"Mette Lebech: ""Stein's Phenomenology of the Body: The Constitution of the Human Being Between Description of Experience and Social Construction""";"CFS";"2009-01-13";"14.15-16.00";"";"";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th floor.";"Lecture by Mette Lebech, Department of Philosophy, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland. ";""
"EASE: Introductory Course";"Psychopathological Research and Educational Center, Hvidovre; Psychiatric Center Hvidovre, Copenhagen and The Danish National Research Foundation: Centre for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark";"2009-02-25";"09:00";"";"";"Hvidovre Hospital, Auditorium 1, Kettegård Allé 30, 2650 Hvidovre, Copenhagen.";"";"February 25-27, 2009.Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience (EASE): Introductory Course.Organized by: Peter Handest, MD, PhD. & Josef Parnas, Prof. MD, Dr.Med.Sci."
"Alexandra Zinck: ""Emotions Hold the Self Together""";"CFS";"2009-03-05";"13.15-15.00";"";"";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th floor.";"Lecture by Alexandra Zinck, Institut für Philosophie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. ";" Self-referential emotions - as a special subgroup of emotions - essentially involve the subject herself as both subject and intentional object. Alexandra Zinck argues that they do not presuppose both a complex theory of mind and a stable self-representation as a basis for self-consciousness. Instead, pre-forms of self-referential emotions precede and substantially contribute to the development of more elaborate self-representations and to social interaction and mentalizing. The special function of self-referential emotions for self-consciousness is illustrated within an account of the general functions of emotions for self-consciousness. Alexandra Zinck studied Philosophy, Psychology, and Comparative Literature at the Universities of Berlin and Computational Linguistics at Kings' College London. Having completed a doctorate degree on the topic of ""Self-Consciousness and Emotion"" in Philosophy at the Universities of Tübingen and Bochum, she is currently doing a Post.Doc in an interdisciplinary project on how we understand other minds. She is particularly interested in how the capacity of understanding others and of understanding oneself are related. Alexandra Zinck is from the Institut für Philosophie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. "
"DISCOS Workshop: ""The Relation Between Minimal and Extended Self""";"CFS";"2009-03-12";"";"";"";"University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 140-142, 2300 Copenhagen S";"March 12-14, 2009 Discos Workshop. The symposium is a closed meeting. Participation is by invitation only.Organized by Johan Eckart Hansen, Joel Krueger and Dan Zahavi. ";"March 12-13, 2009 in Copenhagen Keynote speakers: Peter Goldie, Christoph Hoerl, and Marya Schechtman.Participation is by invitation only. Thursday, March 12 Lecture room: 27.0.47 09:00-09:15 Registration 09:15-10:00 Welcome and Introduction (Dan Zahavi) 10:00-10:30 ""Self and Selflessness in Buddhist Philosophy"" (Joel Krueger) 10:30-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-12:30 Keynote: ""Narrating Narrative: The Minimal Self and the Narrative Attitude"" (Marya Schechtman) 12:30-13:30 Lunch 13:30-15:00 ""Practical Knowledge and the Bounds of Agentive Experience"" (Adrian Smith) ""Self, Time and Agency"" (Johan Eckart Hansen) ""The Self as a Knowledge Process: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective"" (Alex Lopez-Rolon and Tarik Bel-Bahar) 15:00-15:30 Coffee break 15:30-17:00 Keynote: ""Life, Fiction and Narrative"" (Peter Goldie) 19:30 Dinner Friday, March 13 Lecture room: 27.0.17 08:30-09:30 Node leader breakfast 09:30-10:30 ""The Medical Self"" (Lorna Lees) ""The Hallucinated Self"" (Andrea Raballo) 10:30-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-12:30 Keynote: ""Minimal Narratives"" (Christoph Hoerl) 12:30-13:30 Lunch 13:30-15:00 TBA (Thomas Fuchs) ""From Pain to Emotion: Changes in the Narratives of Somatoform Pain Patients During Psychotherapy"" (Heribert Sattel) ""Reconstructing the Minimal Self - or How to Make Sense of Agency and Ownership"" (Sanneke de Haan and Leon de Bruin) 15:00-15:30 Coffee break 15:30-16:30 Panel discussion with keynote speakers "
