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Announcement Type: GIP Online Lectures on Intercultural Philosophy Institution: Gesellschaft für Interkulturelle Philosophie (GIP) Location: Online Date: June/July 2021 __________________________________________________ The Society for Intercultural Philosophy (Gesellschaft für Interkulturelle Philosophie – GIP) is launching a new lecture series. Given the serious situation of Covid-19 pandemic we would like to take advantage of the general necessity to communicate digitally. A digital lecture format allows members from all over the world to participate; also this gives us the chance to invite speakers from around the globe more easily. We very much invite all of you to join the monthly lectures and make this a forum for lively discussion! Our next sessions: Wednesday, June 30th, 7 pm Dr. Elise Coquereau-Saouma "Philosophical Disagreements and Plurality of Voices: Rethinking the Rules of Debates in Contemporary India" In today’s academic world, we have become aware of the need to account for a plurality of existing worldviews and philosophical positions originating from several traditions (that is in terms of concepts - contents, as well as their expressions), and slowly also from the intermingling itself of several traditions. This has challenged our perspective on how to define which argument is ‘true’ and ‘false’ especially in philosophical debates, when we confront different philosophical systems with different assumptions, when the line between truth/false cannot be deductively drawn from within a system where the conditions are defined. If we today acknowledge the need for plurality, without radical universalistic claims nor relativism, this ‘need’ does not tell us how to understand or react to positions that are influenced by different philosophical backgrounds and how to evaluate and respond to them. How to deal with epistemic plurality in a way that would be more than a polite acknowledgment of the arguments that we do not know - and respectfully want to avoid when we feel we cannot judge their adequacy - and how to react to philosophical disagreements that cannot be rationally dissolved, i.e. those disagreements that go beyond the problem of internal validity or consistency of an argument? A salient endeavor of postcolonial Anglophone Indian philosophies has been to seek reconciliation of different viewpoints and worldviews that appear contradictory with each other. Philosophers like Kalidas Bhattacharyya, J. N. Chubb and Daya Krishna explore the constitutions of disagreements in philosophy or more in general, ways to cultivate a metaphilosophical standpoint from where a plurality of claims and voices can originate without seeming contradictory. With their analyzes, I suggest to understand philosophical disagreements beyond the strict analytic divide of truth and false or validity, and to look at other constitutive criteria of formation of one’s standpoints, to consider plurality in debates. Tuesday, 20 July, 2021, 7 pm Prof. Dr. Franz Gmainer-Pranzl "Kann Religion Polylog? Chancen und Grenzen der theologischen Rezeption interkultureller Philosophie" Polyloge bringen die Überzeugung und Haltung interkulturellen Philosophierens auf besondere Weise zur Geltung: vorurteilslos, kommunikativ und argumentativ Beiträge aus unterschiedlichen kulturellen Traditionen miteinander ins Gespräch zu bringen. Ob sich auch Menschen mit religiösen Überzeugungen auf solche Polyloge einlassen können und wollen, ist umstritten – und auf jeden Fall ein Thema theologischer Forschung, die sich ernsthaft mit Fragen interkulturellen Philosophierens auseinandersetzt. Diese Spannung zwischen religiösen Wahrheits- und Heilsansprüchen einerseits und polylogem Philosophieren andererseits sowie die Möglichkeiten und Grenzer einer theologischen Rezeption interkultureller Philosophie werden im Vortrag thematisiert. Franz Gmainer-Pranzl ist Professor und Leiter des Zentrum Theologie Interkulturell und Studium der Religionen an der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Salzburg. Los Angeles 10:00 AM Sao Paulo 14:00 PM Germany 7:00 PM India 10:30 AM To participate please send a short notice to weidtmann(at)uni-tuebingen.de before the day of the lecture. The lecture will be given via zoom. A zoom-link will be sent to all those who registered one day before. Following GIP-lectures will be announced shortly. GIP-lectures are organised by Dr. Niels Weidtmann, Dr. Anke Graness and Fernando Wirtz. GIP-Lectures: http://www.int-gip.de/gip-lectures/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________
