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Workshop "Ontological Failure: Heidegger and Beyond"

Poster Ontological Failure 2026

Programme:

Monday, 1 June

09:50 – 10:00

Welcome and opening remarks

10:00 – 11:10

Joseph Schear (Oxford):

鈥極n the Very Idea of an Understanding of Being鈥�

11:10 – 11:30

Break

11:30 – 12:40

Fridolin Neumann (Warwick):

鈥業dle talk, untruth, and entities in Being and Time鈥�

12:40 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:10

Kate Withy (Georgetown):

鈥榃hat Breakdown Reveals about World鈥�

15:10 – 15:30

Break

15:30 – 16:40

Sacha Golob (KCL):

鈥楴ot with a bang, but a whimper? Comfort and ontological failure鈥欌��

16:40 – 16:50

Break

16:50 – 18:00

Tobias Keiling (Warwick):

鈥楬eidegger on Enteignis鈥�

19:00

Dinner in Leamington Spa

(Limited spaces, registration required for non-speakers)

 

Tuesday, 2 June

10:00 – 11:10

Irene McMullin (Essex)

鈥楲eaping In during the Technological Age: Moral Indifference as Ontological Failure鈥�

11:10 – 11:30

Break

11:30 – 12:40

Jussi Backman (Tampere):

鈥楶erilous Failure: The Conversion of the Technical Setup and the End of Late Modernity鈥�

12:40 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:10

Ian A. Moore (Loyola Marymount):

鈥楳edieval Ontological Failure鈥�

15:10 – 15:30

Break

15:30 – 16:40

Denis McManus (Southampton):

鈥極ntological Failure and the Constitution of Dasein: Lessons from Lafont鈥檚 reading of Heidegger鈥�

16:40 – 17:00

Break

17:00 – 18:10

Lucas Janz (Oxford):

鈥榃ho would Dasein have to become to achieve Ontological Success?鈥�

 

The theme of this workshop is inspired by John Haugeland鈥檚 monumental paper Truth and Finitude: Heidegger鈥檚 Transcendental Existentialism (2013 [2000]).

The workshop is followed by a WMA & PKEP Collab - "Problems from Eckhart"Link opens in a new window on 3 June, featuring Ian A. Moore, Tobias Keiling, and Christoph Hoerl (Warwick).

 

Organisation and contact: fridolin.neumann@warwick.ac.uk

 

Funding

The workshop is funded by generous grants from the British Society for the History of Philosophy, the Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy at the 天美传媒, and the Department of Philosophy's Student Events Fund.

Additional information

The workshop complies with the BPA/SWIP guidelines for accessible conferences, the BPA/SWIP good practice scheme for gender equality, and the BPA environmental travel scheme (ETS).

Faculty of Social Science

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