BSP Podcast
69 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis podcast is for the British Society for Phenomenology and showcases papers at our conferences and events, interviews and discussions on the topic of phenomenology.
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Zeigam Azizov – Without Origins: Husserl’s ‘temporal objects’ in the light of nonessentialist thinking
August 02, 2019 12:00 - 20 minutes - 46 MBHere is the last of our recordings from The British Society for Phenomenology’s 2018 Annual Conference ‘The Theory and Practice of Phenomenology’. Zeigam Azizov’s paper is titled ‘Without Origins: Husserl’s “temporal objects” in the light of nonessentialist thinking’. Abstract: “I will talk about Husserl’s initial search for the ‘essence’ in his earlier work and his realising the persistence of culture as a non-determinate entity towards the latest period of his philosophical activities...
Tingwen Li – What If We Exclude Ready-mades from the Artworld?
July 26, 2019 12:00 - 22 minutes - 51.1 MBHere is the latest of our recordings from The British Society for Phenomenology’s 2018 Annual Conference ‘The Theory and Practice of Phenomenology’. Tingwen Li is from the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, and the paper is titled ‘What If We Exclude Ready-mades from the Artworld?’ Abstract: “Ready-mades had formed a significant challenge to the tradition of art. While analytic aestheticians have been devoted to solving the problem of ready-mades, phenomenological aesthetics had pa...
Tarjej Larsen – Husserl's Circularity Argument for the Epoché
July 19, 2019 12:00 - 23 minutes - 54.1 MBHere is the latest of our recordings from The British Society for Phenomenology’s 2018 Annual Conference ‘The Theory and Practice of Phenomenology’. Tarjej Larsen is from the University of Stavanger, Norway, and the paper is titled ‘Husserl's Circularity Argument for the Epoché’. Abstract: “According to Husserl, epistemology is possible only as phenomenology. In my paper, I assess one of his arguments for a crucial part of the considerations he offers in support of this claim. Husserl...
Rona Cohen – “Taking Flesh” in Heidegger: On Dasein’s Bodying Forth
June 28, 2019 12:00 - 20 minutes - 37.2 MBHere is the latest of our recordings from The British Society for Phenomenology’s 2018 Annual Conference ‘The Theory and Practice of Phenomenology’. Rona Cohen is from Tel-Aviv University, and the paper is titled ‘“Taking Flesh” in Heidegger: On Dasein’s Bodying Forth’. Abstract: “In discussing the phenomenology of the body in the Zollikon seminars, Heidegger draws a distinction between the spatiality of Dasein and its body. According to Heidegger, Dasein is not spatial because it is emb...
Rhoda Ellis – Being, the Gallery and Virtual Reality: An Artist’s Take on Building
June 21, 2019 12:00 - 21 minutes - 40 MBHere is the latest of our recordings from The British Society for Phenomenology’s 2018 Annual Conference ‘The Theory and Practice of Phenomenology’. Rhoda Ellis’ paper is titled ‘Being, the Gallery and Virtual Reality: An Artist’s Take on Building Immersive Artworks’. Abstract: “Dreyfus was right when he told computer scientists they were wrong during the first wave of virtual reality (VR). While technology companies continue to turn to cold, hard, objective, neuroscience to ‘trick’ the ...
Philip Tovey – Temporal range, future mandate and strategic shaping; the existential and cognitive phenomenological ethics of preventative policing
June 14, 2019 12:00 - 18 minutes - 34.2 MBHere is the latest of our recordings from The British Society for Phenomenology’s 2018 Annual Conference ‘The Theory and Practice of Phenomenology’. Philip Tovey is from Canterbury Christ Church University, and the paper is titled ‘Temporal range, future mandate and strategic shaping; the existential and cognitive phenomenological ethics of preventative policing’. Abstract: “Since the inception of modern policing, its founding strategic instruction was to ‘prevent crime’. Historically, p...
