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Lecture:Kant's Transcendental Idealism in Focus Part Ⅲ(3rd & 7th March, 2011 )

* Admission free, no registration required.
* Held in English, no interpretation provided.
* Anyone interested may participate.

     Thursday, 3rd March, 2011 16:30~18:30

Lecturer:Prof. Tobias Rosefeldt  (Humboldt University Berlin)

Title:Kant's Subjectivism

Venue:G-SEC, 6th floor, East Research Building, Mita Campus, Keio University


     Monday, 7th March, 2011 16:30~18:30

Lecturer:Dr. Stefanie Gruene  (Potsdam University)

Title:Blind Intuition

Venue:Seminar Room, 4th floor, East Research Building, Mita Campus, Keio University


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Aesthetics Seminar by Prof. Gerald Cupchik

This seminar is to be held as follows:
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*This event will be held in English.

Professor Gerald Cupchik(University of Toronto)
Chair:Hideaki Kawabata(Global COE CARLS, Keio University)

Date and Time:Thursday, 24th February, 2011;16:00~18:00
Venue:Seminar Room, 4th floor, East Building, Mita Campus, Keio University

Abstract:

Professor Cupchik has conducted research in aesthetics for over 40 years, incorporating quantitative and qualitative methods in a complementary manner. He will argue that experimental aesthetics should be understood in a historical context encompassing scholarship in art history, anthropology, philosophy, and psychology. Following Goethe, he will stress the priority of aesthetic phenomena, visual or literary, over theory and method as a basis for unifying the various approaches to scholarship. Prof. Cupchik will then survey the many different techniques (e.g., verbal scale rating, narrative commentary, MRI) that he has applied to study the reception of a broad range of aesthetic materials including; paintings, short stories, photographs, industrial design objects, and so forth. It is important to reflect on the promise and limitations of each technique. The overall goal of the lecture will be to describe a unifying process underlying these different areas of aesthetic reception and to show how our understanding of aesthetics can contribute to the development of a General Theory of Emotion.


Reference (in Japanese)
Aesthetics Seminar by Prof.Cupchik

Research Seminar on Understanding Religion through Brain Science: Prospects and Critical Issues (Friday, 18th February, 2011)

This seminar is to be held as follows.
 *Admission free, no registration required.
 *Held in English.

Anyone interested in our researches are welcomed. Please click for access map and reference below.

Lecturers and Titles:
Henk Barendregt
(Chair Foundations of Mathematics and Computer Science & mind-brain- mindfulness research, Radboud University)
"Neurocognitive models of the mind inspired by Buddhist psychology and vipassana"
Gerald C. Cupchik
(Department of Psychology, University of Toronto at Scarborough)
"Does G-d have an Address in the Brain? A New Light on Religiously Elevated Emotions in General Theory of Emotion"

Chair::

Mitsuhiro Okada(Global COE CARLS, Department of Philosophy, Keio University)

Discussion:

Shigeru Watanabe(Global COE CARLS, Department of Phychology, Keio University)

Keizo Miyasaka(Global COE CARLS, Department of Human Sciences, Keio University)


Venue:Seminar Room 7, Building for Preventive Medicine & Public Health, Shinanomachi Campus, School of Medicine, Keio University (access map)

Date and Time:Friday, 18th February, 2011; 16:30-20:00

The studies of mind and consciousness have been developed into a new horizon with the introduction of fMRI research; with this recent trend in scope, two distinguished researchers of different specialties deal with new approaches to the study of religious consciousness and elevated emotions. Professor Henk Barendregt of Radboud University focuses on neurocognitive models of the mind with reference to Buddhism to use meditation as a tool to get hints where neurophysiology can look to find interesting things for the advancement of this topic - he received the Spinoza award in 2002 for his highly regarded scientific achievement as a mathematical logician, specialized in lambda calculus, which is a theory to describes 'reflection' ; he himself is a qualified teacher in the tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw for meditational practices. . Prof. Gerald Cupchik of the University of Toronto discusses elevated emotions in religious contexts and aesthetic of emotions from his long-pursued unique scholarship on a general theory of emotion with combined methodologies including fMRI oriented research. His original perspective reaches the latent emotional root behind emotions in religion and art. He received Rudolf Arnheim Award from Division 10 of the American Psychological Association for "distinguished contribution to research in psychological aesthetics." Religious consciousness, altered states of consciousness including hypnotic state of mind and meditational consciousness will be partly discussed. Commentaries from researchers engaged in advanced research on logic and sensibility from different disciplines at CARLS, Keio try to articulate new research possibilities in the intersection of brain and religion, that concerns brain sciences, religious studies, evolutionary psychology, logics and anthropology.


