"Conference: ""ESPRA 2: Subjectivity and the Body""";"Dorothée Legrand";"2008-01-29";"";"2008-02-01";"";"";"January 29 - February 1, 2008 Conference funded by European Science Foundation. Danish National Research Foundation: Center for Subjectivity Research & Ambassade de France au Danemark.";"For further information, please visit this dedicated website"
"Vasudevi Reddy: ""On Feeling and Being Felt: Infants and Other Minds""";"CFS";"2008-02-14";"13.15-15.00";"";"";"University of Copenhagen, lecture room 27-0-09, Njalsgade 140-142, ground floor.";" Lecture by Vasudevi Reddy, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, UK. ";" Using data from early emotional engagements in infancy, this talk adopts a 'second-person' perspective on infant awareness of mind. The recognition of being felt by others as well as feelings in response to others in direct engagement is argued to be necessary for an 'appropriate' understanding of others (for infants as well as for psychologists!). Dr. Vasudevi Reddy is a Reader in Developmental and Cultural Psychology at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She grew up in India and completed her doctoral work in Edinburgh. She has been interested in everyday emotional engagements such as teasing, clowning, showing-off and feeling shy, and in their importance in both revealing and creating interpersonal awareness. She is currently completing a cross-cultural study of the beginnings of compliance with parental directives in infancy. "
"Anthony Steinbock: ""The Formation of Self and Otherness in the Experience of Trust""";"CFS";"2008-03-10";"14.15-16.00";"";"";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th floor.";" Lecture by Anthony Steinbock, Department of Philosophy, University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale, USA. ";" This paper addresses the experience of trust and its implications for the self-other relation. By relating trust to the freedom of self and transcendence of another, this paper describes trust as a proffering and as binding the self to another. It further explores the relation between trust as imposition and trust as commitment. Finally, by comparing loving to trusting, it shows how trust extents to third-party relations. Anthony Steinbock is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He is author of Phenomenology and Mysticism: The Verticality of Religious Experience (Indiana, 2007), and Home and Beyond: Generative Phenomenology after Husserl (Northwestern, 1995), and the translator of Edmund Husserl, Analyses Concerning Passive and Active Synthesis (Kluwer, 2001). He is Editor-in-Chief of Continental Philosophy Review and General Editor of the SPEP Series at Northwestern University Press. "
"Conference/PhD Course: ""Religion and Subjectivity: Reconsidering the Relational Self""";"";"2008-03-13";"";"";"";"";"The fact that the self is relational has been stated often enough – but what precisely does this mean? This is still to be explored and explained. Organizers: Arne Grøn, Carsten Pallesen and Claudia Welz in cooperation with the Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion and the Theological Faculty of the University of Copenhagen.";"March 13-15, 2008 in CopenhagenConference/PhD CourseThe fact that the self is relational has been stated often enough – but what precisely does this mean? This is still to be explored and explained. Further, to what extent is it appropriate to oppose the category of substance (or, subsequently, of the subject or the self) to the category of relation, and in which sense do we need a 'substantial' correlate of the relations we investigate? The issue of selfhood in relations will be approached from different perspectives. Particularly we are aiming at a dialogue between phenomenology, philosophy of religion and theology, focusing on accounts of a 'relational ontology of the person' in Luther, Kierkegaard, Levinas, Ricoeur and Scheler. Organizers: Arne Grøn, Carsten Pallesen and Claudia Welz in cooperation with the Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion and the Theological Faculty of the University of Copenhagen.Location: Lecture room 27.0.17, University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 144 (building 27, ground floor). MapPrior registration is required. Please state if you are a PhD student when registering. Please register before February 15th, 2008, by sending an email to cfs@hum.ku.dk Abstracts can be downloaded here Programme Thursday, March 13 14:00-14:15 Welcome 14:15-15:30 Anthony Steinbock: ""Reducing the One to the Other: Kant, Levinas, and the Problem of Religious Experience"" 15:30-15:45 Coffee Break 15:45-16:15 Martin Wendte: ""'To Meet a Person Means to be Kept Awake by a Secret.' The