A few days ago the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung informed that Hartmann’s unpublished documents (letters, manuscripts, discussion-protocols, etc.) reached the Marbach Archive (this is Germany’s most important archive for the legacy of authors and thinkers, especially of the 20th century).
The following article (in German) adds some information: Deutsches Literatur Archiv
Another good (German) article is: hr-Online
Von der Systemphilosophie zur systematischen Philosophie – Nicolai Hartmann
[From System Philosophy to Systematic Philosophy]
Ed. by Hartung, Gerald / Strube, Claudius / Wunsch, Matthias
De Gruyter 2012
Contents/Inhalts:
Gerald Hartung, Matthias Wunsch und Claudius Strube, Nicolai Hartmann und die Aufgabe systematischer Philosophie
I. Philosophie und Wissenschaften – Das Programm der Kategorienforschung
Reinhold Breil, Hartmanns Beitrag zu einer Begründung des wissenschaftlichen Realismus
Gerald Hartung, Genese und Geltung der Kategorien. Nicolai Hartmann und das Programm der Kategorienforschung
Stephan Nachtsheim, Neue Wege der Kategorienlehre?
Gregor Schiemann, Mehr Seinsschichten für die Welt? Vergleich und Kritik der Schichtenkonzeptionen von Nicolai Hartmann und Werner Heisenberg
Christian Möckel, Nicolai Hartmann – ein Phänomenologe? Zu den Termini Phänomen und Phänomenologie in der Metaphysik der Erkenntnis
II. Neue Ontologie im Kontext – Philosophische Anthropologie und Philosophie des Organischen
Joachim Fischer, Neue Ontologie und Philosophische Anthropologie. Die Kölner Konstellation zwischen Scheler, Hartmann und Plessner
Matthias Wunsch, Kategoriale Gesetze. Zur systematischen Bedeutung Nicolai Hartmanns für die moderne philosophische Anthropologie und die gegenwärtige Philosophie der Person
Gerhard Ehrl, Die Stellung des Menschen bei Nicolai Hartmann und Max Scheler
Steffen Kluck, Entwertung der Realität. Nicolai Hartmann als Kritiker der Ontologie Martin Heideggers
Thomas Kessel, Der Organismus als Individuum
III. Person, Freiheit und Geschichte
Walter Jaeschke, Über Personalität. Das Problem des Geistigen Seins
Inga Römer, Person und Persönlichkeit bei Max Scheler und Nicolai Hartmann
László Tengelyi, Nicolai Hartmanns Metaphysik der Freiheit
Thomas Renkert, Zum Verhältnis von Personalität und Temporalität bei Nicolai Hartmann und Wolfhart Pannenberg
Carlo Scognamiglio, History and Tradition in Nicolai Hartmann’s Theory of Spiritual Being
Mirko Wischke, Sphären der Geschichtlichkeit und ihre Kontexte bei Nicolai Hartmann
IV. Nicolai Hartmann im Gespräch – Was bleibt?
Daniel Dahlstrom, Zur Aktualität der Ontologie Nicolai Hartmanns
Robert Schnepf, Was nutzt eine ontologische Grundlegung der Geschichtswissenschaft? Überlegungen zu Nicolai Hartmanns Das Problem des geistigen Seins
Magnus Schlette, Wahrnehmung‘ in Nicolai Hartmanns erkenntnistheoretischem Realismus
Christian Thies, Was bleibt von Hartmanns Ethik?
pThe entry on Nicolai Hartmann has been published by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy./p
pMy entry on Nicolai Hartmann has been accepted by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy./p
Hartmann offers the idea that philosophy is at the very brink of discoveries in ethics and in ontology, not at the end of its route; he is always willing to go back to the roots of thought, always willing to concede that some problems in metaphysics, though genuine, may always elude our efforts to understand and answer them, but he is nonetheless certain that we can make progress: his doctrine of categories, the theory of modalities, his description of the virtues, the phenomenology of aesthetic experience are but a sample of his contributions to philosophy. Careful analysis of the categorial connections that link them together show that there is a way of systematically develop philosophy without falling into the inflexibility of a closed system. Hartmann understood reality as essentially dynamic, and gave the category of process a central place within his categorial framework. We welcome papers on any portion of Hartmanns philosophy, its place in the history of philosophy, and its relevance for contemporary issues.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Applications should be sent to both Eugene Kelly and Roberto Poli.
