12th Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter
PHENOMENOLOGY:
BETWEEN FIRST PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENCES
2-4 January 2007
Recent years have seen a renewed interest in phenomenology.
At least since the Second World War, the philosophical
world has been divided into two rival schools of thought –
the so-called analytical and the continental - which are
often thought to be incommensurable. This apparently
entrenched cleavage, however, seems no longer to be valid.
Phenomenology, which traditionally was taken to be one of
'Continental' philosophy's main sources, has now begun to
serve as a bridge between the two traditions. Indeed,
though analytical philosophy has always been inspired by,
and related to, the formal sciences, it is now becoming
clearer that phenomenology too, especially as it was
originally conceived, is not at all alien to logic,
mathematics, and the exact sciences. In particular, much
current work emphasizes the contribution of phenomenology
to the understanding of the nature and foundations of these
sciences, as well as to the philosophical basis of the
newly born science of cognition.
The workshop aims to examine these new developments in
phenomenology. It will look at phenomenology's relations to
the specific sciences and also address the significance of
those relations for phenomenology itself and for Husserl's
original program of Prima Philosophia. It will inquire into
the uniqueness and fruitfulness of a phenomenological
approach to mathematics, logic, and the exact sciences in
general. It will ask whether this contribution constitutes
a revival of the Husserlian idea of phenomenology as the
primary science or whether it leads to a blurring of the
distinction between phenomenology and positive science
altogether.
This conference will be the 12th conference in the
framework of the "Jerusalem Encounters in Philosophy". This
series aims to bring to Jerusalem distinguished scholars
from all over the world and to create a unique opportunity
for dialogue among different and sometimes opposed
approaches to main topics in philosophy.
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