Topology of the Culture

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Topology of the culture

Workshop with J.-M. Salanskis

11.-12. 5. 2015, Prague

Organized by the Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences

We would like to invite you for the workshop focused on the thought of Jean-Michel Salanskis, professor of systematic philosophy at the University Paris Ouest, and his „topology of the culture". Jean-Michel Salanskis combines in his thinking philosophy of mathematics, formal hermeneutics, mathematical topology, analytic philosophy and contemporary continental philosophy, especially the phenomenological tradition. The format of the workshop enables detailed study of presented ideas, thorough philosophical discussion and openness for new inspirations.

Venue: Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Jilská 1, Praha 1, 11000

Seminar Room, 1st floor

Program:

Monday, Mai 11

10:00 – 12:30

- J.-M. Salanskis: Clarification of the logic of locality (30min)

- Ladislav Kvasz: replay (20-30 min)

- Discussion

14:00 – 16:30

- J.-M. Salanskis: Mathematics, metaphysics, philosophy (30min)

- Martin Nitsche: replay (20-30 min)

- Discussion

Tuesday, May 12

10:00 – 12:30

- J.-M. Salanskis: Geography of the regions of meaning (30min)

- Alice Koubová: replay (20-30 min)

- Discussion

14:00 – 16:30

- J.-M. Salanskis: Dialogism between Theory and Ethics (30min)

- Vít Pokorný : replay (20-30 min)

- Discussion

Reading material: J.-M. Salanskis' texts:

« Géographie des régions du sens » in: Partages du sens, Nanterre, Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2014, p. 63-90

« Proximité, passage, adresse », in L. Fedi (dir.), Les cigognes de la philosophie, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2003, p. 17-30.

« La mise au clair de la logique de la localité » [L'herméneutique formelle, Paris, Klincksieck, 2013, p. 156-163]

« Mathematics, metaphysics, philosophy », in Duffy, S. (ed), Virtual Mathematics, Manchester, Clinamen Press, 2006, p. 46-64.

« Dialogism between Theory and Ethics », colloque Dialogical Perspectives, Toronto, Septembre 2008.

Texts can be distributed via email, in case of interest please send an email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Participants are presupposed to have read the reading material before the event. Workshop is organized in the framework of the project "Methodological precedence of intertwining: theory and application" (GAČR 14-22586S)