2018 SEP-FEP Draft ProgrammeMonday 18 th June

9:30 – 10:00: Registration/Coffee (Essex Business School [EBS] Foyer)

10:00 – 11:30 Parallel Sessions A [See attached appendix for participants and paper titles for each session. For abstracts see booklet]

11.30 – 1:00 Parallel Sessions B

1:00 – 2:00 Lunch2:00 – 3:30 Parallel Sessions C

3:30 – 4:00 Crossover Break

4:00 – 5:30 Plenary Speaker

5:30- 19:00 Welcome and Publisher’s Wine Reception (Essex Business School Foyer)Tuesday 19 th June

A1 (EBS 2.35) Panel: Concept, Freedom, Necessity: Morality between Adorno and Levinas

A2 (EBS 2.40)Pedagogy 1

A3 (EBS 2.41)Nietzsche 1

A4 (EBS 2.45)Love

A5 (EBS 2.46)Deleuze & Guattari 1

A6 (EBS 2.66)World, Explanation and, Justification

B1 (EBS 2.35) Panel: Towards a Social Epistemology of Technicity

B2 (EBS 2.40)Sexuality

B3 (EBS 2.41)Philosophy of Mind 1

B4 (EBS 2.45)Recognition

B5 (EBS 2.46)Political Philosophy 1

B6 (EBS 2.66)Heidegger 1

B7 (EBS 2.68) The Frankfurt School

C1 (EBS 2.35)Panel: Envisioning Citizenship in Democracy

C2 (EBS 2.40) Film

C3 (EBS 2.41) Feminism 1

C4 (EBS 2.45) Aesthetics

C5 (EBS 2.46) Deleuze and Guattari 2

C6 (EBS 2.66) Ontology

(EBS 2.2. Lecture Theatre)Bonnie Honig (Brown University).

9:30 – 10:00: Registration/Coffee (Essex Business School [EBS] Foyer)10:00 – 11:30 Parallel Sessions

11.30 – 11:45 Coffee Break

11:45 – 1:15 Parallel Sessions E

1:15 – 2:45 Lunch (SEP Business Meeting in EBS 2.66)2:45 – 4:15 Parallel Sessions F

4:15 – 4:30 Crossover Break4:45 – 6:15 Plenary Speaker

19:00 - 7:30 Conference DinnerWednesday 20 th June

10:00 – 11:30 Parallel Sessions G

D2 (EBS 2.1) Kierkegaard

D3 (EBS 2.41)Nietzsche 2

D4 (EBS 2.45) Political Agency/Subjectivity

D5 (EBS 2.46)Feminism 2

D6 (EBS 2.66)Heidegger 2

D7 (EBS 2.68) Pedagogy 2

E1 (EBS 1.1) Politics: Cinema, Alterity, Comedy

E2 (EBS 2.1)Panel: Individual, Autonomy, Populism*4 papers - extended lunch*

E3 (EBS 2.41)Foucault

E4 (EBS 2.45)Political Philosophy 2

E5 (EBS 2.46) Deleuze and Guattari 3

E6 (EBS 2.66) X

E7 (EBS 2.68) Law and Violence

F1 (EBS 1.1)Philosophy of Mind 2

F2 (EBS 2.1) Technology

F3 (EBS 2.41)Ethics

F4 (EBS 2.45)Human/Non-Human Distinction

F5 (EBS 2.46)History

F6 (EBS 2.66) X

F7 (EBS 2.68) Concepts

(EBS 2.2 Lecture Theatre)Christoph Menke (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt).

G1 (EBS 2.35)Panel 4: Realism Unbound

G2 (EBS 2.40) Nietzsche 3

G3 (EBS 2.46)Music, Silence, and the Sensible

G4 (EBS 2.66) Heidegger 3

G5 (NTC 1.03)Spinoza

G6 (NTC 1.05)Hegel

11:30—11:45 – Coffee Break

11:45 – 1:15 Parallel Sessions H

1:15 – 2:15 Lunch

2:15 – 4:15 Roundtable Plenary: On the work of Peter Dews

4:15 - 5:15 Close of Conference

Parallel Sessions: A

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Panel Title: Concept, Freedom, Necessity: Morality between Adorno and LevinasJames Lewis Unmediated Interpersonal Experience

1 Jakub Kowalewski Moral Necessity and the (im)possibility of Freedom in Adorno and LevinasSimon Thornton Freedom in Levinas and Adorno