Withdrawal of Divine and Human Persons as Good News"" 16:15-17:30 Bo Kristian Holm: ""Being in Relation: God, Man, and Relationality in Luther’s Thinking"" Friday, March 14 09:30-10:45 Jeffrey Bloechl: ""Vulnerability and Recognition between Levinas and Ricoeur"" 10:45-11:00 Coffee Break parallel 11:00-11:30 Mary-Ann Crumplin: ""Finite Self, Infinite Self"" 11:00-11:30 Michael Tilley: ""Relating to Others: Re-evaluating the Priority of the God-relationship in Fear and Trembling"" parallel: 11:30-12:00 Rebekka Klein: ""(Non-)Relational Selfhood in Levinas: From Social to Ethical Relationality"" 11:30-12:00 Andrew Nam: ""Kierkegaard's Radical Subjectivity as the Ideal Relational Self: A Reading of Fear and Trembling"" 12:00-13:30 Lunch break 13:30-14:45 Arne Grøn: ""Self in Relation"" 14:45-15:00 Coffee break parallel 15:00-15:30 Benda Hofmeyr: ""Radical Passivity: The Paradox of the Relational Self in Levinas"" 15:00-15:30 April Capili: ""Levinas on the I's Createdness, Relatedness, and Responsibility"" parallel 15:30-16:00 Stine Holte: ""Melancholy and the Problem of Relation in Levinas"" 15:30-16:00 Ervik Cejvan: ""Some Remarks on Non-Relation Concerning the Relational Self"" 16:00-16:30 Break 16:30-17:00 Line Ryberg Ingerslev: ""Playing Oneself – a Discussion on the Social Ontology of Self-Relatedness"" 17:00-17:30 Mads Peter Karlsen: ""Redemptive Individuation in the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze"" Saturday, March 15 09:30-10:45 Günter Bader: ""'Ani ani' – Zur Selbstoffenbarungsformel des Menschen"" 10:45-11:00 Break 11:00-11:30 Werner Stegmaier: ""Being Self Without Substance. The Self as Relation of the Orientation to Itself"" 11:30-12:45 Richard Purkarthofer: ""Grammatica religiosa. Kierkegaards 'linguistic turn' in der philosophischen Anthropologie"" Location: Lecture room 27.0.17, University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 144 (building 27, ground floor). Click here for a Map. PhD students and other participants belonging to the Nordic Network for Philosophy of Religion can apply for funding (travelling, accommodation). Nordforsk has offered us generous funding, but the actual refund (NOK 2-4000 per person) depends on the number of participants. Applicants should collect their ORIGINAL bills and mail them to Marius Timmann Mjaaland, University of Oslo, Box 1023 Blindern, NO-0315 Oslo, Norway together with the detailed account information (2 forms you may ask for during the conference). Other participants may also apply for funding, but preference is given to network members. Organized by Arne Grøn, Carsten Pallesen and Claudia Welz in cooperation with the Theological Faculty of the University of Copenhagen and the Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion. Please see here regarding the NSPR. Participation is free of charge, but prior registration is required. Please state if you are a PhD student when registering. Please register before 15 February 2008, by sending an email to cfs@hum.ku.dk."
"Workshop: ""Consciousness and brain in context II""";"";"2008-03-25";"";"";"";"";" March 25-27, 2008. More information to follow. ";" March 25-27, 2008 Workshop hosted by CFS. Organized by Alva Noë (University of California, Berkeley), Andreas Roepstorff (CFIN) and Dan Zahavi (CFS) in collaboration with European Science Foundation (CNCC) and National Science Foundation. More information to follow. "
"Conference: ""Psychopathology of Schizophrenia: 100 Years""";"Pierre Bovet & Josef Parnas";"2008-04-24";"";"";"";"Lausanne";" April 24-26, 2008 International conference on schizophrenia to be held in Lausanne. Organized by the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Lausanne, in collaboration with the Department of Psychiatry, Hvidovre Hospital, and Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen. ";" April 24-26, 2008 On April 24th, 1908, Eugen Bleuler introduced the term ""schizophrenia"" in his Berlin lecture to the German Society for Psychiatry. In order to mark this 100 years anniversary, the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Lausanne, in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen (Hvidovre Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, and Center for Subjectivity Research) has organized a conference entitled Psychopathology of Schizophrenia: 100 Years, to be held in Lausanne, Switzerland, from 24th to 26th April, 2008. "
