Laurea in Antropologia, religioni, civiltà orientali

Convegno Internazionale: Immediacy, Consciousness, Knowledge: a symposium on South-Asian and European Philosophy

Valido per CFU seminari ARCO

dal 27 novembre 2023 ore 14:00 al 28 novembre 2023 ore 15:00

Aula Manfredi, Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto, via Zamboni 31, Bologna - Evento in presenza

Convegno Internazionale: Immediacy, Consciousness, Knowledge: a symposium on South-Asian and European Philosophy

Valido per CFU seminari ARCO (mezza giornata corrisponde a 1 presenza. Le mezze giornate non sono cumulabili, cioè se partecipate a tutto il convegno è comunque 1 presenza)

dal 27 novembre 2023 ore 14:00 al 28 novembre 2023 ore 15:00

 Aula Manfredi, Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto, via Zamboni 31, Bologna - Evento in presenza

Programma

Participants:
Alex Watson (Ashoka University, Sonipat, India),
Birgit Kellner (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien), Madhucchanda Sen (Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India), Francesco Sferra (Università di Napoli "l'Orientale"),
Serena Saccone (Università di Napoli “l'Orientale"),
Lorenzo Pizzichemi (Università di Verona),
Saverio Marchignoli (Università di Bologna).

Discussants include:
Sebastiano Galanti Grollo (Università di Bologna); Marco Franceschini (Università di Bologna); Giovanni Ciotti (Università di Bologna);
with the collaboration of Luigi Singh (Università di Bologna)

With the participation of Ram Sharma (vice-chancellor, UPES University, Dehradun, India)

Is there the possibility of an actual philosophical history of philosophy, that is, one that arrives at formulating philosophical problems starting from the way in which they were addressed historically in South Asia and Europe? Or, to put it differently, under what conditions can the history of philosophy provide materials for current philosophical reflection? Conversely, can contemporary philosophical theorization provide methods and points of view that are indispensable for a correct formulation of the questions that are posed in the history of thought?
The thematic area identified by the terms "immediacy", "consciousness", "knowledge",
"experience", "perception", "overcoming duality" 
seems particularly suitable for this type of analysis, with the aim of understanding and bringing into foreground the philosophical significance of the
history of South Asian thought.

PROGRAMMA:

MONDAY November 27th

14:00 Introduction

14:15 Birgit KELLNER (IKGA, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien), 

Immediacy, Consciousness, Knowledge

Can You See a Non-Existence? Immediacy and Mediacy in the Knowledge of Absences According to South Asian Buddhist Epistemologists

15:15 Madhucchanda SEN (Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India), 

Why and Where Immmediacy Matters

16:15 coffee break

16:45 Serena SACCONE (Università di Napoli l’«Orientale»), 

Seeing Something, Saying Something. Mediacy and Immediacy in the Proof of the Buddha’s Omniscience

17:45 Discussion

 

TUESDAY November 28th

9:30 Alex WATSON (Ashoka University, Sonipat, India), 

Immediacy and Consciousness in the Buddhist/Brahmanical Self/No-Self Debate. Three New Arguments from Rāmakaṇṭha

10:30 Lorenzo PIZZICHEMI (Università di Verona), 

Questioning the Immediate Perception of Motion, in the East and in the West. The Struggle between Perceiving and Reasoning and Its Unexpected Philosophical Virtues

11:30 coffee break

11:45 Saverio MARCHIGNOLI (Università di Bologna), 

Persisting in Immediacy. The Philosophy of Aesthetic Experience in Colonial India

12:45 Francesco SFERRA (Università di Napoli "l'Orientale"), 

title to be defined

13:45 Final Discussion