Jour Fixe: Babu Thaliath "The Epistemic-Structural Intuition"

The Zukunftskolleg invited everyone to the first Jour Fixe led by Babu Thaliath, who is a Senior Fellow at the Department of Philosophy.

We cordially invited to our hybrid Jour fixe on Tuesday, 2 November from 15:15-16:30.

Babu Thaliath (Senior Fellow / Dept. of Philosophy / School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, Centre of German Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India) spoke about the "The Epistemic-Structural Intuition".

Abstract:

The concept of structural intuition was developed by the renowned art historian Martin Kemp in twenty-five short articles that appeared in the journal Nature between 1997 and 2000. In the introduction to his work Visualizations. The nature book of art and science, in which these articles are collected and edited, Kemp explains the principle of structural intuition as the infallible resonance that exists between internally intuitive and externally phenomenal structures. In my talk I try to demonstrate how the structural intuitions in the context of early modern mathematical and material sciences prove to be compositional, in that they unify mathematical formality with mechanical and material phenomenality. The compositional nature of structural intuition points to its epistemological potential, based on which this doctrine can be extended to epistemic-structural intuition and, as such, substantiated as the characteristic trait of axiomatic intuitions in early modern sciences.

Literature/Links

Kemp, Martin: Structural Intuitions in Art and Science, lecture held on 16th December 2002 at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Felix Burda Memorial Lectures: Iconic Turn):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogqOllPHqBo  

Kemp, Martin: Visualizations. The nature book of art and science, Oxford 2000.

Kemp, Martin: Structural Intuitions. Seeing shapes in art and science, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville 2016.


Chalmers, Alan: How Pressure Became a Scalar, Not a Vector, Phys. Perspect. 20 (2018) Springer International Publishing AG.

Thaliath, Babu: Vom Aufspüren der Axiome. Die Epistemisch-Strukturelle Intuition und das moderne Wissenssystem, Karl Alber Verlag, Freiburg / München 2021.