Reference (in Japanese):
Understanding Religion through Brain Science: Prospects and Critical Issues

Aesthetic Lecture on Shadow by Dr. Roberto Casati

Lecture by Dr. Roberto Casati (National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) ) is to be held as follows.
 *Admission free, no registration required.
 *This event will be held in English, no interpretation provided.


Lecturer: Dr. Roberto Casati
Title: "The art of shadow painting"
Date and Time: Tuesday, 25th January, 2011; 13:30 ‐ 16:00
Venue: G-SEC Lab, 6th floor, East Research Building, Mita Campus, Keio University
Chair: Koichi Toyama (Global COE CARLS, Keio University)
Outline: Shadow painting evolved twice in history of art, each time with different results. It is one of the most difficult challenges for visual artists, as it requires an ability to balance a large number of constraints (light, shape, position). Errors - even impressive ones - are widespread and can easily spoil the general impression conveyed by a painting. Some of these errors, however, are systematic in a way that allows vision scientists to reconstruct some of the mechanisms of shadow perception. In particular, I shall focus on two types of conditions: mistaken shadows that are considered as acceptable, and correct shadows that are considered as unacceptable. These suggest that the brain is using a proprietary logic when dealing with shadows - a logic whose profile is still much open to empirical investigation. I shall present evidence from a large body of Renaissance representations, indicating discoveries that psychologists can make by studying large corpora such as this one.
Reference: " Aesthetic Lecture on Shadow by Dr. Roberto Casati "

Lecture "On Eating Well - Health, taste and other 'goods' of food in daily care practices-" by Prof. Annemarie Mol is held on 11th December, 2010

Lecture by Prof. Annemarie Mol (University of Amsterdam) is to be held as follows.
 *Admission free, no registration required.
 *This event will be held in English; no interpretation provided.


Lecturer: Annemarie Mol (Professor, Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam)
Title: "On Eating Well - Health, taste and other 'goods' of food in daily care practices-"
Date and Time: Saturday, 11th December, 2010; 17:00 ‐ 19:00
Venue: Discussion Room, 5th floor, South Building, Mita Campus, Keio University
Chair: Keizo Miyasaka (Professor, Faculty of Letters, Keio University),
Akihito Suzuki (Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University)
Moderator: Gergely Mohácsi (Researcher, Global COE CARLS, Keio University)
Organized by: Cultural Anthropology Group, Global COE CARLS, Keio University
Reference (in Japanese): " On Eating Well - Health, taste and other 'goods' of food in daily care practices-"

Lecture "What is absolute Necessity?" by Prof. Bob Hale is held on 28th September, 2010

Lecture by Prof. Bob Hale (The University of Sheffield) is to be held as follows.
 *Admission free, no registration required.
 *This event will be held in English; no interpretation provided.


Lecturer: Prof. Bob Hale (The University of Sheffield)
Title: "What is absolute Necessity?"
Date and Time: Thursday, 28th October, 2010; 17:30 ‐ 19:30
Venue: G-SEC Seminar Room, 4th floor, East Research Building, Mita Campus, Keio University
Chair: Takashi Iida (Global COE CARLS, Keio University)
Organized by: Takashi Iida, Ryota Akiyoshi, Philosophy and Cultural Anthropology Unit, Global COE CARLS, Keio University
Reference (in Japanese): " What is absolute Necessity?"

Lecture "How to read a platonic dialogue" by Prof. Samuel Scolnicov is held on 28th September, 2010

The lecture will stress the philosophical importance of the dialogical form. It will be shown how Plato opposed a logic of propositions in favour of a logic of enunciations that cannot be detached from their speakers. Thus, he could not approve of a formal logic, indifferent to context. Even when the dialogue is narrated, the narrator too -- even Socrates himself -- is a dramatic character and cannot be supposed to be 'neutral'. All dialogue is essentially ironic and cannot be trusted to express Plato's opinions. The key to the reading of the dialogue cannot, therefore, be in the dialogue itself, but must be in an event outside it. The lecture will discuss this event and its significance.

 *Admission free, no registration required.
 *This event will be held in English; no interpretation provided.


