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