The Problem of the Intelligibility of Alien Forms of Thought: Cross-Perspectives in Anthropology and Philosophy of Logic
June 07–08, 2018
The history of anthropology, of its emergence and development as a social science, is notoriously intertwined with that of philosophy.
The problem of the intelligibility of radically alien forms of thought lies at the crossroad between the philosophy of logic and the philosophy of social anthropology. As the history of both fields amply demonstrates, this problem is at once a defining trait of the latter and a crucial touchstone for the former. As such, however, this problem marks out a blind spot in both. For its twofold dimension has seldom been done justice to.
The aim of this workshop is to try to go some steps towards remedying this lacuna by bringing together prominent philosophers and anthropologists who have taken the above issue at heart and already done much to further our understanding of its terms and stakes, with special emphasis on three crucial figures of the previous century: the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, the British Anthropologist E.E. Evans-Pritchard, and the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Convener
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Participants
James Ferguson
Conant
Fellow
2008/2009
Universität Leipzig, University of Chicago
Juliet
Floyd
Boston University
Eli
Friedlander
Tel Aviv University
Arata
Hamawaki
Auburn University
Claude
Imbert
École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Michael
Lambek
Fellow
2016/2017
University of Toronto Scarborough
Isidore
Lobnibe
Fellow
2017/2018
Western Oregon University, Monmouth
Rupert
Read
University of East Anglia, UK
Gildas
Salmon
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Henri
Wagner
Université Bordeaux Montaigne
Michael
Beaney
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin