Thinking with Diagrams: Space, Inscription, Knowledge

Program

Thursday, 7. July 2011: FOUNDATIONS & CONCEPTS
09.30 – 09.45 Opening remarks
09.45 – 10.45 Frederik Stjernfelt (Aarhus): Thinking about thinking with diagrams
10.45 – 11.15 Tea / coffee
11.15 – 12.15 Michael Marrinan (Stanford): The “thing-ness” of diagrams
12.15 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.00 Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen (Helsinki): Is there a general diagram concept?
15.00 – 16.00 Sun-Joo Shin (Yale): How do diagrams show what they show?
16.00 – 16.30 Tea / coffee
16.30 – 17.30 Christina Ljungberg (Zürich): The diagrammatic nature of maps
Reception

Friday, 8. Juli 2011: COGNITION & ICONICITY
09.30 – 10.30 Dieter Mersch (Potsdam): On iconic differences
10.30 – 11.30 Jan Wöpking (Berlin): True conclusions from false pictures. Iconicity and instrumentality in diagrams
11.30 – 12.00 Tea / coffee
12.00 – 13.00 Valeria Giardino (Paris): Diagramming. Using space to reason
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 15.30 Matthias Bauer (Flensburg): Pattern language and space syntax: Alexander, Chomsky, Peirce and Wittgenstein
15.30 – 16.30 Steffen Bogen (Konstanz): The diagram as game-plan. Notation in Alfonso el Sabio’s Book of Games (1283)

Saturday, 9. Juli 2011: PHILOSOPHICAL CASE STUDIES
09.30 – 10.30 Sybille Krämer (Berlin): Plato revisited. ‘Diagrammatology’ as an irreducible dimension of European Philosophy
10.30 – 11.30 Emmanuel Alloa (Basel): Capturing the flow. On Husserl’s aporetic time diagrams
11.30 – 11.45 Tea / coffee
11.45 – 12.45 Mark Halawa (Berlin) / Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer (Berlin): Pragmatism on paper. On Charles S. Peirce’s graphic practice and pragmatic thinking

Closing remarks

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