"Conditions of Experience";"PHH & CFS";"2009-03-26";"";"";"";"University of Aarhus, Auditorium 1, building 1461";"""Conditions of Experience"" International conference at the University of Aarhus, Denmark March 26-27, 2009 ";" ""Conditions of Experience"" International conference at the University of Aarhus, Denmark March 26-27, 2009 Aarhus University is hosting a conference called “Conditions of Experience”. The conference is organized by the research unit Philosophical Hermeneutics (PHH) at Aarhus University and the Center for Subjectivity Research (CFS) at the University of Copenhagen. The aim of the conference is to explore conditions of experience in the tradition of transcendental philosophy. Both recent phenomenological approaches and conceptions which have some connection to neo-pragmatism show a growing interest for the option of a transcendental approach. The perspective on this issue is therefore not historical; we want rather to challenge prominent recent thinkers to evaluate the possibility of transcendental thinking in the light of the philosophy of the 20th century. Invited speakers (all confirmed) include: William Blattner (Washington); Steven Crowell (Houston); Günter Figal (Freiburg); Hans Fink (Aarhus); Stephen Houlgate (Warwick); Thomas Rentsch (Dresden); Thomas Schwarz Wentzer (Aarhus); Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer (Leipzig); Dan Zahavi (Copenhagen). The conference is open to anyone who is interested. Prior registration is required. Please register by sending an email to Morten Sørensen Thaning (filmst@hum.au.dk) "
"Steven Crowell: ""Transcendental Logic and Minimal Empiricism: Lask and McDowell on the Unboundedness of the Conceptual""";"CFS";"2009-03-31";"10.15-12.00";"";"";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th floor.";"Lecture by Steven Crowell, Department of Philosophy, Rice University, Houston, USA. ";" ""Transcendental Logic and Minimal Empiricism: Lask and McDowell on the Unboundedness of the Conceptual"" Drawing on Wilfrid Sellars's critique of the Myth of the Given, philosophers such as Robert Brandom, John Haugeland, and John McDowell have developed accounts of intentionality, mind, and language that are connected in philosophically interesting ways with the neo-Kantian idea of Geltungslogik. In this paper I trace one such connection: John McDowell’s attempt to defend the epistemic value of ""experience"" by appeal to the conceptual content of perception runs afoul of a distinction between ""seeing as"" and ""seeing that."" With his concept of the ""boundlessness of truth"" the Baden-school neo-Kantian, Emil Lask, provides a way to address this problem and complete the defense. STEVEN CROWELL is Mullen Professor of Philosophy at Rice University (Houston, Texas). He is the author of Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning: Paths Toward Transcendental Phenomenology (Northwestern, 2001) and editor, with Jeff Malpas, of Transcendental Heidegger (Stanford, 2007). He currently co-edits Husserl Studies and is working on the normative roots of reason. "
"Symposium: ""Self-No-Self""";"Center for Subjectivity Research";"2009-04-15";"";"";"";"CFS";"April 15-16, 2009. Organized by Joel Krueger and Dan Zahavi. Confirmed participants include John Dunne, Wolfgang Fasching, Birgit Kellner, Mark Siderits, Galen Strawson, Miri Albahari, Bina Gupta, Ram-Prasad Chakravarthi, Evan Thompson, Georges Dreyfus, Dorothée Legrand, Joel Krueger, Thor Grünbaum and Dan Zahavi. The symposium is a closed meeting. Participation is by invitation only. ";""
"Georges Dreyfus: ""Self, Embodiment and Temporality: A Buddhist Perspective""";"CFS";"2009-04-17";"13.15-15.00";"";"";"TBA";"Lecture by Georges Dreyfus, Department of Religion, Williams College, Williamstown, USA. ";" Georges Dreyfus was a monk in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition for many years, studying at some of the most important Tibetan monastic institutions in India, including Sera. He eventually became the first Westerner to obtain the degree of Geshey Lharampa (the highest rank of Geshey offered in the Geluk academies). Georges Dreyfus is currently professor of religion at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA. "
"CFIN-CFS workshop: ""Interventions in Agency and Intersubjectivity""";"CFS & CFIN";"2009-04-20";"";"2009-04-21";"";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, Lecture room 25.5.11, Njalsgade 140-142, 2300 Copenhagen S";"April 20-21, 2009. CFIN-CFS Workshop. ";" Interventions in Agency and Intersubjectivity Joint workshop, CFS & CFIN Copenhagen, April 20-21, 2009. The issue of agency, has for some time been a focus of conceptual and experimental concern. However, in real life, actions are rarely done in isolation. What happens to agency when actions are done in the contexts of others, in observation, interaction, synchronization, or competition? Programme April 20 12.00-13.00: Lunch 13.00-17.00: Agency and Intersubjectivity: Concepts and Approaches Thor Grünbaum (CFS): ""Levels of personal control and agency"" Ivana Konvalinka (CFIN): ""Joint Action and Synchronization"" Joel Krueger (CFS): ""Agency, Intersubjectivity, and Musical Experience"" Josh Skewes (CFIN): ""Bioagency"" Carsten Fogh Nielsen (CFS): ""Moral Agency and Ethical Formation – Developmental Pre-Suppositions of Modern Moral Theory"" 19.00: Dinner April 21 9.00-13.00: Agency and Intersubjectivity: Cases and Conclusions Martijn van Beek (CFIN): ""Reflections on Intersubjectivity in Meditative Practice” Theimo Breyer (CFS): ""Intersubjective Fulfilment. Awareness of Self and Other in Social Acts"" Sanne Lodahl (CFIN): ""Contextualizing the Other, Situating the Self"" Micah Allen (CFIN): ""Co-Constructing Meaning"" Dorothée Legrand (CFIN): ""Mirroring Others in Oneself? A Reappraisal of Agency and Intersubjectivity in Cognitive Neurosciences."" 13.00 Lunch "
