Imagination across the Continental-Analytic Divide, Universiteit Antwerpen (16-18/08/2017)
PRESENTATION SCHEDULE - PHILOSOPHICAL RED STAR LINE CONFERENCE
Wed 16 August
10.00 – 10.25
Registration
10.25 – 11.10
Geoffrey Dierckxsens – Imagination and Embodied Cognition: Applying Ricoeur to Enactivism
11.10– 11.55
Zuzanna Rucinska – The Enactivist Take to an Imaginary Friend
11.55 – 12.15
Book launch: Erik Myin on D. Hutto and E. Myin, Evolving Enactivism (ch. 8 “Imagining”)
12.15 – 14.00
Lunch
14.00 – 14.45
Leen Verheyen – Ricoeur's Conception of Productive Imagination
14.45 – 15.30
Evelien van Beeck – Imagination in Ricoeur
15.30 – 16.00
Coffee break
16.00 – 16.45
Jo Bervoets – Autism and Imagination
16.45 – 17.30
Farid Zahnoun – Imagination and Representation
Thu 17 August
09.30 – 10.15
Marco Arienti – Images and the Imagination
10.15 – 11.00
Mario Slugan – Photography and Imagining Seeing
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee break
11.30 – 12.15
Andreas Vrahimis – Imagination in Ryle and Sartre
12.15 – 14.00
Lunch
14.00 – 14.45
Samuel Kampa – Imaginative Transportation
14.45 – 15.30
Nele Van De Mosselaer – On Wanting to Catch Fictional Monsters
15.30 – 16.00
Coffee break
16.00 – 16.45
Christopher Myers – Deleuze and the Nomadic
Fri 18 August
09.30 – 10.15
Jo Ahlberg – Imagine an Image Free Imagination
10.15 – 11.00
Michael Begun – Kant and Nietzsche: On the Force of Imagination
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee break
11.30 – 12.15
Joseph Gruber – Johann Gottlieb Fichte
12.15 – 14.00
Lunch
14.00 – 15.30
Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei - TBA
15.30 – 16.00
Coffee break
16.00 – 17.30
Bence Nanay – TBA
19.00
Social dinner
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS – PHILOSOPHICAL RED STAR LINE CONFERENCE
IMAGINATION ACROSS THE CONTINENTAL-ANALYTICAL DIVIDE
17TH/18TH -19TH AUGUST 2017
We are glad to announce the seventh edition of the biennial Philosophical Red Star Line Conference. Started in 2003, the Philosophical Red Star Line is a joint collaboration between the philosophy departments of the University of Antwerp and of the Fordham University of New York City. The spirit of the conference is to create a space for exchanges and cooperation open to all graduate students and Post-Docs interested in presenting their research work, coming from any university, and to fortify the connection between Fordham University and the University of Antwerp. This year, the conference will take place in Antwerp from the 17th/18th to the 19th of August.
The theme of this year’s conference is “Imagination,” construed in its broad sense. From Plato to Kant, imagination has always been a significant philosophical theme in the history of philosophy. Today philosophers study imagination within the context of a variety of philosophical perspectives, in a way which aims to overcome the traditional continental and analytical divide. The fact that imagining puts us in touch with non-actual objects and situations marks a significant difference with the kind of factual knowledge provided by ordinary sensory experience, reasoning and belief. Nevertheless, imagination also appears to play a central role in several different human practices, discussed both by analytical and continental philosophers, such as literature, aesthetics, ethics, political philosophy, epistemology and philosophy of science. A deeper insight in the powers and the nature of imagining should thus be developed across all these different dimensions, which this year’s edition of the PRSL aims to establish.
We therefore welcome submissions on imagination from a wide range of philosophical fields.
Possible Topics
imagination and perception
imagination and action
imagination and abstract thinking
imagination and aesthetic experience
imagination and fiction
imagination and emotions
imagination and narrativity
imagination and self-awareness
imagination and creativity
imagination and counterfactuals
imagination and scientific practice
imagination and technology
Philosophical psychology of imagination
Imagination in practical self-understanding
Imagination and the history of philosophy
Imagination in the works of a specific philosopher (Plato, Kant, Hume, Sartre, Ryle Strawson, Ricœur, etc.)
Keynote speakers:
Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei (Fordham University)
Bence Nanay (University of Antwerp)
T.B.A.
Submissions should be send by 10th June 2017 to redstarline17@gmail.com. Abstracts have to be prepared for double blind review, so they should not contain any identifying information, and they may not exceed 300 words. Please add an extra document with all the contact information. Talks are intended to not exceed maximum 30 minutes of time, plus 15 minutes for discussion.
Any question could be addressed to: redstarline17@gmail.com