Burt C. Hopkins Professeur invité aux Archives Husserl (UMR 8547 ENS/CNRS) Interdisciplinary Seminar : The Phenomenological Turn to History in the Epistemology of the Exact Sciences Organization : Dominique Pradelle (Paris IV/ CNRS) and Mark van Atten (ENS/CNRS) Interdisciplinary Seminar: the texts studied will be read through the lenses of the philosophy of science, the history of the philosophy of science, the philosophy of the history of science, and mathematics and logic. Texts: Jacob Klein’s 1932 Marburg lecture “The World of Physics and the ‘Natural’ World” (34 pages), which anticipates Husserl’s historical reflection on the foundations of the exact sciences and discusses in some detail the historicity of the epistemic conditions of possibility of the structural shift in the ontology of Greek mathematics (Euclid, Apollonius, Diophantus) initiated by the early moderns (Viète, Fermat, Descartes, Galileo). Edmund Husserl’s 1936 text “Origin of Geometry” (25 pages) which is the seminal text documenting the phenomenological turn to history in the epistemology of the exact sciences. Method: Guided reading and critical discussion of the texts. Summary: A month-long seminar, meeting twice a week for two hours, on the theme of the phenomenological turn to history in the epistemology of the exact sciences. Husserl’s phenomenological arguments for overcoming the traditional opposition between epistemological and historical inquiries into conceptual origins in general, and the conceptual origins of the exact sciences in particular, will be presented and critically evaluated. The crucial link between the phenomenologically genetic account of the intentional origins of exact meanings and the turn to the intentional history of those origins will be explored in the light of problem of historicism. Texts: Jacob Klein’s 1932 Marburg lecture “The World of Physics and the ‘Natural’ World” (34 pp.) and Edmund Husserl’s 1936 text “Origin of Geometry” (25 pp.). Seminar Schedule: from 5pm to 7pm on Tue, Oct 5 Fri, Oct 8 Tue, Oct 12 Fri, Oct 15 Tue, Oct 19 Fri, Oct 22 Thu, Oct 28 Fri, Oct 29 at the IHMC (Institut d'histoire moderne et contemporaine) 45 rue d'Ulm, 75005 (Escalier D, 3e étage) Registration mandatory : write to Mark van Atten <mailto:[email protected]> Information online <http://www.umr8547.ens.fr/spip.php?article733> BIOGRAPHIE: My main research interest is the philosophical foundation of the transformation of knowledge that began in the 16th century with the philosophical advent of modernity. I’ve written three books, most recently The Origin of the Logic of Symbolic Mathematics: Jacob Klein and Edmund Husserl (2011) and The Philosophy of Husserl (2010) and edited two others. I’ve published over eighty articles and given over 140 lectures on 20th century European philosophy (especially the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Jacob Klein), Plato, early modern philosophy, and philosophy and depth psychology. I’m founding co-editor of The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy. My current research continues the tradition of transcendental phenomenology and is focused on the critique of symbolic reason. -- Dominique Lainey UMR 8547 Pays germaniques - Archives Husserl Ecole normale supérieure 45 rue d'Ulm - 75230 Paris Cedex 05 Tél. : 01 44 32 30 09 / Fax : 01 44 32 31 22 email :[email protected] -- https://www.vidal-rosset.net/mailing_list_educasupphilo.html