"Conference: ""Trust, Emotion and Uncertainty""";"";"2009-05-14";"9:00-18:30";"2009-05-14";"";"University of Copenhagen, lecture room 27.0.17, Njalsgade 140-142, 2300 Copenhagen S";"May 14, 2009 in Copenhagen Organized by Claudia Welz (CFS) ";" Conference: ""Trust, Emotion and Uncertainty"" The aim of the conference is to clarify three interrelated fields of problems concerning the phenomenon and the concept of 'trust'. The idea is to arrange for each of these fields a panel of two experts who discuss trust: (1) in the context of philosophy of emotion (2) in the context of philosophy of language (3) in the context of philosophy of religion and theology. The first panel deals with the question of whether at all or in what sense trust to be taken as an emotional feeling, as a mood or as an affective attitude. How are activity and passivity, asymmetry and reciprocity as well as the pre-reflective and the volitional and cognitive dimensions of trust related to each other? Which features tend to become prominent in which type of situation? In this context unclear, ambiguous situations are of special interest, which question trust as ‘natural’ or self-evident response and confront us with existential and emotional uncertainty. How can we judge what is going on, and what role does trust or distrust play in this judgment? What kind of theory can account most adequately for the complexity of experiences oscillating ‘between’ trust and distrust and their changes in the course of human interaction? The second (Wittgensteinian) panel reacts to the suspicion that trust cannot be reduced to a mental state. Should trust rather be described as a pattern of behavior, which is characterized by the absence of certain speech acts that signal distrust? It is controversial whether trust can be conceived of as a coping strategy involving risk taking and rational choices. Alternatively, it could be conceived of as a basic openness despite uncertainty, as unfounded fundament of life. To put it with Wittgenstein (On Certainty, nr. 509): “I really want to say that a language-game is only possible if one trusts something (I did not say ‘can trust something’).” In this context, the semantics and pragmatics of trust as inter-subjective phenomenon will be examined. The third panel focuses on (dis)trust in the God-relationship. What do people mean when they say “In God we trust” – although they might be in a situation similar to biblical Job? The Protestant tradition opposes trusting faith in the sense of fiducia and self-enclosure in the sense of incurvatio in se. Faith is seen as a gift we receive mere passive, while sin is traced back to our own activity. Emphasizing certitudo, the inner certainty and orientation faith provides, the fathers of the Reformation at the same time warned of the self-delusive feeling of securitas, of safety and salvation that is not due to God’s grace alone – but e.g. to money, life insurances, etc. Can we trust in our justification through faith alone, or should we try to find a rational foundation for it? In what sense remains faith beyond reason, and how can it be distinguished from reliance and belief? Confirmed speakers: Panel 1: Paul Faulkner and Gloria Origgi Panel 2: David Cockburn and Olli Lagerspetz Panel 3: Cornelia Richter and Philipp Stoellger Organized by Claudia Welz Please register here: sro@hum.ku.dk "
"CANCELLED: Jonardon Ganeri: ""The Concept of Self in Non-Buddhist Indian Thought""";"CFS";"2009-05-18";"13.15-15.00";"2009-05-18";"";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th floor.";"Lecture by Jonardon Ganeri, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Sussex, UK. ";" The lecture is unfortunately cancelled. Lecture by Jonardon Ganeri, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Sussex, UK. "