"Patrick Stokes: ""What's Missing in Episodic Selfhood? A Kierkegaardian Response to Strawson""";"CFS";"2008-05-26";"13:15-15:00";"";"";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th floor.";" Lecture by Patrick Stokes, Søren Kierkegaard Research Center, University of Copenhagen ";" In a series of important papers, Galen Strawson has articulated a spectrum of ""temporal temperaments,"" populated at one end by ""Diachronics"", who experience their selves (understood as the ""mental entity"" they are at this moment) as something that existed in the past and will exist in the future, and at the other end by ""Episodics"", who lack any such sense of temporal extension. As a self-declared Episodic, Strawson provides lucid descriptions of what episodicity is like, but cannot furnish a corresponding phenomenology of diachronic self-experience. He further argues that nothing normatively significant depends upon diachronicity, so Episodics can live fully moral (and fully satisfying) lives. I attempt to supply this missing phenomenology of diachronic self-experience using Kierkegaard’s account of ""contemporaneity"" (samtidighed). Kierkegaard operates with something quite close to Strawson's ""me/me*"" (human/self) distinction, yet he nonetheless offers a compelling description of diachronic self-experience that is fully normative in character. I discuss some of the implications of this normativity for Strawson's claim that there is nothing ethically or psychologically deficient in the Episodic's self-experience. Patrick Stokes is Danish Research Council for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, Søren Kierkegaard Research Center, University of Copenhagen. "
"Hans Ruin: ""Meditation and Calculation - Cassirer and Heidegger on the Fate of Technology""";"CFS";"2008-05-27";"10.15-12.00";"";"";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th floor.";" Lecture by Hans Ruin, Department of Philosophy, Södertörn University College, Sweden ";" The lecture is an analysis of the different ways of understanding phenomenologically the consequences of technology for our understanding of subjectivity and nature, in the work of Cassirer and Heidegger. "
"Dissertation Defense: René Korsholm Rosfort: ""Subjectivity and Ethics. Ricoeur and the Question of Naturalizing Personhood""";"Faculty of Theology";"2008-06-04";"13:00-16:00";"";"";"Faculty of Theology, Auditorium 7, Købmagergade 46, 1. floor, KU";" René Korsholm Rosfort, Faculty of Theology and Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen. ";" René Korsholm Rosfort, Faculty of Theology and Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, will defend his dissertation ""Subjectivity and Ethics. Ricoeur and the Question of Naturalizing Personhood"". Assessment Committee Professor Dr. Ingolf U. Dalferth, School of Religion, Claremont Graduate University, USA. Docent Dr. Hans Fink, Institute of Philosophy and History of Ideas , Aarhus University. Associate Professor Carsten Pallesen, Department of Systematic Theology, University of Copenhagen (Head of Committee) The dissertation is available at the reception desk for 50 DKK. After the defense the Faculty of Theology will be the host of a reception. "
"Jean Greisch: ""Das 'Spiel der Transzendenz', das Selbst und die Frage der Ethik""";"CFS";"2008-06-05";"10:15";"";"12:00";"South Campus, room 25.5.11";"Lecture by Jean Greisch, Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Institut Catholique, Paris.";"Ist nicht jeder Versuch, Heideggers Fundamentalontologie für eine Besinnung auf die Grundlagen der Ethik fruchtbar zu machen, einer Wüstenwanderung vergleichbar? Wie lässt sich Heideggers These verstehen, dass die 'metaphysische Isolierung des Menschen' keineswegs in einen Solipsismus ausmündet, sondern dass gerade sie ein existentiales Verständnis des Miteinanderseins ermöglicht? Lässt sich von Heidegger her die für Ricoeurs Bestimmung der Aufgaben der Ethik ausschlaggebende Dialektik der Selbstheit und der Andersheit begründen? Ist die von Levinas als ethische Grundstruktur aufgestellte 'Verstrickung der Alterität' (intrigue de l’altérité), bzw. die Struktur des 'Einer-für-den-Andern-Seins' ('l’un-pour-l’autre') mit Heideggers Daseins- und Seinsverständnis ganz und gar unverträglich? Diese Fragen sollen durch eine Analyse von Heideggers Verwendung des Begriffes des 'Spiels der Transzendenz' in seiner Einleitung in die Philosophie entfaltet werden.Jean Greisch is Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Institut Catholique, Paris. He is the author of numerous works, among them L’âge hermeneutique de la raison, Cerf 1985. Ontologie et temporalité. Esquisse d’une interprétation integrale de 'Sein und Zeit', PUF 1995. Le Buisson ardent et les lumières de la raison. L’invention de la philosophie de la religion. Vol 1: Héritages et héritiers du XIXe siècle (Cerf 2002); Vol 2: Les approches Phénoménologiques et analytiques (Cerf 2002), Vol 3: Vers un paradigme herméneutique (Cerf 2004). Later this year Greish will publish the work Qui sommes-nous? Chemins phénoménologiques vers l’homme."
