Congist'26: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis

Session

Session 4.5 (Day 2)

D2-S4-D310

14 May 2026, 15:15

D310 (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

Conveners

Session 4.5 (Day 2): Felsefe / Philosophy

• Egemen Seyfettin Kuşcu (İstanbul University)

Crisis in Hegel as a Precondition for Self-Knowledge and Progress (D2-S4-D310)

İhsan Berk Özcangiller (Istanbul Medeniyet University)

14/05/2026, 15:15

Oral Presentation

This paper argues that crisis in Hegel’s philosophy is not an external disturbance of rationality but the very logic through which reason sustains and improves itself. I propose that Hegel’s speculative reason internalizes crisis as the enduring form of constitutive negativity that enables both the life of the concept and the vitality of Geist.

This is because vitality, unlike other forms...

Koselleck Beyond Koselleck: Towards a Conceptual History of Crisis in Twentieth-Century Europe. (D2-S4-D310)

Andrea Ampollini (University of Urbino Carlo Bo)

14/05/2026, 15:35

Oral Presentation

Reinhart Koselleck remains a key reference for scholars investigating the conceptual history of crisis. Yet, his analyses (1959; 1972-97; 1986) display significant limitations: (1) the spatial scope is largely confined to the German context; (2) the temporal frame is centered on the Sattelzeit, i.e., the decades between 1750 and 1850; (3) the selection of primary sources relies predominantly...

What Was the Replication Crisis? (D2-S4-D310)

Samuel Fletcher (University of Oxford)

14/05/2026, 15:55

Oral Presentation

In the last decade or so, especially in social and cognitive psychological science, the term “replication crisis” has come to denote a phenomenon that has spurred widespread discussion and continuing methodological change in those disciplines. But there is a surprising lack of discussion about what, exactly, this phenomenon has been: what sort of crisis has it been, and what role has...