Philosophy is experiencing its heyday: Completely new exhibition in the Dortmund U!

Philosophy is experiencing its heyday: Completely new exhibition in the Dortmund U!

The exhibition “Perceiving & Understanding – the world, yourself and others” opened in the “Dortmunder U” on February 28, 2025. This cooperation project between the Philosophical Institutes of the Ruhr University Alliance aims to address a broad audience and illuminate central topics in epistemology and philosophy of mind. The exhibition addresses how illusions and perceptual effects influence our understanding of the world and ourselves.

The event is organized by three renowned scientists: Prof. Dr. Raphael van Riel from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Prof. Dr. Katja Crone from TU Dortmund and Prof. Dr. Albert Newen from the Ruhr University Bochum. Loud uni-due.de The exhibition is part of the project “Systematic Analytic Philosophy in the Ruhr-Area” and is funded as part of the MERCUR program with the support of the Mercator Foundation. Prof. Dr. Barbara Albert, Rector of the University of Duisburg-Essen, emphasizes the relevance of the humanities and their social influence.

Insights into epistemology

The exhibition will remain open to visitors until April 6, 2025, and the “Dortmunder U” university days will offer a variety of exhibition objects. These include explanations of theoretical basics as well as interactive PC stations with videos and animations. In addition, an accompanying series of lectures will be offered to further deepen the themes of the exhibition.

A central aspect of the epistemology covered by the exhibition is the philosophy of René Descartes. Descartes, a leading French philosopher of the 17th century, emphasized the method of radical doubt, in which almost everything is questioned in order to create a reliable basis of knowledge. Loud andreasmartineisen.com Only that which can be justified by clear and distinct reason is considered true.

His concept of the duality of mind and matter, substance dualism, significantly influenced the modern conception of consciousness and material existence. The five central aspects of his epistemology include: doubt, the cogito (“I think, therefore I am”), substance dualism, the demand for clear knowledge and the separation between mind and matter.

Discussion and influence of epistemology

Epistemology, also known as epistemology, is a major field of philosophy that explores the foundations of knowledge and beliefs. How wikipedia.org Explained in detail, it includes the examination of certainty, justification and types of doubt. In modern philosophy, different currents such as positivism, pragmatism and the linguistic turn are discussed, with challenges such as aporias and solipsism also playing a role.

Today, the topic of epistemology is expanding to include current questions about artificial intelligence and its relationship to human thinking. The diversity of approaches in epistemology shows that our understanding of knowledge, reality and truth is subject to constant changes and challenges.

Further information about the exhibition “Perceiving & Understanding” is available on the website how-we-see-the-world.de to find.