Philosophy as Science: A Key Idea of the 19th Century

International conference April 9, 10, & 11, 2015, Utrecht University

Preliminary list of speakers and titles:

• Liliana Albertazzi “The Science of Appearances”
• Claus Beisbart “Whewell’s Conception of Philosophy of Science”
• Arianna Betti TBA
• Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann TBA
• Denis Fisette “Psychology as Science. Franz Brentano and Auguste Comte’s Positivism”
• Guillaume Frechette “The Descriptive Psychology Research Programme – Brentano’s Contribution to Scientific Philosophy”
• Tom Giesbers “How does one put Wissenschaft in the Wissenschaftslehre: Jean Paul’s analysis of Fichte’s transcendental psychology and the problem of presenting thought”
• Timmy de Goeij “Kant’s Campaign against the Synthesis of Empiricism and Rationalism”
• Dietmar Heidemann “Kant’s discovery of realism”
• Wolfgang Huemer “”Vera philosophiae methodus”: Brentano’s conception of philosophy as rigorous science”
• Carlo Ierna “The Foundation of Philosophy as Science”
• Dale Jacquette “Brentano and the Ambiguities of Scientific Philosophy”
• Hynek Janousek “Husserl’s Search for Apriori Science at the End of the 19th Century”
• Karianne Marx TBA
• Dirk van Miert “Writing the history of science around 1800”
• Olaf Müller “On the Very Idea of Goethe’s, Schelling’s, and Ritter’s Polarity”
• Helmut Pulte “In Praise of Scientific Sobriety: Jakob Friedrich Fries on Scientific Philosophy, Empiricism, Criticism and the Dynamisation of Kant’s Apriori”
• Petr Rezvykh TBA
• Alan Richardson “Disillusionment, Inconvenience, and Scientific Philosophy: Logical Empiricism and Philosophical Modernism”
• Robin Rollinger “Keeping Things Real: Brentano’s Metaphysical Rejection of Bolzano and Husserl”
• Maria van der Schaar “Belief and Philosophy as a Science of the Mind; David Hume versus Franz Brentano”
• Barry Smith “Metaphysics After Darwin”
• Peters Sperber “An experiment with pure reason: transcendental arguments revisited”
• Harald Wiltsche “Connection between physics, phenomenology & scientific realism”
• Paul Ziche “Feelings, empiricism, and realism”