Conference Programme
Day 2: Thursday, August 8
Registration & Coffee
09:00–09:30
Jonathan Mize
University of North Texas
Mind, Your Business: Reimagining business, art and science
The world is aching for a fresh approach to how we interact with one another. A popular prescription for our ailment is some type of new “ism,” some meticulously engineered set of dictums that propose to “fix society” once and for all. In this paper, I offer no “isms,” no grand new paradigms and no set of rules that humanity “must follow,” lest they slip into oblivion. What I offer is something very simple—a re-seeing of our approach to our everyday lives, a lifting of the vision from the “ills” and the “evils” of the world to the potential for our collective creation and experience. Indeed, this is exactly what I offer, a vision of an economy and society rooted in creation as opposed to production and experience as opposed to consumption. But to see things anew in such a light, we will need new tools. These tools are both (1) a new vision of value that is based in the qualitative as opposed to the quantitative and (2) a new vision of communication, broadening our view of what communication constitutes, moving past our usual, somewhat restricted conception of language. In this paper, I offer a vision of a society where mind and its powers of creation and joys of experience is the cornerstone, generalizing business to “the commerce of experience” and re-imagining both art and science in the process.
Jonathan graduated from the University of North Texas in 2020 with a BA in Philosophy. He has published several academic articles, including Panentheism and the Problem of World Inclusion (Philosophia) in 2022, Triads as Primal (Process Studies Supplements) in 2023 and From Self-Descriptions (SD) to Self-Recommendations (SR) (International Journal of Information Management Data Insights) in 2024.
The world is aching for a fresh approach to how we interact with one another. A popular prescription for our ailment is some type of new “ism,” some meticulously engineered set of dictums that propose to “fix society” once and for all. In this paper, I offer no “isms,” no grand new paradigms and no set of rules that humanity “must follow,” lest they slip into oblivion. What I offer is something very simple—a re-seeing of our approach to our everyday lives, a lifting of the vision from the “ills” and the “evils” of the world to the potential for our collective creation and experience. Indeed, this is exactly what I offer, a vision of an economy and society rooted in creation as opposed to production and experience as opposed to consumption. But to see things anew in such a light, we will need new tools. These tools are both (1) a new vision of value that is based in the qualitative as opposed to the quantitative and (2) a new vision of communication, broadening our view of what communication constitutes, moving past our usual, somewhat restricted conception of language. In this paper, I offer a vision of a society where mind and its powers of creation and joys of experience is the cornerstone, generalizing business to “the commerce of experience” and re-imagining both art and science in the process.
Jonathan graduated from the University of North Texas in 2020 with a BA in Philosophy. He has published several academic articles, including Panentheism and the Problem of World Inclusion (Philosophia) in 2022, Triads as Primal (Process Studies Supplements) in 2023 and From Self-Descriptions (SD) to Self-Recommendations (SR) (International Journal of Information Management Data Insights) in 2024.
