Announcement: 09.-11.06.2022 Conference »Perceiving Forces«

20 May 2022

Since the philosophy of ancient Greece, perception (aisthesis) has been fundamentally understood as a force (dynamis). Thinking about how the perceptive faculty functions opens onto tensions between the capability of truth and the susceptibility to deception; between passive impression and active imagination. Moreover, the problematic relationship of hidden cause to perceptible effect, and of latency to manifestation, is characteristic for reflections on force in general.

In which way do philosophy, natural sciences and arts deal with processes and possibilities of perception? When is sensory perception treated as a mere object of acting forces, and when as an active or activating force itself? To what extent does perception conceptualized in this way correspond to reality? And how does sensory forces relate to the problematic perception of forces in the first place?

Conference »Perceiving Forces«
Conception: Frank Fehrenbach, Dominik Hünniger, Laura Isengard, Gerd Micheluzzi, Cornelia Zumbusch

Date: 9 – 11 June 2020
Venue: Warburg-Haus, Heilwigstraße 116, 20249 Hamburg

No registration required.

The lecture will additionally be made available as a live stream. To participate in the stream, prior registration is required: https://www.conferences.uni-hamburg.de/event/253/

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Update concerning the Conference Programme: The lectures by William Tullett and Margarete Vöhringer on 10.06.2022 unfortunately had to be cancelled.