Time ... as a problem of philosophy
Description
The Board of the Philosophy and Technology Department has the pleasure of inviting you to the lecture by Prof.dr.ing R.P.H. Munnik on 16 May next on the following topic:
Time... as a problem of philosophy
From the earliest Presocratic disputes - for example, those between Heraclitus ('everything becomes, nothing is') and Parmenides ('everything is, nothing becomes') - philosophy has been concerned with the question of the meaning of concepts such as temporality, change, 'becoming'.
In this lecture, René Munnik will present a number of views and insights from the philosophical tradition. In doing so, he will focus mainly on two dominant and incongruous concepts of time from modernity:
1) time as it figures from a mathematical perspective in the natural sciences, and
2) time as it figures as 'history' in the historical sciences.
Finally, he will discuss a contemporary attempt to reconcile both concepts of time: event metaphysics.
The lecture starts at 19.00 hrs. From 6.30 pm walk-in with coffee.
We hope to see you on 16 May!
Speaker(s)
René Munnik (born 1952), after first completing HTS, graduated cum laude from the Theological Faculty of Tilburg in 1981. In 1987, he obtained his doctorate in theology with a thesis on the development of a totality idea in Whitehead. Munnik currently teaches philosophy at the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology and is an endowed professor at the University of Twente on behalf of the Thomas More Foundation. His research focuses on the anthropological and cultural-philosophical question of the meaning of Christian religiosity within today's high-tech culture
Location
Vredenburg 19, 3511 BB Utrecht
Organiser
Philosophy & Technology
Name and contact details for information
Johan Hengst