Workshop de l'IRP Realism as a Response to the Challenges of our Time

Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
UMR 8103 ISJPS
PhiCo-EXeCO
IRP RPRCT
IUF

Environment, Earth, World, Nature

As is well known, according to Markus Gabriel, a leading figure of 'New Realism', “the world doesn't exist.” Can this thesis help us to approach the current environmental crisis philosophically? Should it induce us to embrace alternative concepts such as environment, earth or, why not, nature? Or, on the contrary, does this crisis reinforce the need for the 'world', while perhaps modifying its meaning ?
We'll be looking at the various relationships between these four concepts: what their difference allows us to think and do, and we'll consider whether a realistic philosophical approach today, faced with the difficulties raised by the reality of our times, should privilege one or another of them, or envisage their complementarity - in what respective uses, then ?

Jeudi 3 juillet 2025

9h30 : accueil des participants

9h45 : Jocelyn Benoist (Paris 1) :
Introductory remarks

10h : Jens Rometsch (Bonn) :
À quoi nous obligent les nouveaux réalismes?

11h : Pauline Nadrigny (Paris 1) :
Earth Art

14h : Jimmy Hernández Marcelo (Turin) :
Vers un (nouveau) réalisme écologique

15h : Jan Voosholz (Bonn) :
The Plurality of Nature, the Singularity of the Earth and the Hybridity of Our Environment

16h : Maurizio Ferraris (Turin) :
L'animal hybride

Vendredi 4 juillet 2025

10h: Paul Guillibert (Paris 1)  : Global, planetary, terrestrial: the worlds of political ecology

11h : Markus Gabriel (Bonn) : The Planetary Turn

14h : Miguel Karm (Paris 1) :
Promoting a philosophy of « mesology » : issues, benefits and problems.

15h : Davide Dal Sasso (Turin)  : Sense Markers: Primitive Cataloguing and the Experience of the World 

16h : Ana Ilievska (Bonn) :
The Elephant in the Room or, Yugoslav Praxis