Learning and knowledge are the focus of a public lecture by Prof. Dr Theodore Schatzki on Tuesday 26 January at 6.00 pm in the Library Hall at the University of Oldenburg (Haarentor campus, Uhlhornsweg 49–55). The American philosopher will discuss a conception of learning in which learning is understood as the acquisition of both practical knowledge (knowing-how) and propositional knowledge (knowing-that).
This conception places participation in social practices at the centre. It thus also recognises training as a form of learning. In his lecture, delivered in English and entitled ‘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, 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, which build on the philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Schatzki is one of the world’s leading and most frequently cited thinkers behind the so-called ‘practical-theoretical turn’ in the humanities, cultural studies and social sciences.
Schatzki’s lecture concludes the ‘Processes of Recognition’ lecture series organised by the Research Training Group ‘Self-Formations: Practices of Subjectivation in a Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspective’ for the current winter semester. The series will continue in the summer semester of 2016, exploring the relationship between the promise of autonomy and collectivity.