Interdisciplinarity and disciplinary innovation is an important aspect of compassorange’s work. Here is a current workshop offer from our consultant Dr. Mareike Teigeler with the instruments of philosophy:

The doctoral phase is a search movement that moves on the border between knowledge and not-knowing. It is about applying or expanding existing knowledge in such a way that new scientific findings make the innovative potential of a dissertation clear. However, new findings cannot be secured in advance. The risk of doing a doctorate therefore consists in presenting oneself with precisely those, as yet unsecured findings, with precisely those findings (e.g. in a colloquium, with a lecture, or with the submission of the thesis). But when is the right time to do this? When can this risk be taken? In short: When and how is it possible to translate one’s own doubts about the scientific foundation of the project into the conviction of one’s own project?

The workshop invites you to look at this challenge from a philosophical perspective. By dealing with Hannah Arendt’s “Thinking without Railings” or Jacques Derrida’s “Jump into a creative act”, you will work out how your doctoral phase can be structured in such a way that the much-cited “courage to leave gaps” does not indicate a deficiency or an imperfection, but Rather, your own path of knowledge reveals it.

Program

– Impulse lecture to introduce the topic

– Philosophically guided examination of your own doctoral project

– Exchange in plenary

If you are interested, please contact info@compassorange.de