"Philippe Rochat: ""Early Embodied Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity""";"CFS";"2009-05-26";"13:00";"2009-05-26";"15:00";"University of Copenhagen, lecture room 23.4.39, Njalsgade 140-142, 2300 Copenhagen S";"Philippe Rochat from Dept. of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, will be visiting the CFS from May 10-30, 2009. He will be giving a guest lecture May 26.";"Philippe Rochat from Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, will be visiting the CFS from May 10-30, 2009. He will be giving a guest lecture May 26. ""I would like to re-visit the assertion that babies are born in a state of dualism between self and world, an assertion claimed and presumably supported by the recent wave of infancy research, an assertion defying the 'blooming, buzzing, confusion' of the neonate proposed over a century ago by William James, and in his footsteps, by pioneer developmental psychologists like Baldwin, Piaget, or Wallon, notwithstanding Freud, Klein, or Marler in the realm of psychoanalysis. I will develop the idea that new evidence of early synesthesia and neuronal mirror systems possibly associated with newborns' experience of being in the world would suggest that William James , after all, was not that confused and off the mark. We might indeed be born with capacities to experience fusion with the world, whether physical or social, hence the title of my talk."" - Philippe Rochat"
"Rick Anthony Furtak: ""Emotion, Intentionality, and Embodiment""";"CFS";"2009-08-24";"13:15";"2009-08-24";"15:00";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th floor.";"Guest lecture by Rick Anthony Furtak, Philosophy Department, Colorado College, USA. ";" A few decades ago, cognitive theories of emotion were on the rise in both psychology and philosophy. Today, a fair amount of controversy still appears to be raging over the fairly basic question of whether or not emotions are cognitive. On the other hand, this appearance of conflict is somewhat deceiving, since the controversy is not so much a clash between antithetical stances as a critical debate in which each side is being forced to refine and qualify its position, and to develop better alternatives. I attempt in this essay to sort out some of the points of contention between cognitivism and its rivals, offering some ideas about how some of these disputes might be resolved in future interdisciplinary research. Rick Anthony Furtak is from the Philosophy Department, Colorado College, USA. "
"Conference: ""Atrocities, Emotion, Self""";"";"2009-08-27";"";"2009-08-28";"";"University of Copenhagen, lecture room 27.0.17, Njalsgade 140-142, 2300 Copenhagen S";"August 27-28, 2009 in CopenhagenOrganized by Claudia Welz (CFS), Thomas Brudholm (ToRS) and Arne Grøn (CFS & Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen)";"August 27-28, 2009 in Copenhagen Conference Title: ""Atrocities, Emotion, Self"" The aim of this conference is to explore the nature and significance of emotional responses to mass atrocities with special regard to their implications for our understanding of the self. Atrocities – like genocide, rape and crimes against humanity – assault our sense of human dignity on a most fundamental level. Being inhumane is still within the range of human possibilities. The enactment of extreme violence shocks the conscience of humankind, challenges our understanding of the normative character of responsible agency, and raises difficult questions as to the fragility, integrity and unity of the self. This is not only the case in relation to studies of the testimonies and memories of surviving victims, but also in relation to accounts of the ways in which perpetrators deal with their selves during or after participation in atrocities ('doubling', 'numbing' etc.). Responses to atrocities include vehement passions like outrage, horror, and disgust, but also what might be called ‘aftermath’ emotions or remainders like shame, resentment, guilt, grief, and melancholy. What is the significance of such emotional responses – and of the ways in which individuals deal with them – to our understanding of the self? This is the main question to be addressed during the conference. It will be discussed in an interdisciplinary exchange of thought between scholars with an expertise in studies of trauma and mass violence, philosophers of emotion and scholars with a background in phenomenological studies of the self. Organized by Claudia Welz (CFS), Thomas Brudholm (ToRS) and Arne Grøn (CFS & Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen) Thursday, August 27 10:00-10:15 Welcome 10:15-11:15 Susan Brison (Dept. of Philosophy, Dartmouth College): ""Trauma, Embodied Selves, and Narrative Repair"" 11:15-11:30 Coffee break 11:30-12:30 Rachel Rosenblum (Paris): ""Postponing Trauma: The Danger of Looking Back"" 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:00 Robin May Schott (Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen): ""The Concepts of Pain and Abjection in a Narrative of War Rape"" 15:00-15:15 Coffee break 15:15-16:15 Claudia Welz (Center for Subjectivity Research (CFS), University of Copenhagen): ""Shame and