Peter Wilson – Phenomenology and causal entities in psychiatry
May 31, 2019 12:19 - 23 minutes - 54.6 MBHere is the latest of our recordings from The British Society for Phenomenology’s 2018 Annual Conference ‘The Theory and Practice of Phenomenology’. Rajan Nathan and Peter Wilson are from CWP NHS Foundation Trust & Universities of Liverpool and Chester, and the paper – presented by Wilson – is titled ‘Phenomenology and causal entities in psychiatry’. Abstract: “Psychiatric training emphasises the need to make sense of the patient’s experience at the symptom and diagnostic level of abstra...
Marcel Dubovec – The Inner Structure of Heidegger’s Concept of Freedom
May 24, 2019 12:21 - 19 minutes - 44.8 MBHere is the latest of our recordings from The British Society for Phenomenology’s 2018 Annual Conference ‘The Theory and Practice of Phenomenology’. Marcel Dubovec’s paper is titled ‘The Inner Structure of Heidegger’s Concept of Freedom’. Abstract: “The purpose of this paper is to present Heidegger's concept of freedom between 1927 and 1930. It puts emphasis on the difference between the fundamental-ontological and the transcendental concept of freedom. The elaboration of this difference...
Lorenzo Girardi – The Constitution of the One World: Faith in Husserl’s Philosophy
May 17, 2019 12:00 - 19 minutes - 44.8 MBHere is the latest of our recordings from The British Society for Phenomenology’s 2018 Annual Conference ‘The Theory and Practice of Phenomenology’. Lorenzo Girardi is from Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, and the paper is titled ‘The Constitution of the One World: Faith in Husserl’s Philosophy’. Abstract: “Edmund Husserl’s philosophy is characterized by an eminently rationalist outlook. It contains some of the key features of the Enlightenment-project: a focus on the spi...
Julio Andrade – Normative provisionality as a means to navigate Levinasian infinite responsibility
May 10, 2019 12:00 - 19 minutes - 36.4 MBHere is the latest of our recordings from The British Society for Phenomenology’s 2018 Annual Conference ‘The Theory and Practice of Phenomenology’. Julio Andrade is from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, and the paper is titled ‘Normative provisionality as a means to navigate Levinasian infinite responsibility’. Abstract: “The core of Emmanuel Levinas’s (1969) argument in Totality and Infinity is that because the other cannot be faithfully represented without reducing his/he...
James Rakoczi – Moving without movement: Merleau-Ponty’s “I can” in cases of global paralysis
May 03, 2019 12:00 - 21 minutes - 39.7 MBHere is the latest of our recordings from The British Society for Phenomenology’s 2018 Annual Conference ‘The Theory and Practice of Phenomenology’. James Rakoczi is from King's College London, and the paper is titled ‘Moving without movement: Merleau-Ponty’s “I can” in cases of global paralysis’. Abstract: “In this paper, I aim to demonstrate how memoirs written by people who live with, or have experienced, global paralysis can illuminate and complicate Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s claim in ...
Jack Price – Adorno and Scheler on Action and Experience
April 28, 2019 12:00 - 22 minutes - 41.3 MBHere is the latest of our recordings from The British Society for Phenomenology’s 2018 Annual Conference ‘The Theory and Practice of Phenomenology’. Jack Price is from Cardiff University / the University of Exeter, and the paper is titled ‘Adorno and Scheler on Action and Experience’. Abstract: “T.W Adorno’s work includes sustained critical engagement with phenomenology. While sympathetic to the attempt to engage with the ‘heterogenous’ and with the world of objects, Adorno argues that t...
Erin Plunkett – Patočka’s asubjective phenomenology
April 19, 2019 12:00 - 20 minutes - 38.3 MBHere is the latest of our recordings from The British Society for Phenomenology’s 2018 Annual Conference ‘The Theory and Practice of Phenomenology’. Erin Plunkett is from the University of Chichester, and the paper is titled ‘Patočka’s asubjective phenomenology’. Abstract: “The return to the ‘object’ or ‘thing’ in contemporary Continental Philosophy is in part a reaction to the past sins of what Husserl calls Cartesian philosophy—a philosophy in which truth hinges on subjective conscious...
