire Lecture Series: “Kant's Critique
of the Layer-Cake Conception of Human Mindedness”, December 5th, 2012
Opening of the Center for Analytic German Idealism (CAGI) at the University of Leipzig, December 3,
2012
Invited Lecture, University of Chicago Kuhn Conference: “Kuhn on the Distinction Between Problems
and Puzzles” November 29, 2012
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Conference Co-organized at University of Potsdam: “Sellarsian Readings of Kant and Kantian Readings
of Sellars”; Lecture: “The Kantian Critique of the Layer-Cake Conception of Human
Mindedness”, November 22-24, 2012
Invited Lecture, Uppsala University, “Understanding Agency” conference: "Kant's Critique of the Layer-
Cake Conception of Human Mindedness", November 17, 2012
Conference on the Work of James Conant, entitled “Skepticism and Intentionality”, at University of
Bonn; Lecture: “Replies to my Critics”, October 29-30, 2012
Keynote Lecture, University of Bonn Humboldt Preistraeger-Forum: ““Kant’s Critique of the Layer-Cake
Conception of Mindedness”, October 25, 2012
Keynote Lecture, University of Bonn, Conference “Grenzen: Juventas - I. Konferenz für junge
Philosophie”, “Three Conceptions of the Limits of Thought: Kant, Early Wittgenstein and
Later Wittgenstein”, October 20, 2012
Invited Lecture, Nietzsche-Gesellschaft Conference in Naumburg on “Ohnmacht des Subjekts – Macht
der Persönlichkeit”: "Der Begriff des Exemplarischen bei Emerson und Nietzsche",
October 11-14, 2012
Invited Lectures, University of Rome: "What is Analytical Philosophy? -- Part I: 1879 to 1951”; "What is
Analytical Philosophy?" -- Part II: 1952 to 2012”, October 8-9, 2012
Invited Lecture, University of Rome Conference on “Forms of Subjectivity”: "Kant on Forms of
Subjectivity", October 5, 2012
Invited Lecture, GAP.8 Conference, University of Konstanz: “Varieties of Perspectivism”, September 20,
2012
Invited Lecture, University of Zurich, Conference on “Philosophie – Philologie – Edition”: “Vom Nutzen
und Nachteil der Editionen für die Philosophie”, September 15, 2012
Keynote Lecture, University of Heidelberg - Anneliese Maier Forschungspreis Preisverleihung,
“Varianten des philosophischen Skeptizismus”, September 13, 2012
Two Week SIAS Young Faculty Seminar, (co-taught with Sebastian Rödl) in Berlin: The Second Person:
Comparative Perspectives, August 6-17, 2012
Invited Lecture and Seminar, University of Tuebingen, Department of Philosophy: “Outline of a Reading
of the B-Deduction of the Categories of the Understanding” July 25-26, 2012
Invited Lecture, University of Leipzig: Colloquium: “Outline of a Reading of the B-Deduction of the
Categories of the Understanding”, July 18, 2012
Conference Co-organized at University of Leipzig on “Kant on Logic and Self-Consciousness”, July 12-
14, 2012
Conference Co-organized at WiKo Berlin: “Normativity”; Introductory Lecture: “Varieties of
Normativity”, July 10-11, 2012
Invited Lecture, University of Leipzig Conference on "Der Sinn der Kunst": “Wellbery on the Nature of
Aesthetic Judgment”, July 7, 2012
Invited Lecture, University of Leipzig, Departmental Colloquium: “Kuhn’s distinction between problems
and puzzles”, July 4, 2012
Invited Lecture, HU Berlin, Workshop on Irad Kimhi’s Thinking and Being: “Kimhi on Frege and Early
Wittgenstein”, July 2-3, 2012
Plenary Speaker at conference on American Philosophy and Style, University College Dublin, June 2012
Invited Speaker at conference on Wilfrid Sellars's Philosophy, University College Dublin, June 2012
Plenary Speaker at conferenceon The Actuality of German Idealism, HU Berlin, May 2012
Invited Lecture, Indiana Bloomington, April 2012
Invited Speaker at conference on Bernard williams and Antiquity, UNC, April 2012
Keynote Lecture at conference on James Conant and Cora Diamond, Duke, April 2012
Plenary Speaker at the Graduate Students Conference, Zurich University, March 2012
Invited Series of Lectures, Waterloo University, March, March 2012
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Invited Lecture, Conference on Philosophy, Film and Skepticism, Bonn University, November 2011
Invited Lecture, Conference on Wittgenstein, Tvarminne, Finland, November 2011
Keynote Lecture, Conference on Freud and Wittgenstein, University of Helsinki, Finland, November
2011
Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, October 2011
Invited Lecture, Conference on Kafka, Osnabrück University, September 2011
Invited Lecture, Conference on Nietzsche, Göttingen University, September 2011
Invited Lecture, Abo Academy, Turku, Finland, September 2011
Invited Lecture Series, University of Bergen, Norway, September 2011
Two Week Young Faculty Seminar, co-taught with Sebastian Rödl, sponsored by SIAS, National
Humanities Center, Chapel Hill, NC, August 2011
Keynote Lecture, British Wittgenstein Society Conference, Swansea, July 2011
Invited Lecture, Welsh Philosophical Society Conference, Gregynog, July 2011
Invited Lecture, Symposium on Philosophy and Literature, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, July 2011
Keynote Lecture, Conference on The Logical Alien at 20, University of Porto, Portugal, June 2011
Invited Lecture, MLEG, University of Porto, Portugal, June 2011
Invited Lecture, Conference on Wittgenstein, University of Rome - Sapienza, Italy, June 2011
