The Phenomenological Critique of Mathematisation and the Question of Responsibility Formalisation and the Life-World

Dr Ľubica Učník is a senior lecturer and academic chair in philosophy at Murdoch University. Her work is derived from Jan Patočka’s rethinking of phenomenological philosophy, namely, his concept of a-subjective phenomenology and his work on the transformation of modern science from Galileo to the present. She published several articles on Husserl’s mathematisation of the Lebenswelt and Patočka’s thinking on modern civilization. She recently completed a book The Life-World and the Crisis of Meaning: Husserl, Heidegger, Arendt and Patočka. Dr Ivan Chvatík Dr h. c. is the director of Jan Patočka Archive, an archive he established in 1990. In 1990, he received the Prize from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences for the “Jan Patočka Archive Collection”, published in underground 1977-1989. Since 1993, he has been the co-director of the Center for Theoretical Study, the Institute for Advanced Study at Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences. In 1997, he received Jan Patočka Memorial Medal from the Czech Academy of Sciences in recognition of his role in furthering scientific research. Since 1990, he has edited 25 volumes of Jan Patočka's life works. Dr Anita Williams is a researcher in philosophy and psychology at Murdoch University. Her research is broadly focused on the history and philosophy of psychology. She is interested in phenomenology because it provides a way to question the increasingly taken for granted adoption of the scientific method for investigating human thinking and morality. Her recent work adopts Husserl’s and Heidegger’s critiques of formalisation to critique the expanding field of cognitive neuroscience.