Phenomenology in the Nordic Countries

 

Wednesday, May 30 (Black Diamond)

 

Opening Address

11.15-11.30 Welcome

11.30-12.00 Lester Embree, “Becoming a Phenomenologist Today”

 

12.00-13.00 Lunch

 

Session 1:  Phenomenology and Logical Analysis

13.00-13.30 Leila Haaparanta, “Phenomenology and the Tradition of Analysis”

13.30-14.00 John J. Drummond, “Logical Analysis versus Phenomenology, Otherwise Known as Formal versus Transcendental Logic”

14.00-15.00 Discussion

 

15.00-15.30 Break

 

Session 2:  Intentionality and Subjectivity

15.30-16.00 Dan Zahavi, “Intentionality and Experience”

16.00-16.30 Steven Crowell, “Subjectivity: Locating the First-Person in Sein und Zeit

16.30-17.30 Discussion

 

Thursday, May 31 (Black Diamond)

 

Session 3:  Freedom and Responsibility

10.00-10.30 Einar Øverenget, “From Heidegger to Arendt: From Worldliness to a Public World”

10.30-11.00 Tom Nenon, “Freedom, Responsibility, and Self-Awareness in Husserl”

11.00-12.00 Discussion

 

12.00-13.00 Lunch

 

Session 4: The I and the Eye

13.00-13.30 Sven-Olov Wallenstein, “Phenomenology and Modern Painting”

13.30-14.00 Jim Hart, “The Phenomenological Ontology of the Individual:  Husserl and Kierkegaard”

14.00-15.00 Discussion

 

15.00-15.30 Break

 

Session 5:  Merleau-Ponty

15.30-16.00 Sara Heinämaa, “On the Cartesian roots of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology”

16.00-16.30 Len Lawlor, “Merleau-Ponty and Foucault:  An Introduction to the Philosophical Concept of Archeology”

16.30-17.30 Discussion

 

Friday, June 1 (Black Diamond)

 

Session 6:  Realism

10.00-10.30 Søren Harnow Klausen, “Making Sense of Transcendent Reality:  Phenomenological Contributions to Realism”

10.30-11.00 Gail Soffer, “Learned Ignorance and the ‘Really’ Real”

11.00-12.00 Discussion

 

12.00-13.00 Lunch

 

Session 7: Disclosure

13.00-13.30 Hans Ruin, “Thought and Temporality: On the Fate of  Phenomenological Discourse from Husserl to Heidegger”

13.30-14.00 Anthony Steinbock, “Epiphany and Withdrawal”

14.00-15.00 Discussion

 

Saturday, June 2 (Danish Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities)

 

10.00-12.00 Inaugural meeting of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology

 

13.00-13.15 Welcome by Birgitte Possing, Director of DIASH

 

Session 8:  The Lifeworld

13.15-13.45 Frode Kjosavik, “Husserl's View of the Life-world and the World of Science”

13.45-14.15 Burt Hopkins, “Historische Rückbeziehung and the Constitution of the Life-World”

14.15-15.15 Discussion

 

15.15-15.45 Break

 

Session 9: Questioning and a Question

15.45-16.15 Thomas Schwarz Wentzer, “Husserl on Questions and Questioning”

16.15-16.45 David Carr, “Is the Transcendental Subject a Theoretical Fiction?”

16.45-17.45 Discussion