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- Convenors:
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Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi
(University of Abuja)
Claudia Luchetti (EKU Tübingen)
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- Format:
- Panel
- Streams:
- Anthropology (x) Futures (y)
- Location:
- Philosophikum, S85
- Sessions:
- Thursday 1 June, -
Time zone: Europe/Berlin
Short Abstract:
Beyond such traditional paradigm of studying the future as - Future studies ,STEEP (Social, Technological, Economic, Environments and Political),foresight, etc., what might it look like, if philosophy engages the future more distinctly? What is the nature of the future?
Long Abstract:
Beyond such traditional paradigm of studying the future as - Future studies ,STEEP (Social, Technological, Economic, Environments and Political),foresight, etc., what might it look like, if philosophy engages the future more distinctly? What kind of philosophical thinking is required for supporting a further evolution of time-concept, for inducing re-conceptualization of time? What is the nature of the future? Is the future(time) an entity, a concept or a reality, etc? What if one re-conceptualizes time as dimension of thinking, how does it change the outcomes of thinking? What kind of the changes in the world-picture may one expect? What ethical, legal, epistemological and metaphysical goods would emerge from this study? How may it impact on human behavior? What kind of discrepancies in behavior outcomes may one expect depending on the mental difference in representation of time flow? This is the focus of the panel. The panel will go beyond such established domains of enquiry such as future studies, strategic foresight, futures thinking, future, futures research, that engage the future, to apply philosophical methods of enquiry to engage the future. It will expand and develop the form of knowledge that engages the future more philosophically. The panel will also address such issues as the mind’s ability to produce the multiple mental representations of time flow, its relevance for causality modeling and for shaping the behavioral outcomes.
Accepted papers:
Session 1 Thursday 1 June, 2023, -Oleksiy Polunin (National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (permanent), Inst. of Philosophy and Social Theory, Univ. of Belgrade (Serbia))
Paper short abstract:
The human mind explains the world, but it also produces the multiple mental representations of time flow. As result explanandum and explanans can be represented in the different time flows. This raises the problem of variability of explanations and that of reliability of the explanation theories.
Paper long abstract:
The world being explained and understood provides feelings of confidence and security. Through the human history the explanations arise independently of whether a conventionally accepted explanation is right or wrong. This was true for the minds of our ancestors and most probably it will remain true for the minds of our descendants. This is why the human mind generates explanations ubiquitously in both a spontaneous and conscious way. At the same time human mind is able to produce the multiple mental representations of time flow (Polunin, 2015, 2016, 2021). The paper discusses variability and reliability of explanatory outcome made in the space of the multiple mental representations of time flow. Introducing the notion of the multiple mental representations of time we rely on the experimental studies in psychology and empirical findings from cultural studies. So, instead of the conventional singular time flow one faces an array of the mental representations of time flow. As result all, person producing explanation, explanandum and explanans, can be represented in different time flows. Thus all of them show variability in their cognitive representations over time. This points to the dependence of explanandum and explanans from an actual representation of time flow. Therefore, the multiplicity of cognitive representations of time flow leads to variable temporal representation of explanation relata, and so to divergence of explanation outcomes. This raises the problem of reliability of the explanation theories when their components are mapped upon the space of the multiple mental representations of time flow.
Joseph Nietlong (Benue State University, Makurdi)
Paper short abstract:
Africa has been, at great expense, the foil of the other in the West’s perception and care of self. Modernity, in thought and praxis upholds the status quo. Post-Modernity re-imagines a loosening of the noose around Africa’s neck, to render justice as a relentless task in the democracy to come.
Paper long abstract:
This paper re-imagines through post Modernity, particularly Jacques Derrida’s version of Deconstruction, the opening as possibility, beckoning from the future, tasks that awaits: the re-making of Africa, not according to some pre-deluvian, mythological image, nor some pie-in-the-sky Mirage. But rather Africa, coming into its own time, reining in all its human potentials to build in freedom, a human home for the Self that is defined by Africa, but that is at once universally human. This task primarily is the re-conception of difference that divides In binary terms. It will be the attempt to render justice. It will be an endlessly impossible task.
Kwabena Darko Akuamoah (Ho Technical University)
Paper short abstract:
African studies as a necessary university course is examined through the prism of teachers and students at two Ghanaian technical universities. Gottfredson's circumscription, compromise, and self-creation hypothesis.
Paper long abstract:
The views on African studies as a university mandatory course of faculty members and students at two technical universities in Ghana are studied and analysed using lens. Gottfredson’s theory of circumscription, compromise and self-creation. Between June and August 2021, a random sample of students and staff will be interviewed using structured questions. The study's findings show that the organisation of African studies programs, the appointment of African studies program coordinators/professors, the selection of course materials/readings, and the pedagogical practices of professors at that university tend to burden students enrolled in those universities and their future careers. Africa studies' marginalisation as a discipline reflects the trivialization of African intelligence and the implicit exclusion of Africa from intellectual debates. The study finishes by outlining diversity measures that the academia could undertake in order to overcome Africa studies' marginalisation.
Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi (University of Abuja)
Paper short abstract:
The aim of this paper is to engage the future through the sociology of time and to see the extent to which the human community is involved in inventing the notion of the future. I aim to illustrate the nature of the future through the instance of the Igbo-African thought scheme.
Paper long abstract:
The aim of this paper is to engage the future through the sociology of time and to see the extent to which the human community is involved in inventing the notion of the future. I aim to illustrate the nature of the future through the instance of the Igbo-African thought scheme. What is the nature of the future? Is the future(time) an entity, a concept or a reality, etc. in Igbo thought? What if one re-conceptualizes time as dimension of thinking, how does it change the outcomes of thinking? What kind of the changes in the world-picture may one expect? What ethical, legal, epistemological and metaphysical goods would emerge from this study? Applying the Igbo thought scheme I aim to locate how or whether the future can be located in the Igbo/African thought scheme and where this future can be located. I engage the future in relation to ethical, legal, epistemological and metaphysical goods and attempt to locate how the idea of the future may have led to valuable ethical ,legal and epistemological outcomes for the Igbos society.