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Title: | Structural isolation and performative holism – Gotthard Günther and Hegel on the interrelatedness of cybernetics and subjectivity engineering要登録 |
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| Date: | 2025年8月17日（日）15:00-17:00 |
Place: | 東京大学駒場Ⅰキャンパス 101号館2階24号室 |
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Structural isolation and performative holism – Gotthard Günther and Hegel on the interrelatedness of cybernetics and subjectivity engineering
Date: 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Sunday, 17th August, 2025
Place: Room 24, Bldg. 101, U Tokyo Komaba Campus
Lecturer: Paul Busch (University of Heidelberg)
Paul Busch, born in 2002 in Heidelberg, is invited as a Special Research Student at the University of Tokyo and works as a Student Research Assistant at the chair for classical German philosophy at the University of Heidelberg (since 2022). Scholarship by German National Academic Foundation (since 2021); Short-term International Visiting Trainee, Tohoku University and Short-term International Student, Kyoto University (both 2024); Visiting Student, ITEM/CNRS, École Normale Supérieure Paris (2025); several publications regarding the connection of classical German philosophy and contemporary cultural phenomena.
Abstract:
Albeit severely criticised by his contemporary Hermann Schmitz in a 1961 book review (Philosophische Rundschau), the work by the German Hegel scholar Gotthard Günther (1900–1984) is experiencing a genuine increase in popularity these days. Throughout my presentation, I aim to problematise said confidence by developing two arguments with recourse to Hegel himself. The first argument tackles the alleged presupposition lessness of Günther’s claim regarding the explanatory isolation and mechanical reproducibility of memory. The second argument, more globally, relates to the method of structural isolation itself. Specifically, I seek to emphasise considerable difficulties proper to any attempt at carelessly isolating specific performances of mind with insufficient awareness of their explanatory context. Against this background, I endeavour to underscore the continuing relevance of Hegel and Günther as interlocutors in current debates fostering the question as to how consciousness could be artificially implemented.
Organized by the University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy, Uehiro Research Division for Philosophy of Co-existence