Monte Verità August 20-24, 2023

The conference will start on the evening of Sunday, 20th of August and end on Thursday 24th of August, after breakfast. Everyone welcome! 

The main purpose of the conference is to bring together different research groups, to present and discuss their preliminary results and/or ideas (work in progress very welcome) and to foster interaction. 

The main aim of the conference is to get Swiss philosophers to interact more (that's why the coffee breaks are so long), but also to get them to interact more with the wider public. This is why the conference includes, as a constitutive part, the SAGW/ASSH funded round table "Die gesellschaftliche Relevanz der Schweizer Philosophie auf dem Prüfstand". 

Sunday, 20th of August

• 17.00 suggested arrival time
• 18.30 welcome drinks
• 19 dinner

Monday, 21th of August

• 8-9 breakfast
• 9-9.15 CSF welcome address
• 9.15-10.15 presentation round: BwF, dltc, workbench, philo.ch; Agora, Fluchtgeschichten
• 11-12.15 Stephan Leuenberger, "Theory Choice in the Face of Regress"
• 12.30 lunch
• 14-15.30 Fluchtgeschichten: presentation of the pilot and the project; texts by refugees
• 16.15-17.45 Agora: presentation of the project
• 19 dinner

Tuesday, 22nd of August

• 8-9 breakfast
• 9-10.15 Stephan Leuenberger, "Grounding and Uniqueness"
• 11-12.15 Fabienne Forster, “Reflections on the Methodology of the History of Philosophy”
• 12.30 lunch
• 14-15.30 Stephan Leuenberger, "Causal Loops and the Fixity of the Future"
• 16.15-17.45 Simon Kräuchi, “Climate Ethics and Structural Injustice”
• 19 dinner
• 20-21.30 round table SAGW “kulturelle Teilhabe”: “Die gesellschaftliche Relevanz der Schweizer Philosophie auf dem Prüfstand”

Wednesday, 23rd of August

• 8-9 breakfast
• 9-10.15 Stephan Leuenberger und Philipp Blum: "Totality as a philosophical problem"
• 11-12.15 Simone Olivadoti, “Frege’s Theory of Thinking”
• 12.30 lunch
• 14-15.30 Philosophie.ch: what is it, what should it be? Virtual attendance possible by zoom (click here)
• 16-17.45 Open Access in Practice: what is it, what should it be? Virtual attendance possible by zoom (click here)
• 19 dinner

Thursday

• 7.30-9 breakfast 

It's quite difficult to get to Mount Truth. A detailed explanation is here. The walk from Ascona is illustrated by these pictures.

The CSF congress center is at Strada Collina 84, CH-​6612 Ascona. Travel information is here.

Here are some pages where you can discover some content that we have developed during our residence:

Giordano Burno's De la causa, principio et uno
Valentina Luporini’s improvised theatrical reading on Miro Caltagirone & Co's music

Descartes’ Discours de la méthode
Agora’s project - Enola Rindlisbacher’s improvised reading on Miro Caltagirone & Co's music

Rafaela Scheiwiller's Philosophical Meditation
Agora project - Rafaela Scheiwiller's meditation on Miro Caltagirone & Co's music

Hegel's Wissenschaft der Logik
Agora’s project - Philipp Blum, Fabienne Forster, and Simon Kräuchi improvised reading on Miro Caltagirone & Co's music