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 2017-present Alexander von Humboldt Professor, University of Leipzig

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

2017-2022 Alexander von Humboldt Prize – five-year grant from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation at Universität Leipzig 1 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

Major Administrative Duties

2004-2011 Chair of the Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago 2014-2015 Chair of the Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago

2 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

Sofia Miguens (Ed.), The Logical Alien – Conant and His Critics, HUP, 2020.

“Wittgenstein’s Critique of the Additive Conception of Language” in Nordic Wittgenstein Review, 2020.

Co-edited with Sebastian Sunday, Wittgenstein on Philosophy, Objectivity, and Meaning, Cambridge University Press, August 2019.

“Del método temprano de Wittgenstein a sus métodos últimos”, Universidad Veracruzana, 2019.

3 “Reposta: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard e Anscombe sobre Ininteligibilidade Moral” in Forma de Vida No 17 (Anscombe), 2019.

“Socratic Aspects of Wittgenstein’s Conception of Philosophy”, in Wittgenstein on Objectivity, Intuition and Meaning, edited by James Conant and Sebastian Greve, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2019.

"The Invisibility of Directorial Perfection” in Aesthetic Investigations, Volume III (Issue 2) Philosophy of Film Without Theory, eds. Craig Fox and Britt Harrisson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

“Inheriting Wittgenstein: James Conant in Conversation with Niklas Forsberg: Part 2” in Nordic Wittgenstein Review 7, ed. by Gisela Bengtsson, Tove Österman and Simo Säätelä, Nordic Wittgenstein Society, December 2018.

"Die Einheit des Erkenntnisvermögens bei Kant," in Selbstbewusstes Leben, ed. by Andrea Kern and Christian Kietzmann, 2017, pp. 229-269.

"Zur Möglichkeit Eines Sowohl Subjektiven Als Auch Objektiven Gedankens" in Perspektive und Fiktion Taschenbuch, ed. By Thomas Hilgers and Gertud Koch, Fink, Wilhelm; Auflage: 2017

"Why Kant is Not a Kantian," in Philosophical Topics, Vol. 44, No. 1, Spring 2016 Issue. (Appeared in 2017)

With Silver Bronzo, "Resolute Readings of the Tractatus," in A Companion to Wittgenstein, ed. by Hans-Johann Glock and John Hyman, Hoboken: Wiley, 2017, pp. 175 - 194.

“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, Wiley- Blackwell, 2017. 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, 2017. 4

“ Zur Möglichkeit eines sowohl subjektiven als auch objektiven Gedankens" in Thomas Hilgers und Gertrud Koch (Hgs.) Perspektive und Fiktion, Wilhelm Fink, 2017.

“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, James R. O’Shea (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2017.

“Philosophie als Lebenspraxis und Philosophie als Schreibpraxis,” in Geschichte der Germanistik 49/50, 2016. pp. 134-144

„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.

“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

5 “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

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, 6

"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

“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.

7 “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.

"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. 8

"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.

"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. 9

– 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.

"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. 10

"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.

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

“Wittgensteins Kritik am additive Verständnis des sprachlichen Zeichens”, in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, fortchcoming 2020.

"Reply Denis Schulting, "The Unity of Cognition and the Subjectivist vs. Transformative Approaches to the B-Deduction”, forthcoming in Critique, 2020.

Reply to Sascha Golub, “Why Kant is Not a Kantian Revisited”, forthcoming in Critique, 2020.

“Resolute Disjunctivism”, in Essays in Honor of John McDowell, ed. by Matthew Boyle and Evgenia Mylonaki, Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2020. 11

“Wittgenstein’s Parable of the Wood Sellers”, in Limits of Intelligibility: Issues from Kant and Wittgenstein, ed. by Jens Pier and Aron Schwertner, Palgrave, forthcoming 2020.

"Thomas Kuhn on Puzzles and Problems”, in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, forthcoming 2021.

"Early and Later Wittgenstein on the Ordinary, on Language, and on Ordinary Language” in Danièle Moyal-Sharrock (ed.), De Gruyter, forthcoming 2021.