Invited Lecture, Conference on John McDowell, University of Patras, Greece, June 2011
Keynote Lecture, Conference on Wittgenstein, Auburn University
Invited Lecture, Conference on Brandom and Cavell, CNRS, Paris, France
Invited Lecture, Conference on J.L. Austin, University of Paris - Sorbonne, France
Invited Lecture, Conference on Wittgenstein, University of Paris - Sorbonne, France
Invited Lecture, Conference on Stanley Cavell, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Speaker/Moderator, Conference on Contradiction, University of Chicago
Invited Commentator, Book symposium on Rebecca Kukla’s and Mark Lance’s The Pragmatic
Topography of the Space of Reasons, American Philosophical Association, Washington
D.C.
Keynote Lecture, Conference on Film and Philosophy, Warwick University, UK
Invited Lecture, Conference on Forms of Knowledge, Technical University, Berlin, Germany
Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of Jena, Germany
Keynote Lecture, Opening of the William James Center, University of Dortmund, Germany
Invited Lecture, Conference on McDowell, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Keynote Lecture, Conference on Wittgenstein, University of Patras, Greece
Invited Lecture, Conference on Michael Fried, University of Athens, Greece
Invited Lecture, Conference on Wittgenstein and Translation, University of Vienna, Austria
Invited Lecture, New School University, New York
Keynote Lecture, Conference on Nietzsche, University of Southampton, UK
Invited Lecture, Conference on Art, Medium, and Expression, Freie Universitaet, Berlin
Invited Lecture Series, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Invited Lecture, Institute of Humanities, University of Bergen, Norway
Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen, Norway
Keynote Speaker, Conference on Wittgenstein, Krichberg, Austria
Invited Lecture, Conference on Richard Rorty, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
Invited Lecture, CNRS, Paris
Invited Lecture, Conference on The Beginning of Wittgenstein’s Investigations, University of Bordeaux
III, Bordeaux, France
Invited Lecture, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Invited Lecture, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of Odense, Denmark
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Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Wednesday Lecture, Wiessenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Colloquium Talk, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, UK
Invited Lecture, University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
Invited Lecture, Conference on Kuhn, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Invited Lecture, XXIst German Congress for Philosophy, University of Essen, Essen, Germany
Invited Lecture, Conference on Nietzsche, Sils-Maria, Switzerland
Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of Northern Illinois, Dekalb, Illinois
Invited lecture, Conference on Pragmatism, Zuerich, Switzerland
Keynote Speaker, Conference on Conceptions of Reason, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Invited Lecture, “Varieties of Skepticism,” Department of Philosophy, University of Szczecin, Szczecin,
Poland
Invited Lecture, School of Humanities, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland
Invited Lecture, Conference on Wittgenstein, University of Bergen, Norway
Invited Lecture, Conference on Skepticism, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Invited Lecture, Conference on Aesthetics, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Invited Lecture, Conference on Perception, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Invited Lecture, Conference of Wittgenstein’s Nachlass, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Invited Lecture, Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, University of Chicago
Invited Lecture, Conference on Nietzsche, University of Chicago
Invited Lecture, Conference in Celebration of the French Translation of McDowell’s Mind and World,
University of
Picardy, Amiens, France
Invited Lecture, Conference on Wittgenstein, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Invited Lecture, Conference on Wittgenstein, University of California, Santa Cruz
Invited Lecture, Center for Theoretical Studies, University of Essex, UK
Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of Essex, UK
Invited Lecture, Charles University, Prague
Invited Lecture, Three Lecture Series, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Lecture, University of Dublin, Ireland
Invited Lecture, University of Bordeaux, France
Invited Lecture, Conference on Conant on Wittgenstein, University of Picardy, Amiens, France
Invited Lecture, University of Illinois at Chicago
Invited Lecture, University of Chicago Divinity School
Invited Lecture, Potsdam, Germany
Invited Lecture, University of Cardiff, UK
Invited Lecture, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Conference on Kant, Kirkenes, Norway
Conference on Everyday, Johns Hopkins, MD
Invited Lecture, conference on Wittgenstein, New School, NY
Invited Lecture, conference on meaning and translation, Paros, Greece
Invited Lecture, Athens, Greece
Invited Lecture, University of Picardy, Amiens, France
Invited Lecture, University of Bordeaux, France
Invited Lecture, Chicago-Paris Conference
