June 2025 – Handling Ideas
2 posts published by Martin Lenz during June 2025| Handling Ideas
Call for Participants / Call for Abstracts: Collegium Spinozanum V An International Summer School on Spinoza and Spinozisms in Their Historical and Philosophical Contexts FernUniversität in Hagen, 30 June – 3 July 2026 The Collegium Spinozanum V aims to bring together advanced students and established scholars working broadly on Spinoza’s thought, its sources, and its … Continue reading CfA: Collegium Spinozanum V. An international summer school on Spinoza and Spinozisms→| Handling Ideas
A major conference on early modern philosophy brought together guests from all over the world on the Hagen campus. Organizer Prof. Martin Lenz explains what it was all about. The society has come full circle: In 2004, the European Society for Early Modern Philosophy (ESEMP) was founded with a conference at the FernUniversität in Hagen … Continue reading “The aims are discussed far too rarely” – An interview about the latest conference of the European Society for Early Modern Philoso...| Handling Ideas
Автор: Мартин Ленц, Хагенский университет (The incorrigibility of ChatGPT and the end of teaching) Перевод: Мария Весте, Университет Линчепинга, Швеция Предположим, вы стали свидетелем аварии и должны сообщить об этом в полицию. «Ну, красная машина ехала на большой скорости в мою сторону, а потом р...| Handling Ideas
CfP: Reading as a Social Practice. An Interdisciplinary Workshop Berlin, 27-28 March 2026 Organised by Irmtraud Hnilica (Mannheim/Hagen) and Martin Lenz (Hagen) According to a widespread consensus,…| Handling Ideas
Currently, there is a piece on “the average college student” (in the U.S.) making the rounds. It’s sparking both frustrated nodding about the problems in student performance and some eye-rolling ab…| Handling Ideas
Following our Call for Abstracts last November, I am now happy to report that the Society for Early Modern Philosophy (ESEMP) runs its seventh conference at Hagen University, the place where the so…| Handling Ideas
3 posts published by Martin Lenz and irmtraudhnilica during April 2025| Handling Ideas
Suppose you witness an accident and have to report it to the police. “Well, the red car drove with high speed towards me and then took a sharp left turn”, you exclaim. You try hard to find the righ…| Handling Ideas
“… interpretation is the source of texts, facts, authors, and intentions.” Stanley Fish, Is There a Text in This Class? Do you remember when you first committed some of your own thoughts to paper? Perhaps you kept a diary, perhaps you wrote poems or lyrics or crafted a letter to a friend. Perhaps you had … Continue reading What does it say? The supposed objectivity of written texts→| Handling Ideas
I Pointing is a nonverbal gesture. Often, the index finger is used. Like an archer aiming an arrow at a target, the index finger aims at something. This gesture is meant to direct another person’s attention, to move their gaze so that they focus on the object indicated by the finger. It is also possible … Continue reading Pointing to Oneself. Simone Weil and the problem of what it could mean to write a philosophical diary (Guest post by Michael Hampe)→| Handling Ideas
A question for scholars. – How can we spend a lifetime on a chapter in Aristotle and think we’re done with a student essay in two hours? Both can be equally enigmatic. Writing this little joke back…| Handling Ideas
Schreiben ist schwer. Schreiben über das, was man zu schreiben beabsichtigt, ist meist noch schwerer, weil man nicht weiß, was man herausfinden wird. Dennoch ist gerade bei der Absprache einer Arbe…| Handling Ideas
Currently, Irmtraud Hnilica and I are sketching guiding ideas for a project that has been in the making for some time. Below is a small blurb. Please feel free to get in touch, if you’re interested…| Handling Ideas
When my dear colleague Martin Lenz sent me a link to Hilarius Bookbinder’s blog post “The average college student today”, I immediately knew this would be a lamentation about how students nowadays …| Handling Ideas
„Die Luft verändert sich – fein Säure – Luft – mein Gesicht – Ausdruck – Konsistenz“ – Was war das? Zugegeben, ich war etwas müde, aber meine Augen schienen wie haltlose Flummis über die Buchseite …| Handling Ideas
