26th to 28th March 2012, University of Bonn
Prospects for a New Realism
New Realism – International Conference.

The Program

Monday, 26th March
09:00 – 09:15

Introduction
Markus Gabriel, University of Bonn
Moderation: Markus Gabriel
09:15 – 10:30

The Unity of Reality. Why We Live in One World at Most
John R. Searle, University of California, Berkeley
10:30 – 11:30

Knowledge and the Possibility of Error
Andrea Kern, University of Leipzig
11:30 – 11:45

Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:45

The Reach of Realism
Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University, New York
12:45 – 14:30

Lunch Break
Moderation: Andreas Speer
14:30 – 15:30

Analyses of Legal Cultures as New Legal Realism
Werner Gephart, University of Bonn
15:30 – 15:45

Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:45

A Realistic Concept of Knowledge. Hegel’s Overcoming of Skepticism and Subjective Idealism
Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer, University of Leipzig

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Tuesday, 27th March
Moderation: Christoph Horn
09:00 – 10:00

The Pluralistic Universe of Innocent Realism
Susan Haack, University of Miami
10:00 – 11:00

Minimal Realism
Diego Marconi, University of Turin
11:00 – 11:15

Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:15

For Reality’s Sake: Teleological Suspensions of Disciplinary Decadence
Lewis Gordon, Temple University Philadelphia
12:15 – 14:15

Lunch Break
Moderation: Louis Assier-Andrieu
14:15 – 15:15

Naturalism and Moral Realism
Dieter Sturma, University of Bonn
15:15 – 16:15

What is New in New Realism?
Maurizio Ferraris, University of Turin
16:15 – 16:30

Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30

Real Institution
Petar Bojanić, Jovan Babić, University of Belgrade

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Wednesday, 28th March
Moderation: Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer
09:00 – 10:00

Realism and Relativism
Paul Boghossian, New York University
10:00 – 11:00

Ontological Realism, Meta-Metaphysical Nihilism, and the Argument from Facticity
Markus Gabriel, University of Bonn
11:00 – 11:15

Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:15

Scientific Realism and Common Sense Realism
Mario De Caro, Roma Tre University
12:15 – 14:15

Lunch Break
Moderation: Theo Kobusch
14:15 – 15:15

Overcoming Naturalism: Toward a New Realism in Abstract Art?
Stefano Poggi, University of Florence
15:15 – 15:30

Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:45

Why Realism Matters
Hilary Putnam, Harvard University
(via video conference)