International workshop: Habit and Social Experience

The goal of this two-day workshop is to explore the roots of the notion of habit in the phenomenological tradition by looking at its structure and development in relation to intersubjectivity. Among other questions, the conference aims to address the following topics: the relevance of habit for understanding empathy, intersubjectivity, and social dispositions, the relation between habit, temporality, and the sedimentation of experiences, as well as the relation between habit, emotions, and affective recognition. The workshop aims not only at disambiguating and improving current understanding of the role of habit in interpersonal and intergroup encounters. It will also introduce conceptual adjustments that refine and extend standard literature, bringing phenomenology into dialogue with other philosophical traditions.

With contributions by Andrea Altobrando, Lilian Alweiss, Ed Casey, Mark James, James Jardine, Elisa Magri, Timothy Mooney, Jonathan Mitchell, Felix Ó Murchadha, Meline Papazian, Danielle Petherbridge, Italo Testa, Gail Weiss.

The event is generously sponsored by Irish Research Council, The Mind Association, Society for Applied Philosophy, UCD International Centre for Newman Studies, UCD School of Philosophy, and the British Society for the History of Philosophy.

PROGRAM

FRIDAY 7th DECEMBER

9.45 Opening Address

10.00 – 10.30 Lilian Alweiss (TCD), Can Habit be Transcendental?

10.30 – 10.45 Discussion [Chair: Danielle Petherbridge]

10.45 – 11.15 Felix Ó Murchadha (NUI Galway), Rupture and the Temporality of Habit

11.15 – 11.30 Discussion [Chair: James Jardine]

11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break

12.00 – 12.30 Andrea Altobrando (CUPL, Beijing), Getting and Being Used to Others

12.30 – 12.45 Discussion [Chair: Elisa Magri]

12.45 – 2.00 Lunch

2.00 – 2.30 Gail Weiss (Washington), Exercising Privilege to Combat Habits of Complicity

2.30 – 2.45 Discussion [Chair: Danielle Petherbridge]

2.45 – 3.00 Coffee break

3.00 – 3.30 Meline Papazian (UCD), Thoughts on Social Understanding in Interactive Experience

3.30 – 3.45 Discussion [Chair: Rowland Stout]

3.45 – 4.15 Italo Testa (Parma, Italy), Habit, Embodiment, and Social Action

4.15 – 4.30 Discussion [Chair: Elisa Magri]

4.30 – 5.00 Coffee break

5.00 – 5.30 Edward S. Casey (Stony Brook, NY), Habit, Affect, and Emotion

5.30 – 5.45 Discussion [Chair: Danielle Petherbridge]

SATURDAY 8th DECEMBER

10.00 – 10.30 Danielle Petherbridge (UCD), Habit, Attention, and Recognition

10.30 – 10.45 Discussion [Chair: Tim Mooney]

10.45 – 11.15 Elisa Magri (UCD), Habit and Social Sensitivity

11.15 – 11.30 Discussion [Chair: Holly Hartmann]

11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break

12.00 – 12.30 James Jardine (Jyväskylä),Social (In)visibility and Affective Experience

12.30 – 12.45 Discussion [Chair: Elisa Magri]

12.45 – 2.00 Lunch

2.00 – 2.30 Timothy Mooney (UCD), On Acquired Skills and Bodily Boundaries

2.30 – 2.45 Discussion [Chair: Danielle Petherbridge]

2.45 – 3.00 Coffee break

3.00 – 3.30Jonathan Mitchell (UCD), The Technological Unconscious as an Unsafe Ground for Habitual Bodily Activity

3.30 – 3.45 Discussion [Chair: Benjamin Modarres]

3.45 – 4.15 Mark James (UCD), Being Multiply Animated: Enhabiting Ecological Entities in Embodied Interaction with Others

4.15 – 4.30 Discussion [Chair: James Jardine]

4.30 Closing