EAA Workshop “Contributions to the Phenomenology of Reality”
Lecturer: Mark Losoncz (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade)
Date: October 22nd, 2023, 3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Venue: Room 11, Building 101
University of Tokyo, Campus Komaba
Commentator: Masumi Nagasaka (Waseda University), CY Cheung (EAA, University of Tokyo)
Moderator: Hanako Takayama (EAA, University of Tokyo)

Abstract

Contributions to the Phenomenology of Reality

This presentation analyzes the meaning and experience of reality, by focusing on the question heightened reality, whereby subjects feel or think that what they are facing is reality itself, or somehow a ‘more real reality’, a hyperreality. The main examples for this specific kind of metacognitive supervision are from reports about the near-death experience, the psychedelic experience and the mystical experience. The accounts of such experiences will be analyzed using first of all philosophical phenomenology and theories of sense of reality. Martin Fortier’s model of the plural taxonomy of sense of reality will be criticized and complimented. In addition, a triadic model of the experience of reality will be proposed and, based on the analysis of the testimonies of heightened reality according to which one dimension of reality experience is merely heightened reality, the other two being self-evident immersion in reality and the irruptive suspension of ordinary experience.

Mark Losoncz (1987) defended his PhD thesis at the University of Novi Sad with the title The Concept of Time in Bergson’s and Husserl’s Philosophy. He accomplished part of his doctoral research at École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. As a postdoctoral researcher, he was the guest of the Institute of Ethics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. He is a researcher at the University of Belgrade (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory) since 2011. His research interests include consciousness studies, theories of sense of reality, philosophy of love, philosophy & spirituality. He has published several works on the Hungarian minority community in Serbia. He is the author and/or editor of thirteen books. His works are published in English, French, German, Serbian/Croatian, Romanian, Slovenian and Hungarian.

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