2Neil Wilcock From Paulo Freire’s Critical Pedagogy to the Disestablishment of EducationDominic Smith Spirit and Letter: Engaging Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy of Material Culture

3 Joshua Sharman Gift Giving in Nietzsche’s Zarathustra

Meng-Shi Chen (Dis)embodiment of Ecstasy: The Significance of the Allegory of Dionysus’s Dismemberment in The Birth of Tragedy

H1 (EBS 2.35)Phenomenology

H2 (EBS 2.40) Religion

H3 (EBS 2.46)Deleuze and Guattari 4

H4 (EBS 2.66)Political Philosophy 3

H5 (NTC 1.03)Samesness and Alterity

H6 (NTC 1.05)Kant and Post-Kantian Philosophy

H7 (NTC 1.06)Merleau-Ponty

(EBS 2.2. Lecture Theatre)Peter Dews (Essex) Maeve Cook (University College Dublin) Paul Davies (Sussex) [TBC]

Evaldas Juozelis Nietzschean Philosophy for Posthumanist Scientific Future

4Samuel James Oliver “Normative Revolution and the Horizon of Freedom”Jake Parkins Can the philosophy of Ronald David Laing address the limits of Critical Theory’s conception of Social Pathology?Maximilian Gregor Hepach Eingedenken as mnemonic dialectic: The (dis-)entanglement of enlightenment

5Nathan Widder

The Univocity of Substance and the Formal Distinction of Attributes: The Role of Duns Scotus in Deleuze’s Reading of Spinoza

David Ventura The Expressive Synthesis of the Sensible”: on Deleuze’s break with BergsonismAllen Chiu A Deleuze & _____ Problem: Deleuze & Na garjuna

6Jonathan Egeland Harouny The Demon That Makes Us Go Mental: Non-Factive Mentalism DefendedAndrew Kil Context Sensitivity and Stepwise Dependence in Lewis’ Theory of CausationRoberto Redaelli The logical Realism of Emil Lask between Postmodernism and New Realism

Parallel Sessions: B

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1 Panel Title: Towards a Social Epistemology of Technicity

Andrea Bardin Political Significance of Onto-Epistemology: Simondon with Barad (via Leroi- Gourhan)

Giovanni Menegalle Technocracy and Totality: On the Work of Nora Mitrani

Taila Picchi The Project of Technicity: Marcuse’s Reading of Simondon

2 Stella Sanford ‘“Envy Accompanied with Antipathy”: Bentham and Freud on the Psychology of Sexual Ressentiment’

Emma Ingala Gómez The Problem of Sexual Difference

3 Andrea Raimondi A Problem for the Notion of Intentionality

Maik Niemeck, Reviving the Adverbial Interpretation of Brentano's Concept of Secondary Consciousness

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Paul Giladi Epistemic Injustice: A Role for Recognition?

Farida Youssef A Spatial Understanding of Recognition: Marivaux’s L’Ile Read through Ranciere

Gas per Pirc Social Recognition and Human Suffering: The Role of Critical Hermeneutics in Understanding of the Social Pathologies in the Contemporary Society

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Birte Loschenkohl Repetition and Collective Action in Karl Marx

Luke Collison Action and Potentia in Hobbes’s Theory of the Commonwealth

Eva Maria Parisi What - if anything - is unjust about parental resources influencing children’s access to advantages?

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Matt Burch Expressive Control: Heidegger on What Makes Actions Properly Agential

Irene McMullin Norm and Ideal

Denis McManus Heidegger on a World in Common

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Gregor Damschen Unified Theory of Personal Love

Raul de Pablos Escalante Philosophy as Love: between Desire, Reason and Understanding Considerations of the fifth of Spinoza’s Ethics

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Prarallel Sessions: C

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1 Panel Title: Envisioning Citizenship in Democracy: Some PerspectivesValentina Moro Agonism and Discourse: Citizenship in Classical AthensIrene Dal Poz Citizenship after SovereigntyClementina Fusillo Representative Citizenship, A Possibility

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Ashley Woodward Dispositif, Matter, Affect, and the Real:Four Fundamental Concepts of Lyotard’s Film-PhilosophyCynthia Cruz Failure as Resistance in Alexander Kluge’s Yesterday’s GirlJohn O Maoilearca When the Twain Shall Meet: On the Divide between Analytic and Continental Film Philosophy

3Seiriol Morgan ‘The Roots of Entitlement’Charlotte Knowles Freedom, Complicity and the #Metoo BacklashAmelie Bescont The Agency in Crime: a Feminist Perspective

