Organized by Dr. Reinhard G. Mueller and Dr. Olga Faccani.
Weekly meetings will take place on Fridays 10 – 11:45 a.m. (US Central Time) beginning on January 19, 2024. There will be 8 seminar sessions.
Content
Today we assume that change in all areas of life, including its most basic conditions, will continue to accelerate. How can we manage to continually reorient ourselves? Can philosophy understand how to keep up with the times? Orientation is, in principle, the achievement of finding one’s way in an unsurveyable and uncertain situation so that one can successfully master the situation. It involves finding paths both in the terrain and through all the circumstances of human life: not only our daily life but even our survival depends on the success of orientation. Orientation is ubiquitous today. But how, in fact, do we orient and reorient ourselves in our everyday lives? And how can we grasp this process philosophically?
This is the second part of our introductory seminar to the philosophy of orientation, in which we read the primary book of the philosophy of orientation, Werner Stegmaier’s What is Orientation? A Philosophical Investigation (2019). In this second part, we will read chapters 9-18. But newcomers are always welcome. If you’re new, we recommend that you read the prior chapters on your own before the seminar.
The seminar is discussion-based; this means participants are expected to read the respective chapters before the meetings to be able to discuss them with the group during the seminar sessions. No prior philosophical or academic training is necessary to participate. Please apply by January 14, 2024, via the application form below by briefly explaining 1.) your professional and/or academic background, 2.) your philosophical interests, and 3.) your motivation for joining the seminar (max. 100 words per field).