Directionality Before Kant: The Changing Application of a Multifaceted Concept
When?
17 February – 18 February 2026
Where?
FRIAS seminar room, Alberstr. 19, 79104 Freiburg
Contact:
E-Mail: FRIAS Events Team
Organisation
Agenda
| Tuesday, February 17 | |
| 15:30 | Coffee |
| 16:00 – 17:15 | Concepts and Alternatives: Directionality and Orientation Sergiu Sava Centre for Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași |
| 17:15 – 18:30 | Feeling vs. Reasoning: Kant’s Idea of Directionally and the End of an Era Glora Hon University of Haifa |
| Wednesday, February 18 | |
| 09:45 – 11:00 | Elemental Interchangeability as Violent Motion Suf Amichay University of Cambridge & University of Haifa |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 – 12:30 | Attraction, Place, and Natural Motion: Roger Bacon and the Summa Philosophiae Yael Kedar Tel-Hai University of Kiryat Shmona and the Galilee & FRIAS |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30 – 14:45 | Magnetic Directions: Pierre de Maricourt on Magnetic Movement Friedrich Steinle Technische Universität Berlin |
| 14:45 – 16:00 | Paul Meuleneers (ALU Freiburg): „Aaah […] es Directedness as Fundamental: Teleology and the Structure of Intentionality Elena Baltuta Charles University, Prague |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Coffee Break |
| 16:15 – 17:30 | Leibniz and the Directionality of Space Filippo Constantini Laboratoire SPHERE – UMR 7912, CNRS, Université Paris Cité |
| 17:30 – 19:00 | Concluding Discussion |