3PR Workshop on Kierkegaard, Objectivity, and Subjectivity (July 16-17, 2025)

Søren Kierkegaard, Louis Hasselriis (1918), in the Royal Library Garden, Copenhagen

The Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion is sponsoring a workshop on Kierkegaard, Objectivity, and Subjectivity on Wednesday, July 16th-Thursday, July 17th. The workshop will occur in person at Princeton in Laura Wooten Hall 301, and we will also offer a Zoom attendance option. The workshop is co-organized by Hans Halvorson and Z Quanbeck, and the schedule is listed below.

If you would like to attend either in person or via Zoom, please register for the conference here. (Note that advance registration is required to receive the Zoom link.)

Workshop on Kierkegaard, Objectivity, and Subjectivity

Wednesday, July 16th

Laura Wooten Hall, Room 301

9:00-9:30 Coffee

9:30-10:40 “What is Kierkegaardian ‘Inwardness’? ‘Heartfeltness’ as Positive Freedom”

Daniel Brinkerhoff Young, Union College

11:00-12:10 “Kierkegaardian and Hegelian Perspectives on Philosophical Belief”

Z Quanbeck, Princeton University

12:10-1:30 Lunch (on your own)

1:30-2:40 “Becoming Subjective: Relating to the Eternal as the Regulative Ideal”

Lanxin Shi, Cornell University

3:00-4:10 “The Town Crier of Education: Kierkegaard’s Challenge to Ryle and Freire”

Benjamin Elzinga, Georgetown University

4:30-5:40 “Why Should We Defer to an Authority?”

Lara Buchak, Princeton University

Thursday, July 17th

Laura Wooten Hall, Room 301

9:00-9:30 Coffee

9:30-10:40 “Either/Or: Subjectivity, Objectivity and Value” (via Zoom)

Katalin Balog, Rutgers University – Newark

11:00-12:10 “How to Know What You Care About: Kierkegaard on Convictions”

Jonas Hodel, Universität Tübingen

12:10-1:30 Lunch (on your own)

1:30-2:40 “Climacus on the Objective Way”

Hans Halvorson, Princeton University

3:00-4:10 “Does the Present Exist? Relativistic Time and Subjectivity”

Timothy Maness, Bexley Seabury Episcopal Seminary

4:30-5:40 “The Integration of Subjectivity and Objectivity in Kierkegaard’s Epistemology”

Marilyn Piety, Drexel University

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This workshop is sponsored by the Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion (3PR). 3PR is a project of the University Center for Human Values, the Philosophy Department, and the Religion Department at Princeton University.

The conference page on PhilEvents may be accessed here.