Philosophy talk. Friday 10th May. Boğaziçi University. Gert-Jan van der Heiden ‘The Question of Testimony in Hermeneutic Phenomenology’

Boğaziçi Philosophy Colloquium Talk 

Friday 10th May 

17:00

Gert-Jan van der Heiden  (Professor, Radboud University)

‘The Question of Testimony in Hermeneutic Phenomenology’

Abstract 

Departing from two diverging lines of inquiry of testimony that characterize philosophy today, this talk aims to show what a hermeneutic phenomenology of witnessing and testimony is and how this approach to testimony offers a new framework to understand witnessing and testimony, repositioning the present-day main lines of inquiry of testimony. The first part offers a critical assessment of the state of the art in the philosophy of testimony today and the second part reinterprets the two main diverging lines of inquiry as a conflict. The following major part of this talk is devoted to a hermeneutic-phenomenological account of witnessing and testimony, describing several relations between the subject matter of testimony, the witness, the act of bearing witness and the addressee to develop this hermeneutic-phenomenological framework. Along these lines of inquiry, it is shown which place is awarded to the two main lines of the present-day inquiry within this framework.

Location 

Boğaziçi University

South Campus 

John Freely Building 

JF 507

Bebek

Istanbul 

Security Policy 

Due to campus security policy, anyone planning to attend the talk who does not have a Boğaziçi University ID should send me their name at least 24 hours before the event, so that I can I pass it onto campus security, who will have a list of guests at the main gate. 

Please send your name to my institutional email: barry.stocker(at)bogazici.edu.tr