This workshop explored the connection between Kierkegaard’s thought and scepticism, broadly construed. Topics focussed on included Kierkegaard’s conception of doubt, despair, faith and wonder, and their implications for the ethics of belief and an authentic life.

 Speakers included:

• Roe Fremstedal (Norway) – “Kierkegaard and (the ethics of) Belief.”
• Erin Plunkett (Hertfordshire) – “Kierkegaard on Doubt, Denial, and the Allure of Certainty.”
• Alexander (Z) Quanbeck (Princeton) – “Doubt’s Despair: Kierkegaard and Moral Responsibility for Believing.”
• Caecilie Varslev-Pedersen (Southampton) – “Stubborn Individuals: Hegel and Kierkegaard on Existential Scepticism.”
• Dan Watts (Essex) – “Faith, Doubt, Wonder: Kierkegaard After Trendelenburg.”

Kierkegaard and Scepticism Workshop Schedule

If you would like to watch any of the talks, please select the speaker’s name above. Unfortunately, there is no recording for Dan Watts’ talk, as the programme we used crashed.