Bhaswar Malick – Paradise on Earth: Tomb of Akbar at Sikandrabad
March 29, 2019 13:00 - 19 minutes - 36.5 MBHere is the latest of our recordings from The British Society for Phenomenology’s 2018 Annual Conference ‘The Theory and Practice of Phenomenology’. Bhaswar Malick is from the University of Cincinnati, and his paper is titled ‘Paradise on Earth: Tomb of Akbar at Sikandrabad’. Abstract: “Globalization’s dissolution of boundaries parallels a resurgent identity politics, exacerbated by religious invocations. Evidently, the Islamic heritage of India is being repositioned as foreign and incon...
Arthur Rose – Reorienting Breathlessness: A Case against Symptom Discordance
March 22, 2019 13:00 - 24 minutes - 44.1 MBHere is the latest of our recordings from The British Society for Phenomenology’s 2018 Annual Conference ‘The Theory and Practice of Phenomenology’. Arthur Rose is from Durham University, and his paper is titled ‘Reorienting Breathlessness: A Case against Symptom Discordance’. Abstract: “In Phenomenology of Illness, Havi Carel identifies a ‘Janus-faced duality’ to breathlessness: ‘it is so real and overwhelming to the person experiencing it and yet so invisible to those around her’ (Care...
Aoife McInerney – Phenomenology of Solidarity
March 01, 2019 13:00 - 14 minutes - 27.2 MBHere is the latest of our recordings from The British Society for Phenomenology’s 2018 Annual Conference ‘The Theory and Practice of Phenomenology’. Aoife McInerney is from the University of Limerick, and her paper is titled ‘Phenomenology of Solidarity’. Abstract: “The term plurality is somewhat in vogue of late; yet, arguably its implications were not taken seriously until Hannah Arendt. Arendt displays a genuine engagement with what plurality actually means and what it has to offer. T...
James Forrest – The World from the Enactive Approach: Degrees of Transcendentalism
February 22, 2019 13:21 - 22 minutes - 40.4 MBHere is the latest of our recordings from The British Society for Phenomenology’s 2018 Annual Conference ‘The Theory and Practice of Phenomenology’. James Forrest is from the University of Copenhagen, and his paper is titled ‘The World from the Enactive Approach: Degrees of Transcendentalism’. Abstract: “Enactivism and embodied cognition movements at large are gaining influence in diverse fields ranging from cognitive science to philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, and anthro...
Niall Keane – Metaphysics and Nihilism
February 15, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 139 MBHere is the second of our recordings from The British Society for Phenomenology’s 2018 Annual Conference ‘The Theory and Practice of Phenomenology’. Dr Niall Keane was a keynote speaker at the conference, and his paper is titled ‘Metaphysics and Nihilism’. Niall Keane is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Philosophy at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. He has published widely in the areas of phenomenology and hermeneutics and is the co-author of The Gadame...
Luna Dolezal – Phenomenology and Intercorporeality in the Case of Commercial Surrogacy
February 08, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 159 MBHere is the first of our recordings from The British Society for Phenomenology’s 2018 Annual Conference ‘The Theory and Practice of Phenomenology’. Dr Luna Dolezal was a keynote speaker at the conference, and her paper is titled ‘Phenomenology and Intercorporeality in the Case of Commercial Surrogacy’. Luna Dolezal is a Lecturer in Medical Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research is primarily in the areas of applied phenomenology, feminist philosophy, philosop...
Moujan Mirdamadi – Death-conscious culture and experiences of depression in Iran
January 31, 2019 13:00 - 25 minutes - 46.9 MBThis is the final recording from The British Society for Phenomenology’s 2018 workshop 'Embodied Subjects: Phenomenology, Literature, and the Health Humanities'. This paper is given by Ms Moujan Mirdamadi, a PhD Candidate working in the field of the philosophy of psychiatry, and associate lecturer at Lancaster University’s Department of Politics, Philosophy & Religion. Moujan’s paper is titled ‘Death-conscious culture and experiences of depression in Iran’. The workshop took place in Manches...
