Phenomenological Realism Now and Then

Faculty of Letters Meeting Room, Faculty of Letters, Law, and Economics Building No.1, Tsushima Campus, Okayama University, Japan.

(We do not plan to broadcast the conference online)

Edward Baring (Princeton Univesity) (online)

Søren Overgaard (University of Copenhagen)

Masumi Nagasaka (Waseda University)

Takeshi Akiba (Chiba University)

Genki Uemura (Okayama University)

Alessandro Salice (University College Cork)

Realist phenomenology has traditionally remained on the periphery of scholarly research. However, over the past few decades, interest in this distinctive branch of phenomenology has steadily increased. While prominent figures in realist phenomenology—such as Alfred Brunswig, Theodor Conrad, Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Johannes Daubert, August Gallinger, Moritz Geiger, Roman Ingarden, Alexander Pfänder, Adolf Reinach, Wilhelm Schapp, Max Scheler, Kurt Stavenhagen, Edith Stein, Dietrich von Hildebrand, and Gerda Walther—have received more sustained scholarly attention, the scope of research has also broadened. Efforts have been made to highlight lesser-known figures in the field, and scholars are increasingly applying realist phenomenological insights to contemporary debates across various disciplines.

See this page for abstracts.

Day 1—July 28th

9:00-9:15 Introduction

9:15–10:30: Edward BARING: Varieties of Religious Experience in Early Realist Phenomenology [Keynote/Online]

10:40–11:40 Ying LAN: Geiger and Husserl on the Intentionality of Feeling

11:40-12:00 Coffee Break

12:00–13:00 Chang LIU: Ingarden’s Non-Entity View of Essence

13:00–14:30 Lunch Break

14:30–15:30  Daniel NEUMANN: Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ “Real-Ontological” Categories 

15:40–16:55 Takeshi AKIBA: Truth, Propositions, and States of Affairs [Keynote]

* Konosuke MINEO's talk "On the Realism of the Immediate Attitude" has been canceled.

Day 2—July 29th

9:30–10:45 Masumi NAGASAKA: Reality Preceding Possibility: Phenomenology amidst Metaphysical Transition [Keynote]

10:55–11:55 Basil VASSILIKOS: Contemporary Realisms of Speech Acts and Reinach’s “robust” Realism of Social Acts

11:55-12:15 Coffee Break

12:15–13:15 Alessandro SALICE: Against Fulfilment

13:15–14:45 Lunch Break

14:45–15:45 Genki UEMURA & Alessandro SALICE: Gilbert Ryle at the Periphery of Phenomenological Movement

15:45–17:00 Søren OVERGAARD: Anti-Realism and Husserlian Phenomenology [Keynote]

The keynote address by Edward Baring will be conducted online. However, due to technical limitations, all other presentations will take place in person rather than online. Consequently, please be informed that the successful applicants should secure their own financial resources and arrange for travel to Okayama for their presentations.

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