Eighteenth Annual NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy: Love and Friendship
New York University, November 10-11, 2023
31 Washington Place Silver Center, Hemmerdinger Hall, New York, NY 10003
Registration is free but required. Registration is now open. Please register by November 1st, 2023. All questions about this conference should be directed to philo.modernconference@nyu.edu.
Program
Friday, November 10
9:30-9:55: Check-in and Coffee
9:55-10:00: Welcome
10:00-12:00: Adam Smith
Speaker: Ryan Patrick Hanley (Boston College)
“Adam Smith on Social Progress and the Evolution of Love”
Commentator: Samuel Fleischacker (University of Illinois Chicago)
12:00-2:00: Break
2:00-4:00: Immanuel Kant
Speaker: Marcia Baron (Indiana University Bloomington)
“Reflections on Kant on Friendship”
Commentator: Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern University)
4:00-4:30: Coffee Break
4:30-6:30: German Romanticism
Speaker: Frederick Beiser (Syracuse University)
“The Romantic Conception of Love”
Commentator: Owen Ware (University of Toronto)
6:30-7:30: Reception
Saturday, November 11
9:30-10:00: Check-in and Coffee
10:00-12:00: Friedrich Nietzsche
Speaker: Andrew Huddleston (University of Warwick)
"What Is This Thing Called Amor Fati?"
Commentator: Claire Kirwin (Northwestern University)
12:00-2:00: Lunch Break
2:00-4:00: Simone de Beauvoir
Speaker: Michelle Kosch (Cornell University)
“Beauvoir on Friendship and Devotion”
Commentator: Susan J. Brison (Dartmouth College)
4:00-4:30: Coffee Break
4:30-6:30: Contemporary
Speaker: Simon May (King's College London)
"In What Way Have We Got Love Wrong Today?"
Commentator: Alexander Nehamas (Princeton University)
6:30-7:30: Reception