Phenomenology, Naturalism and Metaphysics

Doctoral course title: Phenomenology, Naturalism, and Metaphysics

Topic for the year 2020-2021: Sensation and Perception

Coordinators: Proff. Antonio M. Nunziante, Andrea Altobrando

Other Participants: dott. Luca Corti

Start: October 28th, 2020, h 16:30-19.00

Frequency: once or twice a month, from October 2020 to April 2021, on Wednesday. Scheduled time: 16:30 - 19.00

Calendar: October 28; December 16; January 13 and 27: February 10 and 24; March 17; April 14; May 12; June 9.

Venue: Sala Seminari, Palazzo del Capitanio, Capitaniato Square, 3-35139 Padova

Topic description: This seminar is devoted to topics in theoretical philosophy which lie at the crossroad between phenomenology and metaphysics, and which raise questions concerning a naturalistic understanding of reality. Phenomenology, in this seminar, is mainly considered as a specific approach to philosophical issues, which analyses experience and its structures, rather than as a philosophical tradition, not to say doctrine. Metaphysics, on the other hand, is considered as a philosophical domain in which one taken on questions concerning the structure of reality also beyond what experience can show. Naturalism, instead, does not represent a specific domain of investigation, but rather a general way of understanding reality as basically natural, and as subject to natural laws. One of the aims of the seminar is to investigate whether, and, in case, how, a naturalistic understanding of the issue at stake from time to time is possible, and, furthermore, if the phenomenological and metaphysical analyses we will carry out purport a specific form of naturalism instead of another one, or if they possibly show an untenability of any kind of naturalism.