BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T130610Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220421T141500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220423T170000 SUMMARY:Secondary Qualities in the Austro-German Tradition and Beyond UID:20260626T131431Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Berlin\, Germany DESCRIPTION:

Opening Conference of the DFG Emmy Noether Project &lsquo\;A Sensible World&rsquo\;

Secondary Qualities in the Austro-German Tradition and Beyond

Humboldt-Universitä\;t zu Berlin\, 21-23 April 2022

Arnaud Dewalque (Liè\;ge)
Guillaume Fré\;chette (Geneva)
Laura Gow (Liverpool)
Uriah Kriegel (Rice)
Kevin Mulligan (USI\, Lugano)
Martine Nida-Rü\;melin (Fribourg)
Maria Reicher (Aachen)
Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl (Graz)
Hamid Taieb (HU Berlin)
Mark Textor (KCL)
Maria Van Der Schaar (Leiden)

Our perception shows us a world containing sensory qualities such as colours\, sounds\, etc.: a sensible world. However\, physics teaches us that the world is just a dark and silent heap of particles\; colours\, sounds\, etc.\, are only derived &ldquo\;secondary&rdquo\; qualities\, mere appearances arising from the action of the physical &ldquo\;primary&rdquo\; qualities on our senses. Hence the problem: Do colours\, sounds\, etc.\, exist independently of us\, and if not\, to what extent do their appearances provide us with an adequate knowledge of reality?
\; \; \;The problem of secondary qualities\, which has occupied philosophers since the early modern era\, found one of its most systematic treatments in the Austro-German tradition\, more precisely in and around the School of Brentano (though it has gone largely unnoticed). Brentano and his followers\, among them Husserl\, Meinong\, and their many students\, made novel analyses of all aspects of the problem: they furnished detailed phenomenological descriptions of the content and object of sensation\, which they took to be required for sound discussion of the metaphysical and epistemological aspects of the problem\; they proposed various original metaphysical solutions to the question of whether sensory qualities exist\; and they explored the different epistemological consequences of the metaphysical options at stake\, in particular for the reliability of our perception.
\; \; \;This conference gathers both specialists in the Austro-German tradition and contemporary philosophers working on colours and other sensory qualities\, with the aim of reconstructing the Austro-German debates on secondary qualities and undertaking an evaluation of the theoretical value of this material.

\; \; \;Thursday\, 21 April
14:00 Welcome
\; \; \;Chair: Hamid Taieb (Humboldt-Universitä\;t zu Berlin)
14:15-15:30 Laura Gow (University of Liverpool)
\; \; \;Colour Experience without Experience of Colour
15:45-17:00 Mark Textor (King&rsquo\;s College London)
\; \; \;So Intense! Lotze and Brentano on the Intensity of Sensation
17:15-18:30 Maria Van Der Schaar (Leiden University)
\; \; \;Twardowski on Colours

\; \; \;Friday\, 22 April
\; \; \;Chair: Hannes Ole Matthiessen (Humboldt-Universitä\;t zu Berlin)
9:15-10:30 Guillaume Fré\;chette (University of Geneva)
\; \; \;Homeless Entities: Meinong on Sensory Objects
11:00-12:15 Maria Reicher (RWTH Aachen University)
\; \; \;Edith Landmann-Kalischer&rsquo\;s Realism
\; \; \;[Lunch Break]
\; \; \;Chair: Marialena Karampatsou (Humboldt-Universitä\;t zu Berlin)
14:15-15:30 Hamid Taieb (Humboldt-Universitä\;t zu Berlin)
\; \; \;Reinach on the Essence of Colours
15:45-17:00 Kevin Mulligan (University of Italian Switzerland\, Lugano)
\; \; \;Objective Appearances?

\; \; \;Saturday\, 23 April
\; \; \;Chair: Christian Barth (Humboldt-Universitä\;t zu Berlin)
9:15-10:30 Arnaud Dewalque (University of Liè\;ge)
\; \; \;G.F. Stout on Secondary Qualities
11:00-12:15 Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl (University of Graz)
\; \; \;Sensual Perception and Evaluative Perception: Questioning the Analogy Thesis
\; \; \;[Lunch Break]
\; \; \;Chair: Martin Klein (University of Wü\;rzburg)
14:15-15:30 Uriah Kriegel (Rice University)
\; \; \;Adapting Brentano&rsquo\;s Fitting-Attitude Account of Aesthetic Qualities
15:45-17:00 Martine Nida-Rü\;melin (University of Fribourg)
\; \; \;TBA

Venue: Room 2249a\, Humboldt-Universitä\;t zu Berlin\, Unter den Linden 6\, 10117 Berlin\, Germany
Attendance: Attendance possible in person or on Zoom\; registration mandatory\, please write to twan.stiekel@hu-berlin.de
Organiser: Hamid Taieb (hamid.taieb@hu-berlin.de)
For more information: www.a-sensible-world.net

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