The British Society for Phenomenology
2008 Annual Conference
With the support of the British Academy
Hermeneutics: Contemporary Prospects (Tradition, Transmission and Treason)
April 4- 6 2008
St Hilda's College, University of Oxford
Hermeneutics lies at the centre of debates about method, and the status of interpretation within ethics, aesthetics, theology and philosophy in general. The conference brings leading figures in the field together to examine the nature and implications of current debate within hermeneutics and to assess the contribution that hermeneutics can make to methodological controversies in the humanities today.
Programme
Gianni Vattimo (University of Turin)
The Cultural Relevance of Hermeneutics
Gunter Figal (University of Freiburg)
Hermeneutics as Phenomenology
Istvan Fehrer (Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest)
Hermeneutics and the Philosophical Tradition
Jens Zimmerman (TW University, Canada)
Towards a Critique of the Theological Dimensions of Vattimo's Hermeneutic
James Risser (University of Seattle)
The Incapacity of Language
Annette Hilt (Ruprecht-Karls-University)
The Boundaries of Comprehensive Sense: Towards a Hermeneutics of Emotional Expressivity
Sinead Murphy (University of Cork)
Is Philosophical Hermeneutics Constructive?
Daniel Tate (Bonaventure University, New York)
Art as Cognitio Imaginativa: Gadamer on Intuition and Imagination in Kant's Aesthetic Theory
Morny Joy (University of Calgary)
Paul Ricoeur and a Hermeneutics of Human Capability and Fragility
All of the papers are on April 4-5. The final day of the conference is reserved for the AGM of the British Society for Phenomenology and other meetings. The full programme and the registration form for the conference are both available from the BSP web-site: www.britishphenomenology.com
If you have any queries about the conference, please contact David Webb:
d.a.webb[at]staffs.ac.uk.