The Journal for Gadamer Studies has now published its second issue: “Language, Virtue, Friendship and Communal Practice.” The issue includes an English translation of Gadamer’s “Hermeneutics and Theology” (1977), as well as various contributions on the linguistic, ethical, anthropological, and historical dimensions of Gadamer’s thought. The issue can accessed here.
The 2026 meeting of the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics will take place at the University of California Davis (Davis, CA) from Thursday, October 8th to Saturday, October 10th. The conference program and hotel information are below:
Thursday, October 8th
1:50-2:00 p.m. Welcome | Carolyn Culbertson (President) and Carlo DaVia (Host)
2:00-2:50 p.m. David Vessey – “Gadamer and the Sophists”
3:00-3:50 p.m. Weian Ding – “Hermeneutic Exposure: Cora Diamond, Gadamer, and the Ethical Inflection”
4:00-4:50 p.m. Dana Belu – “What Technological Rationality Doesn’t Teach Us: Heidegger, Marcuse and hooks on Education”
Friday, October 9th
9:45-10:35 a.m. Alexander Crist – “Melville, The Confidence-Man, and Pseudo-Solidarity: A Challenge to Gadamerian Solidarity”
10:45-11:35 a.m. Lucas Gronouwe – “Suspicion or Trust?: A Postcritical Reading of the Gadamer-Derrida Debate”
11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. David Zoller – “The Emptiness of Language in Heidegger’s Hermeneutics”
12:45-2:00 p.m. Lunch Break
1:30-2:00 p.m. Business Meeting and In Memoriam for Nicholas Davey (1950-2026)
2:00-2:50 p.m. Eddie Li – “What Does Gadamer Reject when he Rejects Enlightenment?”
3:00-3:50 p.m. Hunter Roy – “What Remains Unsaid: Hermeneutics and the Un-experienceable”
4:00-5:00 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Francis Mootz III – “Law After Postmodernity: Ontology, Practice, and Critique”
6:30pm Banquet @ My Burma (500 1st St, Ste 11) (for additional info + RSVP, contact: Carlo DaVia, cdavia@ucdavis.edu)
Saturday, October 10th
9:45-10:35 a.m. Antoine Pageau St-Hilaire – “Gadamer and Aristotle: Questions Concerning Ethics’ Alleged ‘Independence from Metaphysics’”
10:45-11:35 a.m. Stefan Uhlig – “Aesthetic Play in Lichtenberg and Kant”
11:45a.m.-12:45p.m. Elena Romagnoli – “The Enigma of the Body: Gadamer’s Performative Aesthetics and Embodied Dialogue”
Discounted hotel rates are available at the following hotels until Monday, September 7th:
We hope to see you there!
We are now inviting submissions for this year’s NASPH Annual Meeting (October 8th – 10th, 2026), which will be at the University of California, Davis.
Papers on any topic in philosophical hermeneutics are welcome. Please submit your paper of 3000-5000 words, prepared for blind review, by June 1, 2026 to nasphermeneutics@gmail.com.
On Friday, February 20th, 2026 (7:00–9:50 p.m CST), NASPH will host a satellite session at this year’s meeting of the Central APA in Chicago, IL. The topic of this session will be “Plurality and Reality,” and the session will take place at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in room G15G.
Two presentations will be featured in the session:
Program: https://www.spep.org/website/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SPEP63vOct12.pdf
8:00-8:05 Welcome — Carolyn Culbertson (Florida Gulf Coast University)
8:05-8:55 Niall Keane (University of West England), “Gadamer’s Linguistic Vision of the World and its Limits: Addressing Some Tensions in the New Realist Interpretation”
8:50-9:40 Facundo Bey (Instituto de Filosofía Ezequiel de Olaso – Centro de Investigaciones Filosóficas (CIF/CONICET), “Gadamer’s Question Concerning the Human Being: Bildung, Reason, and Technology in the Twilight of the Second World War”
9:40-10:30 Jessica Frazier (University of Oxford), “Modern Sublime: Gadamer on Beauty, Truth, and Globalism”