the Hiding Self"" 16:15-17:00 Plenary discussion Friday, August 28 10:00-11:00 Arne Johan Vetlesen (University of Oslo): ""Atrocities - A Case of Suppressing Emotions or of Acting them Out?"" 11:00-11:15 Coffee break 11:15-12:15 Thomas Brudholm (Dept. of Cross-Cultural & Regional Studies (ToRS), Minority Studies Section, University of Copenhagen): ""On Hatred"" 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:00 Phil Hutchinson (Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University): ""Shame, Autonomy, and Moral Appraisal"" 15:00-15:15 Coffee break 15:15-16:15 Arne Grøn (Center for Subjectivity Research (CFS) & Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen): ""A Life in Common? Selfhood, Emotion, Atrocity"" Registration is free of charge. Please register here: sro@hum.ku.dkAbstracts can be downloaded here."
"Benny Shanon: ""The Psychological Study of Human Consciousness""";"CFS";"2009-09-08";"10:15";"2009-09-08";"12:00";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th floor.";"Guest lecture by Benny Shanon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. ";" A presentation of a novel conceptual framework for the study of human consciousness. This framework encompasses both ordinary states of mind and non-ordinary ones and characterizes them as the different manifestations of one, unified psychological system. The analysis deals with the various kinds of mental contents people entertain, selfhood and personal identity, the cognitive agent's relationship with the world, and temporality; it involves distinctions of types and levels of consciousness. In addition to offering new methodological lines for the investigation of consciousness, the present research brings forth a new view of the nature and aims of the science of psychology. Benny SHANON. Professor of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel). Studied philosophy and linguistics at Tel Aviv University, and completed his doctorate in psychology at Stanford. Has taught at MIT, Cornell University and Swarthmore College. and was a fellow at The Rockfeller Center in Bellagio, ZiF in Bielefeld, the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, Harvard Princeton and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. His current work focuses on human consciousness, both ordinary and not, and the philosophy of psychology. Has also studied the semantics and pragmatics of natural language, psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, the psychology of music, thought processes and creativity. His publications include ""The Representational and the Presentational"" (Harvester-Wheatsheaf,1993; Academic Imprint, 2008), and ""The Antipodes of the Mind"" (Oxford University Press, 2002). "
"Workshop with Tomasello and Rochat";"CFS";"2009-09-21";"";"2009-09-23";"";"";"Workshop with Michael Tomasello and Philippe Rochat. Organized by Bjørn Ramberg (CSMN) and Dan Zahavi (CFS) ";" September 21-23, 2009. Workshop with Michael Tomasello and Philippe Rochat. Organized by Bjørn Ramberg (CSMN) and Dan Zahavi (CFS). Participation by invitation only. Monday, 21.9 12.00-14.00: Lunch 14.00-15.45: Philippe Rochat: ""Levels of Intersubjectivity"" 15.45-16.00: Break 16.00-17.00: Bjørn Ramberg: ""Intersubjectivity and Pragmatist Philosophy of Mind."" 17.00-18.00: Dan Zahavi: ""Empathy, Embodiment and Interpersonal Understanding."" Tuesday, 22.9 09.00-10.00: Andreas Roepstorff: ""Mirroring and Perspective Taking: Two Complementary Processes?"" 10.00-10.45: Joel Krueger: ""Empty Heads, Social Bodies"" 10.45-11.00: Break 11.00-11.30: Somogy Varga: ""Intersubjectivity and Depression"" 11.30-12.00: Line Ryberg Ingerslev: ""Social Experience and Play"" 12.00-14.00: Lunch 14.00-15.45: Michael Tomasello: ""Origins of Shared Intentionality"" 15.45-16.00: Break 16.00-16.45 Jakob Elster: ""You Don't Know What It's Like!"" - The Role of Personal Experience in Moral Argumentation"" 16.45-17.30 Carsten Fogh Nielsen: ""Components of Moral Agency - Prolegomena to a Developmental Account"" 17.30-18.00 Kristian Bjørkdahl: ""Building a Larger Loyalty, One Ape at a Time: Field Primatology as Moral Sensitization"" Wednesday, 23.9 9.00-9.30: Georg Kjøll: ""The Role of Deference and Theory of Mind in Conceptual Representation and Concept Acquisition"" 9.30-10.00: Nivedita Gangopadhyay: ""Intersubjectivity and Extended Mind"" 10.00-10.30: Søren Overgaaard: ""Do We Infer the Mental States of Others?"" 10.30-11.30 Concluding discussion 11.30-12.30: Lunch "
