Mats Rosengren : "On Creation, Cave Art and Perception : a Doxological Approach"

The discovery of Paleolithic cave art in the late 19th century entails many problems, some of which are perceptual. Presenting doxology as a post-phenomenological way of approaching epistemic and perceptual questions, this article draws on the problematics of cave art and contemporary cognitive science to discuss the process of perception - what it takes to see what one sees - in caves (and elsewhere). The article concludes that in order to see and perceive anything at all, both our physical and our conceptual resources - the light of the sun as well as the light of the mind, as Empedocles might have said - are needed. The light of the mind is always inextricably linked to doxa. Thus, the article argues that a doxological approach to questions of perception and knowledge is required.

L'exposé de Mats Rosengren sera suivi par des remarques de Pierre Dumesnil sur "Imaginaire, Technique et Société dans la pensée de Cornelius Castoriadis"