The significance of the second person
Over the last few years, philosophers in Chicago and Copenhagen have had an ongoing conversation about the second person. What does it involve to relate to another as a you? What role does it play in social cognition, self-consciousness, recognition and collective intentionality? How is the second-person form of interpersonal nexus significant for human thought, action and life? With this workshop, we take the conversation to a new level and aim to facilitate conversation across the traditions.
The workshop is co-organized between the Chicago Center for German Philosophy at the University of Chicago (co-organizers: James Conant, Matthias Haase & Adam Katwan) and the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen (co-organizers: Dan Zahavi & Julia Zaenker).
Participation by invitation only.
Please note: Due to restrictions at the workshop venue the event is now fully booked/ the invitation list is now closed.
Programme
Day One
10:30 - 11:00: Introduction
11:00 - 13:00: James Conant and Matthias Haase (University of Chicago), “Being Known to Each Other”
13:00 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 16:00: Stina Bäckstrom (Södertörn University), “Telling as Rational Transaction”
16:00 - 16:30: Coffee and Cake
16:30 - 18:30: Naomi Eilan (University of Warwick), “On the Relation Between Joint and Collective Intentionality”
19.00 - 20:30: Dinner
Day Two
08:00 - 10:00: Breakfast available
10:00 - 12:00: Thomas Khurana (University of Potsdam), “Living by Recognition: On the Sociality of the Human Life-Form”
12:00 - 13:30: Lunch
13:30 - 15:30: Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen), “From Social Experience to Social Ontology: The Insufficiency of Second-Personal Engagement”
16:00 - 16.30: Coffee and Cake
16:30 - 18:30: Adam Katwan (University of Chicago), “The Temporality of Acknowledgment"
19:00 - 20:30: Dinner
Day Three
08:00 - 10:00: Breakfast available
10:00 - 12:00: Julia Zaenker (University of Copenhagen), “Experiential and Normative Marks of the Second Person”
12:00 - 13:00: Lunch
13:00 - 15:00: Steven Crowell (Rice University), “Second-Person Phenomenology as First Philosophy”
15:00 - 15:45: Conclusion, Coffee and Cake