09:30–10:00
Diego Lucio Rapoport Campodonico
retired from academy
The Geometry and Topology of the Primal Distinction: Phenomenology and cosmo-sociomorphisms
We introduce the torsion 5-fold geometry associated to the principles of selfreference and hetero-refererence and nonorientable Moebius strip and Klein Bottle as the geometry and topology associated to the primal distinction introduced by Spencer-Brown. We introduce its embodiment of the Golden Mean. We briefly review its nature as the basis for phenomenology rather than the world as a given autonomous exterior entity, and metaforms of the unity of action and perception, pattern formation and recognition, unity-as-resonance, geometry of randomness, matter, fluid and magnetohydrodynamics, quantum mechanics,music in the Pythagorean tradition, non-linear sound, classical physics and its bearing in the precession of the equinoxes (the universal myth of humankind), liquid crystals pervasive to lifeforms, of genomes as harmonic dynamical structures arranged in terms of palindromic sections, biology, as the gap between TRUE and FALSE operators of Matrix Logic supporting a supradual logophysics the unity of action and perception, and of signification through semiosis. In other words, though phenomenological, the present theory also elaborates on the physical world as if autonomous yet lifting this to a unity with the psyche. Duality as a projection of supraduality operated by the latter, rather than independent nor primeval. For examples, the much preached decoherence of the classical physics domain is such a projection operated by the Klein Bottle supraduality, and topological nonorientability supports Newton's Third Law of action and reaction and quantum entanglement. We briefly review its embodied nature, the human bodyplan, and particularly its crucial role in subcellular structures such as microtubules and in neuronal action potentials. We contrast all this with the physicalist reductionism of Penrose & Hameroff, which purportedly is about a theory of emergent ‘consciousness’ relative to a putative form of quantum gravity entirely unrelated to phenomenology -the world as experience- selfreference and heteroreference . Rather than a panpsychic cosmos we elicit a pansemiotic unity of cosmos in all its scales and phenomenae. The theory follows the forthcoming monograph by the author: Supraduality, Nature,Cognition and Myth: A Transdisciplinarian logophysics phenomenology, and prior published works by the author.
Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina; developed early intensive experience on paradox, developed much later on with a passion for wholeness, tour de force; emigrated to Brazil and Chile twice, Israel and Mexico and Patagonia once, sojourned at Harvard for completion of PhD in mathematical-physics; full professor, vicepresident Telesio Galileo Academy of Science (London); all in all, a self-educated wild creature of wolfish character combined with a search for practising interesting vibrant conversations and social activity. Loves Nature, music, women, harmonious architectures and gardens. We have developed a transdisciplinarian unification of knowledge in terms of a supradual (i.e. transcending dualism) logophysics, healing the Cartesian Cut. More than 80 articles published in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters as a single author.
We introduce the torsion 5-fold geometry associated to the principles of selfreference and hetero-refererence and nonorientable Moebius strip and Klein Bottle as the geometry and topology associated to the primal distinction introduced by Spencer-Brown. We introduce its embodiment of the Golden Mean. We briefly review its nature as the basis for phenomenology rather than the world as a given autonomous exterior entity, and metaforms of the unity of action and perception, pattern formation and recognition, unity-as-resonance, geometry of randomness, matter, fluid and magnetohydrodynamics, quantum mechanics,music in the Pythagorean tradition, non-linear sound, classical physics and its bearing in the precession of the equinoxes (the universal myth of humankind), liquid crystals pervasive to lifeforms, of genomes as harmonic dynamical structures arranged in terms of palindromic sections, biology, as the gap between TRUE and FALSE operators of Matrix Logic supporting a supradual logophysics the unity of action and perception, and of signification through semiosis. In other words, though phenomenological, the present theory also elaborates on the physical world as if autonomous yet lifting this to a unity with the psyche. Duality as a projection of supraduality operated by the latter, rather than independent nor primeval. For examples, the much preached decoherence of the classical physics domain is such a projection operated by the Klein Bottle supraduality, and topological nonorientability supports Newton's Third Law of action and reaction and quantum entanglement. We briefly review its embodied nature, the human bodyplan, and particularly its crucial role in subcellular structures such as microtubules and in neuronal action potentials. We contrast all this with the physicalist reductionism of Penrose & Hameroff, which purportedly is about a theory of emergent ‘consciousness’ relative to a putative form of quantum gravity entirely unrelated to phenomenology -the world as experience- selfreference and heteroreference . Rather than a panpsychic cosmos we elicit a pansemiotic unity of cosmos in all its scales and phenomenae. The theory follows the forthcoming monograph by the author: Supraduality, Nature,Cognition and Myth: A Transdisciplinarian logophysics phenomenology, and prior published works by the author.
Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina; developed early intensive experience on paradox, developed much later on with a passion for wholeness, tour de force; emigrated to Brazil and Chile twice, Israel and Mexico and Patagonia once, sojourned at Harvard for completion of PhD in mathematical-physics; full professor, vicepresident Telesio Galileo Academy of Science (London); all in all, a self-educated wild creature of wolfish character combined with a search for practising interesting vibrant conversations and social activity. Loves Nature, music, women, harmonious architectures and gardens. We have developed a transdisciplinarian unification of knowledge in terms of a supradual (i.e. transcending dualism) logophysics, healing the Cartesian Cut. More than 80 articles published in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters as a single author.
10:00–10:30
Till Gathmann
A Poetics of Abstraction: George Spencer-Brown and Wilfred Bion
I this talk I would like to explore what seductively could be described as Wahlverwandtschaft, an elective affinity or kinship, between George Spencer-Brown and the British psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion, who was born 1897 in Mathura, India, and died 1979 in Oxfordshire, UK. Bion underwent his training analysis with Melanie Klein, whose influential transformation of Freudian concepts he further developed. As Klein, he—contrary to the position held by Freud—was convinced that the psychoanalytic treatment of psychotic patients is possible. In his work he thus focussed on psychic developments in early infant life and the fundamental question of how the ability to think comes into being by differentiating itself from a psychic state, in which outer and inner reality are perceived as one. Naturally, the question of a distinction that is performed, modified, reflected, expanded, and integrated into itself appears at the centre of his theoretical work. At the core of this metapsychology the distinction of beta and alpha elements is at work, marked by what he calls the alpha function. One might be inclined to treat this conceptual design as “Laws of Form,” and look at it with the help of Spencer-Brown.
Till Gathmann is a writer, artist, and typographer based in Berlin. His writing essayistic prose combines philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the history of writing.
I this talk I would like to explore what seductively could be described as Wahlverwandtschaft, an elective affinity or kinship, between George Spencer-Brown and the British psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion, who was born 1897 in Mathura, India, and died 1979 in Oxfordshire, UK. Bion underwent his training analysis with Melanie Klein, whose influential transformation of Freudian concepts he further developed. As Klein, he—contrary to the position held by Freud—was convinced that the psychoanalytic treatment of psychotic patients is possible. In his work he thus focussed on psychic developments in early infant life and the fundamental question of how the ability to think comes into being by differentiating itself from a psychic state, in which outer and inner reality are perceived as one. Naturally, the question of a distinction that is performed, modified, reflected, expanded, and integrated into itself appears at the centre of his theoretical work. At the core of this metapsychology the distinction of beta and alpha elements is at work, marked by what he calls the alpha function. One might be inclined to treat this conceptual design as “Laws of Form,” and look at it with the help of Spencer-Brown.
Till Gathmann is a writer, artist, and typographer based in Berlin. His writing essayistic prose combines philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the history of writing.
10:30–11:00
Coffee Break
11:00–11:30
Dirk Baecker
Zeppelin University
A New Monadology
Entities are non-identities. It is not just divisions which make up for the stuff of the world, but divisions combined with negativity. If any monad combines the bounded (peras) and the unbounded (apeiron) into a harmony, as Pythagoras would have it, it is negativity (steiresis), Aristotle added, which holds them apart and draws them together. This is at least what human reasoning (logos) can understand and talk about. – When Leibniz turned to aristotelian philosophy of substance he was in fact looking for a calculus of function. His monadology showed that monads combine unity and diversity by being closed (windowless), on one hand, and perspective mirrors of the universe, on the other. Asking how communication among those monads is possible he answered that any one of them is directly communicating with God whom they find inside them. – Spencer-Brown does not talk about monads. But his forms show how it is distinctions re-entered into their form which lets us understand the smallest possible functional entities. – In today's sociological theory communication is both an overall state or condition and an individual operation. A new monadology would talk about communication among forms without reference to God by calling communication a self-referential second-order observation of distinctions drawn by organisms, brains, consciousness, society, culture, and synthetic intelligence alike.