Ullrich Haase – Understanding the Historical Body
January 25, 2019 13:00 - 38 minutes - 69.6 MBHere is the fourth of our recordings from The British Society for Phenomenology’s 2018 workshop 'Embodied Subjects: Phenomenology, Literature, and the Health Humanities'. Dr Ullrich Haase is Principle Lecturer in the Department of History, Politics and Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University; and he is the editor of the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. His paper is titled ‘Understanding the Historical Body’. The workshop took place in Manchester, UK, during the summ...
Patrick O’Connor – Knausgaard, Bodies and The Terrible Beauty of Brain Surgery
January 18, 2019 13:00 - 34 minutes - 63.9 MBPatrick O’Connor is Senior Lecturer at the School of Arts & Humanities, Nottingham Trent University, UK. Pat teaches philosophy at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, is the programme leader for the MA in Philosophy, and recently was voted in as the new acting-president of the British Society for Phenomenology (BSP). His paper ‘Knausgaard, Bodies and The Terrible Beauty of Brain Surgery’ is taken from the BSP’s workshop 'Embodied Subjects: Phenomenology, Literature, and the Health Hu...
Christopher Eagle – Brain Stories: On the Limits of Neuro-Fiction
January 11, 2019 12:38 - 32 minutes - 60.1 MBHere is the second of our recordings from The British Society for Phenomenology’s 2018 workshop 'Embodied Subjects: Phenomenology, Literature, and the Health Humanities'. Dr Christopher Eagle is Senior Lecturer in Health Humanities, Emory University in the Druid Hills neighbourhood of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. His paper is titled ‘Brain Stories: On the Limits of Neuro-Fiction’. The workshop took place in Manchester, UK, during the summer of 2018, and gathered together phil...
Raymond Tallis - The Embodied Subject and Objects in the Weighty sense
January 04, 2019 16:10 - 43 minutes - 78.9 MBThis is a recording of a paper given from our 2018 workshop on the title 'Embodied Subjects: Phenomenology, Literature, and the Health Humanities'. This workshop gathered philosophers, literary scholars, phenomenologists, and practitioners to discuss the significance of embodiment for the health humanities. More information about the workshop can be found at: https://www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/embodied-subjects-workshop/ The British Society for Phenomenology is a not-for-profit organi...
Jack Lovell Price - Max Scheler, Critic of Phenomenology
September 05, 2018 09:00 - 22 minutes - 40.4 MBThis is one of the papers from our 2017 Annual Conference. Information and the full conference booklet can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk A careful reading and interpretation of Max Scheler’s work highlights a thinker concerned with the diversity and multiplicity of human life. As a vehement critic of reductionism, determinism and the focus of phenomenology on the individual subject, Scheler offers trenchant insights and arguments which retain their power today. This paper beg...
Marek Pokropski: Practicing Phenomenology in Cognitive Sciences: Toward Theoretical Integration with Mechanism
August 29, 2018 09:00 - 18 minutes - 34.5 MBThis is one of the papers from our 2017 Annual Conference. Information and the full conference booklet can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk Phenomenology entered the field of cognitive sciences in the early 90s of the 20th century (Varela 1993). Since then, several proposals for introducing phenomenology to the cognitive sciences have been produced e.g. front-loaded phenomenology (Gallagher 2003), formalization of phenomenological description (Marbach 2010), neurophenomenology (L...
Mike Martin - The Application of Phenomenology to Explore Pre-Service Teachers Experience of Placement in School
August 22, 2018 09:00 - 17 minutes - 31.5 MBThis is one of the papers from our 2017 Annual Conference, the Future of Phenomenology. Information and the full conference booklet can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk This paper reports on the practical application of phenomenology in exploring the experience of pre-service teachers during their school placement as part of their course of teacher education. Whilst there has been much written about teacher education as a whole, there is relatively little research focused specifi...
