Green conference: Olaf L. Müller - Green Shadows
Channel: Medical Museion
Date: 06/02/2019

Green Shadows: Goethe, Ritter and Ørsted on the Polarity of Green and Purple

Abstract

Olaf L. Mueller studied philosophy, mathematics, computer science, and economics in Göttingen (Germany) and Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1996, he was a research fellow at Jagiellonian University (Kraków), in 1997 at Harvard University. Since 2003, he holds the chair for philosophy of science at Humboldt University (Berlin). On invitation of the Japanese Society for Goethean Natural Science, he worked as a guest professor at Keio University (Tokyo). In his books, he argues against skepticism à la Matrix (2003); in favour of good old metaphysics (2003); in favour of moral observation (2008); and in favour of Goethe's attack on Newton's optics (2015); at present he is writing a book about the role of beauty in physics (2019). In his papers, he defends freedom against the neurosciences, pacifism against adherents of just war, individual justice in climate ethics against Western egoism, and mind/body-dualism against materialism. His main concern is a humanistic interpretation of modern science and technology: Both ought to be achievements of humans for humans. farbenstreit.de

The keynote lecture by Olaf L. Müller is organised in collaboration with the Center for Modern European Studies (CEMES) and supported by Goethe Institut Dänemark.