Call for Papers: The Emergence of Relativism
The ERC Advanced Grant Project, “The Emergence of
Relativism“, is organizing a three-day conference September
23rd-25th, 2016, at the University of Vienna. Speakers include
Yael Almog, Terrell Carver, Kristin Gjesdal, Michael
Heidelberger, Sara Heinämaa, Katherina Kinzel, Martin Kusch,
Brian Leiter, Timo Miettinen, Lydia Patton, Vicky Spencer,
Johannes Steizinger, Niels Wildschut, Paul Ziche, and Andrew
Zimmerman.
There will also be several slots for submitted
papers. Please send an abstract of around 1000 words by the
end of April to: martin.kusch@univie.ac.at We will inform you of
our decisions by the end of May (at the latest).
The conference will explore relativistic strands
of thoughts, and debates around them, in the “long 19th
century” (i.e. 1800 to the 1940s) and primarily in the
German-speaking lands. Papers might discuss e.g. historicism
(e.g. Hamann, Herder, Humboldt, Niebuhr, von Ranke, Droysen,
Dilthey), psychologism (e.g. Erdmann, Lange, Lipps, Sigwart,
Wundt, Frege and Husserl), the Marxist tradition,
Völkerpsychologie, the sociology of knowledge (e.g. Marx,
Scheler, Spengler, Mannheim), philosophy of life (Nietzsche,
Schopenhauer, Dilthey, Langbehn, Klages, Keyserling, Simmel),
philosophy of language and culture (influenced by Herder, and
von Humboldt), philologists (e.g. Bopp, Grimm), and cultural
or physical anthropologists (e.g. Bastian, Virchow).
For information please contact Martin Kusch <martin.kusch@univie.ac.at>