In this interdisciplinary conference, we bring together philosophers, comparative psychologists, and cognitive scientists from a range of disciplines to discuss their recent work on the ontogenetic and phylogenetic origins of syntax, in order to make progress in our understanding of these fundamental issues.

Online attendance will also be possible.

In person attendance is free, although you are requested to register in advance because capacity is limited. To register, please contact giulia.palazzolo.1@warwick.ac.uk.

Confirmed speakers:

Nick Chater (University of Warwick)

Cas Coopmans (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)

Cathy Crockford (ISC Marc Jeannerod)

Olga Feher (University of Warwick)

Richard Moore (University of Warwick)

Nirmalangshu Mukherji (Delhi University)

Ross Pain (University of Bristol)

Giulia Palazzolo (University of Warwick)

Ronald Planer (University of Wollongong)

Ljiljana Progovac (Wayne State University)

Simon W. Townsend (University of Warwick and University of Zurich)

Interdisciplinary symposium 'Let me explain: Reason-giving across disciplines' on 10 June 2024

Why do we ask why? And do scholars mean the same by it, regardless of their disciplinary background? Warwick's Institute of Advanced Study will host a symposium on these treacherously simple questions.

Who: Speakers from all of Warwick's faculties; everyone welcome to attend.

When: 10 June 2024, 9:45am–2:30pm (TBC). Lunch provided.

Where: IAS Seminar Room, C0.02

More information to follow in late April. For any questions, get in touch with the event organiser, Simon GansingerLink opens in a new window (simon.gansinger@warwick.ac.uk).

Location: S 0.21, Social Sciences Building

9:30–10:00 – Arrival 10:00–10:50 (Online) Qingxuan Wang (CUHK) “Friedrich Nietzsche and the Religions of Decadence”

10:50–11:00 – Break

11:00–11:50 Asmita Roy (Nottingham) “Foucault’s Theory on Power and Subjectivity, and an Analysis of Islamophobia in India”

11:50–12:30 – Lunch

12:30–13:20 Nathan Conceicao Silva (Durham) “Taking Sceptics to Deleuze”

13:20–13:30 – Break

13:30–14:20 Noah Buckle (Warwick) “Kant on Gesinnung and the Propensity to Evil”

14:20–14:30 – Break

14:30–15:20 Amelie Baker (Nottingham) “Foucault, Zen, and the Education System”

15:30–15:40 Break

15:40–16:40 Henry Somers-Hall (RHUL) – Keynote “Truth, Meaning, and Resemblance in French Philosophy

Click here for the event schedule

Mo 9 Dec 8:00-12:00

BST / 9:00-13:00 CET / 16:00-20:00 CST / 17:00-21:00 JST

Tomoki Ishikawa (Tokyo University), “Augustine’s Moral Ontology”

Yifan Guo (Tongji University Shanghai), “A Phenomenological Interpretation of Sexual Di_erence”

Chris Bowling (Warwick University), “Nietzsche’s Revaluation of the Will to Truth”

KEYNOTE Eliza Little (Warwick University) “Simone de Beauvoir and the Aesthetic Lives of Others”

Zoom URL: https://kwanseigakuin.zoom.us/j/87324642337?pwd=sUeWMLxcR2rw4hCPoma806JcZ86b4q.1Link opens in a new window

Meeting ID: 873 2464 2337

Passcode: 907409

Tue 10 Dec

8:00-10:30 BST / 9:00-11:30 CET / 16:00-18:30 CST / 17:00-19:30 JST

Sayaka Takeuchi (Kyoto University), “Experience Prior to A Priori: Exploring Transcendentality in Early Nishida Kitarō”

Yingying Ouyang (Tongji University Shanghai), “Nature and History: On Merleau-Ponty’s Eye and Mind”

Ying Xue (Warwick University), “A theory of Freedom or the Theory of Freedom: Schelling’s Freiheitsschrift”

Zoom URL: h*ps://kwanseigakuin.zoom.us/j/84074947358?pwd=wWCOSGJZTnGvMR6gwgX2Lr9g70vpBC.1

Meeting ID: 840 7494 7358

Passcode: 21541

Wed 11 Dec

8:00-10:30 BST / 9:00-11:30 CET / 16:00-18:30 CST / 17:00-19:30 JST

Shunsuke Kurashina (Tokyo University), “Historicity in Heidegger: Reconsidering the Existential-Phenomenological Approach to History”

Luyao Shi (Tongji University Shanghai), “Heidegger’s Contributions to the Philosophy of Play”

Fridolin Neumann (Warwick University), “Heidegger and Intentionality”

Zoom URL: https://kwanseigakuin.zoom.us/j/88472237221?pwd=grXHmRgjaa1Fz22UD7IFeQatqd4xNz.1

Meeting ID: 884 7223 7221

Passcode: 064625