Study of sociology and economics at Universities in Cologne, Germany, and Paris, France. PhD and Habilitation in sociology at University of Bielefeld. Chairs for sociology, culture theory, and management at Witten/Herdecke University (1996–2007 and 2015–2021) and Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany (2007–2015). Since 2022 senior professorship for organizational and social theory. Works on sociological theory, economic sociology, culture theory, organizational research, and management education. Works on the form calculus ever since a Habilitation on the form of the firm (1993).
Entities are non-identities. It is not just divisions which make up for the stuff of the world, but divisions combined with negativity. If any monad combines the bounded (peras) and the unbounded (apeiron) into a harmony, as Pythagoras would have it, it is negativity (steiresis), Aristotle added, which holds them apart and draws them together. This is at least what human reasoning (logos) can understand and talk about. – When Leibniz turned to aristotelian philosophy of substance he was in fact looking for a calculus of function. His monadology showed that monads combine unity and diversity by being closed (windowless), on one hand, and perspective mirrors of the universe, on the other. Asking how communication among those monads is possible he answered that any one of them is directly communicating with God whom they find inside them. – Spencer-Brown does not talk about monads. But his forms show how it is distinctions re-entered into their form which lets us understand the smallest possible functional entities. – In today's sociological theory communication is both an overall state or condition and an individual operation. A new monadology would talk about communication among forms without reference to God by calling communication a self-referential second-order observation of distinctions drawn by organisms, brains, consciousness, society, culture, and synthetic intelligence alike.
Study of sociology and economics at Universities in Cologne, Germany, and Paris, France. PhD and Habilitation in sociology at University of Bielefeld. Chairs for sociology, culture theory, and management at Witten/Herdecke University (1996–2007 and 2015–2021) and Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany (2007–2015). Since 2022 senior professorship for organizational and social theory. Works on sociological theory, economic sociology, culture theory, organizational research, and management education. Works on the form calculus ever since a Habilitation on the form of the firm (1993).
11:30–12:00
Walter Tydecks
The State of the Form – Commentary on the notes to chapter 11
Spencer-Brown's concern is already to be seen in his early work on probability and the patenting of a lift control system. He emphasizes conflicts that are unsolvable within traditional logic and its two-valuedness of true and no, existing and non-existing. Instead, he introduces not a new value but a new state with the imaginary. In this way, he finds his way out of the impasse into which the various drafts of a multi-valued, non-Aristotelian logic have fallen.
At the heart of Laws of Form is therefore a reinterpretation of what is meant by states, a distinction between states, valences and values. This is his narrative: at the beginning, Spencer-Brown defines a form as the distinction between a marked and an unmarked state (LoF, 4f). In the course of the Laws of Form, the unmarked state becomes an imaginary, unsteady, "a less central" and finally a creative "state of mind" (LoF, 58, 64, 101, 68) as opposed to a state that remains "parasitic" on the old and closes itself off to the new (LoF, 102). The state transforms its own state.
Tydecks, Walter, b. 1952, studied mathematics, political science and philosophy (Dipl.-Math.), Professional activity as a system developer, project manager and IT manager of medium-sized companies with a global orientation, philosophical work with a focus on philosophy and mathematics, recent developments in logic, Aristotle and the classical German philosophy.
Spencer-Brown's concern is already to be seen in his early work on probability and the patenting of a lift control system. He emphasizes conflicts that are unsolvable within traditional logic and its two-valuedness of true and no, existing and non-existing. Instead, he introduces not a new value but a new state with the imaginary. In this way, he finds his way out of the impasse into which the various drafts of a multi-valued, non-Aristotelian logic have fallen.
At the heart of Laws of Form is therefore a reinterpretation of what is meant by states, a distinction between states, valences and values. This is his narrative: at the beginning, Spencer-Brown defines a form as the distinction between a marked and an unmarked state (LoF, 4f). In the course of the Laws of Form, the unmarked state becomes an imaginary, unsteady, "a less central" and finally a creative "state of mind" (LoF, 58, 64, 101, 68) as opposed to a state that remains "parasitic" on the old and closes itself off to the new (LoF, 102). The state transforms its own state.