“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, forthcoming 2020.

“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

(with Jay Elliott) The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy: After Kant (Volume 2: The Analytic Tradition), lead editor, W. W. Norton & Company, 2017.

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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

Wittgenstein on Objectivity, Intuition and Meaning, edited by James Conant and Sebastian Greve, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2020.

Engaging the Philosophy of Hilary Putnam, edited by James Conant and Sanjit Chakraborty, De Gruyter, forthcoming 2020.

co-editor (with Jonas Held) The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Analytic Philosophy, Palgrave, forthcoming 2021.

co-editor (with Dawa Ometto) Practical Philosophy: Historical and Systematic Perspectives, De Gruyter, forthcoming 2021. 13

co-editor (with Gilad Nir), Early Analytic Philosophy: From Frege to Ramsey, De Gruyter, forthcoming 2021.

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

co-editor (with Richard Schacht), The Norton Anthology of Philosophy: The Concise Edition, W. W. Norton & Co., New York, NY

Invited Lectures and Colloquia

Moderator at Central APA, Chicago, February 26–29, 2020. Moderator at Critique, Commentary and Translation, Tel Aviv, December 15–17, 2019. „Wittgensteins Kritik am additiven Verständnis des sprachlichen Zeichens“ at Germanistisches Kolloquium, Osnabrück, November 29, 2019. Co-Organizer and Moderator, Stanley Cavell's The Claim of Reason, Leipzig, November 7–9, 2019. Moderator at Conference on The Translation of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Translation, Potsdam, September 23–24, 2019. Invited Lecture, “Wittgenstein on Sign and Symbol” at Department of Philosophy, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, September 19, 2019. Invited Lecture, “The Analytic Tradition Revisited: Reply to Bronzo and Marchetti” at Conference on Pragmatism and the European Traditions: 1950s – Today, Rome, September 16–17, 2019. Invited Lecture, “The Form of Life of a Speaking Animal” at Conference on Culture and Value after Wittgenstein, Oxford, August 30–September 1, 2019. Invited Lecture, “Wittgenstein on the Interdependence of Sign and Symbol” at 42nd International Wittgenstein Symposium Crisis and Critique: Philosophical Analysis and Current Events, Kirchberg am Wechsel, August 4–10, 2019. Keynote Speaker, “Wittgenstein’s Critique of the Additive Conception of the Linguistic Sign”, Conference 11th Ludwig Wittgenstein Summer School 2019: Wittgenstein's Tractatus, Kirchberg am Wechsel, July 30 - August 3, 2019. Organizer and Moderator, Conference on Wittgenstein’s Legacy, Leipzig, July 24-25, 2019.

Invited Lecture, „Wittgensteins Kritik am additiven Verständnis des sprachlichen Zeichens“ at Kolloquium Philosophie und Wissenschaftsreflexion, July 16, 2019. Co-Organizer, Conference on Action Network Meeting: Two-Way Powers, July 12-14, 2019. Invited Speaker, “Disjunctivism as Kantianism”, Conference on Analytic Kantianism, July 8-10, 2019. Co-Organizer and Moderator, 3rd Göttingen/Leipzig/Chicago Graduate Conference, June 27-29, 2019.

