NICHOLAS DAVEY
Lest We Forget:
The Question of Being and Philosophical Hermeneutics
GÜNTER FIGAL
Hermeneutics as Phenomenology
ANNETTE HILT
The Anthropological Boundaries of Comprehensive Meaning,
its Finitudes and Openness:
Towards a Hermeneutics of Expressivity
DANIEL L. TATE
Art as Cognitio Imaginativa:
Gadamer on Intuition and Imagination in Kant’s Aesthetic Theory
JAMES RISSER
The Incapacity of Language
JENS ZIMMERMANN
Weak Thought or Weak Theology?
A Theological Critique of Vattimo’s Incarnational Ontology

And A Discussion Paper
ALFONS GRIEDER
What are Boundary Situations?
A Jaspersian Notion Reconsidered:

And Book Reviews
Nicholas Davey: Unquiet Understanding; Gadamer’s
Philosophical Hermeneutics, by Blair M. Ogden

Steven M. Rosen: Topologies of the Flesh: A Multidimensional
Exploration of the Lifeworld, by Orion Edgar

Simon Glendinning: The Idea of Continental Philosophy,
by A.C. Zielinska

Subscriptions
The JBSP is published three times a year, in January, May and October. Three such issues will
constitute one volume: each issue will contain approximately 112 pages.
Orders for the JBSP should be sent to the publisher, Jackson Publishing and Distribution, 3
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Notes for Contributors
The JBSP is an internationally refereed journal. All submissions are sent to two referees for
blind peer-reviewing. The JBSP publishes papers on phenomenology and existential
philosophy as well as contributions from other fields of philosophy. Papers from
researchers in the humanities and the human sciences interested in the philosophy of their
subject will be welcome too. Space will be given to research in progress, to
interdisciplinary discussion, and to book reviews. Intending contributors are asked to
submit papers and correspondence for inclusion in the journal to the Editor, Dr. Ullrich
Haase, Dept. of Politics and Philosophy, Manton Building, Manchester Metropolitan
University, Rosamund St. West, Manchester M15 6LL, UK. Tel.: 0044 (0)161 247 3438;
Fax.: 0044 (0)161 247 6312. Email: u.haase@mmu.ac.uk.

20-21 March 2009, Faculty of Philosophy and Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford

Friday, 20 March, Faculty of Philosophy

14.00-15.15 Dialogue with Pamela Sue Anderson (Oxford)
On Confidence, Power and Affirmation

15.15-15.30 Break

15.30-16.45 Dialogue with Luc Bovens (LSE)
On Apologies and Forgiveness

16.45-17.15 Coffee/Tea

17.15-18.30 Dialogue with Morny Joy (Calgary)
On Solicitude and Gift

Saturday, 21 March, Regent’s Park College

11.30-12.45 Dialogue with David Klemm (Iowa-Glasgow)
On Reading Ricoeur (tbc)

13.00-14.15 Lunch (own arrangements)

14.15-15.30 Dialogue with William Schweiker (Chicago)
On Ricoeur and Theological Humanism (tbc)

15.30-16.00 Coffee/Tea

16.00-17.00 Round table
Chair: David Jasper (Glasgow)

The event is open to all and there are no registration fees. For further information and to book a place contact Roxana Baiasu, Roxana.Baiasu@philosophy.ox.acor Juliana Cardinale: 020 7955 7539, J.Cardinale@lse.ac.uk
Forum for European Philosophy European Institute, London School of Economics, WC2A 2AE www.philosophy-forum.org

The ego, the Other and the primal fact — Toru Tani

Husserl’s transcendental philosophy and the critique of naturalism — Dermot Moran

Some differences between Kant’s and Husserl’s conceptions of transcendental philosophy — Thomas J. Nenon

Heidegger in Mexico: Emilio Uranga’s ontological hermeneutics — Carlos Alberto Sanchez

A non-Bergsonian Bachelard — Jean François Perraudin

Laughing at finitude: Slavoj Žižek reads Being and Time — Thomas Brockelman

Ricoeur and the pre-political — Farhang Erfani and John F. Whitmire

Locke, Kierkegaard and the Phenomenology of Personal Identity, Patrick Stokes

Belief and Self-consciousness, David Hunter

Postmetaphysical Thinking or Refusal of Thought? Max Horkheimer’s Materialism as Philosophical Stance, J. C. Berendzen

Seebohm’s Hermeneutics and Gadamer, Robert Dostal

Schutz, Seebohm, and Cultural Science, Lester Embree

Seebohm, Husserl, and Dilthey, Thomas Nenon

Three Responses, Thomas M. Seebohm

An interview with the author

Finitude: History & Politics

ANTONIO CALCAGNO: Michel Henry’s Non-Intentionality Thesis and Husserlian Phenomenology

FABIO PRESUTTI: Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze and the ‘Idea of Language’ in the Synthesis of ‘Being’

BETH LORD: The Virtual and the Ether: Transcendental Empiricism in Kant’s Opus Postumum

JAMES N. McGUIRK: Aletheia and Heidegger’s Transitional Readings of Plato’s Cave Allegory

TRACY COLONY: The Wholly Other: Being and the Last God in Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy

FARHANG ERFANI: Fixing Marx with Machiavelli: Claude Lefort’s Democratic Turn

The role of judgment and orientation in hermeneutics — Rudolf A. Makkreel

Aesthetic reflection and its ethical significance: A critique of the Kantian solution — Christoph Menke

Does Kant share Sancho’s dream?: Judgment and sensus communis — Alessandro Ferrara

Reflective judgment as world disclosure — María Pía Lara

Imagination and judgment in Kant’s practical philosophy — Alfredo Ferrarin

Rereading `Truth and Politics’ — Ronald Beiner

Rereading Rawls in Arendtian light: Reflective judgment and historical experience — Carlos Thiebaut

Judgment and the reification of the faculties: A reconstructive reading of Arendt’s Life of the Mind — Robert Fine

Conscience, morality and judgment: An inquiry into the subjective basis of human rights — Serena Parekh

Between Geophilosophy and Political Physiology: JOHN PROTEVI

Facticity and Contingency in Louis Althusser’s Aleatory Materialism: MAX HENNINGER

Immanent Description and Writing From…: STUART GRANT

Lights in the Dark: The Radical Empiricism of Emmanuel Levinas and William James: MEGAN CRAIG

Empiricism, Facticity, and the Immanence of Life in Dilthey: ERIC SEAN NELSON

Duns Scotus’ Concept of the Univocity of Being: Another Look: PHILIP TONNER

Schelling’s Positive Empiricism: RASMUS UGILT

Spinoza’s Third Kind of Knowledge as a Resource for Schelling’s Empiricism: CHRIS LAUER

What is Transcendental Empiricism? Deleuze and Sartre on Bergson: GIOVANNA GIOLI

A Superior Empiricism: The Subject and Experimentation: SIMONE BIGNALL

* Jack Caputo
* Richard Kearney
* 50 minutes

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(H/t: Michael O’Rourk)