Michael Marder: "Plant-Thinking Is Plant-Perceiving"

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.

Om gjesteforeleser

Michael Marder er Ikerbasque Research Professor i filosofi ved University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz. Hans arbeider omfatter områder som fenomenologi, miljøfilosofi og politisk tenkning. Han har også skrevet en rekke bøker og artikler. Mer informasjon på Michael Marders hjemmeside.