4Clint Verdonschot Feasible aesthetic rationalism: Kant, Wittgenstein and Baumgarten on aesthetic norms Jo rg Schaub TBC (abstract 98)Mathew Abbott Peacock Tails, Bowerbird Bowers, and Aesthetic Autonomy: Toward a Problematic Naturalism

5Bill Ross Toward a Deleuzian CosmologyAudrone Zukauskaite Biology is the New Ontology: Deleuze, Simondon, RuyerThomas Waterton Gilles Deleuze, Wilfrid Sellars, and the Possibility of Empiricism

6Savvas Ioannou Ontological Commitments: Paraphrases or TruthmakingArtur Kosecki Amie Thomasson's "Easy Ontology" and Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz's Views on OntologyWolfgang Sattler On the Natural Understanding of the Question of What Something Is

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Parallel Sessions: D

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John-Baptiste Oduor Can Kierkegaard Think Politics?

Luke Jenner Thinking About the Ambiguity of Evil through Kierkegaard.

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Rachel Silverbloom Redemptive Illusions: The Necessity of Deception for Life in Nietzsche’s Philosophy

Richard J. Elliott “Too Cowardly to Lie”: Normative Considerations of Illusion and Falsification in Nietzsche

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Dan Degerman Dis/empowering Factors: Exploring the Sources of Political Agency

Jimena Vazquez Garcia The Political Lack of the Digital Subject

Ben Turner Comparing Problems in Political Philosophy after the Ontological Turn: The Case of Agency

Iraklis Ioannidis Piercing feminism in Peirce: Thinking Peirce’s Phaneroscopy without Being

5 Robert Booth Why Ecofeminists Should (Also) Be Ecophenomenologists

Jana Sawicki The Jouy Case: Again, or Questions Concerning the Value of Feminist Critique

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Mersiye BoraOisin Keohane

Reading The Origin of the Work of Art with Displacement: Exploring the Unreliable World with Mona Hatoum’s ArtworksIn All Modesty – The Concept of the Naked Truth

7 John McKeane Sarah Kofman’s Socrate(s) and Pedagogical

Sacha Golob What would it be to teach ethics? Kant, Nietzsche, Levinas.

Parallel Sessions: E

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Ricardo Samaniego de la Fuente Adorno on Aesthetic Progress and the Systematic Surrender to Unguided Chance

Leonie Hunter On Political Comedy

Christopher Watkin Michel Serres, Alterity, and the New Politics2

Panel Title: Individual, Autonomy, PopulismPhilip Waldner Spinoza on Prophetic Speech

Oliver Istvan Toth Voting Out the Absolute Spirit: Populism and Objective Spirit After the End of World History

Kata Dóra Kiss Liberation of Desires: The Critical Philosophical Practice of Giles Deleuze and Felic Guattari

Charlotte Szasz The Forced Passivity to Feminism: A Critique of Foucault’s Introduction to Anti-Oedipus

3 Jack Coopey The Ethics of Evil: Teleology and Foucault's War on the SelfSimone WebbTimothy Secret

‘employ you care about that which is really your self’: Mary Astell and the Final Foucault …and yes I said yes I will Yes - Foucault’s last word on consent

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Andrea Rossi Askesis of Neoliberal Man

Judith Zinsmaier Hannah Arendt’s implicit criticism of liberal concepts of opinion

Yannig Luthra The Resilience of Freedom

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Niall Kennedy Deleuzian Author

Jaakko Karhunen The Theory of Production of Subjectivity in Felix Guattari’s Late Philosophy

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7 David Woods Seriously Bored: Schopenhauer on Solitary Confinement

Gavin Rae Walter Benjamin’s ‘Critique of Violence’ as an Ethics of Responsibility

Parallel Sessions: F

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Veridiana Domingos Cordeiro and Hugo Neri

Solving the Lockean “circularity in the personal identity problem”: dialogues with contemporary conceptions of “identity” and “memory”

Yaron Wolf Bergson’s ‘Dynamic Schema’ and the Intelligibility of HabitJesus López-Campillo Self-deception: A Neo-Expressivist Account

2Jose Carlos Cañizares The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Anthropocene: Toward a sustainability- and conflict- sensitive philosophy of technologyIsabel Millar Algorithmic Extimacy: Enjoyments of the AlethospherePierluca D’Amato Becoming-algorithmic and becoming-alive: On Technoliving Hybrids and cross-border processes

