JAMES FERGUSON CONANTCurriculum Vitae

Address

Department of PhilosophyUniversity of Chicago1115 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 Chicago2017-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 Science1977-1978 Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan1975-1976 Universität Göttingen, Germany1973-1975 Phillips Exeter Academy

Academic Distinctions

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

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2015-2017 Neubauer Faculty Project: The Idealism Project2012-2013 Lichtenberg-Kolleg Fellow2012-2017 Anneliese Maier-Forschungspreis five-year grant from the Alexander von

Humboldt foundation2011-2012 SIAS Grant (with Sebastian Rödl): The Second Person: Comparative

Perspectives2011-2013 Humboldt Transcoop-Projekt with Christoph König and David Wellbery: From

Goethe to Wittgenstein2011 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 Fellow2008-2010 Humboldt Transcoop-Projekt with Pirmin Stekeler on From Transcendental

Logic to the Analysis of Practice2006-2007 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship with David Wellberry: Sawyer

Seminar on Non-Discursive Thought From Goethe to Wittgenstein2005-2006 Franke Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellow2004-2006 Humboldt Transcoop-Projekt with Sebastian Roedl, on General and

Transcendental Logic in the Tradition of Kant, Frege and Wittgenstein1995-1996 University of Pittsburgh Distinguished Teaching Award 1994-1995 University of Pittsburgh Curriculum Development Grant1992-1993 Michigan Society of Fellows, Junior Fellow1990 George Plimpton Adams Prize for Outstanding Dissertation, Harvard University1988-1989 Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellowship1985-1986 Harvard Graduate Academic Merit Fellowship1983-1984 Harvard University Distinguished Teaching Fellow Award1981-1982 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

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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 BerlinAcademic Advisory Board, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut EssenAcademic Advisory Board, Berlin Center for Knowledge ResearchCo-Chair, International Wittgenstein SocietyAdvisory Board, University of Dortmund, Institute of Advanced StudyAdvisory Board, Technical University of Berlin, Excellence Center in PhilosophyNorth 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 DirectorsAHRC Project on Methodological Issues in Analytic Philosophy & Logic, Advisory Board

Publications

“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 SelbstbewusstesLeben, ed. by Andrea Kern and Christian Kietzmann, 2017, pp. 229-269.

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

"Why Kant is Not a Kantian," in Philosophical Topics, Vol. 44, No. 1,

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Spring 2016 Issue. (Appeared in 2017)

With Silver Bronzo, "Resolute Readings of the Tractatus," in ACompanion 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.

“ 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.

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"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

“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.

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“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,

"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.

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“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.

“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.

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"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.

"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.

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– 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.

– 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).

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"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.

"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.

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"On Philosophical Ground", Harvard Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 1988).

Forthcoming Publications

The Logical Alien, forthcoming from Harvard University Press in 2019. The book contains an opening essay by James Conant, eight critical essays on Conant by leading philosophers, and fourteen further essays by James Conant, eight of which are essay-length replies to each of his critics.

"Reply Denis Schulting, "The Unity of Cognition and the Subjectivist vs. Transformative Approaches to the B-Deduction”, forthcoming in Critique, 2019.

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

"Thomas Kuhn on Puzzles and Problems”, in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, forthcoming 2019.

"The Invisibility of Directorial Perfection” in Philosophy and Film, ed. by Ludwig Nagl, De Gruyter.

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

“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

“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

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“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.

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.

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– 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 2019.

Engaging the Philosophy of Hilary Putnam, edited by James Conant and Sanjit Chakraborty, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2019.

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

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.

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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.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, 2016Invited Lecture, On Doubt, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, May 5, 2016Invited Lecture, Kant’s Critique of the Layer-Cake Conception of Human Mindedness, German

Philosophy Workshop, April 1, 2016Invited Lecture, Two Forms of Skepticism, Dartmouth College, March 24, 2016Invited Lecture, Die Autonomie der Geisteswissenschaften als eigene Form der Erkenntnis, Symposium

with Sebastian Roedl, January 28, 2016Invited Lecture, Thomas S. Kuhn: Die Strukture der Wissenschaftlichen Revolutionen, Symposium with

Konrad Lindner January 27, 2016Invited Lecture, Symposium on the Philosophy of Brandom, Leipzig, “Brandom on Rule-Following”,

December 14, 2015Invited 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, 2015II: Descartes and the Creation of Eternal Truths, November 25 III: Kant’s Hylomorphic Conception of Logic, November 30IV: Frege’s Encounter with the Logical Alien, December 2V: 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, 201514

