The 46th Annual Meeting of the Husserl Circle; June 9-12, Helsinki

The 46th Annual Meeting of the Husserl Circle

Time: June 9-12, 2015, Helsinki

Venue: The House of Science and Letters, Kirkkokatu 6, 5th floor, room 505

 

Organizers:

Subjectivity, Historicity, Communality (SHC) Research Network (University of Jyväskylä, University of Helsinki) and the Philosophical Society of Finland

 

Tentative program

 

Tuesday, June 9

Epistemology

10:00-10:15   Opening words by Mirja Hartimo and Sara Heinämaa

10:15–11:30 Thomas Hansberger (Marquette University): Two Arguments on Husserl and Externalism: Husserl’s Transcendental Critique of the Subject/Object Distinction

Commentator: Philipp Berghofer (University of Graz)

Chair: Mirja Hartimo

11:30–12:45 Lunch

12:45–14:00 Julia Jansen (University of Leuven): Husserl’s Notion of Deckungssynthese: A Radical Departure from Kant

Commentator: Rosemary Rizo-Patrón de Lerner (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru)

Chair: Jussi Backman

14:00–15:15 Hanna Trindade Gonçalves (University of Minas Gerais): Temporality and Phantasy: The Role of Time in the Constitution of Imaginary Objects

Commentator: Ronald Bruzina (University of Kentucky)

Chair: Jussi Backman

15:15–15:45 Coffee

15:45-17:00   Virginie Palette (CNRS/ Ecole Normale Supérieure): The Normative Role of Types Perception: A Husserlian Proposal

Commentator:  Gediminas Karoblis (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Chair: Fredrik Westerlund

17:00-19:00   Reception at the House of Sciences and Letters (sponsored by the SHC and the University of Helsinki)

 

Wednesday, June 10

Consciousness, Understanding, Historicity

09:00–10:15 Invited Nordic Keynote

Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen): Communication and self-alienation

Chair: Sara Heinämaa

10:15–11:30 Michele Averchi (The Catholic University of America): Appropriation and Assimilation in Communication

Commentator: Witold Plotka (University of Gdansk)

Chair: Erika Ruonakoski

11:30–12:45 Lunch

12:45–14:00 Joona Taipale (University of Jyväskylä): Empathy and Typification

Commentator: Zachary Joachim (Boston University)

Chair: Mirja Hartimo

14:00–15:15 Dimitris Apostolopoulous (University of Notre Dame): Ricoeur, Husserl, And Poetic History

Commentator: Timo Miettinen (University of Helsinki)

Chair: Mirja Hartimo

15:15–15:45 Coffee

15:45–17:00 Lilian Allweiss (Trinity College Dublin): Self-Consciousness without an I

Commentator: Sara Heinämaa (University of Jyväskylä)

Chair: Joona Taipale

 

Thursday, June 11

Truth and Logic

09:00–10:15 Bernhard Obsieger (Complutence University of Madrid): Husserl’s

Transcendental Reduction and the Realm of Ontology

Commentator: Wenjing Cai (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Chair: Joona Taipale

10:15–11:30  Thomas III Byrne (University of Leuven): The Significance of the Hinweistendenz for Husserl’s Philosophy: Expression and Truth

Commentator: Simo Pulkkinen (University of Helsinki)

Chair: Joona Taipale

11:30–12:30 Lunch

12:30–13:45 Matteo Bianchin (University of Milano-Bicocca): Husserl on Meaning and Grammar

Commentator: Andrea Borsato (Independent Scholar)

Chair: Sara Heinämaa

13:45–15:00 Stefania Centrone (University of Oldenburg): On the Shoulders of Leibniz and Bolzano: Early Husserl on the Mathesis Universalis

Commentator: Mirja Hartimo (University of Jyväskylä) / Jairo da Silva (São Paulo State University)

Chair: Sara Heinämaa

(Coffee served during the discussion)

15:00–17:00 Book Session

Essays on Gödel's Reception of Leibniz, Husserl, and Brouwer (Springer, 2015).

Commentator: Dermot Moran (University College Dublin)

Author’s response: Mark van Atten (CNRS, Paris-Sorbonne University)

The Origin of the Logic of Symbolic Mathematics, Edmund Husserl and Jacob Klein (Indiana, 2011).

Commentator: Claudio Majolino (University of Lille)

Author’s response: Burt Hopkins (Seattle University)

Chair: Mirja Hartimo

17:30–19:00 Rector’s Reception (sponsored by the University of Helsinki)

 

Friday June 12

Modes of Intentionality and the Kantian Background

9:00–10:45    Intentionality and Significance

George Heffernan (Merrimack College): Thinking of Jupiter: An Essay on the Phenomenological Concept of Intentionality in Husserl's Fifth Logical Investigation 

Dermot Moran (University College Dublin): Human Beings as Sense-Givers and Apprehenders in a Significant World

Chair: Sara Heinämaa

10:45–12:00 Corijn Van Mazijk (University of Groningen): Between Perception and Judgment: Husserl’s Type and Kant’s Schema

Commentator: Carlos Lobo (College International de Philosophie)

Chair: Simo Pulkkinen

12:00–13:15 Lunch

13:15–14:30 Andrea Cimino (Boston College): Reality Beyond Illusion: A Phenomenological Account of  Veridical and Deceptive Perceptions

Commentator: Fredrik Westerlund (University of Helsinki)

Chair: Simo Pulkkinen

14:30–15:00 Coffee

15:00–16:15 John Drummond (Fordham University): Husserl, Buck-Passing, and Fitting-Attitude Theories of Value

Commentator:  Molly Flynn (Assumption College)

Chair: Mirja Hartimo

16:15–17:00 Business Meeting

17:30–20:00  Buffet at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (sponsored by the SHC and the University of Jyväskylä)

 

 

Organization committee: Mirja Hartimo, Sara Heinämaa, Joona Taipale, Simo Oinas, and Tuukka Brunila