Jeffrey McCurry - The Therapy of Putting Essences Back Into Existence: Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty, and Phenomenology as a Way of Life
August 15, 2018 09:00 - 16 minutes - 29.8 MBThis is one of the papers from our 2017 Annual Conference, the Future of Phenomenology. Information and the full conference booklet can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk Phenomenology is often taken as a philosophy involving knowledge or representation of experience: a reflective, descriptive, scientific logos about structures of phenomena. But what if phenomenological discourse, just as such, could also be applied to life as a kind of ethics? What if phenomenology can be a hortat...
Rachel Coventry: Are the sunglasses a metaphor? Some Heideggerian Considerations of the Essence of Sunglasses
August 08, 2018 09:00 - 19 minutes - 36.4 MBThis is one of the papers from our 2017 Annual Conference. Information and the full conference booklet can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk In The Origin of the Work of Art, Heidegger moves from the example of van Gogh’s painting of the peasant’s shoes to Meyer’s poem Roman Fountain. We are told that the painting is not merely a faithful representation of something present at hand but rather it reproduces the shoes in their essence. Next, Heidegger considers Meyer’s poem. He poin...
Maria Jimena Clavel Vazquez - Naturalizing Heidegger (Against his Will)
August 01, 2018 17:00 - 22 minutes - 40.8 MBThis is one of the papers from our 2017 Annual Conference, the Future of Phenomenology. Information and the full conference booklet can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk The question regarding the pertinence of using Heidegger’s analytic of Dasein as a guide for empirical research arises from contemporary attempts to bring Heideggerian phenomenology and cognitive science together. I will focus on one of the main figures behind these attempts, Hubert Dreyfus. I will start by showin...
Pasi Heikkurinen: Ecophenomenosophy - A Response to the Anthropocene
July 25, 2018 08:00 - 16 minutes - 30.9 MBThis is one of the papers from our 2017 Annual Conference, the Future of Phenomenology. Information and the full conference booklet can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk According to Earth sciences, the planet has entered a new geological epoch. This epoch, referred to as the Anthropocene, is characterised by a significant human impact on nature and its processes. While humans have not equally contributed to the destruction of the non-human world, the dominance of this species ...
Aoife McInerney - Practical Thinking
July 18, 2018 09:00 - 18 minutes - 34.6 MBThis is one of the papers from our 2017 Annual Conference, the Future of Phenomenology. Information and the full conference booklet can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk One understanding of the division between ‘theory’ and ‘practice’ implies a gap between the spheres of thinking and acting that needs bridging. At the core of the matter lies a standoff between the contingency of acting and the enduring nature of thinking. However, this dichotomy conceals the interdependent nature...
Jakub Kowalewski - Levinas and the Deformalisation of Time
July 18, 2018 08:00 - 19 minutes - 36.1 MBThis is one of the papers from our 2017 Annual Conference, the Future of Phenomenology. Information and the full conference booklet can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk In a 1988 interview Levinas describes deformalisation of the notion of time as the essential theme of his research. Commentators have usually interpreted this central Levinasian idea as a provision of a concrete experience in which the formal structure of time is realised. Although correct, this accepted definitio...
Anna Yampolskaya - Aesthetical experience as tranformative: Henry and Maldiney on Kandinsky
July 11, 2018 09:00 - 21 minutes - 39.3 MBThis is one of the papers from our 2017 Annual Conference, the Future of Phenomenology. Information and the full conference booklet can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk I compare how two leading French phenomenologists of the last century – Michel Henry and Henri Maldiney – interpret Kandinsky’s heritage. Henry’s phenomenology is based on a distinction between two main modes of manifestation – the ordinary one, that is, the manifestation of the world and the “manifestation of lif...