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

Invited Lecture, Erlangen University, “Sellars’ Dialectic of the Given,” June 13, 2015Invited Lecture, Leipzig University, „Die Autonomie der Geisteswissenschaften“ June, 2015Invited Lecture, University of Osnabruck, „Die Unsichtbarkeit einer perfekten Regie“, June, 2015Invited Lecture, St. John's College, “Socratic aspects of Wittgenstein’s Conception of Philosophy”, April

2015Invited Lecture, Nazareth Conference on Love, Respect and the Political, “Solidarity, Truth and The

Political”, December 2014Invited Lecture, Philosophy Department Colloquium, Tel Aviv University “The Invisibility of Directorial

Perfection”, December 2014Invited 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 2014Invited Lecture, Skepticism Conference Bonn "Matter and Form: Two Ways of Distinguishing Varieties

of Skepticism”,November 2014Invited Lecture, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, ”Thomas Kuhn on the Difference between Puzzles and

Problems", November 2014Invited Lecture, Conference on Robert Pippins philosophische Filmlektüre, University of Vienna, “Die

Unsichtbarkeit einer perfekten Regie: über Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho”, November 2014Invited Lecture, 2014 Deutsche Kongress fuer Philosophie an der Universitaet Muenster, “Form und

Inhalt bei Kant”, October 2014Invited 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 2014Invited 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 2014Invited Lecture, Museum für Modernen Kunst, Frankfurt, “Die Unsichtbarkeit einer perfekten Regie: über

Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho”, July 2014Invited Lecture, Kant-Circle at the University of Frankfurt, “Kant’s Critique of the Layer-Cake conception

of Human Mindedness” July 2014Invited Lecture, University of Dresden Philosophy Colloquium, “Spielarten des Skeptizismus” July, 2014Invited 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 2014Invited Lecture, Tufts University Conference on Philosophical Methods, “Kant and Wittgenstein on non-

dogmatic Methods in Philosophy”, May 2014Invited Lecture, University of Frankfurt, Bridging Tradition Conference, “Kant’s Critique of the Layer

Cake Conception of Human Mindedness” April 2014

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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 2014Lecture, University of Chicago Conference on Walter Benjamin as Philosopher, ”Benjamin on the Nature

of the Cinematic Medium”, February 2014Conference Co-Organizer, University of Chicago Conference on Kant and Sellars, February 2014Conference Co-Organizer, University of Chicago Conference on Walter Benjamin as Philosopher,

February 2014Invited Lecture, Graham School, Works of the Mind Lecture Series, “Kant Critique of the Layer Cake

Conception of the Human Mind”, Feb 2014Invited Lecture, Midwest Faculty Seminar - On Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals, ”Nietzsche on the

Dialectic of Nature and Culture”, January 2014Invited Lecture, University of Chicago Conference on "Image and Myth" by Luca Giuliani: “Luca

Giuliani on Form and Content”, Dec 2013Invited 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, 2013Invited Lecture, FU Berlin Conference on Perspective and Fiction: “Cinematic Point of View”, Oct 2013Invited Lecture, at Wittgenstein International Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria: ”Early and Later

Wittgenstein on the Ordinary, on Language, and on Ordinary Language”, August 2013Summer 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 2013Conference co-organizer and co-symposiast, Rule Following at University of Leipzig, July 2013Swedish Radio Interview with Niklas Forsberg, June, 2014Symposium on Disjunctivism with Charles Travis in University of Goettingen, June 2013Invited Lecture, University of Patras Conference on Sebastian Roedl's Theory of Self-Consciousness:

“Roedl’s Critique of Fallibilism”, June, 2013Invited Lecture, Nietzsche-Forum Munich: „Das Exemplarische bei Emerson und Nietzsche", June 3,

2013Invited Lecture, Bergische Universität Wuppertal: "Wittgenstein: Vom Tractatus zu den

Untersuchungen", May 31, 2013Invited Lecture, HU Berlin: “Wittgenstein, Brandom and McDowell on Rule Following”, May 28, 2013Invited Lecture, FU Berlin: “Wittgenstein, Brandom and McDowell on Rule Following”, May 27, 2013Invited 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, 2013Invited 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

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Conference Co-organized, University of Leipzig, “Practical Knowledge”, April 19-21, 2013Invited Lecture, LMU Munich, Department of Philosophy: “Kants Kritik des Schichtenmodells des

menschlichen Geistes”, March 27, 2013Conference 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, 2013Invited Lecture, FU Berlin Colloquium: “Symmetries and Asymmetries in Practical and Theoretical

