QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"I am the only person-like thing (person, actually) that is needed in a description of my bodily activity" (McDowell (2007) "Response to Dreyfus" in Inquiry 50.4: 369)

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

The Phenomenological Body Program

Day One

This conference examines contemporary and historical phenomenological approaches to the body and embodiment and offers alternative accounts that engage with or criticize the phenomenological approach.

Conference Program Day 1

10:15 a.m.: Opening Remarks

10:30–11:45 a.m.: Avram Blaker (Temple University)
“Higher than Facts, Lower than Essence: Ambiguity, the Body, and Objectivity in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology”
Response: Matt Congdon

12:00–1:15 p.m.: Frances Bottenberg (Stony Brook University)
“The Case Against Disembodying Descartes”
Response: Joshua Pineda

3:00-4:15 p.m.: Maxwell Tremblay (The New School for Social Research)
“Coherence and Collectivity: Fanon and the Limits of the Individual”
Response: Bill Remley

4:30–5:45 p.m.: Michael Brownstein (Penn State University)
“Does Scholarly Knowledge Ruin Bodily Knowledge? On the Relationship between Embodied Understanding and Social Theory”
Response: Mark Theunissen

6:00–8:00 p.m.: Hubert L. Dreyfus (UC Berkeley)
“The Myth of the Pervasiveness of the Mental”

Day Two:

This conference examines contemporary and historical phenomenological approaches to the body and embodiment and offers alternative accounts that engage with or criticize the phenomenological approach.

Conference Program Day 2

12:00–1:15 p.m.: Michael Butera (Virginia Tech)
“A Phenomenology of Sensory Loss: The Late-Deafened”
Response: Anna Strelis

1:30–2:45 p.m.: Alisa Mandrigin (University of Edinburgh)
“Body as Subject and Object”
Response: Janna van Grunsven

3:30–4:45 p.m.: Gabriel Gottlieb (The New School for Social Research)
“Eye, Mind, Body: Fichte on Human Embodiment”
Response: Karen Ng

5:00–7:00 p.m.: Jay M. Bernstein (The New School for Social Research)
“Rape: Notes Towards a Moral Ontology of the Body”








Location:

6 East 16th Street, Rooms 906/913

Admission:
Free; seating is limited; reservations required by emailing

Contact Information:

nssrphilconference@gmail.com

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