O. Bader and A. Peri-Bader - The Presence of Others and the Constitution of Extraordinary Architectural Space
July 04, 2018 09:00 - 21 minutes - 39.1 MBThis is one of the papers from our 2017 Annual Conference, the Future of Phenomenology. Information and the full conference booklet can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk Living with others is a key factor shaping our urban life. Their bodily presence scaffolds our social world and is involved in the way the built environment appears to us. In this article we highlight the influence of the embodied presence of other human beings on the constitution of a special type of urban archit...
Jonathan Tuckett - The Cartesian Meditation of Pneuma: the Dasein of a Video Game Character
June 27, 2018 09:00 - 21 minutes - 39.1 MBThis is one of the papers from our 2017 Annual Conference, the Future of Phenomenology. Information and the full conference booklet can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk “A few seconds ago there was nothing. But now, here I am! There’s only one logical conclusion. I am God and this is my universe.” The opening line to Pneuma: Breath of Life sets the scene for a video game that attempts something very odd for a video game to make the theme of its main story: Descartes’ cogito ergo...
Zeigam Azizov - A Temporal Order of Things: Husserl’s ‘temporal objects’ and the (Industrial) Temporalisation of Consciousness
June 20, 2018 09:00 - 19 minutes - 36 MBThis is one of the papers from our 2017 Annual Conference, the Future of Phenomenology. Information and the full conference booklet can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk I will look at the concept of ‘a temporal object’ coined by Edmund Husserl and to address its complex development in the philosophy of technology by the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler as the question of the ‘temporalisation of consciousness’ . Husserl coined the term ‘a temporal object’ in order to show th...
Mariam Shah - Typical Criminals: A Schutzian Inspired Theoretical Framework Exploring Type Formation and Potential Application in Magistrate’s Courts in England
June 13, 2018 09:00 - 22 minutes - 41.4 MBThis is one of the papers from our 2017 Annual Conference, the Future of Phenomenology. Information and the full conference booklet can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk This paper will review the potential reason for discrepancies in sentencing outcomes in magistrate’s courts in England. Other disciplines such as criminology, psychology and sociology, have tried to explain why sentencing disparities occur, but have resulted in superficial analysis which has failed to penetrate t...
Niall Keane - Affective Demonstration and Speaking Communally: The Practice of Rhetoric
June 06, 2018 09:00 - 21 minutes - 39.4 MBThis is one of the papers from our 2017 Annual Conference, the Future of Phenomenology. Information and the full conference booklet can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk Heidegger’s interest in the themes of theory and practice have been well documented, especially his early lectures on Aristotle’s Ethics and his prioritization of praxis over theoria. However, a less explored way into the distinction between theory and practice is to be found in Heidegger’s SS1924 analysis of Aris...
Lillian Wilde - The Minimal Self in the Face of Trauma: Practical Applications of Phenomenological Theory
February 26, 2018 16:00 - 21 minutes - 24.8 MBThis is one of the papers from our 2017 Annual Conference, the Future of Phenomenology. Information and the full conference booklet can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk Abstract I shall contribute to the discussion of post-traumatic pathologies of the self from a phenomenological perspective. Does the self remain constant in severe post-traumatic pathologies, or is it impacted? I will employ a very thin notion of minimal selfhood, in line with Dan Zahavi. I am drawing on the wor...
Edmund O’Toole - Phenomenology and Psychiatry
February 19, 2018 16:00 - 23 minutes - 34.5 MBThis is one of the papers from our 2017 Annual Conference, the Future of Phenomenology. Information and the full conference booklet can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk Abstract By the 1990’s biological psychiatry became the dominant approach in dealing with mental disorders. This resurgence began decades earlier in America, where the ‘biological turn’ was an attempt to reform psychiatry along empirical lines and reaffirm the authority and status of psychiatry. Bolstered by deve...
Luis Aguiar de Sousa - The Lived Body as ‘Tacit Cogito’ in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception
February 12, 2018 16:00 - 26 minutes - 29.8 MBThis is one of the papers from our 2017 Annual Conference, the Future of Phenomenology. Information and the full conference booklet can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk Abstract I will focus on Merleau-Ponty’s notion of the cogito, in particular as it is presented in the Phenomenology of Perception. As is well known, one of the central aims of Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception is to formulate a radically new conception of subjectivity, that is, to introduce the idea of...