Important Dates:
The conference emThe Dynamical Ontologies of A.N. Whitehead and N. Hartmann/em has taken place in Katowice-Panewniki between the 5th and 7th May 2011. The event was organized jointly by two philosophical societies: the A.N. Whitehead Metaphysical Society from Poland and the Nicolai Hartmann Society from Italy. Besides the representatives of both societies, many scholars from various scientific centers from around the world took part in the conference. The lectures were delivered at the Franciscan Seminary in Katowice-Panewniki that was one of the events co-organizers, joined by the Chair of History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy of The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow.
During the first day introductory lectures were delivered, whose purpose was to present basic concepts and theses of Whiteheads and Hartmanns ontological systems and to initially discuss some resemblances and differences between them. The first speaker was Roberto Poli from the Nicolai Hartmann Society in Italy who presented a short comparison between the two systems, discussing both the substantial aspects (e.g. the processual basis, the theory of values, the 2+2 ontological structure) and a global meta-philosophical attitude (e.g. the systematic approach, the close connection to science, the ability to distance themselves from their own results).
Subsequently four lectures were delivered that lasted one hour each and were followed by 30 minutes of discussion. The morning session was focused on Whiteheads philosophy. Bogdan Ogrodnik from the A.N. Whitehead Metaphysical Society in Poland summarized the scheme of processual concepts, including the quantized process, the actual entities, their bipolar nature and the idea of their mutual, internal bonds. He discussed a co-presence of atomistic and continuous models of the world, the concept of organism, the vibrational form of existence, and emphasized the meaning of religious and aesthetic experiences for metaphysics. In the second lecture Helmut Maassen from the Deutsche Whitehead Gesellschaft in Germany continued the introduction of the fundamental concepts of Whiteheads philosophy, paying attention to his categorial scheme and to diverse forms of process analyzed in two aspects: genetic and morphological. Introducing the problem of values, he observed that the processualism accepts both the good (as a positive and creative element) and the evil (as a positive and destructive element). The universe as a creative advance into novelty requires both factors for its existence.
Two lectures included in the afternoon session concerned the ontology of Hartmann. Basic domains and types of existence as well as the nature of ontological categories were introduced by Alicja Pietras from the Pomeranian University in S?upsk, Poland. In her comprehensive lecture she distinguished between the moments of existence (Sosein, Dasein), the types of existence (real, ideal and irreal), and the modes of existence (actuality, possibility, necessity). She also presented categories as the principles of being and discussed a number of philosophical mistakes connected with the so-called old doctrine of categories. In his second lecture Roberto Poli continued a preface to Hartmanns thought, discussed four basic ontological theses, different types of categories (fundamental, special, local), and combined them with the problem of ontological levels.lt;/pgt;br /
lt;pgt;The next two days of the conference contained forty-minutes lectures divided into a half an hour talk and a discussion that lasted ca. 10 minutes. The second day was again opened by Roberto Poli, who discussed the two patterns present in the ontology of Hartmann: (i) the first one, exemplified by many pairs of fundamental categories (e.g. matter-form) and by the moments of existence (Sosein, Dasein), and (ii) the second one, concerning the difference between a pure category and a being property, e.g. time and temporality. Predrag Cicovacki from the College of the Holy Cross in USA dedicated his first lecture to the comparison between Kants and Hartmanns concepts of categories. After discussing historical sources of categorial analysis, the lecturer presented Hartmanns attempt to invert the Copernican revolution of Kant. The final part of the talk was an interesting attempt of a reverse critique of Hartmanns approach from the Kantian perspective. Next, Bogdan Ogrodnik introduced the similarities between Whiteheads and Hartmanns concepts of knowing which both reach beyond a simple subject-object distinction. Emphasizing that metaphysical statements have a hypothetical status, he argued that the philosophy of organisms provides such a description of cognition in which it becomes only an exemplification of a more primordial type of metaphysical relation of prehension.