"Michael Deere: ""Life Always Outside: Silent Pain and Singular Bodies""";"CFS";"2008-06-26";"14:15-16:00";"";"";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th floor.";" Lecture by Michael Deere, Department of Philosophy, Salem State University, USA ";" Pain cares nothing for me, and yet it is always mine. This is the central paradox of pain. It ties me intimately to my body while at the same time exposing me to an outside, a limit that exceeds the space of my body. I want to explore this curious sense of pain that at once defines me and escapes me in order to clarify new possibilities for identity and community. Tracing a path through Nietzsche, Bataille and Nancy, I argue that pain exposes us to our own finite singularity and that this exposure forms the basis for understanding community (and communication) across the space of a shared mortality. "
"Summer School: Social Cognition and Social Narrative";"";"2008-07-07";"";"";"";"San Marino";"July 7-13, 2008 Summer School: Social Cognition and Social Narrative Organized by Shaun Gallagher, Dan Hutto & Dan Zahavi Funded by European Science Foundation: Consciousness in a Natural and Cultural Context (CNCC) Application deadline: March 1, 2008.";"For more information and application procedure, please visit the website."
"Summer School: Self and Self-disorders";"Josef Parnas";"2008-08-25";"08:00";"";"";"University of Copenhagen, lecture room 27.0.09, Njalsgade 140-142, 2300 København S";"The goal is to enable the participants, mainly ph-d students, to: Grasp the notions of self-awareness and correlated concepts of self-reference and of the self.To learn about approaches to naturalization of consciousness. e.g., certain basic metaphysical questions will be exposed and discussed here in relation to biology.";"DISCOS European Research Program on Self-Coherence 25-27 August, 2008 School director: Josef Parnas MD, Professor of Psychiatry. Organized by Josef Parnas Funded by the Marie Curie Research Training Network Disorders and Coherence of the Embodied Self (DISCOS)The goal is to enable the participants, mainly ph-d students, to: Grasp the notions of self-awareness and correlated concepts of self-reference and of the self.To learn about approaches to naturalization of consciousness. e.g., certain basic metaphysical questions will be exposed and discussed here in relation to biology. To learn how psychiatric disorders entail anomalies of self-experience (self-disorders), especially in schizophrenia, affective illness, borderline personality disorders, infantile autism and in selected neurological syndromes. The forum will also provide possibility for presentation and discussion of participants’ own projects and thus create a space for an interdisciplinary debate.Participants: The course is dedicated to doctoral and post-doctoral students, and other younger scientists. We target applicants from disciplines such as cognitive science and psychology, neuroscience, psychiatry, clinical psychology, philosophy, linguistics and related domains. Participants will be selected from a pool of applications. Priority will be given to the applicants with prior attachment to DISCOS. There is no fee for participation. Form: Participative; for each section, the participants should read the required literature sent out in advance. Teachers:Professors: Josef Parnas (psychiatry, Center for Subjectivity Research (CFS) University of Copenhagen; Louis Sass (psychology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey); Dan Zahavi (philosophy, CFS, University of Copenhagen); Evan Thompson (philosophy, University of Toronto); Thomas Fuchs (psychiatry, University of Heidelberg); Philippe Rochat (developmental psychology, Emory University); Drs. Dorothée Legrand and Thor Grünbaum (CFS, University of Copenhagen). Programme Monday, August 25 Tuesday, August 26 Wednesday, August 27 Chair: Fuchs Chair: Zahavi Chair: Sass 9-9.30 Welcome, introduction, practical information(Josef Parnas) 9.00-9.30 Schizophrenia: basic information – and discussion (Josef Parnas) 9.00-9.30 Affective Illness: Basic Information (Thomas Fuchs) 9.30-10.30 Mind-body-world: Introduction – and discussion (Dan Zahavi) 9.30-10.30 Self and schizophrenia (Josef Parnas) 9.30-10.30 Melancholia, Self and the Body – and discussion (Thomas Fuchs) 10.30-11.00 Coffee break 10.30-11.00 Coffee break 10.30-11.00 Discussion (Thomas Fuchs) 11.00-11.30 1) Grounding Continuity of Life and Consciousness (Evan Thompson) 