Learning and knowledge are the focus of a public lecture by Prof. Dr Theodore Schatzki on Tuesday, 26 January, 6.00 pm, in the library hall of the University of Oldenburg (Haarentor campus, Uhlhornsweg 49-55). The US-American philosopher will talk about a concept of learning in which learning is understood as the acquisition of both practical (knowing how) and propositional knowledge (knowing that).
This conceptualisation places participation in social practices at the centre. It also allows training to be recognised as a form of learning. In his lecture "Practices and Learning", Schatzki also aims to illustrate how central the content and processes of knowledge acquisition are to the organisation of social life.
Schatzki is Professor of Philosophy at the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky (USA). He studied applied mathematics and philosophy at Harvard, Oxford and Berkeley and has been a fellow and visiting professor at international research institutions. With his numerous publications based on the philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Schatzki is one of the world's leading and most cited sources of ideas for the so-called praxistheoretical turn in the humanities, cultural and social sciences.
Schatzki's lecture concludes the lecture series "Processes of Recognition" of the Research Training Group "Self-Formations. Practices of Subjectivation in Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspective" of the current winter semester. The series will be continued in the 2016 summer semester with the question of the relationship between the promise of autonomy and collectivity.