The next interesting attempt of comparison between the two philosophical systems was the lecture, in which Maria-Teresa Teixeira from the Lisbon University in Portugal carefully discussed their aspects connected with the concepts of process, levels of reality and evolution. Revealing similarities between the Hartmanns stratification and the Whiteheads hierarchy of societies, she admitted that both systems have a processual and dynamic character, however the very concepts of process and temporality are understood differently. In the successive lecture Karl-Friedrich Kiesow from the Leibniz Universitat Hannover in Germany compared both thinkers on the ground of the philosophy of nature and their discussion of the mind-body relation. Despite the differences in perceiving the place of mind in the nature, both – Whitehead and Hartmann – tried to bridge the mind and the matter in a new, more constructive way. In the last lecture of the morning session Jakub Dziadkowiec from the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin in Poland introduced conceptual foundations for an ontological theory of the levels of reality. He argued there are mechanisms in both systems that enable a development of stratalism in two aspects: horizontal and vertical, and its connection with the ontological relation of emergence.
The afternoon session began with the lecture of Andrzej Chmielecki from the University of Gdansk in Poland dedicated to proposals of some modifications to Hartmanns ontology. After a short critique of several Hartmanns theses, the lecturer presented: an analysis of the pairs of categories: individual-general and temporal-atemporal; a distinction of the two aspects of existence: in-sistence and per-sistence; and a proposition of the identification of the fifth level of real being, the so-called intelligibilies. In the next lecture Predrag Cicovacki combined the Hartmanns concept of values as ideal beings with the Poppers understanding of values as objects of the third world. Discussing a possibility of ascribing the real type of existence to values, he adduced the arguments by virtue of which Hartmann did not accept the Poppers suggestion. Afterwards, Lukasz Lamza from the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland, referring to a hierarchical classification of research topics in physics and astronomy (PACS 2008), introduced a proposal of an empirical theory of the levels of reality. Clearly defining his methodology and narrowing his research down to the inanimate part of natural history, he criticized a linear and continuous way of thinking about the cosmic evolution. In the summary he proposed a refreshed classification of the inorganic levels of reality, where common labels like physical, chemical, mineralogical, or biological should be replaced by names pre-nuclear, post-nuclear, solid state, and planetary.
After a short break the floor was given to Piotr Lesniak from the University of Rzeszow in Poland who dedicated his lecture to the concept of time and space in early works of Whitehead. Distinguishing three types of objectivity and identifying Whiteheads position with the so-called natural objectivity, he argued for the thesis that the time is to be searched – by means of the concept of duration that defines an event – within an extra-subjective nature. The next speaker was Vesselin Petrov from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, who demonstrated that the concept of anticipation – gaining its importance in the contemporary science and philosophy – belongs to the essential elements of Whiteheads metaphysics. Analyzing late works of Whitehead, the speaker noticed that the concept of anticipation played its role in a criticism of Cartesian substantialism and was used in the processual concept of society in explaining the place of future in the presence. Its teleological overtone also allowed for a partial denial of the difference between animate and inanimate beings, and strengthened an argumentation for the gradual emergence of life from its inorganic basis. The last lecture of the second conference day was delivered by Olga Stoliarova from the State University Higher School of Economics in Moskow, Russia. She presented the category of possibility in the relation to a concrete being, as well as in two aspects: ontological and epistemological. Conjoining the former aspect with the philosophy of C.I. Lewis, and the latter aspect with the Whiteheads metaphysics, she argued for the revaluation of concrete things in terms of their possibility.
The third day began with the lecture of Artur Mordka from the University of Rzeszow in Poland who discussed the elements of Hartmanns ontology in a context of the aesthetical analysis of the painting. Emphasizing that fundamental categories acquire a distinct meaning at the axiological level, the lecturer distinguished four types of the dependence relation in a structure of a painting. He also claimed that the layer structure of painting and the ontological categories introduced by Hartmann play an important role in the reflection over some phenomena of the contemporary art. The problem of values appeared again in the talk of Piotr Pekala from the A.N. Whitehead Metaphysical Society in Poland, who stated that there is no possibility of discussing values apart from a metaphysical system conjoined with them. He argued that Whiteheads concept of values as organic and internal aspects of everything what actually exists can compete with other axiological studies, ascribing the different type of existence to values. Next, Martin Kaplicky from the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, introduced fragments of Whiteheads speculative metaphysics in attempt to characterize the processual aesthetics. Underlining the category of Creativity, he maintained that natural values constitute a key to the metaphysical synthesis of existence. At the same time he proposed a dynamic approach to the processual esthetics.
