A conference “New Dialogues on Thinking and Being” (June 7-9, 2024)
A three-day international conference “New Dialogues on Thinking and Being” (June 7-9) will be devoted to the book by Irad Kimhi, translated into Polish by Dr. Marcin Rychter from the University of Warsaw. The will be held at the University of Wrocław, and available online. Details, program and the link below.
The New Dialogues on Thinking and Being symposium will be devoted to Irad Kimhi’s book Thinking and Being (2018). The author, mathematician and philosopher from Tel-Aviv, currently teaching at the University of Chicago, opposes Frege’s separation of content and the act of judging, which, in his opinion, has led analytical philosophy astray. Abandoning this distinction allows, according to Kimhi, to understand the structure of logical judgments as an expression of a special way of existence specific to humans.
The debut publication of the sixty-year-old author was widely discussed in the philosophical and popular media. “Mind” devoted a long review to it, in which the author called Kimhi one of the greatest philosophers of our times, and The New York Times called him “an iconic figure”, “a one-of-a-kind interlocutor” and “a modern-day Socrates”. Kimhi’s book was published in Polish in 2022, translated by Marcin Rychter: https://kronos.org.pl/ksiazki/myslenie-i-istenie/
The symposium will be attended by, among others: the author, James Conant from the University of Chicago, Jean-Philippe Narboux from the University of Strasbourg, Adam Chmielewski from the University of Wrocław and Marcin Rychter from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw. The Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw is a co-organizer of the event.
The meeting will be available online on the Teams platform at the link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MDIxMTBjMmYtODJlOS00NjE1LWE4ZWMtY2NlNTM0NGFiMDkw%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%222b71bef9-3b13-4432-b5f4-1f5ac2278d0c%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22994b6431-9b83-492f-b293-174975fbdeac%22%7d
Here is the event program:
June 7 (Friday)
Lectures – Day one
9.30am – 11.00am: Irad Kimhi – First Lecture
11am – 11.14am: Break
11.15am – 12.45pm: Discussion
Lunch: 12.45pm – 2.45pm
2.25pm – 4.15pm: Jean-Philippe Narboux – Lecture
4.15pm – 4.30pm: Break
4.30pm – 6pm: Discussion
June 8 (Saturday)
Philosophers on “Thinking and Being”
9.30am – 10.30am: Jean-Philippe Narboux
10.30am – 11.30am: James Conant
Lunch: 11.30am – 1.30pm
1.30pm – 2.30pm: Adam Chmielewski
2.30pm – 3.30pm: Marcin Rychter
3.30pm – 3.45pm: Break
3.45pm – 4.30pm: Discussion
June 9 (Sunday)
Lectures – Day Two
9.30am – 11.am: Irad Kimhi – Second Lecture
11am – 12pm: Discussion
