PWL International Seminar
2023-2025
Matthew Sharpe
“Considerations on Philosophy as a Way of Life as Historiography of Philosophy”
John Sellars
“Aristotle and Philosophy as a Way of Life”
Eli Kramer & Leonard Waks
“Growth Unbound: John Dewey on the Socio-Cultural Role of Philosophy as a Way of Life”
Lucas Nascimento Machado
“Life Beyond Capitalism: An Attempt at an Interlocution Between Hadot, Foucault and Byung-Chul Han”
Matteo Stettler
“Dante and the Bolognese Averroists: On Philosophy as a Profession and a Way of Life in XIII and XIV Century Italy”
Hélder Telo
“Philosophy as Askēsis or Pathos? A Heideggerian Challenge to Hadot and Foucault”
Caleb Cohoe
“Augustine’s On The Trinity as Protrepticus and Spiritual Exercise: The Christian Pursuit of Inner Wisdom”
Jordi Crespo
“Correspondence Matters: Friendship as (Trans)Formative Cultural Drive at Individual and Social Level”
Laura Mueller
“Vicious Academics”
Daniel Wyche
“The Practice of Dignity: Martin Luther King, Howard Thurman, and Political Self-Purification”
Daniele Lorenzini
“Genealogical Perfectionism: Nietzsche’s Genealogy as a Perfectionist Endeavor”
Ype de Boer
“The Use of Life as True Life. Agamben in the Footsteps of Diogenes, Franciscus and Foucault”
Simone D’Agostino
“Logic as a Way of Life in Descartes and the Cartesians”
Pedro Dotto
“The Criticism of Writing and Philosophy as a Way of Life in Plato’s Phaedrus”
Michael Chase
“Notes on PWL, Quantum Physics and Epistemic Modesty”
Kurt Borg
“On the Essay as a Way of Life: Foucault, Montaigne and Writing as Self-(trans)formation”
Luca Mori
“The Kinetic Foundations of Ethics in the Tradition of Philosophy as an Art of Living”
Lucilla Guidi
“Wittgenstein’s Philosophical
Investigations as Self-transformative Practices of Imagination”
Sajjad Rizvi
“Philosophy as a Way of Life in Islamic Philosophy”
Final Session
Looking Back and Forward