The subject of the next talk was the relation of processual categories to Indian thought presented by Kurian Kachappilly from the Christ University in Bangalore, India. After discussing some basic concepts and theses of Whiteheads metaphysics, the lecturer combined them successively with Buddhism and with the thought of Ramanuja and Gandhi. In conclusions he noticed the complementarity of proposals of Western and Eastern thinkers, whose comparison exceeds the narrow limits of knowledge, and therefore, broadens the horizon of life. In the next lecture Colin Shingleton from the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia presented his own considerations connected with the process philosophy, as well as with the hermeneutics of Levinas and with a broad philosophical tradition. He maintained, among others, that Whiteheads metaphysics isnt essentially a development of Western tradition, but possesses its own etiology and ontological specification. He traced how the difference between the materialist and the processual metaphysics came to being, and revealed a meaning of the latter in the modern era and in the Anglo-Saxon philosophy. The last speaker of the morning session was Piotr Wilczek from the Poznan University of Technology in Poland who delivered a lecture on the mathematical Platonism of Whitehead. Discussing the concept of mathematical objects as eternal objects and pure potentialities, he underlined the objectivity, generality and immutability enclosed in the concept in question. The lecturer referred to contemporary debates within the philosophy of mathematics and proposed an interpretation of Whiteheads position from the perspective of the so-called many-world ontology in mathematics.
The afternoon session contained just one lecture of Marcin Rzadeczka from the Maria Curie-Sklodowska Univeristy in Lublin, Poland. He presented the Hartmanns ontology of life sciences in relation to the general ontology, and he exhibited its philosophical meaning. The speaker claimed that, unlike the logical positivism, Hartmann did not consider the philosophical consideration about results of natural science a pure analysis of scientific language. He maintained that scientific issues in their phenomenological aspect possess a philosophical meaning, as well as the results of philosophical considerations may be included in the science in a twofold way – at the axiological and at the ontological levels. The conference was ended with the panel discussion entitled Quo vadis Ontologia? Final Remarks on Meaning, Place and Role of the Modern Ontology, in which an open discussion between all participants was filled with insightful remarks on a condition of contemporary ontology and on a meaning of Hartmanns and Whiteheads thoughts in its current development.
Jakub Dziadkowiec
The conference was organized by Ryszard Wisniewski and Tomasz Siwiec from the Department of Philosophy of Nicolaus Copernicus University. It was the first Polish conference entirely dedicated to Hartmann’s philosophy. The conference brought together eleven polish Hartmann-scholars interested in such topics as Hartmann’s epistemology, ontology, ethics, aesthetic and his theoretical relation to nineteenth and twentieth-century philosophy.
The first speaker was Dorota Barcik, PhD student in philosophy at Opole University, who gave a talk entitled “Metaphysics as a Consideration of Philosophical Problems”. Barcik, who is working on her PhD dissertation on Karl Jaspers’ philosophy, compared Hartmann’s and Jaspers’ views on irrationality. Hartmann gave us a brilliant explication of Kant’s thought about the unknowability of the thing in itself. The object of knowledge is only a part of being. When we consider being with reference to our knowledge we can speak about three parts of being: (1) the part of actual objection of being (the actual object of knowledge), (2) part of possible objection of being (the possible object of knowledge) and (3) part of gnoseological irrationality of being. Philosophy is a domain of problems with irrational residuum. We cannot solve all problems but we can consider them, because boundaries of knowledge are not boundaries of thinking.
