Workshop: A Touch of Doubt. On Haptic Scepticism
Date
March 27–28, 2018
Convenor
Rachel Aumiller (MCAS, Universität Hamburg/Germany)
Abstract
Touch can serve as a “reality check“ that awakens an individual from her slumber. We pinch ourselves to confirm we are not dreaming. We slap a comrade across the cheek to bring him to his senses. In everyday speech, the sceptic is often presented as a “Doubting Thomas” with the compulsion to touch what others accept on faith alone. Philosophical scepticism, however, casts doubt on the certainty of touch: Perhaps I am dreaming—dreaming even of the sensation of pinching myself awake. Is touch the guarantee of what is real? Or is the real precisely that which slips through the epistemologist’s grasp?
Participants
- Adi Louria Hayon (Tel Aviv University/Israel)
- Ana Jovanović (Univerza v Ljubljani/Slovenia)
- Bara Kolenc (Univerza v Ljubljani/Slovenia)
- Mirt Komel (Univerza v Ljubljani/Slovenia)
- Jacob Levi (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore/USA)
- Robert Pfaller (Kunstuniversität Linz/Austria)
- Libera Pisano (Universität Hamburg/Germany)
- Bill Rebiger (Universität Hamburg/Germany)
- José María Sánchez de León Serrano (Universität Hamburg/Germany)
- Goran Vranešević (Univerza v Ljubljani/Slovenia)
Poster
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Programme
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The event is open to the public, with advance registration via e-mail:
maimonides-centre"AT"uni-hamburg.de