Conditions of Experience
International conference at the University of Aarhus, Denmark
Aarhus University is hosting a conference called ’Conditions of Experience - Language, Tradition, Subjectivity’. The conference is organized by the research unit Philosophical Hermeneutics, IFI, at AU and the ‘Center for Subjectivity Research’ at Copenhagen University. The conference will take place on March 26-27 2009.
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 thus not historical; we rather want to challenge prominent recent thinkers to evaluate the possibility of transcendental thinking in the light of the philosophy of the 20th century. The concepts of language, tradition and subjectivity, although rather vague or even hackneyed, might still be used as orientation marks to investigate the transcendental option
The conference will consist of plenary sections, containing invited papers, and a PhD section, containing peer-reviewed papers. The conference is open for all who might be interested. Prior registration required.
Invited speakers (all confirmed)
- William Blattner, Georgetown University, Washington
- Steven Crowell, Rice University, Houston
- Günter Figal, Universität Freiburg i. Br.
- Hans Fink, University of Aarhus
- Stephen Houlgate, Warwick University
- Thomas Rentsch, Technische Universität Dresden
- Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer, Universität Leipzig
- Dan Zahavi, University of Copenhagen
- Thomas Schwarz Wentzer, University of Aarhus
Organizers
Thomas Schwarz Wentzer, associate professor, department of philosophy, Aarhus University; Dan Zahavi, professor, director of the Center of Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen; Morten Sørensen Thaning, PhD-scholar, department of philosophy, Aarhus University
Contact
For further information, registration etc. please contact Morten Sørensen Thaning
