Dear all,
on Friday the 19th of october Prof. Maurizio Ferraris (Turin) will give a talk on *How to do things with records *at the Philosophy Faculty Board Room (1-2.30pm). Here are the details. *Visiting speaker*: Prof. Maurizio Ferraris (Turin, Labont) *Title*: *How to do things with records* *Date: *the 19th of October *Time*: 1-2.30pm *Place*: PHILOSOPHY FACULTY BOARD ROOM (323A), Raised Faculty Building (Sidgwick Site) *Abstract: * “This is a talk about the ontological significance of *records*. I will argue that records – inscriptions, documents, texts, memories…- are the basis of social reality. I will present what I defined as the *constitutive rule *of social objects, “Object = Recorded Act”, according to which social objects are the outcome of social (at least two partners) acts written down on a piece of paper, a computer file, or even just in people’s minds. These records can be hosted by a variety of supports (written on paper, in human memories, in digital records…) and give birth to a wide range of social situations (borrowing a book from the library, getting married, giving a name to a child, declaring war…). In the vast majority of these instances, the same pattern can be found: first, a physical carrier, then an inscription determining its social role, and, finally, something idiomatic, typically a signature, which guarantees the authenticity of the document. I will also try to show that such records also play a distinctive role in the emergence of the so-called collective intentionality.” *Bio: * *Maurizio Ferraris <https://maurizioferraris.it/>*is full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin, where he is the President of the LabOnt <http://labont.it/> – Laboratory for Ontology. He was Fellow of Käte-Hamburger Kolleg “Recht als Kultur” (Bonn) and Honorary Fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies of South East Europe (Rijeka) and of the Internationales Zentrum Für Philosophie NRW. He has been Fellow of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America and of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. He has also been Directeur d’études of the Collège International de Philosophie and Visiting Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) as well as other European and American Universities. He is columnist for ‘La Repubblica’, the Director of ‘Rivista di Estetica’, of ‘Critique’, of ‘Círculo Hermenéutico editorial’ and of the ‘Revue francophone d’esthétique’. He wrote more than fifty books that have been translated into several languages. The books that have appeared in English are: *History of Hermeneutics* (Humanities Press, 1996); *A Taste for the Secret *(with Jacques Derrida – Blackwell, 2001); *Documentality or Why it is Necessary to Leave Traces* (Fordham UP, 2012); *Goodbye Kant!* (SUNY UP, 2013); *Where Are You? An Ontology of the Cell Phone* (Fordham UP, 2014); *Manifesto of New Realism* (SUNY UP, 2014); *Introduction to New Realism* (Bloomsbury, 2014); *Positive Realism* (Zer0 Books, 2015). NB: Due to limited space, we would appreciate if you let us know in advance if you're planning to come. _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
