Virtual 43rd Annual Phenomenology Symposium of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center: “Phenomenology of Illness Today” on the 21st March 2025.
The Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center at Duquesne University warmly invite you to participate in a virtual 43rd Annual Phenomenology Symposium “Phenomenology of Illness Today” with Prof. Havi Carel of the University of Bristol on March 21, 2025.
Illness is an inescapable, albeit understudied, dimension of human experience that shapes how we live and think. While the broader culture of science, media, and healthcare often focuses on disease from a third-person perspective, a phenomenological approach can consider the first-person subjective experience of illness as we live through it physically, emotionally, socially—and philosophically.
Prof. Carel, author of Illness: The Cry of the Flesh and Phenomenology of Illness, among many other works, will give two lectures on the philosophy and phenomenology of illness to deepen our understanding of how illness can challenge and change our ways of being in the world and our ways of philosophizing.
9 a.m. – Duquesne Community Lecture: Illness as Epoché
11 a.m. – Public Lecture & Q&A: Radical Bodily Doubt
You can learn more and register here: https://form.jotform.com/220415477112043
The Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center hope you can join them online for this virtual symposium with Prof. Carel. Attendance is free of charge. Please contact the centre at [email protected] with any questions, and please feel free to circulate this invitation to anyone you think might be interested.