Barbara Czardybon, PhD student in philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, gave a talk on “Nicolai Hartmann’s Metaphysics of Cognition and Siemon L. Frank’s Ontologism”. Czardybon compared Hartmann’s return from neo-Kantianism to ontology with the development of Frank’s thinking, representative of the Russian religious-philosophical renaissance of the twentieth century. Noting the similarities between these two philosophical projects, Sergiusz A. Lewicki claimed that the philosophy of Frank had an influence on Hartmann during his studies in Petersburg (1903-1905). Czardybon claimed that this thesis is unjustified. In fact, in this time (1903-1905) Frank’s thinking was still very close to neo-Kantianism. The ontological phase of his philosophy came later, when Hartmann left Petersburg.
Czardybon was followed by Marek Jankowski, PhD student at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, who gave a talk “Hartmann and Kant on the Concept of Negative Freedom”. The aim of this speech was to compare Kant’s and Hartmann’s views on the problem of freedom. As is well known, both Kant and Hartmann asked whether free will is compatible with natural determination. Jankowski presented the problem of negative and positive freedom. He claimed that Hartmann was mistaken when he rejected negative freedom. In Kant’s philosophy there is no positive freedom without negative freedom. In the discussion the problem of various levels of determinations in Hartmann’s ontology was considered.
Alicja Pietras, Adjunct Professor at the Pomerian Univeristy in Slupsk gave an interpretation of “Nicolai Hartmann as a Post-Neo-Kantian”. Pietras spoke about both Hartmann’s and Heidegger’s critique of neo-Kantianism, their ontological interpretations of Kant, their different approaches to Kantian issues such as the problem of the ambiguity of the notion of “thing in itself” and the problem of the distinction between being and irrationality. She also compared their philosophical projects, namely Hartmann’s critical ontology and Heidegger’s fundamental ontology. Pietras argued that Hartmann’s new ontology, which Josef Stallmach accurately named ontology of self-existing being (Ansichsein), is much more post-neo-Kantian than Heidegger’s ontology, named by Stallmach ontology of understanding of being (Seinverstehen), which is a continuation of the modern project of transcendentalism.
The next speaker was Waldemar Prusik, Adjunct Professor at the University of Szczecin, who gave a speech about “Nicolai Hartmann’s Notion of Reality”. The aim of this speech was to defend that Hartmann’s theory of being is not realist. Prusik claimed that in Hartmann’s philosophy the notion of being considered in a metaphysical perspective is contradictory. The reason for this is, according to the speaker, that in Hartmann’s ontology some parts of being are transintelligible and some are not. Being is and is not intelligible at the same time. For this reason Prusik called Hartmann’s ontology ‘idealistic’ rather than ‘realistic’. This presentation was judged controversial. It seemed to some to be a consequence of using Hartmann’s notions outside of its proper context.
After Prusik, Artur Mordka, Professor at the University of Rzeszow, gave a talk entitled “Critical Ontology and the Problem of Valuation of Regions of Being”. Hartmann’s critical ontology pretends to avoid errors of the old ontologies. One of these errors was the metaphysical valuation of some spheres of being, e.g., the claim that real being has more being that ideal being or inversely. In Hartmann’s ontology there are two primary spheres of being (the real and the ideal) and two secondary spheres of being (the logical and the epistemological). For one it can look like classical valuation of some spheres of being. The real and the ideal being are existentially prior to the object of knowledge (the epistemological being), which exists only in relation to subject. But, as Mordka claimed, this is not a metaphysical valuation. In his ontology Hartmann modifies the meaning of classical metaphysical notions like independence, dependence, and priority. He gives them new ontologically neutral meanings.
Jakub Dziadkowiec, PhD student in philosophy at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin gave a speech about “Stratalism in Nicolai Hartmann’s Ontology – The Critical Approach”. The aim of this talk was to present Hartmann’s stratalism (theory of ontological levels). Dziadkowiec defined ‘stratalism’ as a “philosophical position, according to which the real world manifests a layered structure, contains partially separated ontological levels, relations between them, and concrete things, that include specified layers and their categories.” Dziadkowiec presented a set of Hartmannian notions and theses like the four strata (levels) of real being, some relations between ontological levels, the notion of categories and categorical laws etc. He claimed that Hartmann’s ontology of real being is one of the most articulated but still uncompleted theories of ontological levels. Hartmann deals with vertical relations between levels, but there is still a need for the explanation of horizontal relations within consecutive levels. We can also complete Hartmann’s stratalism with the considerations of problems such as the problem of environmental factors, the problem of emergence, etc.