Invited Lecture, University of Jules Vern, Paris VI
Keynote address, Conference on the Philosophy of Peter Winch, Swansea, UK
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Four-Lecture Series, Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen
Conference on Wittgenstein, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Conference on McDowell, Sandbjerg, Denmark
Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, Sweden
Conference on Wittgenstein, Skjolden, Norway
Conference on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and its History, University of Stirling, Scotland
Norwegian Council of Research Annual Humanities Public Lecture, University of Bergen, Norway
Session on James Conant’s Interpretation of Kierkegaard and Its Critics, APA Meetings, New York
American Philosophical Association Meetings, Chicago
Conference on Kant and Hegel, University of Chicago
Conference on Film and Philosophy, Swedish Film Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Conference on Stanley Cavell, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Invited Lecturer, Center for Consciousness Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Invited Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Jena University, Jena, Germany
Invited Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Technical University, Berlin, Germany
Invited Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany
Conference on Hegel and Analytic Philosophy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Conference on John McDowell, CRNS, Paris, France
Conference on Logically Alien Thought, Finlandic Institute, Paris, France
Joint Conference on Wittgenstein, Sorbonne and Essex Universities, Paris and Colchester
Invited Lecturer, CREA, Paris, France
Vienna Circle Lecture Series, CRNS, Paris, France
Pragmatism Lecture Series, Sorbonne, Paris, France
Invited Lecturer, College de France, Paris, France
Conference on G. E. Moore, University of Picardy, Amiens, France
Invited Humanities Speaker, Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Inter-Nordic Seminar, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Annual August Phalen Conference on Philosophy, Åbo Academy, Turku, Finland
Conference on Film and Philosophy, University of Chicago
Conference on American Complexities, Boston University, MA
Conference in Honor of Aristides Baltas, NYU, NY
Annual Philosophy Lecture Series Speaker, Auburn University, AL
Conference on German Idealism, Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
Conference on Wittgenstein, Girona, Spain
Conference on Stanley Cavell, New School University, New York, NY
Public Lecture, NYU Cultural Institute, Athens, Greece
Conference on History and Philosophy, Syros, Greece
Symposium on Travis, College de France, Paris, France
Symposium on Wittgenstein, CRNS, Paris, France
Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, Sorbonne, Paris, France
Conference on J.L. Austin, University of Picardy, Amiens, France
Conference on Stanley Cavell, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
Invited Speaker, Franke Institute, University of Chicago
Invited Speaker, Department of Philosophy, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Invited Lecture, Annual Philosophy Lecture Series, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
Invited Lecture, Tate Modern, London, UK
Invited Speaker, Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
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Symposium on Nietzsche, Eastern Division APA 2001 Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia
Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen, Norway
Conference on Wittgenstein, University of Bergen, Norway
Invited Lecture Series, Department of Philosophy, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
Conference on Virtue, Reason, and the Passions, Uppsala, Sweden
Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of Uppsala, Sweden
Conference on Wittgenstein, Technische Universitaet, Berlin, Germany
Conference on Conant/Diamond Interpretation of the Tractatus, Abo Academy, Turku, Finland
24th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria
Conference on the History of Philosophy, Trondheim, Norway
Conference on Wittgenstein and the Future of Philosophy, Gregeynog, Wales
Symposium on Cavell, Athens, Greece
Conference on Wittgenstein, Delphi, Greece
Conference on Wittgenstein, College de France, Paris, France
Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, Tufts University
Graduate Students in Philosophy Lecture Series, University of Chicago.
Conference on Wittgenstein, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA.
Honorary Lecture Series, Annual Inter-Nordic Phil. Association, Helsinki, Finland.
Symposium on Descartes and Wittgenstein, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden.
Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden.
Department of Philosophy, Academy, Turku, Finland.
Conference on Wittgenstein Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Annual Philosophy Guest Lecture Series, University of Reykjavik, Reykjavik, Iceland.
The Mind Association, Annual Meeting, Manchester, UK.
Plenary Lecture, VI Congress of the Austrian Philosophical Society, Linz, Austria.
Conference on Skepticism and Interpretation, Amsterdam, Holland.