Tydecks, Walter, b. 1952, studied mathematics, political science and philosophy (Dipl.-Math.), Professional activity as a system developer, project manager and IT manager of medium-sized companies with a global orientation, philosophical work with a focus on philosophy and mathematics, recent developments in logic, Aristotle and the classical German philosophy.
12:00–12:30
Lyle Allen Anderson, III
Association for Computing Machinery
Laws of Form in Technicolor
Laws of Form, as written, was about the value of the distinctions. Relaxing the requirement that a distinction have a value and allowing distinctions that simply indicate what has been chosen and what has not been chosen leads to The Laws of Sets (Set Theory). Treating the cardinal number of a set as the value indicated by the set leads to Natural Number Theory. We use green color to distinguish distinctions which are for grouping. This Green Cross is identified with the Unwritten Cross of Laws of Form. We examine how various digital encoding schemes can be developed using nested Green Crosses. We examine the impact of interpreting the Cross as a rotation and making it the element of sets. Clockwise and counterclockwise rotations lead directly to positive and negative numbers which complements that number line interpretation. This introduces geometric interpretations into the Laws of Form. We introduce the Red Cross to identify the concept of negative values. We associate he Green Cross with Positive Translations and the Red Cross with the Negative translations. The Blue Cross for identifying rotations and fractional values, the Purple Cross for identifying negative rotational values, the Aqua (Cyan) Cross and Yellow Cross for positive and negative imaginary values. Finally, we show how a boundary can be indicated using the Dedekind Cut to indicate irrational values of all four number types.
Lyle Anderson was born in 1946 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA and raised just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in Jeffersonville, PA. He attended Kalamazoo College from 1963 through 1967 receiving a BA in Mathematics and Physics. He attended Iowa State University at Ames studying Solid State Physics until joining the Navy as an enlisted man in 1968. He graduated Electrician's Mate A school in 1969 and was halfway through Nuclear Power School when he was picked up for Officer Candidates School. After receiving his commission in 1970, and while awaiting Naval Nuclear Power School at Submarine Development Group Two in Groton, CT, he developed "a methodology and a computer program for the real-time application of sonar information" that was "a major contribution to solving the complex anti-submarine fired control problem." That work led to a nearly 40-year civilian career in combat and intelligence systems development work. Since retiring in 2014, he has gone back to the investigation of mathematics and physics that was interrupted in the summer of 1968.
Laws of Form, as written, was about the value of the distinctions. Relaxing the requirement that a distinction have a value and allowing distinctions that simply indicate what has been chosen and what has not been chosen leads to The Laws of Sets (Set Theory). Treating the cardinal number of a set as the value indicated by the set leads to Natural Number Theory. We use green color to distinguish distinctions which are for grouping. This Green Cross is identified with the Unwritten Cross of Laws of Form. We examine how various digital encoding schemes can be developed using nested Green Crosses. We examine the impact of interpreting the Cross as a rotation and making it the element of sets. Clockwise and counterclockwise rotations lead directly to positive and negative numbers which complements that number line interpretation. This introduces geometric interpretations into the Laws of Form. We introduce the Red Cross to identify the concept of negative values. We associate he Green Cross with Positive Translations and the Red Cross with the Negative translations. The Blue Cross for identifying rotations and fractional values, the Purple Cross for identifying negative rotational values, the Aqua (Cyan) Cross and Yellow Cross for positive and negative imaginary values. Finally, we show how a boundary can be indicated using the Dedekind Cut to indicate irrational values of all four number types.
Lyle Anderson was born in 1946 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA and raised just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in Jeffersonville, PA. He attended Kalamazoo College from 1963 through 1967 receiving a BA in Mathematics and Physics. He attended Iowa State University at Ames studying Solid State Physics until joining the Navy as an enlisted man in 1968. He graduated Electrician's Mate A school in 1969 and was halfway through Nuclear Power School when he was picked up for Officer Candidates School. After receiving his commission in 1970, and while awaiting Naval Nuclear Power School at Submarine Development Group Two in Groton, CT, he developed "a methodology and a computer program for the real-time application of sonar information" that was "a major contribution to solving the complex anti-submarine fired control problem." That work led to a nearly 40-year civilian career in combat and intelligence systems development work. Since retiring in 2014, he has gone back to the investigation of mathematics and physics that was interrupted in the summer of 1968.
