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The ERG Lecture invite international researchers to talk about philosophy from a cross-disciplinary and intercultural perspective.
The ERG Lecture invite international researchers to talk about philosophy from a cross-disciplinary and intercultural perspective.
Why Intercultural Philosophy?
Why Intercultural Philosophy?
August 4th, 12:00pm-14:00 (JST)
Place: Bunkomo - Kyoto University,
Graduate School of Letters, 1F
場所: 京都大学文学部ぶんこも 1F
No registration needed
Material Struggle and Spiritual Transformation in the Thought of Nishitani Keiji
Material Struggle and Spiritual Transformation in the Thought of Nishitani Keiji
Gerald Nelson (PhD candidate, Pennsylvania State University )
Wednesday, July 16th
6:15 PM
Meeting room in the first floor, Graduate School of Letters
Kyoto University
1階会議室 7月16日（水）18:15
AI, Aesthetics, and What it Means to Think
Speakers: Boris Steipe and Yi Chen
Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
Meeting Room in the Basement (地下大会議室)
Thursday, 12 December 2024
18:00–19:30
Description:
Perhaps the most astounding aspect of Generative AI is its capacity for understanding and producing discourse, which arises from observing human text, expressed merely from relationships between word-fragments encoded in numbers, entirely without direct experience of their referents. Does such a system think? The question about the nature of thought – as opposed to, say, computation – has been around for a long, long time. It is usually considered from an anthropocentric perspective. Through a conversation with the Generative AI, we will look at a passage in Kant’s Kritik der reinen Vernunft (1787), in which Kant justifies the transcendental nature of thought, concedes the possibility of a thinking “it” – as long as consciousness is present as a necessary condition.
Speakers' Bios
Boris Steipe
Boris Steipe, MD, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, specializing in Bioinformatics, Structural Biology, Confucian Ethics, Japanese Aesthetics, and AI. With a career spanning the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the Max Planck Institute, and Toronto’s Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, he bridges the sciences, humanities, and arts.
Yi Chen 陳怡
Yi Chen, PhD, PhD, is an Associate Editor for The Journal of East Asian Philosophy and specializes in Aesthetics, Phenomenology, and Comparative Philosophy. A former Senior Research Fellow at Heidelberg University and Assistant Professor at Bond University, she has held academic positions in Germany, Australia, and China, earning doctorates in philosophy (Fudan University) and comparative literature (University of Toronto).
"Power and Plurality. On Hannah Arendt’s Political Normativity“
"Power and Plurality. On Hannah Arendt’s Political Normativity“
Christian Volk
Christian Volk
Professor of Political Theory
Professor of Political Theory
(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Oct. 24, 18:00 (Japan time)
Basement (big meeting room) Graduate School of Letters
Kyoto University
Abstract:
In my talk “Hannah Arendt’s Political Normativity” I examine the specific kind of normativity prevalent in Arendt’s understanding of the political. The focus is on demonstrating that Arendt appreciates the examples of successful political practice she presents precisely because a very specific mode of political action becomes reality in such practice. In order to explain this thesis in detail, I shall first recap Arendt’s distinction between power and violence, and in doing so, reveal the normative substructure of her understanding of the political. Many authors query critically how Arendt justifies respecting the other in his otherness. What are the justification-theoretical foundations of Arendt’s political thinking? What is, with respect to her postulate of plurality, Arendt’s answer to Kant’s quaestio juris? I argue that one can find in Arendt’s work only a political justification for the treatment of human plurality. However, I do not consider this primarily to be a deficit, but rather explicit proof that she is a more of a political thinker than a political philosopher.
Christian Volk is Professor of Political Theory at the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since August 2020.
The Social Ontology of Anarchism
The Social Ontology of Anarchism
by Dr. Lucas Scarfia
Philosophy of (Dis)obedience
Philosophy of (Dis)obedience
by Dr. Lucas Scarfia
“German Idealism and the Kyoto School”
“German Idealism and the Kyoto School”
June 20 (Thursday), 2024
Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University (Big Conference Room, Basement)
•17:00 The Legacy of Hegel in Nishida's Logic of Paradox (Gregory Moss)
•18:00 The Legacy of Schelling in Tanabe's Philosophy as Metanoetics (Written by Moss
and Prooi; Presented by Dennis Prooi)
会場：京都大学、文学部校舎 地下・大会議室オンライン参加ご希望の方 6/19 までに
Organized by the Dept. of Western Philosophy and the Dept. of Japanese Philosophy (Fernando Wirtz)
Fynn Holm: "Surviving the Anthropocene: Coexistence of Humans and Nonhumans in the Japanese Archipelago"
Fynn Holm: "Surviving the Anthropocene: Coexistence of Humans and Nonhumans in the Japanese Archipelago"
4th April, 17:00 ~ 18: 30
Location: 京都大学吉田南キャンパス吉田南総合館216演習室
Lecture Title: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Fynn Holm (Japanologie, Tübingen University) "Surviving the Anthropocene: Coexistence of Humans and Nonhumans in the Japanese Archipelago"
Profil
https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/faculties/faculty-of-humanities/departments/asian-and-oriental-studies/japanese-studies/staff/fynn-holm/
Habits, Aesthetic Experience and Normativity
Habits, Aesthetic Experience and Normativity
Alessandro Bertinetto (University of Turin)
Alessandro Bertinetto (University of Turin)
March 28th (Thursday), 2024 18:00-19:45
Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters
Meeting room on the 1st floor/ 1F 会議室
Abstract:
Contrary to the prevalent belief that habits impede aesthetic experiences, I will argue that there is a profound link between habits and the aesthetic dimension of experience. Following the ideas of both past and present philosophers, I will defend that habits are a source of aesthetic experiences and that aesthetic experiences (in general—not just within the confines of art) require and are structured by what I term “aesthetic habits”. These habits not only scaffold and shape aesthetic practices but also exert a normative influence. Hence, building on the notion that habits can facilitate the resolution of what I designate as the “dilemma of aesthetic normativity,” I will demonstrate that discussing habits—their significance for aesthetic experience, along with their improvisational plasticity and adaptability—enables a more comprehensive understanding and explanation of the situational nature of aesthetic normativity.