Reason”, February 4, 2013Invited Lecture, University of Frankfurt, Department of Philosophy: “Wittgensteins Spätkritik

amTractatus”, January 31, 2013Invited Lecture, University of Göttingen, Ringvorlesung Series: "Kants Kritik des Schichtenmodells des

menschlichen Geistes", January 23, 2013Invited Lecture, Tel Aviv University Conference “Kantian Themes in Analytic Philosophy”: “Kant's

Critique of the Layer-Cake Conception of Human Mindedness”, December 18, 2012Invited Lecture, University of Potsdam, Inaugural Lecture of the Voltaire Lecture Series: “Kant's Critique

of the Layer-Cake Conception of Human Mindedness”, December 5th, 2012Opening of the Center for Analytic German Idealism (CAGI) at the University of Leipzig, December 3,

2012Invited Lecture, University of Chicago Kuhn Conference: “Kuhn on the Distinction Between Problems

and Puzzles” November 29, 2012Conference 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

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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

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 2012Invited Speaker at conference on Wilfrid Sellars's Philosophy, University College Dublin, June 2012Plenary Speaker at conferenceon The Actuality of German Idealism, HU Berlin, May 2012Invited Lecture, Indiana Bloomington, April 2012Invited Speaker at conference on Bernard williams and Antiquity, UNC, April 2012 Keynote Lecture at conference on James Conant and Cora Diamond, Duke, April 2012Plenary Speaker at the Graduate Students Conference, Zurich University, March 2012Invited Series of Lectures, Waterloo University, March, March 2012Invited Lecture, Conference on Philosophy, Film and Skepticism, Bonn University, November 2011Invited Lecture, Conference on Wittgenstein, Tvarminne, Finland, November 2011Keynote 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 2011Invited Lecture, Conference on Nietzsche, Göttingen University, September 2011Invited Lecture, Abo Academy, Turku, Finland, September 2011Invited Lecture Series, University of Bergen, Norway, September 2011Two 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 2011Invited Lecture, Welsh Philosophical Society Conference, Gregynog, July 2011Invited Lecture, Symposium on Philosophy and Literature, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, July 2011Keynote Lecture, Conference on The Logical Alien at 20, University of Porto, Portugal, June 2011Invited Lecture, MLEG, University of Porto, Portugal, June 2011Invited Lecture, Conference on Wittgenstein, University of Rome - Sapienza, Italy, June 2011Invited Lecture, Conference on John McDowell, University of Patras, Greece, June 2011Keynote Lecture, Conference on Wittgenstein, Auburn UniversityInvited Lecture, Conference on Brandom and Cavell, CNRS, Paris, FranceInvited Lecture, Conference on J.L. Austin, University of Paris - Sorbonne, FranceInvited Lecture, Conference on Wittgenstein, University of Paris - Sorbonne, FranceInvited Lecture, Conference on Stanley Cavell, Johns Hopkins University, BaltimoreSpeaker/Moderator, Conference on Contradiction, University of ChicagoInvited 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, UK18

Invited Lecture, Conference on Forms of Knowledge, Technical University, Berlin, GermanyInvited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of Jena, GermanyKeynote Lecture, Opening of the William James Center, University of Dortmund, GermanyInvited Lecture, Conference on McDowell, University of Rome La Sapienza, ItalyKeynote Lecture, Conference on Wittgenstein, University of Patras, GreeceInvited Lecture, Conference on Michael Fried, University of Athens, GreeceInvited Lecture, Conference on Wittgenstein and Translation, University of Vienna, AustriaInvited Lecture, New School University, New YorkKeynote Lecture, Conference on Nietzsche, University of Southampton, UKInvited Lecture, Conference on Art, Medium, and Expression, Freie Universitaet, BerlinInvited Lecture Series, University of Rome La Sapienza, ItalyInvited Lecture, Institute of Humanities, University of Bergen, NorwayInvited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen, NorwayKeynote Speaker, Conference on Wittgenstein, Krichberg, AustriaInvited Lecture, Conference on Richard Rorty, Rio de Janiero, BrazilInvited Lecture, CNRS, ParisInvited Lecture, Conference on The Beginning of Wittgenstein’s Investigations, University of Bordeaux

III, Bordeaux, FranceInvited Lecture, University of Basel, Basel, SwitzerlandInvited Lecture, University of Zurich, Zurich, SwitzerlandInvited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of Odense, DenmarkInvited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, GermanyWednesday Lecture, Wiessenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Berlin, GermanyColloquium Talk, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Berlin, GermanyInvited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, UKInvited Lecture, University of Dortmund, Dortmund, GermanyInvited Lecture, Conference on Kuhn, University of Athens, Athens, GreeceInvited Lecture, XXIst German Congress for Philosophy, University of Essen, Essen, GermanyInvited Lecture, Conference on Nietzsche, Sils-Maria, SwitzerlandInvited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of Northern Illinois, Dekalb, IllinoisInvited lecture, Conference on Pragmatism, Zuerich, SwitzerlandKeynote Speaker, Conference on Conceptions of Reason, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, GermanyInvited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, GermanyInvited Lecture, “Varieties of Skepticism,” Department of Philosophy, University of Szczecin, Szczecin,

