[Asec] CFP | APA Central | SoPheRE Panel | Religious/Spiritual Experience and Metaphysics

[Olga Louchakova-Schwartz]

The Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience invites
submissions of high-quality abstracts of 150-300 words for its group
meeting at the Central APA. The APA is currently planning the Central
Division meeting at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, IL, on February
23-26, 2022, with virtual backup plans. Abstracts should be anonymized and
sent by email to *apacentral at sophere.org* <apacentral at sophere.org>
before *August
15* with the subject line “Central APA Submission”. Notifications of
acceptance will be emailed by *Aug 25*. Paper presentation time should be
no more than 20-30 minutes.  Selected papers will be published in a special
issue of Religions free of charge


*Religious/Spiritual Experience and Metaphysics*

Panels Co-Chairs: Olga Louchakova-Schwartz (UC Davis) and Andrew Oberg
(University of Kochi)



In these two panels, we seek to address relationships between religious or
spiritual experience (RSE) and metaphysics.

RSE are associated with interruptions in ordinary language/common sense
experience of the everyday (cf. Dahl; Barber; Heidegger). RSE interruptions
create specific changes in perception, but it is not clear if and how RSE
phenomena as described by i.e. mystics (such as internal perception of
light, sound, altered perception of the body (re: spatiality, density,
depth, other parameters), internal stillness, motion, presence or
disconnect, etc.) impact one’s beliefs and/or attendant metaphysical
(pre)suppositions. Do RSE change empirical realism of the natural
attitude, religious attitude, or one’s metaphysics of the self? In the
first panel, we invite concrete empirical and textual investigations of
relationships between the perceptual and conceptual aspects of RSE across
different traditions. The papers can include both first-person and
second-person descriptive phenomenological research or an intertwining of
different phenomenological analyses.

The second panel seeks revisionist metaphysical proposals that include a
reference to formal phenomenological analyses of consciousness in RSE. By
contrast with the ordinary experience of objects, originary self-giving in
RSE can be non-associative, open-ended, undetermined; in other words,
excluding mental or "real" (empirically so) objects. Therefore, a
descriptive metaphysics of such consciousness needs to be non-object
related (cf. Ladyman, French). What is the nature of reality “displayed” by
RSE? Besides covering the metaphysics of consciousness, the panel welcomes
speculative extensions of such phenomenologically grounded metaphysics into
realist contexts, such as e.g., metaphysics of the quantum world or
Minkowski space-time.

Contact: olouchakova at gmail.com
https://sophere.org/conferences/vienna-2020-call-for-abstracts/

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Olga Louchakova-Schwartz
Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Spirituality, and Human Development,
HIBS
Clinical Professor, UC Davis, School of Medicine
https://ucdavis.academia.edu/OlgaLouchakova

Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience
Founding President, www.sophere.org

The Problem of Religious Experience
<https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030215743>:
Case Studies in Phenomenology, with Reflection and Commentaries,
V.1 and 2 (Springer, 2019)
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