Conference on the Pragmatist Tradition, Universität Münster, Münster, Germany.
Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany.
Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany.
Symposium on Biography, Reykjavik Academy, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Conference on Experience and Knowledge, University of Crete, Rethymnon, Greece.
Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Invited Lecture, Husserl Archive, Ecole Normale Sup., Paris, France.
Invited Lecture, CRNS, Paris, France.
Nietzsche Conference, Allerton Conference Center, Allerton, IL.
Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Symposium on Kafka’s In the Penal Colony, University of Chicago.
Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, New School for Social Research, New York.
Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, Tufts University, Medford, MA.
Conference on Wittgenstein College de France, Paris, France
Invited Speaker, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, 1999 Meetings, Boston, MA
Conference on Wittgenstein on Ethics & Religion, Claremont Graduate School
Invited Speaker, C.R.N.S., Paris, France
Conference on Nietzsche, Departments of Philosophy and Politics, University of Southampton, UK
Conference on Orwell, University of Chicago Law School
Conference on Wittgenstein, University of London, UK
Conference on Carnap, Amiens University, France
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Conference on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, Siena, Italy
Symposium on Philosophy and Biography, University of Athens, Greece
Conference on Conant, Haugeland & McDowell, National Technical University, Athens, Greece
Society for Post-Analytic Philosophy, Conference on Crisis in Analytic Philosophy, University of
Southampton, UK
Invited Speaker, Department of Philosophy, University of Iceland, Reykyavik
Karlovy Vary Symposium on Philosophy, Karlovy Vary, The Czech Republic
Conference on American Neopragmatism, Nicholas Copernicus University, Torun, Poland
NEH Summer Institute “Mind, Self, and Psychopathology”, Cornell University
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Holland
Dibner Instititute, M.I.T., Conference on Kuhn’s Philosophy of Science
Invited Speaker, Indiana University, Dept. Of Philosophy
American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, 1997 Meetings, Philadelphia
1997 Ernan McMullin Perspectives in Philosophy Lecture Series, Notre Dame University
American Society for Aesthetics, 1997 Meetings, Santa Fe New Mexico
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, 1997 Meetings, Albuquerque, New Mexico
University of Minnesota, Wittgenstein Conference
Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Dept. of Philosophy
Princeton University, Dept. of Philosophy
Castiglioncello, Italy, Conference on the Philosophy of Science
Universitá di Roma, Facoltá di Filosofia
College de France, Conference on Skepticism
Joint Sessions of the Mind and Aristotelian Societies, Dublin, Ireland
Bard College, Conference on American Transcendentalism
Bar-Elan University, Israel, Conference on Cavell
Tel Aviv University, Israel, Dept. Of Philosophy
Hebrew University, Israel, Committee on American Studies
Harvard University, Conference on the History of Science and History of Art
University of Illinois, Conference on Wittgenstein,
Cerisy-Les-Salles, France, Conference on Contemporary American Philosophy
Kennedy Institute, Berlin, Germany
Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany
International Nietzsche Conference, Allerton Park, Illinois
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dept. Of Philosophy
McGill University, Department of Philosophy
American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, 1994 Meetings, Boston, MA
Univ. of Chicago, Department of Philosophy
Claremont Graduate School, Moral Philosophy Conference
American Philosophical Association, Central Division, 1993 Meetings, Kansas City
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of Philosophy
Conference on American Philosophy, Montpellier, France
Sorbonne, Dept. of Philosophy, Paris, France
Université Rennes, Dept. of Philosophy, Rennes, France
Claremont Graduate School, Conference on Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion
XI SOFIA Simposia de Filosofia, Taxco, Mexico
University of Michigan, School of Law
Warwick University, England, Department of Philosophy
Warwick University, England, Conference on Stanley Cavell
School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College
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Foucault Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University of Virginia, Dept. of Philosophy
University Michigan Society of Fellows, Faculty Colloquium
Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, Department of Philosophy
Illinois Wesleyan University, Department of Philosophy
University of Michigan, Department of Philosophy, Symposium on Pragmatism
International Society for Literature and Philosophy, Edmonton, Canada
Conference on Shakespeare & Philosophy, Winnipeg, Canada
American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, 1990 Meetings, Boston
University of California at Santa Barbara, Department of Philosophy
Harvard University, Department of Philosophy
University of Michigan, Department of History
University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Philosophy
Books in Progress
co-author (with Cora Diamond), Wittgenstein and the Inheritance of Philosophy, Harvard
University Press, Cambridge, MA: (forthcoming).
Resolute Readings: Essays on Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, a collection of
(mostly previously published) essays.
The Ontology of the Cinematographic Image
Varieties of Skepticism
The Concept of America, a monograph