11.00-12.00 Schizophrenia, Emotions and the “negative symptoms” (Louis Sass) 11.00-11.30 Coffee break 11.30-12.30 2) Self, Embodiment and Neuroimaging Research Biology, Life and Consciousness – and discussion (Evan Thompson) 12.00-12.30 Discussion (Louis Sass and Josef Parnas) 11.30-12.30 Embodied Neurons: on Active Perception and Proactive Brain (Dorothée Legrand) 12.30-13.30 Lunch 12.30-13.30 Lunch 12.30-13.30 Lunch 13.30-14.30 Presentation and discussion of abstracts by Andrian Smith, Steve Velleman and Sanaâ Belayachi 13.30-14.30 Presentation and discussion of abstracts by Barnaby Nelson and Monika Intaite 13.30-14.30 Self and Self-awareness in Analytic Philosophy – and discussion (Thor Grünbaum) 14.30-15.00 Coffee break 14.30-15.00 Coffee break 14.30-15.00 Coffee break 15.00-16.00 Self and Self-consciousness (self awareness) – and discussion (Dan Zahavi) 15.00-16.00 The Ontogenesis of the Sense of Self – and discussion (Philippe Rochat) 15.00-16.00 Presentation and discussion of abstracts by Jenny Schimansky, Rachel Wood and Lorna Lee 16.00-16.30 General discussion 16.00-16.30 General discussion 16.00-16.30 Closing discussion 19.00 Common dinner for teachers and all participants Venue: The Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 140-142, 2300 Copenhagen S.Application: Application deadline was May 15 and we are therefore closed for registration."
"CANCELLED: Benny Shanon: ""Human Consciousness and its Psychological Investigation""";"CFS";"2008-09-16";"10.15-13.00";"";"";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th Floor.";" Due to unforseen circumstances the lecture is cancelled. ";""
"Gavin Flood: ""The Subjectivity of Religious Reading""";"CFS and the research education programme Religion & Society, University of Copenhagen";"2008-09-25";"10:15-12:00";"";"";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th Floor";" Lecture by Gavin Flood, University of Oxford. ";" This lecture develops the idea that the act of reading is at the heart of religion and that religious reading entails the internalisation of tradition within subjectivity. Religious communities are formed through the repeated, ritual acts of reading, an idea which brings into question views that seek to explain religion without text. The lecture will discuss kinds of subjectivity formed through religious reading and how these interface with the political and social world. Gavin Flood is Professor and Academic Director of The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, University of Oxford. Among his numerous publications are: Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of Religion and The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition. He is editor of The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism. "
"Workshop with Gavin Flood: ""Religion and Subjectivity""";"The research education programme Religion & Society, University of Copenhagen and CFS.";"2008-09-25";"14:15";"";"";"Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies/History of Religions Section, 0.26, Artillerivej 86, 2300 S";"Registered PhD students will have an opportunity to discuss the various aspects of religion and subjectivity with Gavin Flood on the basis of the morning's lecture and on previously studied materials provided by the organizers.To participate in the workshop prior registration required. Please register before September 15, 2008, by sending an email to Oluf Schönbeck: oluf@hum.ku.dk";"Registered PhD students will have an opportunity to discuss the various aspects of religion and subjectivity with Gavin Flood on the basis of the morning's lecture and on previously studied materials provided by the organizers.All participating in the course are required to read the following materials which will be provided beforehand by the organizers.Reading materials:Gavin Flood: Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of Religion, London 1999: Cassell. (pp.123-142; 175-193)Greg Urban: ""The 'I' of Discourse'"", In Ben Lee and Greg Urban (eds.) Semiotics, Self and Society, Berlin 1989: Mouton de Gruyter. (pp. 27-51)Registration before September 15 by sending an email to Oluf Schönbeck: oluf@hum.ku.dk"
