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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

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

Academic Distinctions

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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

“Philosophie als Lebenspraxis und Philosophie als Schreibpraxis,” in Geschichte der

Germanistik 49/50, 2016. pp. 134-144

“Why Kant Is Not a Kantian“ in Philosophical Topics, Vol. 44. No. 1 Spring 2016

„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.

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“Kants Kritik des Schichtenmodells des menschlichen Geistes”, in Das Neue Bedürfnis

nach Metaphysik ed. Andreas Speer, Suhrkamp 2015, pp. 137-149.

"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

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Orwell ou le pouvoir de la vérité, Agone, Paris, 2013

“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

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“Absorption – Die Ontologie einer Spielfilmwelt”, in Geschichte der Germanistik,

Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, 2009

“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.

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"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.

--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.

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"Two Conceptions of Die Überwindung der Metaphysik", in Wittgenstein in America,

edited by Timothy McCarthy and Peter Winch, Oxford University Press, 2001.

– 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.

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"Wittgenstein on Meaning and Use", in Philosophical Investigations, Vol. 21, No. 3,

1998.

"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.

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Introduction to Hilary Putnam's Realism with a Human Face, Harvard University Press,

Cambridge: 1990.

– 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

“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.

"The Invisibility of Directorial Perfection” in Philosophy and Film, ed. by Ludwig Nagl,

De Gruyter

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 (Forthcoming, April 2017)

"Early and Later Wittgenstein on the Ordinary, on Language, and on Ordinary Language”

in Danièle Moyal-Sharrock (ed.), De Gruyter (in Progress)

“Subjecktives Denken" in Thomas Holgers und Gertrud Koch (Hgs.) Fiktion und

Perspektivitaet

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“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

“An Outline of a Reading of the B-Deduction”, for a volume edited by James O’Shea,

Cambridge University Press Critical Guide on the Critique of Pure Reason

“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

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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.

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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.

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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

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

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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

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