International Workshop:
Metamorphosis of Imagination. Early Modern and Contemporary Perspectives
Date and Venue: 23-24 September 2024, Pisa, Aula Magna, Palazzo Matteucci | Gipsoteca di Arte Antica, Pisa
Organizers: Lorenzo Biagini, Sara Cocito, Enrico De Martin Topranin, Simone Gasparoni, Enrico Maresca, Sara Rocca, Leonardo Vanni
Sponsors: The conference is organized within the project Nuovi orizzonti della ricerca – Incontri del Dottorato in Filosofia cfounded by the Università di Pisa and the Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere.
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Program
23 September 2024, Aula Magna, Palazzo Matteucci, Pisa
Panel 1: Morphogenesis of imagination in the Modern Age
Chairs: Alessandra Fussi, Leonardo Vanni
9:00 – 9:30 Introduction and presentation
9:30 – 10:30 Iacopo Chiaravalli (IISG), Imaginabor: Topologia dell’immaginazione cartesiana
10:30 – 11:30 Lorenzo Vinciguerra (Università di Bologna), L’immaginazione: Una facoltà solo umana? Contributo seicentesco ad un dibattito contemporaneo
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 – 13:00 Alfredo Ferrarin (SNS), The Symbolic Mode of Expression of Ideas
Panel 2: Contemporary forms of imagination: The 20th century between continuity and ruptures
Chairs: Sara Cocito, Sara Rocca
14:30 – 15:30 Claudio Majolino (University of Lille), Husserl on variation and imagination – or: why is ‘fiction’ the vital element of phenomenology, as of all eidetic science?
15:30 – 16:30 Jean-Luc Amalric (EHESS), Le Cours sur l’imagination de Paul Ricœur
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 18:00 Andrea Nicolini (Università di Firenze), Effetti di realtà. Foucault e il potere delle immagini
24 September 2024, Gipsoteca di Arte Antica, Pisa
Panel 1: Imagination between affectivity and technological invention
Chairs: Enrico De Martin Topranin, Simone Gasparoni
9:00 – 10:00 Cécile Malaspina (King’s College London), Imagination and Invention: Rethinking so-called Artificial Intelligence (AI) as Automated Optimisation (AO) with Gilbert Simondon and Yagmur Denizhan
10:00 – 11:00 Lorenzo Biagini (Università di Firenze-Pisa), Does Negative mean Melancholic? Some Remarks on Phantasy and Affectivity in Adorno’s Dialectics
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30 Fabrice Teroni (University of Geneva), Emotions, Memories, and Narratives
Panel 2: Imagination across the sciences
Chairs: Lorenzo Biagini, Enrico Maresca
14:30 – 15:30 Lorenzo Magnani (Università di Pavia), Imaginability, Abductive Cognition, and Eco-Cognitive Openness
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 Enrico Maresca (Università di Firenze-Pisa), Imagining at the Threshold: Thought Experiments and Constraints for a Theory of Quantum Gravity
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