PolandInvited Lecture, School of Humanities, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, PolandInvited Lecture, Conference on Wittgenstein, University of Bergen, NorwayInvited Lecture, Conference on Skepticism, University of Edinburgh, ScotlandInvited Lecture, Conference on Aesthetics, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Berlin, GermanyInvited Lecture, Conference on Perception, University of Basel, Basel, SwitzerlandInvited Lecture, Conference of Wittgenstein’s Nachlass, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, PortugalInvited Lecture, Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, University of ChicagoInvited Lecture, Conference on Nietzsche, University of ChicagoInvited Lecture, Conference in Celebration of the French Translation of McDowell’s Mind and World,

University of Picardy, Amiens, FranceInvited Lecture, Conference on Wittgenstein, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, GermanyInvited Lecture, Conference on Wittgenstein, University of California, Santa CruzInvited Lecture, Center for Theoretical Studies, University of Essex, UKInvited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of Essex, UK

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Invited Lecture, Charles University, PragueInvited Lecture, Three Lecture Series, Johns Hopkins UniversityInvited Lecture, University of Dublin, IrelandInvited Lecture, University of Bordeaux, FranceInvited Lecture, Conference on Conant on Wittgenstein, University of Picardy, Amiens, FranceInvited Lecture, University of Illinois at ChicagoInvited Lecture, University of Chicago Divinity SchoolInvited Lecture, Potsdam, GermanyInvited Lecture, University of Cardiff, UKInvited Lecture, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK Conference on Kant, Kirkenes, NorwayConference 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, GreeceInvited Lecture, University of Picardy, Amiens, FranceInvited Lecture, University of Bordeaux, FranceInvited Lecture, Chicago-Paris ConferenceInvited Lecture, University of Jules Vern, Paris VIKeynote address, Conference on the Philosophy of Peter Winch, Swansea, UKFour-Lecture Series, Department of Philosophy, University of BergenConference on Wittgenstein, University of Aarhus, DenmarkConference on McDowell, Sandbjerg, DenmarkInvited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, SwedenConference on Wittgenstein, Skjolden, NorwayConference on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and its History, University of Stirling, ScotlandNorwegian Council of Research Annual Humanities Public Lecture, University of Bergen, NorwaySession on James Conant’s Interpretation of Kierkegaard and Its Critics, APA Meetings, New York American Philosophical Association Meetings, ChicagoConference on Kant and Hegel, University of ChicagoConference on Film and Philosophy, Swedish Film Institute, Stockholm, SwedenConference on Stanley Cavell, Uppsala University, Uppsala, SwedenInvited 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, GermanyInvited Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany Conference on Hegel and Analytic Philosophy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, GermanyConference on John McDowell, CRNS, Paris, FranceConference on Logically Alien Thought, Finlandic Institute, Paris, FranceJoint Conference on Wittgenstein, Sorbonne and Essex Universities, Paris and Colchester Invited Lecturer, CREA, Paris, FranceVienna Circle Lecture Series, CRNS, Paris, FrancePragmatism Lecture Series, Sorbonne, Paris, FranceInvited Lecturer, College de France, Paris, FranceConference on G. E. Moore, University of Picardy, Amiens, FranceInvited Humanities Speaker, Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen, Bergen, NorwayCenter for Philosophy of Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, NorwayDepartment of Philosophy, University of Bergen, Bergen, NorwayInter-Nordic Seminar, Uppsala University, Uppsala, SwedenAnnual August Phalen Conference on Philosophy, Åbo Academy, Turku, Finland