"Michael Tomasello: ""Origins of Human Communication""";"CFS";"2009-09-23";"13.15";"2009-09-23";"15.00";"University of Copenhagen, The Faculty of Humanities, Njalsgade 140-142, 2300 Copenhagen S, lecture room 22.0.11";"Lecture by Michael Tomasello, Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. ";" Origins of Human Communication Great apes do not use the pointing gesture with conspecifics, whereas the pointing gesture is a crucially important part of face-to-face human communication. Human infants use the pointing gesture spontaneously for at least three different functions from before language begins, two of them purely cooperative (sharing emotions and providing others with needed information), and they use it sensitively in the context of various kinds of joint attentional interactions. It is argued that the pointing gesture embodies many aspects of the human adaptation for cooperative communication involving shared intentionality, and so it is the best candidate we have for an immediate precursor to human language. Lecture by Michael Tomasello, Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. "
"Conference: ""Self, Ego, Person: Commemorating Husserl's 150th anniversary""";"Center for Subjectivity Research";"2009-10-08";"";"2009-10-09";"";"University of Copenhagen, auditorium 22.0.11";"Organized by Dan Zahavi and Line Ryberg Ingerslev. Confirmed speakers include John Drummond, Eduard Marbach, Steven Crowell, Sara Heinämaa, Ni Liangkang, Dieter Lohmar, David Carr, Natalie Depraz, Shigeru Taguchi and Dan Zahavi.";"Thursday, October 8 09:00-09:15 Welcome and Introduction 09:15-10:30 Dieter Lohmar (University of Cologne): ""A History of the Ego - in Husserl's Phenomenology"" 10:30-11:45 Eduard Marbach (University of Bern): ""Poor I - Pure or Impure, After All? Husserl's Notion of I Revisited"" 11:45-12:45 Lunch break 12:45-14:00 Liangkang Ni (Sun Yat-Sen University): ""Zwei Wege zum Denken 'Ich' - Neuer Blick auf drei Texte von Husserl um 1920"" 14:00-15:15 Shigeru Taguchi (Yamagata University): ""Beyond Plurality and Monistic Origin: The Concept of ‘Primal Ego' in Husserl"" 15:15-15:45 Coffee break 15:45-17:00 Natalie Depraz (University of Rouen): ""Self-Givenness and First-Person Givenness"" Friday, October 9 09:00-09:15 Coffee 09:15-10:30 Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen): ""Self and Other in Husserl"" 10:30-11:45 Steven Crowell (Rice University): ""Subject and Person"" 11:45-12:45 Lunch break 12:45-14:00 John Drummond (Fordham University): ""Virtuous Persons"" 14:00-15:15 Sara Heinämaa (Uppsala University): ""Understanding Persons, Motivations and Capacities"" 15:15-15:45 Coffee break 15:45-17:00 David Carr (Emory University): ""World and Self in Husserl's Phenomenology"" The conference is organized by Dan Zahavi and Line Ryberg Ingerslev. Participation is free but please register for the conference by sending an email to: lri@hum.ku.dk"
"Mark Rowlands: ""Extended Mind: The Argument From Intentionality""";"Leo Catana, Vincent F. Hendricks, Nils Holtug, Klemens Kappel and Dan Zahavi";"2009-10-27";"14:15";"2009-10-27";"16:00";"University of Copenhagen, lecture room 27.0.09, Njalsgade 136, ground floor.";"Lecture by Mark Rowlands, Department of Philosophy, University of Miami, USA.";"The traditional argument for the extended mind rests functionalism about mental states and processes. The argument I shall develop in this paper is quite different and turns on the nature of intentionality. I shall argue for an extended account of processes that are both conscious and intentional (i.e. experiencing). The argument rests on two claims: (a) the intentional directedness of experiences consists in a form of revealing or disclosing activity, and (b) disclosing activity often - not always, not necessarily, but often - straddles neural processes, bodily processes and things we do in and to the world. Mark Rowlands (b. 1962, in Newport, Wales) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He is the author of a dozen books (and numerous journal articles), translated into fifteen languages. His work divides up into three categories. The first category comprises work in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Here he is known for a view known as the extended mind. The idea is that at least some mental processes extend into the subject's environment in that they are composed, partly (and, on most versions, contingently), of manipulative, exploitative, and transformative operations performed by that subject on suitable environmental structures. The second category of Rowlands' published work comprises work in applied ethics, in particular concerning the moral status of non-human animals and the natural environment. The third category comprises cultural criticism, broadly construed, and also attempts to convince the general public of the wonders of philosophy. Rowlands achieved widespread fame for his critically acclaimed autobiography, The Philosopher and the Wolf (2008), which is the story of a decade of his life he spent living and travelling with a wolf. He is a Founding Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and a Member of the American Philosophical Association. No registration needed. All are welcome."
