Michael Marder: "Plant-Thinking Is Plant-Perceiving"
Is there such a thing as plant intelligence and, if so, how is it different from ‘plant-thinking’?
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Abstract
Is there such a thing as plant intelligence and, if so, how is it different from ‘plant-thinking’? What are the perceptual capacities of plants? Could it be the case that thinking is conceptually closer to perception than to intelligence not only in plant but also in human existence? And what is the place, the locus of thinking-perceiving in this scheme? In my lecture I raise these and related questions and highlight the possibility of revitalizing human thought with respect to plant-thinking and its ecological corollaries.
About the guest lecturer
Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz. His work spans the fields of phenomenology, environmental philosophy, and political thought. He is the author of numerous books and articles. More information at Michael Marder's home page.