Interesting conference coming up in September.
Titled Shakespeare: The Philosopher, this conference will be devoted to exploring Shakespeare’s contribution to philosophy. The event will take place at the University of Hertfordshire in
England.
‘Shakespeare’s work is rich in philosophical themes, addressing questions in areas including metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of mind, and social and political philosophy. Meanwhile, issues concerning how Shakespeare’s works manage to represent what they do are ripe for consideration in aesthetics, with the plays raising questions about the nature of representation, fiction, interpretation, literature and history, tragedy and comedy. Shakespeare: The Philosopher aims to explore the importance of philosophy in understanding Shakespeare, and the importance of Shakespeare to issues in philosophy.’
Program
Friday 12th September
10:00-11:00 Greg Currie (York) Title: tbc
11:00-12:00 Katie Brennan (Temple University) ‘Tragic Knowledge: Reading Nietzsche through Shakespeare’
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Miranda Anderson (Edinburgh) ‘Extending the Self in Shakespeare’
14:00-15:00 Sophie Battell (Cardiff) ‘Shakespeare, Derrida, and Cosmopolitanism’
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-16:30 Derek…
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Progressive Geographies 
A philosophical consideration: how are you going to discuss the Stratfordian figure as Shakespearean in thought or background when there is no evidence even that he could read or write?