12:30–13:00
Lunch Break
13:00–14:30
Nathaniel Hellerstein
Kleenean Set-Nim Circuits
This paper presents three-valued Kleenean paradox logic. It displays the logic's definitions and truth tables. It lists Kleenean logic's equational identities, its normal form, and its two fundamental theorems: complete deduction and complete self-reference.
This paper then proposes a theory of sets with Kleenean values for epsilon. The Kleenean world's axioms include complete comprehension, intensional uniqueness, extensional infinitude, countability, and compactness.
The Kleenean world contains the "nim sets" F and S, which contain, respectively, first-player winners, and second-player winners, at the game "Set Nim". The set-nim properties of Kleenean sets mimic switching circuits. The Kleenean set world lacks higher cardinals, but it emulates any computer.
Born in Boston on November 20, 1957; Princeton University BA in Mathematics, 1978; University of California at Berkeley PhD in Logic and Foundations, 1984; lives in San Francisco; teaches at the City College of San Francisco and at the College of San Mateo.
More info: paradox-point.blogspot.com
This paper presents three-valued Kleenean paradox logic. It displays the logic's definitions and truth tables. It lists Kleenean logic's equational identities, its normal form, and its two fundamental theorems: complete deduction and complete self-reference.
This paper then proposes a theory of sets with Kleenean values for epsilon. The Kleenean world's axioms include complete comprehension, intensional uniqueness, extensional infinitude, countability, and compactness.
The Kleenean world contains the "nim sets" F and S, which contain, respectively, first-player winners, and second-player winners, at the game "Set Nim". The set-nim properties of Kleenean sets mimic switching circuits. The Kleenean set world lacks higher cardinals, but it emulates any computer.
Born in Boston on November 20, 1957; Princeton University BA in Mathematics, 1978; University of California at Berkeley PhD in Logic and Foundations, 1984; lives in San Francisco; teaches at the City College of San Francisco and at the College of San Mateo.
More info: paradox-point.blogspot.com
14:30–15:00
Leon Conrad
The Next Society Institute; The Unknown Storyteller Project; The Traditional Tutor; The Academy of Oratory
One-ly Two Can Play the Game: A 'knew' look
This discussion paper outlines a series of parallels between Spencer-Brown's description of the roots of number theory, R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz's view of the roots of number theory as viewed through the lens of symbolist Egyptology, traditional Chinese views of creation through number, and the views of Rolt's Introduction to his translation of works by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, which directly influenced Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form.
It aims to explore the extent to which these approaches might be comparable.
In 2013, George Spencer-Brown began mentoring Leon through the process of engaging with Laws of Form on a weekly basis, following which the engagement continued through the last 3 years of Spencer-Brown's life, and resulted in a meaningful friendship. Leon has gone on to successfully apply Spencer-Brown's methodology to the practice of logic, and – most recently – to the analysis of story structures, looking at the close link between story structures and different types of problems. His book, Story and Structure: A complete guide has won 10 literary awards including IPNE Nonfiction Book of the Year and was a finalist in The People's Book Prize (2022).
More info: leonconrad.com – @leonconradstory
This discussion paper outlines a series of parallels between Spencer-Brown's description of the roots of number theory, R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz's view of the roots of number theory as viewed through the lens of symbolist Egyptology, traditional Chinese views of creation through number, and the views of Rolt's Introduction to his translation of works by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, which directly influenced Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form.
It aims to explore the extent to which these approaches might be comparable.