Lecturer: Prof. Samuel Scolnicov (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Title: "How to read a platonic dialogue"
Date and Time: Tuesday, 28th September, 2010; 16:30 ‐ 18:00
Venue: G-SEC Lab, 6th floor, East Research Building, Mita Campus, Keio University
Chair: Noburu Noutomi (Keio University)
Organized by: Noburu Notomi, Logicand Informatics Unit, Global COE CARLS, Keio University
Reference (in Japanese): " How to read a platonic dialogue"

The Workshop on "the Interface between Syntax and Pragmatics/Semantics'" with Lectures by Paul Portner is held on 11-12th September, 2010

The Workshop on "the Interface between Syntax and Pragmatics/Semantics'" with Lectures by Paul Portner is to be held as follows.
 *Admission free, no registration required.
 *This event will be held in English; no interpretation provided.


Title: "the Interface between Syntax and Pragmatics/Semantics"
Date and Time: Saturday, 11th September, 2010; 9:50-16:45
                         Sunday, 12th September, 2010; 9:50-16:30

Venue: Plaza Azure, Kanda Institute of Foreign Languages, Bldg. 3, FL 6

For more information, please visit the following Web site: " Kanda Institute of Foreign Languages"

Lecture by Prof. Mathieu Marion is held on 1st September, 2010

Lecture by Prof. Mathieu Marion (Université du Québec à Montréal) is to be held as follows.
 *Admission free, no registration required.
 *This event will be held in English; no interpretation provided.


Lecturer: Prof. Mathieu Marion (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Title: "Arguing for contradictions: dialectical games in Plato's dialogues"
Date and Time: Wednesday, 1st September, 2010; 16:00 ‐ 18:00
Venue: G-SEC Seminar Room, 4th floor, East Research Building, Mita Campus, Keio University
Chair: Takashi Iida (Global COE CARLS, Keio University)
Organized by: Takashi Iida, Akinori Hayashi, Ryota Akiyoshi, Philosophy and Cultural Anthropology Unit, Global COE CARLS, Keio University
Reference (in Japanese): " Arguing for contradictions: dialectical games in Plato's dialogues"

Cultural Anthropology Group Research Seminar "Onto-logical Species:Thinking with Animals" is held on 30th August, 2010

Research Seminar "Onto-logical Species:Thinking with Animals" is to be held as follows.
 *Admission free, no registration required.
 *This event will be held in English; no interpretation provided.


Title: "Onto-logical Species:Thinking with Animals"
Date and Time: Monday, 30th August, 2010; 14:00-17:30
Venue: 6F G-SEC Lab, East Building, Mita Campus, Keio University
Organized by: Cultural Anthropology Group, Global COE CARLS, Keio University


OUTLINE:
In the social and human sciences, animals have figured for decades as something radically other: they lack rationality, culture, even emotions. On the other hand, scientific research from genetics to neuroscience has been increasingly making our fellow species stand in as models for humans thereby articulating new forms of resemblance. In this workshop, we will try to avoid either extreme and rather focus on the interplay between differences and similarities in the technosocial encounters with animals. Our presenters - a cultural anthropologist and a scholar of science and technology studies - will address such issues through their empirical work on salmon-oriented environmental research in North America and whale knowledges in Japan and beyond, respectively. How do these settings allow different species to be realized, connected and demarcated? How do animals and humans come into being through their interaction with each other in technological and scientific arenas? Such questions are situated in and stimulated by what some may call the ontological turn, and hopefully they open up new crossroads between the humanities and the life sciences. At the same time, they enable us to take the problem of this seminar series a step further and ask how the relationship between logics and sensibilities is done in practice.


PROGRAM:
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
 Miyasaka Keizo (Cultural Anthropology, Keio University)
"DIFFERENCES THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE: DISTINCTIONS OF WILDNESS AND PRACTICES OF DOING SALMON"
 Heather Swanson (Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz)
"HOW MANY (SUPER-)WHALES ARE WE? NOTES ON THE ONTOLOGICAL POLITICS OF NON-HUMAN CHARISMA"
 Anders Blok (Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen)
-Coffee Break- (c. 16:00)
COMMENT
 Watanabe Shigeru (Department of Psychology, Keio University)
 Suzuki Yasunori (CARLS, Keio University)
GENERAL DISCUSSION
*Moderator: Mohacsi Gergely (CARLS, Keio University)


Reference: "Onto-logical Species:Thinking with Animals"

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