"Colloquium: ""Selfhood and Self-Annihilation""";"";"2008-09-26";"";"";"";"University of Copenhagen, Lecture room 27.0.09";"Speakers: George Pattison, Gavin Flood, Ben Morgan, Jonna Bornemark and Joel Krueger.Organized by Arne Grøn.";"September 26, 2008, CopenhagenColloquiumTitle: ""Selfhood and Self-Annihilation""Abstracts can be downloaded here What is the self implied in self-annihilation? The workshop will focus on the question of selfhood implied in notions of self-annihilation, and will do so in drawing on different religious traditions, in particular Christian mysticism and Buddhism. Programme Friday, September 26 09:30-10:45 Joel Krueger (University of Copenhagen): ""Forms of Self-Annihilation in Zen Buddhism"" 10:45-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-12:15 Gavin Flood (University of Oxford): ""The Paradox of the Will in Christian and Buddhist Asceticism"" 12:15-13:30 Lunch break 13:30-14:45 Ben Morgan (University of Oxford): ""Meister Eckhart and the Pre-History of Modern Forms of Identity"" 14:45-15:15 Jonna Bornemark (Södertörn University College, Stockholm): ""Mechthild von Magdeburg and the Erotic Tension between Specificity and Self-Annihilation"" 15:15-15:30 Coffee break 15:30-16:45 Arne Grøn (University of Copenhagen): ""Selfhood and Self-Annihilation"". (And open discussion) Organized by Arne GrønLocation: University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 140-142, Lecture room: 27.0.09. See campus area here: MapPrior registration required: Please register before September 10 by sending an email to cfs@hum.ku.dk"
"PhD-Course: ""Religion and Consciousness""";"CFS & The Research Education Programme Religion & Society";"2008-11-06";"";"";"";"History of Religions Section, room 0.26 (ground floor), Artillerivej 86, 2300 Copenhagen S";"November 6-8, 2008Organized by Arne Grøn in collaboration with the research education programme Religion & Society, University of CopenhagenPrior registration required. Please register before October 27 by sending an email to Oluf Schönbeck: oluf@hum.ku.dk";"November 6-8, 2008 in CopenhagenPhD-CourseTitle:""Religion and Consciousness""Place: Artillerivej 86, lecture room 0.26 (ground floor), 2300 Copenhagen S.Organizers: the research education programme Religion & Society, University of Copenhagen and CFS.The idea of the conference is to bring together and discuss various approaches to the study of religion, first and foremost within cognitive science and philosophy (phenomenology, hermeneutics, philosophy of mind), and to do so in focusing on issues such as: counterintuition, commitment, cognition and emotion, agency, understanding, self-awareness, intersubjectivity, and intentionality. Thursday, November 6 13:30-15:00 Simo Knuuttila (University of Helsinki): ""Religion Explained: Comments to Pascal Boyer"" 15:00-15:30 Coffee break 15:00-17:00 Jeppe Sinding Jensen (University of Aarhus): ""Cognition + Culture = Consciousness"" 18:30 Dinner Friday, November 7 09:30-11:00 Hans Ruin (University College of Södertörn , Stockholm): ""On releasement (Gelassenheit): Eckhart and Heidegger"" 11:00-11:30 Coffee break 11:30-13:00 Ilkka Pyysiäinen (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies): ""Explaining Religion at Different Levels"" 13:00-14:00 Lunch 14:00-16:00 Student presentations PhD-students are invited to present papers. All participating in the course are required to read materials which will be provided beforehand by the organizers. ECTS to be announced at a later date.Prior registration required. Please register before October 27 by sending an email to Oluf Schönbeck: oluf@hum.ku.dk"
"George Pattison: ""Freedom, Being, and Love: Nothingness in Sartre, Heidegger, and Kierkegaard""";"CFS";"2008-11-21";"10:15-12:00";"";"";"University of Copenhagen, CFS, Lecture room 25.5.11,";" George Pattison is Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. Among his numerous publications are Art, Modernity and Faith (1991), Kierkegaard: the Aesthetic and the Religious (1992), Agnosis: Theology in the Void (1996), The Later Heidegger (2000), Kierkegaard’s Upbuilding Discourses: Philosophy, Literature and Theology (2002), Thinking about God in an Age of Technology (2005), The Philosophy of Kierkegaard (2005). He is currently working on a book on God and ontology ";" Freedom, being, or love: Nothingness in Sartre, Heidegger and Kierkegaard 'Nothingness' plays a central role in Sartre's account of human subjectivity, but it is also a term that is used by both Heidegger and to Kierkegaard. The paper explores the relationship between Kierkegaardian and Sartrean uses of nothingness, emphasizing the significant commonalities, before turning to the Heideggerian attempt, in the Introduction to Metaphysics, to take the experience of nothingness as a way of re-opening the question of Being. After a discussion of the possible relevance of some modern Buddhist perspectives, the paper returns to Kierkegaard and to his specifically religious use of the rhetoric of nothingness. In contrast to Sartrean freedom and Heideggerian ontology, this is seen as pointing to the primacy of love over both freedom and ontology. "
