Workshop in Tribute to Martin Fortier
Partner event at Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, honoring Martin Fortier's work on anthropology, hallucinations, altered states, feelings of reality, spiritual experience, shamanism, and the diversity of consciousness.
- Organizers: Jérôme Dokic and Raphaël Millière
- Place: Institut Jean Nicod, ENS, Paris
- Time: 10:00-18:15
- Format: English talks; French and English round table
Legacy program and abstracts
Program
- 10:00 - Introduction.
- 10:15-11:15 - Joëlle Proust, "From socio-cognitive habits to metacognitive diversity".
- 11:15-12:15 - Juan C. González, "Classification, reality and epistemic value of psychedelic hallucinations".
- 14:00-15:00 - David Dupuis, "Can really psychedelics change the world? Hallucinogenic substances and cultural evolution".
- 15:00-16:00 - Raphaël Millière, "Dimensions of Consciousness".
- 16:15-17:15 - Jérôme Dokic, "The varieties of feelings of reality".
- 17:15-18:15 - Round table.
Presentation
In 2020, Martin Fortier, a doctoral student at EHESS attached to the Jean-Nicod Institute, died prematurely, on the verge of defending a thesis of nearly 600 pages. With his dual training in philosophy and anthropology, his research crossed social sciences and cognitive sciences. His published works focus on the epistemic and ontological status of hallucinations, feelings of reality and hyper-reality, spiritual experiences and shamanism, altered states of consciousness, and the diversity of consciousness. This workshop honored his memory by addressing some of his favorite themes.
Abstract themes retained from the legacy page
Joëlle Proust discussed Martin Fortier's contribution to metacognitive diversity and the anthropological evidence he collected around social metacognition. Juan C. González examined Martin's idea that psychedelic hallucination phenomenology can be linked with neuropharmacological bases, and questioned the real/unreal divide for psychedelic experience. David Dupuis revisited debates with Martin Fortier about psychedelics, cultural transmission, and extrapharmacological factors. Raphaël Millière developed questions around multidimensional global states of consciousness. Jérôme Dokic argued that the feeling of presence is affective and has bodily, interactive, and self-presence aspects that can vary independently of sensory perception.