3Susana Cadilha Why should moral objectivity be threatened by evolutionary explanations of morality?Dennis Kalde Metaethical Constructivism And Moral ObjectivityJordi Fairhurst The Schopenhauerian Reading of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: A Critique

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Alexandra Popescu The Human/Non-human Animal Distinction: Derrida, Levinas, GaitaThomas KhuranaTom Whyman

The Irony of Self-consciousness: Hegel and DerridaMcDowell and Marx on what separates us from the animals

5Philip Conway Historical ontology, rehabilitated: discerning the modal differentiae of history and philosophySinkwan Cheng Reassessing Decline through a Dialectical Standstill: Critical Temporality in an Age of Crises Yonatan Finegold Why the ‘Crisis of Modernity’ is not at all Modern: An Investigation into Shlomo Biderman’s ‘Presupposition of Transcendence’

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Clive Cazeaux Art, Philosophy and the connectivity of conceptsJuan Serey Aguilera Reinhart Koselleck and the reflective role of the conceptual historian Moritz Gansen UnFrench Philosophy

Parallel Sessions: G

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1Panel Title: Realism Unbound Nat Rutherford Karl Marx: Political RealistMatthew Hall The Second Political QuestionKoshka Duff The Criminal Is Political: Policing Politics in Real Existing Liberalism

2Kit Barton

A comparative analysis of the methodology behind Nietzsche’s philosophy of history with the methodology of his historicist contemporaries

Tracy ColonyMatt Bennett

Composing Time: Stiegler on Nietzsche. Nihilism and a Possible FutureNietzsche’s Expressivism, or, What if Alexander Nehamas hadn’t quit smoking?

3Charles Lebeau-Henry Chopin as “Wegweiser fur die Zukunft”: Nietzsche on the Possibilities of Music in the Second Part of Human, All Too HumanCatherine M. Robb Music as a Phenomenological Ideal: Reconciling Merleau-Ponty’s Account of MusicAinhoa Suarez Gómez Silence: From Langugae to the Body

4Oren Magid What Eigentlich Really MeansElena Bartolini Heidegger and the Principle of Non Contradiction. Considerations from his Ontological Account

5Beth Lord Spinoza and the Art of ReasoningDimitris Vardoulakis Why is Spinoza an Epicurean?Elaina Gauthier-Mamaril Spinoza’s critique of atomism: Redefining Spinozist individuation with Sophie Laveran

Tommy Lynch Hegel, “the Fanatic” and the Tensions of Liberalism

6 Lucian Lonel Self-consciousness as a Living KindJonas Heller ‘Universal Usefulness’ and ‘Absolute Freedom’: A Reading of Liberal Subjectivity according to Hegel’s Critique of Enlightenment

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Parallel Sessions: H

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Max Schaefer The Role of Trust in Michel Henry’s Speech of Suffering

Valeria Motta What Loneliness Reveals

Constantin Mehmel Disorientation: A Phenomenological Sketch

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Tim Lowe Badiou and the Problem of Evil

Majid Amini Religion and a Hegelian Dialectic: Ricoeur on Faith

Damiano Migliorini Toward a Trinitarian Metaphysics: Trinity and Gunk

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Deirdre Daly ‘The World is an Egg’: Deleuze and Hildegard von Bingen

Daniel Wizeman Immanence and Networks in Ancient Greece

James Kelly Time and Landscape: An Application of Deleuze’s Three Syntheses of Time to Landscape and the Geoglyphs of Chug Chug

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James Bartholomeusz Unlikely Friends: Social Democracy, Catholic Social Teaching and the Challenge to Neoliberalism

Dan Swain Living the Future Now – Figures, Synecdoches and Iconoclasts

Cillian O Fathaigh Paperless interventions: Jacques Derrida on undocumented migrants and Europe

5 Andrew Bevan The Education of Male Desire: Death in Plato and Mishima, Life in Irigaray

Jo-Jo Koo Doing Justice to the Other: A Comparative Assessment of Levinas’s and Gadamer’s Reflections on Alterity

Aaron Higgins-Brake From Form to Content: Kant and Hegel on Logic

6 Tadahiro Oota On the Role of the ‘Feeling of Truth’ in J. F. Fries’ Philosophy

Laurence Kent Transcendental Reelism: Deleuze’s Cinematic Kantianism

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Andrew Inkpin Merleau-Ponty on Sensible ideas and Embodied IntelligenceStage Theory and Phenomenal SpaceRe-Thinking Ethical Hospitality in the Light of Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Embodiment

Nicolas DanneIlknur Ozalli