"Conference: ""Trust, Sociality, Selfhood""";"CFS";"2008-12-04";"";"";"";"University of Copenhagen, conference room 22.0.11";"December 4-5, 2008Organized by Arne Grøn and Claudia Welz Co-funded by the Velux-FoundationAbstracts can be downloaded from this site.";"December 4-5, 2008 in Copenhagen Conference The goal of this conference is to clarify the role, scope and significance of trust for selfhood and sociality.A theory of the self has to address the link between selfhood and sociality. That sociality is intrinsic to selfhood seems to be current and common wisdom. Yet, the question is still open: What does this mean? Are there limits to this insight? The idea behind the title of the conference ""Trust, Sociality, Selfhood"" is that trust goes to the core of both sociality and selfhood: Can we have sociality without trust? Is trust not of critical importance to becoming and being a self? Thus, the suggestion is to address the issue of sociality and selfhood by focusing on questions implied in dealing with trust, such as: in what sense is trust a personal attitude both in terms of the attitude of a person and the attitude towards the other as a person? In what sense is trust the 'atmosphere' in which sociality succeeds, and in what sense can trust also show the limits of the social character of the self on the one hand, and of the subjective character of sociality on the other hand?These questions will be explored in an interdisciplinary approach. Programme Thursday, December 4 09:00-09:15 Welcome and Introduction 09:15-10:30 Ingolf U. Dalferth (University of Zurich/Claremont): ""'In God We Trust': Trust, Mistrust and Distrust as Modes of Orientation"" 10:30-11:45 Anne Marie Pahuus (University of Århus/Copenhagen): ""Creative Trust – The Power of Promise, Expectation, and Confidence"" 11:45-13:00 Lunch break 13:00-14:15 Lilian Alweiss (University of Dublin): ""Against Cartesian Mistrust"" 14:15-15:30 Lars Hertzberg (Åbo Akademi University): ""The Personal Character of Trust"" 15:30-16:00 Coffee break 16:00-17:15 Günter Figal (University of Freiburg): ""Trusting in Persons and Things"" Friday, December 5 09:30-10:45 Karen Jones (University of Melbourne): ""Finite, Social and Reflective Agents: On Trust and Its Importance"" 10:45-12:00 Burkhard Liebsch (Ruhr-University of Bochum): ""Violated Trust and the Self"" 12:00-13:15 Lunch break 13:15-14:30 Philippe Rochat (Emory University): ""Trust at the Origin of Development"" 14:30-15:45 Claudia Welz (University of Copenhagen): ""Trust as Basic Openness and Self-Transcendence"" 15:45-16:15 Coffee break 16:15-17:30 Arne Grøn (University of Copenhagen): ""Trust, Alterity, Selfhood"" "
"Advisory Board Meeting";"CFS";"2008-12-06";"10:00";"";"";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 140-142";"One day conference with the Advisory Board (Ingolf U. Dahlfert, Shaun Gallagher, Günter Figal, Philipe Rochat.)";"Emotion and Self-Understanding Program 10:00 Dan Zahavi: Introduction and report 10:40 Joel Krueger: ""Bodily Expressivity and Social Understanding"" 11:20 Morten Sørensen Thaning & Gry Ardal Christensen:""Being Bored –Heidegger on Boredom"" 12:00 Lunch 14:00 Dan Zahavi: ""Shame and the Exposed Self"" 14:40 Mads Gram Henriksen: ""Emotions and Symptoms"" 15:20-16:00 Final discussion "
"Dissertation Defence: Rasmus Thybo Jensen: ""Perception and Action - an Analogical Approach""";"";"2008-12-08";"13:00";"";"";"South Campus, auditorium 23.0.50";"Rasmus Thybo Jensen, Dept. of Philosophy and Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, will defend his dissertation ""Perception and Action - an Analogical Approach"".";"Rasmus Thybo Jensen, Dept. of Philosophy and Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, will defend his dissertation ""Perception and Action - an Analogical Approach"". Assessment Committee Associate Professor Klemens Kappel (chairman), University of Copenhagen Professor Shaun Gallagher, University of Central Florida Associate Professor Thomas Schwarz Wentzer, University of Aarhus Director of the Defence Associate Professor Leo Catana. "