Workshop

‘Habit: phenomenological and ontological approaches’

March 5^th, 2020

Erasmus University Rotterdam

G2-32 (morning), Mandeville T3-06 (afternoon)

Habit (hexis, habitus) has a long and rich history in philosophy. Often viewed as the enemy of thought, many different philosophical traditions have nonetheless made fruitful explorations of habits. Aristotle saw virtue as a habit, and in modernity, the Scottish moral philosophers, French spiritualism, phenomenology and pragmatism all rely on extensive accounts of habit. Recently, habit has gained a renewed interest, for habit brings together and deconstructs various classical opposites such as: mind and body, nature and nurture, individual and community, organism and habitat, behavior and cognition, and freedom and necessity. Moreover, habit plays a central role in many sciences such as psychology, pedagogics, anthropology, ecology, biology and the neurosciences.

March 4^th Erasmus School of Philosophy Colloquium: Michael Hampe – Human Nature and Habit

March 5^th

10.00 Registration

10.30 Opening

10.40 David van Putten (EUR)

The Decompartmentalization of Habit

11.10 Thijs Heijmeskamp (EUR)

Sketching a context: Habit in contemporary Psychology

11.40 Coffee break

12.00 Jasper van den Herik

Habits for ‘Higher’ Cognition

12:30 Lunch

14.00 Sandrine Hansen (KU Leuven)

The Autoerotic Pleasure of Habit

14.30 Chris Satoor (York University, CA)

T.B.A.

15.00 Olivia Brown (KU Leuven)

The Problem of Habit in Philosophy

15.30 Coffee break

16.00 Clare Carlisle (King’s College London)

Habit and Practice

17.30 Drinks

19.00 Dinner

Organizers: Sjoerd van Tuinen, Maren Wehrle, Thijs Heijmeskamp

Attendance is free. If you would like to attend the workshop, please contact heijmeskamp@esphil.eur.nl

This workshop is generously made possible by the Erasmus School of Philosophy