"Peter & Jessica Hobson";"";"2009-11-05";"";"2009-11-13";"";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th floor.";"Peter og Jessica Hobson from The Institute of Child Health, UCL, London will be visiting the CFS from November 5-13, 2009. ";" Peter og Jessica Hobson from The Institute of Child Health, UCL, London will be visiting the CFS from November 5-13, 2009. "
"Workshop with Peter and Jessica Hobson";"";"2009-11-06";"13:15";"2009-11-06";"16:00";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th floor.";"Workshop with Peter Hobson (Tavistock Professor of Developmental Psychopathology in the University of London), and Jessica Hobson (Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Child Health, UCL). ";" Peter Hobson: ""Varieties of Self-Consciousness: Perspectives from Autism"" Jessica Hobson: ""Autism and Self-Other Relations: Insights from Research and Intervention."" "
"Dermot Moran: ""Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and the 'double sensation'"".";"CFS";"2009-11-10";"10:15";"";"12:00";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th floor. ";"Lecture by Dermot Moran, Department of Philosophy, University College Dublin, Ireland.";"Lecture by Dermot Moran, Department of Philosophy, University College Dublin, Ireland. It is appropriate, three hundred years after George Berkeley's groundbreaking New Theory of Vision (1709), which argued for the heterogeneity of the objects of touch and sight, to revisit the analyses of the relationship between vision and touch in phenomenology. In Ideas II Husserl argues that the experienced world is constituted in levels (§ 18c), with touch playing a major role since the whole body is an organ of touch. The senses convey a single world; touch and vision give rise to one single shared conception of space. Nevertheless, for Husserl, touch is more complex than and has priority over sight. Earlier, in Thing and Space (Ding und Raum, 1907), Husserl discusses what ‘sensations' contribute to the experience of spatiality (§ 47). In Ding und Raum Section § 46 he had discussed visual and touch sensations separately as to whether they underpin differing conceptions of space, .i.e. visual space or tactile space. For Husserl visual experiences, unlike touch sensations, are not experienced as ‘localized' in the body. Vision in this sense is ‘transparent'. In Ideas II Husserl claims the phenomenon of ‘double sensation' to be a part of touch but not of vision: ‘in the case of an object constituted purely visually we have nothing comparable' (Ideas II § 37, p. 155; IV 147). Likewise, we see colours but there is no localized sensing of the experiencing of colour or of the eyes that are doing the seeing: ‘I do not see myself, my body, the way I touch myself' (Ideas II § 37, p. 155; IV 148). The psychologist David Katz (1884-1953), a student of Husserl's in Göttingen, published his World of Touch (Aufbau der Tastwelt) in 1925; and Merleau-Ponty draws heavily on it in Phenomenology of Perception (1945). Katz had a strong influence on Gibson. Katz emphasises the importance and diversity of motility for touch. Merleau-Ponty wants to emphasise the continuity between sight and touch in the constitution of the sense of materiality and spatiality. For instance, it is often thought that the sense of touch disappears when one lifts one's hand off one kind of surface before touching another surface. Merleau-Ponty, on the contrary, thinks a kind of indefinite sense of touch remains. It is not, Merleau-Ponty, says ‘a tactile nothingness' but ‘a tactile space devoid of matter, a tactile background' (PP, p. 316; Fr. 365). In this paper I will explore the different approaches to sight and touch in Husserl and Merleau-Ponty and examine the mediating role of Katz. Husserl's account focuses in particular on touch and sight ‘sensations', however, his overall account is still revolutionary in its understanding of the interpenetration of sight and touch. Dermot Moran (PhD Yale) is Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. His books include: The Philosophy of John Scottus Eriugena (1989), Introduction to Phenomenology (2000), Edmund Husserl. Founder of Phenomenology (2005), and (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy (2008). He is Founding Editor of The International Journal of Philosophical Studies, and co-editor of the Contributions to Phenomenology book series (Springer). He a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology (CARP) and a member of the Steering Committee of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP). He is currently completing a book on Husserl's Crisis of European Sciences for Cambridge UP."
