Ondřej Švec: Emotions Inside Out: A Phenomenological Account of Emotional Conducts
Ondřej Švec (Charles University in Prague) Emotions Inside Out: A Phenomenological Account of Emotional Conducts ABSTRACT: I will present several arguments against the widely held prejudice that the actual form of an emotion is decided somewhere deep within us, while the emotional gesture, action, or posture comes after the fact, as a mere supplement. This conception is biased in that it artificially separates the emotion itself, with its presumably inner reality, from its outer manifestation, whereby our surroundings are subsequently informed of this reality. Il will show that emotions acquire their identity and determinacy through our conduct, which thus cannot be a mere consequence of emotions but their constitutive dimension. I further suggest that emotions should be considered a specific kind of conducts, since the way in which a person acts out her emotions shapes their content, regulates their intensity and transforms the amorphous flow of felt motivations into a recognizable emotional stance for which she is held accountable.
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Petr Prášek: “On current phenomenology in France”
Petr Prášek (The Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences) “On current phenomenology in France” The talk will be in the Czech language. ABSTRACT in Czech: Ve francouzské fenomenologii došlo po první fázi recepce Husserlovy a Heideggerovy fenomenologie k obratu, který je často mylně označován jako „teologický“, ačkoli jeho jádrem je přesun pozornosti k tomu, co stojí na okraji Husserlova a Heideggerova zájmu – k událostnímu rysu jevení. V přednášce nejprve krátce představím Janicaudovu hypotézu teologického obratu a její hlavní problematické body. V hlavní části se pak zaměřím na pravou podstatu obratu a budu ji konkrétně ilustrovat na vybraných pasážích z děl autorů “fenomenologie události”, jimiž jsou H. Maldiney a C. Romano.
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Ela Drążkiewicz: The State is Lying to Us! Understanding the meanings of conspiracy theories in Ireland and Poland
Ela Drążkiewicz (Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences) The State is Lying to Us! Understanding the meanings of conspiracy theories in Ireland and Poland ABSTRACT: How can we understand suspicion towards public health measures: immunization campaigns and pandemic restrictions? Is every conspiracy theory a sign of paranoid thinking? Is it possible to take conspiracy theories seriously? Taking a comparative perspective, using examples from Ireland and Poland, in this talk I will examine how conspiracy theories can provide a powerful tool for expressing and addressing tensions between state and citizens, healthcare professionals and patients. The paper will also analyse the role of conspiracy theories in refocusing existing critiques of the socio-political-economic orders. Finally, the talk also questions universalizing treatment of apparently similar conspiracy theories, showing that often the same key tropes are in fact expressing diverse, context-specific ideologies, fears, and desires in relation to different instantiations of the state.
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Johana Kotišová: Covering the Russo-Ukrainian war: transnational journalistic teams and postcolonial epistemologies
Johana Kotišová (University of Amsterdam) ONLINE TALK: Zoom link: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/93668679118 Covering the Russo-Ukrainian war: transnational journalistic teams and postcolonial epistemologies ABSTRACT: Mass media provide full coverage of conflicts, wars, and invasions worldwide. However, little is known about the locals working behind the scenes assisting foreign media. The first part of the lecture points to the least visible practices and actors of foreign correspondence, multidirectional power relationships within the transnational teams, and the kinds of risks that media practitioners covering a warzone face. In the second part of the lecture, I focus on the reporting on the Russian-Ukrainian War and show how the neocolonial logic permeating the war newsmaking practices manifests itself in epistemological practices.
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Ivan Ferreira da Cunha: Otto Neurath’s Utopias: Social Science and Modernism
Ivan Ferreira da Cunha (Federal University of Santa Catarina UFSC, Brazil) Otto Neurath’s Utopias: Social Science and Modernism ABSTRACT: This talk discusses Otto Neurath’s philosophy of the social sciences, his scientific utopianism, in the context of cultural modernism. Recent scholarship presents Neurath and other Vienna Circle members in close relation to modernist cultural, artistic, and architectural movements of the interwar period, such as the Bauhaus, the Neue Sachlichkeit, the Austrian Werkbund and the CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne). Neurath took part in the fourth meeting of the Congrès in 1933, but the cooperation failed completely amid controversies with other member of the group. This talk explores the stark contradiction between the scientific world-conception defended by Neurath and the Vienna Circle and the openly metaphysical world-view assumed by the architect Le Corbusier, one of the leading figures in CIAM. In this world-view Le Corbusier considers that science is an expression of a mystical world-order that establishes an aesthetic harmony in the universe. Neurath’s pluralist and fallibilist view of science and democracy is incompatible with Le Corbusier’s stance that influenced CIAM. The social sciences as Neurath regarded them cannot contribute to architecture and urban-planning oriented by Le Corbusier’s perspective. Hence […]
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Bartosz Kaluziński: Inferentialism and Social Externalism
Bartosz Kaluziński (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) Inferentialism and Social Externalism ABSTRACT: Social externalism, as advocated by Burge (1979, 1986, 1988, 1989, 2003), is a very popular view in the philosophies of mind and language. It seems that the main lesson for philosophical theories of linguistic meaning that one can draw from Burge is that 1) linguistic meaning is determined by the linguistic community, and 2) the role that relevant experts play in determining meaning in many cases is crucial. This is to say that when a person says, for example, “I have arthritis”, the meaning of that expression is determined by the doctors, not laypeople. Inferentialism is a use theory of meaning, and as such it identifies linguistic meaning with some sort of communal use. If meaning is determined by communal use, the question arises how it is possible to make room for relevant experts to play a crucial role in determining meaning. This paper addresses issues at the intersection of two leading ideas in the philosophies of language and mind: inferentialism and externalism. The aim of this paper is to clearly demonstrate that these two frameworks are actually compatible and, moreover, how they are compatible. I argue […]
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