Workshop Announcement:

UNDERSTANDING: ONE OR MANY?

While understanding has recently become the object of intense debate among
philosophers, it remains an open question how to make sense of different
forms of understanding. These include scientific understanding (e.g.
understanding scientific theories, phenomena, models, etc.), moral
understanding (e.g. understanding other people, understanding political
subjects, etc.), aesthetic understanding (e.g. understanding an artwork,
like a novel or painting, and how these enable us to understand the world),
or religious understanding (e.g. understanding theology, understanding and
our spiritual life). The workshop’s goal is to debate about the nature of
understanding and explore the relations between different forms of
understanding.

Venue

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Mercator Raum, GAFO 04/187
Universitätstr. 150

Bochum, Deutschland

Registration

This is a hybrid event. Participation online or in person is free, but
please register first by sending an e-mail with your name, e-mail address,
and preference (online or in-presence participation) to:

<mailto:alfredo-vernazzani@daad-alumni.de>
alfredo-vernazzani@daad-alumni.de

or

<mailto:fede.malfatti89@gmail.com> fede.malfatti89@gmail.com

Seats are limited for in-presence participation!

A Zoom link will be sent to all registered participants on July 17.

PROGRAM

18.07.2023

8:45 – 9:00 opening

9:00 – 10:15 Catherine Z. Elgin (Harvard): “Epistemic Agency”

10:15 – 11:30 Christoph Jäger (Innsbruck/HU): “Socratic Authority and
Understanding”

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 – 13:15 Silvia Jonas (Bamberg): “A Mathematical Perspective on
Religious Understanding”

13:15 – 15:00 Lunch break

15:00 – 16:15 Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern) & Kareem Khalifa (UCLA): “A
Social Epistemology of Scientific Understanding”

16:15 – 16:45 coffee break

16:45 – 18:00 Alexander Prescott-Couch (Oxford): “Two Kinds of Political
Understanding”

19:30 Conference dinner

19.07.2023

8:45 – 9:00 opening

9:00 – 10:15 Annalisa Coliva (Irvine): “Wittgenstein and Morphology”
(provisional title)

10:15 – 11:30 Alfredo Vernazzani (RUB): “Seeing-As, Memory, and Perceptual
Intelligibility”

11:30 – 12:00 coffee break

12:00 – 13:15 Albert Newen (RUB): “Multiple Types of Social Understanding
and their Underlying Dimensions”

13:15 – 15:00 Lunch break

15:00 – 16:15 Elisabeth Schellekens (Uppsala): “Aesthetic Experience and
Epistemic Gain: The Case for Intelligible Aesthetic Value”

16:15 – 16:45 Coffee break

16:45 – 18:00 Jochen Briesen (Konstanz/FU): “Response-Dependence, Knowledge,
and Understanding”

20.07.2023

8:45 – 9:00 opening

9:00 – 10:15 Mario Hubert (AUC) & Federica Isabella Malfatti (Innsbruck):
“Understanding Quantum Mechanics”

10:15 – 10:30 coffee break

10:30 – 11:45 Henk de Regt (Radboud): “The Prospects of Artificial
Scientific Understanding”

11:45 – 12:00 Conference ends

All times are CET!

The conference is kindly sponsored by the Thyssen Foundation.

Bests,

Alfredo Vernazzani
Federica Isabella Malfatti

____________________________

Dr. Alfredo Vernazzani

Assistant Professor (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Institut für Philosophie II

GAFO 04/620, Universitätsstr. 150

44799 Bochum, Deutschland

Valerie Zarges

RUHR-UNIVERSITÄT BOCHUM

Sekretariat Prof. Dr. A. Newen

Lehrstuhl für Philosophie des Geistes

Institut für Philosophie II

GA 3/151

Phone: +49-(0)234-32-28139

<mailto:Valerie.Zarges@rub.de> Valerie.Zarges@rub.de

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