Hasta finales de febrero del 2026 pueden mandar sus propuestas de comunicación para el congreso Phenomenology Today, que tendrá lugar entre el 19 y el 24 de Julio, en Monte Verità en Ascona, Suiza. En su organización participan socias de nuestra sociedad.
Tema de la conferencia:
(de la página del organizador)This conference aims to explore phenomenology’s identity and vitality in the 21st-century. Phenomenology has long been regarded as one of the central legacies of 20th-century philosophy, but its historical development and ongoing diversification have rendered its unity increasingly opaque. While phenomenology emerged as a rigorous method for describing conscious experience, it has continuously evolved through dialogue with other philosophical traditions, empirical sciences, and socio-political movements. Its resulting pluralism raises a fundamental question: what, if anything, still unites phenomenology today?
This question raises two sets of issues. The first is historical: how should phenomenology be defined and reconstructed as a tradition? Is it best understood as a movement anchored in key figures such as Brentano, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Stein or rather as a set of methodological commitments that continue to animate contemporary thought?
The second set of issues is systematic. It asks in which philosophical domains the phenomenological tradition continues to offer distinctive insights, and what problems it is uniquely positioned to illuminate. While phenomenology originated in the analysis of consciousness and intentionality, it now addresses a wide range of questions concerning linguistic, social, moral, and political life. The conference will examine how phenomenological approaches shed light on philosophical problems while engaging not only with other traditions within philosophy, e.g., analytic philosophy or (post)-critical traditions, but also with other academic disciplines.
Accordingly, the meeting will foreground a series of core themes that exemplify phenomenology’s continuing relevance as a philosophical approach. These include its contributions to the philosophy of mind, epistemology, value theory, political and social philosophy, psychopathology, and metaphysics. By situating phenomenology within this constellation of philosophical subfields and key substantive questions, the conference aims to underscore its ongoing significance.
Leer más en la página del organizador
Envío de propuestas:
(de la página de organizador)
Please submit the following documents to ha*************@un***.ch by 28 February 2026:
- Anonymised abstract of up to 600 words
- Cover letter indicating position, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, and the possibility of covering part (or all) of the fees (see details above)
- All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review. Please note that then number of available slots for selected speakers is limited, and that the rejection rate is therefore expected to be higher than usual for conferences of this kind.
- Decisions will be communicated by the end of March.
