Max Scheler Gesellschaft holds conference in Erfurt, Germany, June 15-18, 2011

President of the Max Scheler Gesellschaft, Michael Gabel, hosted the most recent meeting of the Society at the University of Erfurt, in Erfurt, Germany, June 15-18, 2011. The title for the conference was: “Erkennen — Handeln — Bewaehren. Phaenomenologie und Pragmatism.” The central theme was Scheler’s critique of pragmatism. The general thesis was that German pragmatism was held up in its development by its general rejection by the phenomenologists, despite features of both that might have permitted a closer interaction between them.

The Society sought funding internationally to invite some senior American scholars whose central research was in pragmatism, and encouraged new members of the profession (doctoral candidates) who were interested in pragmatism, in Scheler, or in both, to submit papers for possible inclusion in the program. The organizers of the conference were pleased to have the U.S. Consul for Public Affairs in Leipzig, Konsul James Seward, open the program.

The Meeting of the Max Scheler Gesellschaft was supported by the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft.

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