“To think is to experiment,” claim Deleuze and Guattari in What Is Philosophy?, and they add: “Experimentation is always that which is in the process of coming about – the new, remarkable, and interesting that replace the appearance of truth and are more demanding than it is.” 

On Wednesday September 30, we organise a discussion panel at the GfM Jahrestagung 2020:

Mindful Experiments. Crossing Boundaries between Philosophy, Psychology, and the Arts

With Christoph Engemann, Sigrid Leyssen, Henning Schmidgen, Mathias Schönher & Elena Vogman

Inspired by the statements above, the panel explores the role of experimentation between philosophy, psychology, and the arts. The focus is on the post-war period, when philosophy, psychology, and the arts were supposed to be clearly separated disciplines or areas of research. In this panel, however, we focus on and recreate the encounters of philosophers, psychologists, and artists by reconstructing specific experimental practices. The argument is that these practices transgressed and/or subverted the boundaries between the disciplines, thus creating remarkable and interesting experiences and contributing to pave new pathways of knowledge. While we look at various forms of experiments – from self-experiments to laboratory trials and paper tests – we question their role as media of research, which also implies looking at the materiality they refer to and rely on.  

Date: Wednesday, 30.09.2020, 15:00-16:15 

Visit the following link for further information:

gfm2020.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/programm/