Alessandro Bertinetto is full professor of Aesthetics at the University of Turin (Italy). He was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the FU Berlin and a member of the Executive Committee of the European Society for Aesthetics (2012–2018). One of his most recent books is The Aesthetics of Improvisation, Leiden, Brill 2022.
Intercultural Solidarity
Some Remarks on the Phenomenology of Human Rights
PD. Dr. Niels Weidtmann (Tübingen University)
PD. Dr. Niels Weidtmann (Tübingen University)
March 25th (Monday), 2024 17:00-19:00
Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters Meeting room on the 1st floor/ 1F 会議室
Niels Weidtmann is director of the College of Fellows - Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies at the University of Tübingen. He studied philosophy, politics and biology in Würzburg and at Duke University in the U.S.; he got his PhD in philosophy (Würzburg), and habilitation in cultural theory (Tübingen).
Latest book: One World Anthropology and Beyond. A Multidisciplinary Engagement with the Work of Tim Ingold (edited together with Martin Porr; Routledge 2023);
"Tragedy and Climate Disobedience:
How Antigone Addresses Environmentally Motivated Resistance Today"
Matthias Fritsch (Concordia University)
Matthias Fritsch (Concordia University)
Thursday, September 28 2023
17:00 Kyoto University
Conference Room
on the 1st floor of the Graduate School of Letters
文学部校舎１F会議室
Co-existence/共生
Co-existence/共生
A conversation with Yuk Hui
Tuesday 23, May 2023
18:15, Kyoto University
Big Conference Room
Basement of the Graduate School of Letters
文学部校舎 地下大会議室
The event will NOT be streamed online!
Organized by the Department of Japanese Philosophy
and the Everydayness Research Group
"Gustatory Aesthetics"
"Gustatory Aesthetics"
Prof. Dr. Nicola Perullo
(University of Gastronomic Sciences)
Friday, 28th April 2023
18:15, Kyoto University
Big Conference Room
Basement of the Graduate School of Letters
文学部校舎 地下大会議室
Meaning Time: The Temporal Ontology of Nishida Kitarō
Meaning Time: The Temporal Ontology of Nishida Kitarō
Speaker: Felipe CUERVO (Universidad de los Andes)
Abstract: There is little consensus in the literature concerning the meaning of Nishida’s ontology of time, as expressed in three pivotal essays written between 1925 and 1938, beyond the belief that contradiction plays an essential role. I offer a new interpretation guided by principles of internal logical cohesion, i.e., I try to reconstruct his theses in such a way that the strongest possible arguments can be offered for their validity. This implies explaining Nishida’s arguments for time as essentially paradoxical, and then arguing that a realist (e.g., dialetheist) approach to contradictions is insufficient to make the contradiction comprehensible, and that it is only by appealing to intentionality and perception that we can make sense of it. I then defend Nishida against charges of subjectivism regarding time by arguing that a synthesis of time is impossible if that which is to be synthesized is not already temporally marked. I end by claiming that all the arguments presented so far can be used to motivate a conception of temporality as expression (i.e., as an act of meaning). I then show that the results so far can be used to make sense of the best known of Nishida’s ideas on time: the eternal now.
Tuesday, December 6th 2022
18:15 (JAPAN), Kyoto University
Conference Room
on the 1st floor of the Graduate School of Letters
文学部校舎1F会議室
Meister Eckhart und die Kyoto Schule
Meister Eckhart und die Kyoto Schule
Prof. Dr. Johannes Brachtendorf (Universität Tübingen)
Dienstag 18.10.2022, 18:15
Ort: Universität Kyoto
Yoshida South Campus
Gebäude 1, Seminarraum 24 (吉田南１号館 １共２４演習室)
Sprache: Deutsch
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