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How is understanding possible against the backdrop of a prevailing spirit that tends to neglect the richness
of understanding by reducing the experiences of human intellects to activities such as cognition or reasoning?
We ask this question in a time where there are fewer frameworks of understanding; intellectual activity
being increasingly narrowed to only a few valid ways of interpreting the world and extracting truth, such as
positivist and capitalistic outlooks.
In this sense, how can we make sense of music, art, literature and other artifacts of human creativity in
order for them to mean something to us across cultural and historical distances that separates us from their
creator? How is this process of understanding different from or similar to the scientific understanding of
nature? How can understanding grasp a truth whose validity is not dependent only on the possibility of
scientific falsification, truth that whilst belonging intimately to the understander is no less about that
which is understood?
Eventually, how can a consciousness of how understanding is possible
broaden our possibilities for experiencing the world?
- L e c t u r e s -
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30th April
7:30 pm Rushmore Room, St Catharine's
Professor John Coates
Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics
Understanding in ancient and modern Number Theory
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1st May
7:30 pm Rushmore Room, St Catharine's
Professor Bert Vaux
Department of Linguistics
Are (human and other)
animals rational?
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5th May
7:30 pm Rushmore Room, St Catharine's
Dr Michael Nedo
Director of the Wittgenstein Archive
Possibilities and limitations
of understanding
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7th March
7:30 pm Rushmore Room, St Catharine's
Professor Anna Sica
University of Palermo, Theathre Studies
Chekhov's poetic and social realism:
poetry and politics on stage
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- G r a n d _D i s c u s s i o n -
8th May
7:30 pm Rushmore Room, St Catharine's
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Alexander Wragge-Morley
Ph.D. Student in Philosophy of Science
What can we do with interdisciplinarity?
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Elisheva Machlis
Ph.D. Student in Middle Eastern Studies
Science and reason in the thought of Shi'i reformist clerics
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Yoni Mendel
Ph.D. Student in Middle Eastern Studies
Discourse, hegemony and knowledge in Israel
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In order to embrace the fruits of as many different perspectives as possible we encourage you to attend
most events, thus gaining an ample foundation for the grand discussion which lies at the heart of this society.
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