North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics

Friday, September 28

9:00am            Shuttle bus departs from Radnor Hotel

9:15                 Welcome and Coffee

9:30-10:45      Barbara Fultner, Denison University, “Vestiges of Incommensurability in Gadamer and Davidson”

11:00-12:30    Invited Presenter:  Kathleen Wright, Haverford College, “Gadamer’s Chinese Prejudice”

12:30-2:00      Lunch

2:00-3:15        Jamey Findling, Newman University, “TBA”

3:30-5:30        Keynote Address:  Richard J. Bernstein, Vera List Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, “The Conversation that Never Happened”

5:30-7:00        Reception, Villanova Mansion

Saturday, September 29

9:00am            Shuttle bus departs from Radnor Hotel

9:15                 Coffee

9:30-10:45      Kristin Gjesdal, “Reading Kant Hermeneutically:  Gadamer and the Critique of Judgment"

11:00-12:30    Invited Presenter:  Robert Dostal, Bryn Mawr College, “TBA”

12:30-2:00      Lunch and Text Discussion.  Monica Vilhauer will lead us in discussing Gadamer’s “Language as the medium of hermeneutic experience”  (Truth and Method Part III).

2:00-3:15        Christian Lotz, Michigan State University, “Hermeneutics of Image-Formations:  Gadamer, Boehm, Imdahl”

3:30- 5:00       Invited Presenter:  James Risser, Seattle University, “The Fabric of Life”

5:00                 Reception, Villanova Philosophy Department

6:00                 Dinner Banquet, Villanova Conference Center