Twentieth Annual NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy: Intentionality
November 7–8, 2025
Registration is free but required. Registration is now open. Please register HERE.
Note: the second day of the conference will be at a different location from the first!
Friday November 7th:
Kimmel Center, New York University
60 Washington Square South, Room 914
New York, NY 10012
Saturday November 8th:
NYU Philosophy Department
5 Washington Place, Room 101
New York, NY 10003
All questions about the event should be sent to philo.modernconference@nyu.edu.
Friday, November 7
9:30–9:55 Check–in
9:55 Welcome
10:00–12:00 René Descartes
Speaker: Amy Schmitter (University of Alberta)
“Descartes on Intentionality, Attention, and Bringing an Object to Mind”
Commentator: Raffaella De Rosa (Rutgers University - Newark)
12:00–2:00 Lunch Break
2:00–4:00 Baruch Spinoza
Speaker: Karolina Hübner (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Expression, Conception, and Thought in Spinoza”
Commentator: Galen Barry (Iona University)
4:00–4:30 Coffee Break
4:30–6:30 Immanuel Kant
Speaker: Alix Cohen (University of Notre Dame)
“Kant on the Intentionality of Feelings: The Principle of the Power of Judgment as the A Priori Principle of Feeling”
Commentator: Keren Gorodeisky (Auburn University)
6:30–7:30 Reception
Saturday, November 8
9:30–10:00 Check–in
10:00–12:00 Franz Brentano
Speaker: Mark Textor (King’s College London)
“Brentano, Intentionality and the Marks of the Mental”
Commentator: Hamid Taieb (Humboldt University, Berlin)
12:00–2:00 Lunch Break
2:00–4:00 Edmund Husserl
Speaker: Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen)
“Minds in the World: Collective Intentionality and the Problem of Internalism”
Commentator: David Woodruff Smith (University of California, Irvine)
4:00–4:30 Coffee Break
4:30–6:30 Contemporary
Speaker: Uriah Kriegel (Rice University)
“Conscious Intentionality: What Vision and Mood Teach Us”
Commentator: Angela Mendelovici (Western University)
6:30–7:30 Reception