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Conference on Film and Philosophy, University of ChicagoConference on American Complexities, Boston University, MAConference in Honor of Aristides Baltas, NYU, NYAnnual Philosophy Lecture Series Speaker, Auburn University, ALConference on German Idealism, Notre Dame, South Bend, INConference on Wittgenstein, Girona, SpainConference on Stanley Cavell, New School University, New York, NYPublic Lecture, NYU Cultural Institute, Athens, GreeceConference on History and Philosophy, Syros, GreeceSymposium on Travis, College de France, Paris, FranceSymposium on Wittgenstein, CRNS, Paris, FranceInvited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, Sorbonne, Paris, FranceConference on J.L. Austin, University of Picardy, Amiens, FranceConference on Stanley Cavell, Wesleyan University, Middletown, ConnecticutInvited Speaker, Franke Institute, University of ChicagoInvited Speaker, Department of Philosophy, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UKInvited Lecture, Annual Philosophy Lecture Series, University of Essex, Colchester, UKInvited Lecture, Tate Modern, London, UKInvited Speaker, Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VASymposium on Nietzsche, Eastern Division APA 2001 Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen, NorwayConference on Wittgenstein, University of Bergen, NorwayInvited Lecture Series, Department of Philosophy, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, ItalyConference on Virtue, Reason, and the Passions, Uppsala, SwedenInvited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of Uppsala, SwedenConference on Wittgenstein, Technische Universitaet, Berlin, GermanyConference on Conant/Diamond Interpretation of the Tractatus, Abo Academy, Turku, Finland24th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, AustriaConference on the History of Philosophy, Trondheim, NorwayConference on Wittgenstein and the Future of Philosophy, Gregeynog, WalesSymposium on Cavell, Athens, GreeceConference on Wittgenstein, Delphi, GreeceConference on Wittgenstein, College de France, Paris, FranceInvited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, Tufts UniversityGraduate 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.

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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.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 SchoolInvited Speaker, C.R.N.S., Paris, FranceConference on Nietzsche, Departments of Philosophy and Politics, University of Southampton, UKConference on Orwell, University of Chicago Law SchoolConference on Wittgenstein, University of London, UKConference on Carnap, Amiens University, FranceConference 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, UKInvited Speaker, Department of Philosophy, University of Iceland, ReykyavikKarlovy Vary Symposium on Philosophy, Karlovy Vary, The Czech RepublicConference on American Neopragmatism, Nicholas Copernicus University, Torun, Poland NEH Summer Institute “Mind, Self, and Psychopathology”, Cornell UniversityUniversiteit van Amsterdam, HollandDibner Instititute, M.I.T., Conference on Kuhn’s Philosophy of ScienceInvited Speaker, Indiana University, Dept. Of PhilosophyAmerican Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, 1997 Meetings, Philadelphia1997 Ernan McMullin Perspectives in Philosophy Lecture Series, Notre Dame University American Society for Aesthetics, 1997 Meetings, Santa Fe New MexicoSociety for the Advancement of American Philosophy, 1997 Meetings, Albuquerque, New MexicoUniversity of Minnesota, Wittgenstein ConferenceUniv. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Dept. of PhilosophyPrinceton University, Dept. of Philosophy Castiglioncello, Italy, Conference on the Philosophy of ScienceUniversitá di Roma, Facoltá di FilosofiaCollege de France, Conference on SkepticismJoint Sessions of the Mind and Aristotelian Societies, Dublin, IrelandBard College, Conference on American TranscendentalismBar-Elan University, Israel, Conference on CavellTel Aviv University, Israel, Dept. Of Philosophy Hebrew University, Israel, Committee on American StudiesHarvard 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 PhilosophyKennedy Institute, Berlin, GermanyTechnische Universität, Berlin, Germany

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International Nietzsche Conference, Allerton Park, IllinoisUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dept. Of PhilosophyMcGill University, Department of PhilosophyAmerican Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, 1994 Meetings, Boston, MAUniv. of Chicago, Department of Philosophy Claremont Graduate School, Moral Philosophy ConferenceAmerican Philosophical Association, Central Division, 1993 Meetings, Kansas CityUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of PhilosophyConference on American Philosophy, Montpellier, France Sorbonne, Dept. of Philosophy, Paris, FranceUniversité Rennes, Dept. of Philosophy, Rennes, France Claremont Graduate School, Conference on Wittgenstein and Philosophy of ReligionXI SOFIA Simposia de Filosofia, Taxco, MexicoUniversity of Michigan, School of LawWarwick University, England, Department of PhilosophyWarwick University, England, Conference on Stanley CavellSchool of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth CollegeFoucault Conference, University of Michigan, Ann ArborUniversity of Virginia, Dept. of PhilosophyUniversity Michigan Society of Fellows, Faculty ColloquiumIllinois State University, Normal, Illinois, Department of PhilosophyIllinois Wesleyan University, Department of PhilosophyUniversity of Michigan, Department of Philosophy, Symposium on PragmatismInternational Society for Literature and Philosophy, Edmonton, Canada Conference on Shakespeare & Philosophy, Winnipeg, CanadaAmerican Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, 1990 Meetings, BostonUniversity of California at Santa Barbara, Department of PhilosophyHarvard University, Department of PhilosophyUniversity of Michigan, Department of HistoryUniversity 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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