"John W. Carter: ""Investigations into the Phenomenology of Emotion: Charting the Landscape of Positive Interpersonal Feelings""";"";"2009-11-10";"14.15";"";"16.00";"CFS, University of Copenhagen, lecture room 25-5-11, Njalsgade 140-142, 5th floor. ";"Lecture by John W. Carter, Department of Psychology, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, USA. ";"Abstract The purpose of this lecture is to share my ongoing research program in the area of positive interpersonal emotions, and in particular, to describe the results from two studies-one phenomenological-qualitative, the other descriptive-quantitative. Both studies stem from a desire to better understand the landscape of our good feelings about other people; feelings such as liking, loving, and lusting. At the outset of this research, I became frustrated at the lack of adequate descriptions of positive interpersonal emotional states in the psychological literature. Empirical studies tend to reduce emotions to observable measures; theoretical writings tend to make emotions into universal abstractions; neither captures the richness of these emotions as experienced by real human beings. In the first study, I completed 19 in-depth phenomenological interviews with 8 participants in Southern California in an attempt to develop detailed descriptions of particular instances of positive interpersonal feelings and to discover how people distinguish between different types of feelings. Feeling instances were rigorously compared, both within and between participants. From the data, I identified 9 aspects of emotional experience, 7 dimensions along which different instances of feelings vary, and 45 prototypical descriptions of different positive interpersonal feelings. The second study, still underway, is an attempt to partially validate these results by asking a larger sample to locate these feeling prototypes in terms of their relative similarity or difference from one another. The 8 original interview participants, plus 65 new participants from the West Georgia area (total N=73), were asked to sort descriptions of these 45 feelings into groups based on ""felt"" similarity. Hierarchical cluster and multidimensional scaling analyses were overlaid to create a concept map of the ""territory"" of these emotions. Preliminary results are consistent with a model of 38 distinct feelings arranged in 18 broader clusters. These results are compared to the categorization scheme I developed from the interviews. Implications for emotion theory and psychotherapy, as well as future directions for my own research program, are discussed. John W. Carter (PhD University of Southern California) is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of West Georgia. His dissertation, titled, ""A Phenomenological Topology of Positive Interpersonal Emotions"", was completed under the directorship of Donald Polkinghorne. In addition to having an active research program in emotion theory, he has been collaborating with Josef Parnas and Sarnoff Mednick for many years in the area of schizophrenia etiology. He is currently serving as Webmaster for the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (APA Division 24) and Acting Coordinator of Therapeutic Training for the UWG Department of Psychology. "
"The Space of dialogue ";"Aarhus University";"2009-11-20";"12:00";"2009-11-20";"";"Richard Mortensen Stuen, Frederiks Nielsensvej, Aarhus";"Public Defence of Morten Sørensen Thaning's PhD Thesis ""The Space of dialogue. Revisiting Hans-Georg Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics in the light of John McDowell's Minimal Empiricism"".";"Public Defence of Morten Sørensen Thaning's PhD Thesis ""The Space of dialogue. Revisiting Hans-Georg Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics in the light of John McDowell's Minimal Empiricism"". "