In 2013, George Spencer-Brown began mentoring Leon through the process of engaging with Laws of Form on a weekly basis, following which the engagement continued through the last 3 years of Spencer-Brown's life, and resulted in a meaningful friendship. Leon has gone on to successfully apply Spencer-Brown's methodology to the practice of logic, and – most recently – to the analysis of story structures, looking at the close link between story structures and different types of problems. His book, Story and Structure: A complete guide has won 10 literary awards including IPNE Nonfiction Book of the Year and was a finalist in The People's Book Prize (2022).
More info: leonconrad.com – @leonconradstory
15:00–15:30
KEYNOTE
Irene Breuer
Irene Breuer
Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany
Erôs and Philia: Their ethical role
Spencer Brown’s description of the experience of love emphasizes the partner’s communion in feeling, their perfect fitting, their absence of selfishness, their mutual responsibility in the pursuit of a shared happiness, all which features enable the partners to fully realise their potentialities and benefit from their mutual exchange. These features are no other than those that define the semantic content of the word ‘love’ in terms of Plato’s and Aristotle’s erôs and philia. While philia is commonly translated as friendship, erôs is characterized as a desire that is felt towards what is loved. While Plato’s Symposium and Phaedrus offer the best account of erôs insofar as it involves not only relationships based on intimacy, affection and sexuality but philia as well, the fullest discussion of philia is provided by Books VII and IX of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. Both of these terms are present in Husserl’s ethics: From love as a primal instinct or drive ensuring self-preservation to love in the context of a rational faith in God. Embracing this quest is first and foremost an act of love and, as in Plato’s and Aristotle’s ethics, it is a love for the pursuit of happiness.
Degree in Architecture (1988) and in Philosophy (2003) from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina. 2012: PhD in Philosophy from the Bergische University Wuppertal (BUW), Germany. 1988-2002: Lecturer, then Professor for Architectural Design and Theory at the UBA. 2012 to mid 2017: Lecturer for Theoretical Philosophy and Phenomenology at the BUW. 2019: DAAD scholarship, research on the reception of the German Philosophical Anthropology in Argentina. Pesently working on mentioned research subject, with the support of the BUW. Her main research focus is set on Ancient Philosophy, specially the Pre-Socratics and Aristotle, Phenomenology and Aesthetics.
More info: https://uni-wuppertal.academia.edu/IreneBreuer
Spencer Brown’s description of the experience of love emphasizes the partner’s communion in feeling, their perfect fitting, their absence of selfishness, their mutual responsibility in the pursuit of a shared happiness, all which features enable the partners to fully realise their potentialities and benefit from their mutual exchange. These features are no other than those that define the semantic content of the word ‘love’ in terms of Plato’s and Aristotle’s erôs and philia. While philia is commonly translated as friendship, erôs is characterized as a desire that is felt towards what is loved. While Plato’s Symposium and Phaedrus offer the best account of erôs insofar as it involves not only relationships based on intimacy, affection and sexuality but philia as well, the fullest discussion of philia is provided by Books VII and IX of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. Both of these terms are present in Husserl’s ethics: From love as a primal instinct or drive ensuring self-preservation to love in the context of a rational faith in God. Embracing this quest is first and foremost an act of love and, as in Plato’s and Aristotle’s ethics, it is a love for the pursuit of happiness.
Degree in Architecture (1988) and in Philosophy (2003) from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina. 2012: PhD in Philosophy from the Bergische University Wuppertal (BUW), Germany. 1988-2002: Lecturer, then Professor for Architectural Design and Theory at the UBA. 2012 to mid 2017: Lecturer for Theoretical Philosophy and Phenomenology at the BUW. 2019: DAAD scholarship, research on the reception of the German Philosophical Anthropology in Argentina. Pesently working on mentioned research subject, with the support of the BUW. Her main research focus is set on Ancient Philosophy, specially the Pre-Socratics and Aristotle, Phenomenology and Aesthetics.
More info: https://uni-wuppertal.academia.edu/IreneBreuer
15:30–16:30
Plenary
16:30–17:00
Vacate the premises
17:00
Dinner
18:30