The last speaker of the first day of the conference was Tomasz Siwiec, PhD student at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, who gave a talk entitled “Hartmann’s Idea of Real Entity in Konrad Lorenz’s Interpretation”. Siwiec presented Hartmann’s philosophy in relation to Lorenz’s evolutionary epistemology. Lorenz in his article “Kants Lehre vom Apriorischen im Lichte gegenwärtiger Biologie” (1941) gave an evolutionary interpretation of Kant’s doctrine of a priori forms of cognition. According to this interpretation the a prori forms of intuition (space and time) and the a priori forms of understanding (categories) are products of a process of evolutionary adaptation to the environment. Lorenz agrees with Hartmann’s understanding of the relation between Kantian appearances and thing in itself and he proposes a standpoint that he calls ‘hypothetical realism’. Our a prori forms of cognition are hypothetically identical with the forms of things in themselves. As long as we can use them successfully we do not have reason to claim that they are not forms of things in themselves. This theory corresponds with Hartmann’s doctrine of the partial identity between categories of cognition and categories of being.
The second day began with Leszek Kopciuch’s speech about ‘The Ethics of Nicolai Hartmann in Context of Main Contemporary Positions in Ethics’. Kopciuch began by presenting the problem of the ideal existence of values in Hartmann’s ontology. Then he considered Hartmann’s ethics in the context of three contemporary metaethical disputes: the dispute between deontological ethics and consequentialism, the disputes between motivational externalism and motivational internalism and the disputes between compatibilism and incompatibilism. In the context of the first dispute Kopciuch classified Hartmann’s ethics between deontology and consequentialism. From the point of view of Hartmann’s critical ontology the opposition between these two metaethical standpoints is false. In the relation to the second dispute Kopciuch claimed that Hartmann represents some moderate version of moral internalism. According to Hartmann our moral conviction that X ought to be done (which Hartmann identify with our knowledge of values) is motivation to do X but this motivation is not sufficient. In the context of the third dispute Hartmann is a compatibilist for he believes that free will and determinism are not only compatible but that determinism is even a necessary condition of the possibility of free will.
After Kopciuch, Ryszard Wisniewski, Professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, gave a speech still related to the topic of Hartmann’s ethics entitled “Tadeusz Styczen’s Early Critique of Hartmann’s Theory of Virtue”. Styczen, the student of Karol Wojtyla, wrote his MA dissertation about Hartmann’s ethics. This work is related to Wojtyla’s work on Max Scheler’s ethics. Both of them – Wojtyla and Styczen –criticize material-value ethics in the context of Aristotle’s virtue ethics. As has been pointed out in the discussion on material-value ethics, there is a very important problem: “If value can be a aim of human act, what are the consequences of it?”
The presentation of Krzysztof Lipka, Adjunct Professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, deals with “Layers of the Music Work of Art in Nicolai Hartmann’s Expression. Continuation and Perspectives”. Lipka began by presenting Hartmann’s view on the musical work of art. Then he considered the “absolute” music by using Hartmann’s notions. In musicology there is a problem with theoretically grasping the “matter” of this kind of work of art. Lipka claimed that we can use Hartmann’s theory of levels to consider this problem. He proposed to distinguish between levels of form and levels of matter of the work of art. Then he tried to apply the levels perspective to further solve problems like that of the functionality of work of art.
