CALL FOR PAPERS! National Seminar! Mapping Experience & Consciousness: General Semantics, Philosophy & Human Sciences!

THEME

Experience is a priori to human understanding and knowledge. How do we abstract, absorb, assimilate and perform depends on the (kind of) experience we have in our human life. Plato, Locke, Kant, Dewey, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Searle etc., inspired by this phenomenon, had engaged with what experience entails and what is the nature of truth. The founder of the system of General Semantics, Alfred Korzybski (1879-1956), distressed by the poignant experience in the aftermath of World War I, felt the need to understand what is human, and which experiences make one a human being and influence the world to be better through ones’ actions. Hence Korzybsky, in his General Semantics thought, classified the humans as ‘time-binders’ where they can create the symbols of experience and pass them on to the next generation humans. For Korzybski, it is called the ‘theory of values’ and for J. Samuel Bois (1966), ‘the world of self-awareness and self-management’. On the other hand, Phenomenology as a philosophical thought and method of inquiry engages with the structures of consciousness. These structures of consciousness are the result of the subjective experience of the everyday, objective world. Thus, phenomenologists are known for understanding the ‘phenomena’ in daily life, and the events and actions from various fields like art practices, socio-political issues, etc.

We welcome original abstracts (not more than 300 words) with interdisciplinary approaches, from philosophers, researchers, postgraduate students, performers and artists with different perspectives

Important Dates

WHEN: 23, 24, 25 July 2024

WHERE: Sardar Patel University, Anand, Gujarat

Abstract Submission Deadline: 15th May 2024

Acceptance Notification: 1st June 2024

Mail to: [email protected]