A sixtieth Anniversary commemoration of the publication of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Masterpiece; A Franco-British Conference, June 17 and 18, 2005, Collège de France, 11, place Marcelin Berthelot, Paris 75005
There is no registration, no fee, and all meetings are open
The Collège de France is in central Paris, at the corner of Rue des Écoles and Rue Saint Jacques. The meeting is supported by the Collège de France, the British Academy, the fondation Hugot, and the Centre for European Studies, London School of Economics.
Président d'honneur: Claude Lefort
Friday 17 June, morning
Chair: Alain Berthoz (Collège de France, Chaire de Physiologie de la perception et de l'action)
10. Welcome address by Claude Lefort
10.15 Opening remarks by Thomas Baldwin (Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, University of York)
10.30 Eran Dorfman (Université de Paris XII) Perception, liberté et réflexion radicale (Perception Freedom and Radical Reflection)
11.15 Michael Martin (Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, University College London), Perception and the Body (La perception et le corps)
12. Discussion
17 June afternoon
Chair: Claude Imbert (Professeur, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)
14.00 Bruce Bégout (Maître de conférences, Université de Picardie), Merleau-Ponty et le phénomène du monde. Une nouvelle cosmologie philosophique (Merleau-Ponty and the Phenomenon of the world. A new philosophical Cosmology)
14.45 Komarine Romdenh-Romluc (Lecturer, Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of Nottingham), Merleau-Ponty and the Power of Summoning (Merleau-Ponty et la fonction de projection)
15.30 Hubert Dreyfus (Professor, Univ. of California, Berkeley) Comments on the paper by K. Romdenh-Romluc
15.50 Discussion
16.15 Coffee break
16.40 Éliane Escoubas, Professeur, Université de Paris XII, Merleau-Ponty et le surcroît de l'art (Merleau-Ponty and the something more' of Art)
17.25 Discussion
17.40 Simon Glendinning (Fellow in European Philosophy, London School of Economics), The Genius of Man (Le génie de l'homme)
18.25 Discussion
Saturday 18 June, morning
Chair: Anne Fagot-Largeault (Collège de France)
Chaire de Philosophie des sciences biologiques et médicales
9.30 Naomi Eilan (Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Warwick), Merleau-Ponty on the Emergence of Self-Consciousness (Merleau-Ponty et l'émergence de la conscience de soi)
10.15 Discussion
10.30 Coffee break
10.45 Danielle Lories (Professeur, Université catholique de Louvain), Percevoir et créer (Perceiving and Creating)
11.30 A. D. Smith (Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Sussex University), The Flesh of Perception (La chair de la perception)
12.15 Discussion
18 June, afternoon
Chair: Stéphanie Dupouy (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)
14.00 Thomas Baldwin (Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, University of York), Ordinary Language and the Sources of Meaning (Le langage ordinaire et les sources de la signification)
14.45 Discussion
15.00 Pause
15.15 Françoise Dastur (Professeur émérite, Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis), Philosophie et non-philosophie chez Merleau-Ponty (Philosophy and Non-Philosophy according to Merleau-Ponty)
16.00 François-David Sebbah (Maître de conférences, Univ. de Technologie de Compiègne), La posture du philosophe (The Position of the Philosopher)
16.45 Discussion
17.00 Ian Hacking (Collège de France, Chaire de Philosophie et histoire des concepts scientifiques), Concluding Remarks: le corps et la philosophie (The Body and the idea of philosophy)