Alicja Pietras
alicja.pietras@gmail.com
The Dynamical Ontologies of A.N. Whitehead and N. Hartmann
5 – 7 May 2011
Franciscan Monastery
Katowice, 76 Panewnicka Street
Poland
Thursday, 5th May
Morning session
10,00 Bogdan OGRODNIK (The Whitehead Metaphysical Society, Poland): A.N. Whitehead 1 (quantized process, actual entity and its bipolar nature, interconnectedness)
11,30 – Coffee break
12,00 Helmut MAASSEN (Deutsche Whitehead Gesellschaft, Germany): A.N. Whitehead 2 (categoreal scheme, modes of existence, types of orders, nexus)
13,30 – Lunch break
Afternoon session
15,00 Alicja PIETRAS (Pomeranian University in Slupsk, Poland): N. Hartmann 1 (spheres and modes of being, the nature of an ontological category)
16,30 – Coffee break
17,00 Roberto POLI (University of Trento, Italy): N. Hartmann 2 (general categories, level categories, categorical laws)
18,30 – Dinner
Friday, 6th May
Morning session
9,00 Roberto POLI (University of Trento, Italy): Two cases of categorial analysis: categories with positional value and the difference between time and temporality
9,40 Predrag CICOVACKI (College of the Holy Cross, USA): Kant’s Categories and Hartmann’s Categories – A Confrontation
10,20 Bogdan OGRODNIK (The Whitehead Metaphysical Society, Poland): Prehension as a prefiguration of cognition. Beyond the split between ontological object and epistemic subject
11,00 – Coffee break
11,30 Maria-Teresa TEIXEIRA (Lisbon University, Portugal): Process, Levels of Reality and Evolution in the Ontologies of Nicolai Hartmann and Alfred North Whitehead
12,10 Vesselin PETROV (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgary): The Concept of Anticipation In Whitehead’s Mature Work
12,50 Jakub DZIADKOWIEC (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland): Stratalism – conceptual foundations for the theory of levels in Whitehead’s and Hartmann’s ontologies
13,30 – Lunch break
Afternoon session
15,00 Andrzej CHMIELECKI (University of Gdansk, Poland): On Possible Amendments of Hartmann’s Ontology
15,40 Predrag CICOVACKI (College of the Holy Cross, USA): Hartmann on the Ontological Status of Values
16,20 ?ukasz LAM?A (The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland): Towards a Strictly Empirical Theory of the Levels of Reality
17,00 – Coffee break
17,30 Claudia LUCHETTI (Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Italy): Are Whitehead’s Eternal Objects Platonic Objects?
18,10 Karl – Friedrich KIESOW (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany): The conception of the mind-body relationship in N. Hartmann and A. N. Whitehead
18,50 Olga STOLIAROVA (State University Higher School of Economics, Russia): The Possible in the Light of the Concrete. Whitehead’s Perspective
19,30 – Dinner
20,00 – Annual General Meeting
Saturday, 7th May
Morning session
9,00 Artur MORDKA (University of Rzeszow, Poland): Nicolai Hartmann: the fundamental categories and a painting. Regional ontology of a work of art
9,40 Piotr P?KALA (The Whitehead Metaphysical Society, Poland): Whitehead’s view on values
10,20 Martin KAPLICKY (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic): The Categoreal Scheme of Whitehead’s Speculative Philosophy and Aesthetic
11,00 – Coffee break
11,30 Kurian KACHAPPILLY (Research Centre Christ University, India): Whiteheadian Categories and Indian Thought
12,10 Bagheri KHOSROW (University of Tehran, Iran): Whitehead’s God’s inconsistency
12,50 Sophiae ARIK (Eötvös Lóránd University, Hungary): The levels of reality and the Platonism of Hartmann and Whitehead from a process theological point of view
13,30 – Lunch break
Afternoon session
15,00 Colin SHINGLETON (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia): Preliminary Considerations to a Philosophy of Process
15,40 Piotr WILCZEK (Poznan University of Technology, Poland): The ontological approach to mathematics: Whitehead and contemporary mathematical Platonism
16,20 Marcin RZ?DECZKA (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland): Ontological framework of the life sciences in the philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann
17,00 – Coffee break
17,30 Final panel discussion
19,00 – Dinner
Nicolai Hartmann. Von der Systemphilosophie zur Systematischen Philosophie
Bergische Universität Wuppertal – 16. bis 18. März 2011
Forthcoming event
Nicolai Hartmann. Von der Systemphilosophie zur Systematischen Philosophie
Bergische Universität Wuppertal – 16.- 18. März 2011
Veranstalter: Prof. Dr. Gerald Hartung, Prof. Dr. Claudius Strube, Dr. Matthias Wunsch
The conference language is German