Mary Edwards - The Phenomenological Foundations of Sartre’s ‘Human-World Realism’
February 05, 2018 16:00 - 19 minutes - 43.9 MBThis is one of the papers from our 2017 Annual Conference, the Future of Phenomenology. Information and the full conference booklet can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk Abstract Drawing upon the work of John Duncan (2005), Thomas R. Flynn (2014), and upon Frederick A. Olafson’s (1967) classic text, Principles and Persons: An Ethical Interpretation of Existentialism, this paper argues that the development of Jean-Paul Sartre’s phenomenology is guided by his commitment to providin...
Matt Barnard - Two Concepts of Anxiety: Heidegger and Sartre on Freedom
January 29, 2018 16:00 - 19 minutes - 44.9 MBThis is one of the papers from our 2017 Annual Conference, the Future of Phenomenology. Information and the full conference booklet can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk Abstract In this paper, I wish to argue that the difference between Heidegger and Sartre’s interpretation of the concept of anxiety lead to two different concepts of existential freedom. These differences have their basis in their distinct understanding of the nature of existence and the self, leading Sartre into...
Ashley Woodward - Lesson of Darkness: Phenomenology and Lyotard’s Aesthetics
January 22, 2018 15:00 - 44 minutes - 61 MBThis is one of the papers from our 2017 Annual Conference, the Future of Phenomenology. Information and the full conference booklet can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk Ashley Woodward is lecturer in philosophy at the University of Dundee. He obtained a B.A. (Hons) at LaTrobe University and a PhD in philosophy at the University of Queensland. He is a founding member of the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy and is an on-going editor of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Phi...
Tanja Staehler – Phenomenology of Childbirth between Theory and Practice
January 15, 2018 16:50 - 59 minutes - 86.5 MBThis is one of the papers from our 2017 Annual Conference, the Future of Phenomenology. Information and the full conference booklet can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk Tanja Staehler is Professor of European Philosophy at the University of Sussex. Her current research focuses on the bodily experiences and emotions of pregnancy, birth, and being with infants, from a phenomenological perspective. Her research mediates between philosophers (phenomenologists), parents, and healthcar...
Will Large – “Before language there is language”
September 15, 2017 16:30 - 27 minutes - 37.9 MBIn the final paper of our Cormac McCarthy workshop, Will Large, of the University of Gloucestershire and former BSP President, gives a critique of Cormac McCarthy’s Kekulé Problem for its reliance on scientific methodology. The chair is Dr David Deamer.
Dan O’Hara – “Some Aesthetic Implications of McCarthy’s Conception of the Role of the Unconscious in the Evolution of Forms”
September 08, 2017 16:30 - 22 minutes - 35.7 MBDan O’Hara (New College of the Humanities) speaks about the aesthetic implications of Cormac McCarthy’s concept of the unconscious in the Kekulé Problem at our July 2017 workshop. The chair is Katja Laug, another speaker at the conference whose paper is available in a previous podcast episode.
Julius Greve – “‘The Kekulé Problem’ in Cormac McCarthy’s Concept of Nature”
September 01, 2017 16:30 - 22 minutes - 35 MBJulius Greve examines the concept of nature at work in Cormac McCarthy’s Kekulé Problem and his literature, most emphatically in comparison with F. W. J. Schelling. The chair is Keith Crome, president of the BSP.
Matt Barnard – “The Silent Call: Heidegger and McCarthy on Talking to Yourself”
August 25, 2017 16:30 - 20 minutes - 32.7 MBMatt Barnard draws comparisons between Cormac McCarthy’s Kekulé Problem and Heidegger’s Being and Time in our July 2017 workshop. The chair is Adonis Frangeskou, member of the BSP executive.