14 Invited Speaker and Conference Co-Organizer, Conference on Theoretical and Practical Self- Consciousness, “Resolute Disjunctivism”, June 18-20, 2019. Discussant, Conference on Anscombe at 100: On Action and Living Well, June 15-16, 2019. Co-Organizer and Moderator, Conference on The Significance of Self-Consciousness: A Workshop with Matthew Boyle, June 11-14, 2019. Invited Lecture, “Sign and Symbol in Wittgenstein” at Conference on Language, Medium, and Image in Walter Benjamin and Ludwig Wittgenstein, June 6-7, 2019. Invited Lecture, “Cora Diamond’s Philosophy,” American Philosophical Association “2019 Eastern Division Meeting,” New York, January 7-10, 2019. Conference Co-Organizer and Discussant, Conference “Kant, Neo-Kantianism & Jewish Thought,” Tel Aviv, December 17-20, 2018. Intensive Seminar, “Intensive Seminar with James Conant and Cora Diamond,” Pardubice, October 22-24, 2018. Conference Co-Organizer, Conference “Logic and Ethics: The Philosophy of Cora Diamond,” Leipzig, October 15-17, 2018. Moderator, Conference “Self-Consciousness and Objectivity,” Chicago, October 5-7, 2018. Invited Lecture, HSE Philosophy Colloquium & International Speaker Series, Moscow, September 14, 2018. Chair, “Teleological Structures in Human Life – A Workshop with Anselm W. Müller: Graduate Conference,” Leipzig, July 20-22, 2018. Moderator, Conference “Philosophy of Right: Kant, Fichte, Hegel,” Leipzig, July 16-18, 2018. Invited Speaker and Conference Co-Organizer, Conference “Additive vs. Transformative Conceptions of Rationality,” Additive vs. Transformative Conceptions of the Linguistic Sign, Patras, June 27-29, 2018. Moderator, Conference “Kant’s Religion: Within the Limits of Reason,” Leipzig, June 22-24, 2018. Conference Co-Organizer, 2nd Göttingen-Leipzig-Chicago Graduate Workshop, Göttingen, June 18-20, 2018. Invited Lecture, FRIAS Junior Researcher Conference “Grounding the Space of Reasons: The Question of First Principles in German Idealism and Today,” Why Kant is not a Kantian, Freiburg, June 14- 16, 2018 Keynote Speaker, Conference “Ludwig Wittgenstein: Ethics and Aesthetics,” Socratic Aspects of Wittgenstein’s Conception of Philosophy, Bonn, June 11-12, 2018. Chair, Workshop “The Problem of the Intelligibility of Alien Forms of Thought: Cross-Perspectives in Anthropology and Philosophy of Logic,” Berlin, June 7-8, 2018. Invited Lecture, “10th Annual Auburn Philosophy Conference: The Conclusion of Practical Reasoning,” Illusions of Practical Knowledge, Auburn, April 5-6, 2018. Invited Lecture, “Wittgenstein on Following a Rule,” Western Michigan University, April 4, 2018. Invited Lecture, “C.I. Lewis and Wilfrid Sellars on the Given,” Boston. Central APA, “C.I. Lewis and Wilfrid Sellars on the Given,” Chicago, Feburary 21-24, 2018. Introductory Speaker and Conference Co-Organizer, “Andrea Kern: Sources of Knowledge,” Chicago, February 9-11, 2018. 15 Informal Discussion on Wittgenstein’s Philosophy, Frankfurt, January 11, 2018. Discussant, Conference on “Goethe and Philosophy,” Tel Aviv, December 17-21, 2017. Wittgenstein-Seminar, Frankfurt, October 10, 2017. Keynote Speaker, Conference on “Wittgensteinian Approaches to Moral Philosophy,” The Form of Life of a Speaking Animal, Leuven, September 21-23, 2017. Invited Lecture, Conference on “Alternative Contemporary Ethics,” The Form of Life of a Speaking Animal, Rome, September 14-15, 2017. Final Conference Speaker, Conference on James Conant’s After Kant: The Analytic Tradition, Rome, September 13, 2017. Invited Lecture, Abendvortrag „Die Ontologie des Spielfilms,“ Gießen, July 12, 2017. Compact Seminar, “Sommerseminar mit James Conant: ‘Friedrich Nietzsche: Perspektivismus und Perfektionismus‘,“ Gießen, July 13-15, 2017. Discussant, 1st Göttingen-Chicago-Colloquium “Forms of Reason,” Göttingen, July 10-11, 2017. Discussant, Workshop “Virtues and Rational Capacities,” Erlangen, July 7-9, 2017. 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 16 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 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 17 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 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

18 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 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

19 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 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 20 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 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 21 Invited Lecture, University of Cardiff, UK Invited Lecture, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK 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 22 Conference on History and Philosophy, Syros, Greece 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. 23 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 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of Philosophy 24 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

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