How do we experience matter? Does it present itself to the senses? Or is it only an empty substratum that cannot be grasped if deprived of all sensible qualities? Is it perceived as a continuum, or rather intellectually reconstructed through mental and logical forms? Or is it that the very idea of a continuum in itself the outcome of mental abstraction? And what about the The nature of matter has been a central issue for philosophy from its very beginning. Over the course of centuries of debate, a wide variety of theoretical solutions have been proposed. Indeed, all major historical shifts of thought have prompted fundamental re-thinking of the nature of matter. For instance, the rise of the importance of mathematics in the natural sciences helped shape the transition from positing a “philosophy of nature” to concentrating on the empirical sciences. Debates about matter were intimately connected with the polemical rejections of Materialism and Dogmatism in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Most recently, contemporary physics has called for a fundamental re-orientation of the traditional paradigm. The aim of this conference is to provide scholars from across the world an opportunity to discuss these and other important issues in an interdisciplinary environment. The organizers of the conference are open to a wide range of fields of research and historical eras. The organizers hope to bring together a program which spans from ancient to modern philosophy, and includes perspectives from drawn from the criticism of Kant, idealism, and materialism, as well as contemporary physics and biology.
Conference Proceedings will be published in EPEKEINA. International Journal of Ontology. History and Critics, Vol. 6, June 2015 (www.ricercafilosofica.it/epekeina) Submission Deadlines:
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ISSN: 2281-3209 DOI Prefix: 10.7408
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