de admin | apr. 21, 2021 | Actualitate, Anunturi, Conferences, Conferinte, Seminar cercetare DFT
Delighted to announce an online conference co-hosted by the Department of Theoretical Philosophy and ICUB at the University of Bucharest. The conference, held on May 13-14, 2021, is titled ‘Bridges between the epistemology and the phenomenology of understanding’. A poster is attached, and the program is below.
Thursday, May 13
3.30pm Ro / 8.30am EST Opening remarks (Mircea Dumitru, Viorel Vizureanu, Constantin Stoenescu)
4pm Ro / 9am EST Mircea Dumitru (U. Bucharest), „Knowledge and Understanding Between the Analytic Approach and the Knowledge First Approach. Is Becoming Aware of What One Knows Validated by the KK Principle?”
5pm Ro / 10am EST Stephen Grimm (Fordham), “Knowledge, Understanding, Know-How, and Wisdom: An Epistemic Guide”
6pm Ro / 11am EST Catherine Elgin (Harvard, keynote speaker), “Awareness, Apperception, and Understanding”
7pm Ro / 12pm EST Kareem Khalifa (Middlebury), „Should Friends and Frenemies of Understanding be Friends?”
8pm Ro / 1pm EST David Bourget (UWO), “Understanding and phenomenology”
9pm Ro / 2pm EST Daniel Wilkenfeld (Pittsburgh), “Simply Understanding the World: Patterns and Compression”
Friday, May 14
4pm Ro / 9am EST Sorin Costreie (U. Bucharest), „Russell’s Acquaintance: Logic vs. Epistemology”
5pm Ro / 10am EST Andrei Mărăşoiu (U. Bucharest), “Understanding: Conscious Experience and Epistemic Norms”
6pm Ro / 11am EST James Cargile (UVa, keynote speaker), “Identifying Assertions and Predications”
7pm Ro / 12pm EST Finnur Dellsén (U. Iceland), “Gaining Understanding”
8pm Ro / 1pm EST Monica Solomon (Stanford), ” Understanding vs. Imagination: The Role of Mathematics in Thought Experiments”
The conference is sponsored by the Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation (UEFISCDI) in Romania, via the postdoctoral grant PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2019-0535 received by Andrei Mărăşoiu, and hosted by the Humanities Branch of the Research Institute at the University of Bucharest.
To register, please message andrei.marasoiu@filosofie.unibuc.ro We’re eager for you to join us! And please share widely if you see fit.
de admin | apr. 21, 2021 | Actualitate, Anunturi, Interacțiune cu societatea
Facultatea de Filosofie, în parteneriat cu Asociaţia Taxiul cu Bomboane, organizează evenimentul caritabil “Pui de Pernă pentru Pui de Om” duminică, 25 aprilie 2021.
Cu această ocazie invităm pe toţi cei interesaţi să devină iepuraşi pentru o zi și să ajute Asociaţia Taxiul cu Bomboane să viziteze copiii mai puțin norocoși internați în Spitalele de Pediatrie Victor Gomoiu, Emilia Irza, Nicolae Robănescu și Grigore Alexandrescu. Iepuraşii pot ajuta cu donaţii precum puișori de pernă, cărţi, articole de igienă sanitară și foarte multă dragoste!
Ce: Pui de Pernă pentru Pui de Om, eveniment de colectare de donaţii pentru copiii din spitalele de pediatrie din Bucureşti
Când: Duminică, 25 aprilie 2021, între orele 13:00 şi 16:00
Unde: În curtea facultăţii (Str. Splaiul Independenţei, nr. 204, sector 6, Bucureşti)
Ce poate sa fie inclus în donaţii:
- perne decorative pentru copii
- articole de igienă sanitară (de exemplu: săpun, pastă de dinţi, şampon, periuţe de dinţi, prosopele mici, absorbante, şosete, gel dezinfectant)
- cărţi de poveşti, dar şi belestristică pentru adolescenţi
- menţionăm că toate produsele donate trebuie să fie noi având în vedere că vor fi distribuite în spitale.
Evenimentul se va desfăşura cu respectarea tuturor regulilor impuse de pandemia COVID-19.
Pentru mai multe detalii, puteţi contacta coordonatoarea evenimentului, Adina Dumitrache, la numărul de telefon 0770239683.
Mulțumim pentru suport și implicare!
#parteneriînfaptebune
de admin | apr. 16, 2021 | Actualitate, Anunturi, Avizier studenti, Conferences, Conferinte
The CCIIF Conferences – The Research Center for the History and Circulation of Philosophical Ideas, subordinated to the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, is pleased to announce that the special guest of this year`s cycle of lectures-interviews is Professor Simon Critchley. The dialogue is occasioned by a large interest of our philosophical community towards one of his last books, devoted to “a poetics of football”: What We Think About When We Think About Soccer (Penguin Random House, 2017).
Simon Critchley is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His work engages in many areas: continental philosophy, philosophy and literature, psychoanalysis, ethics, and political theory, among others. His most recent books include The Problem with Levinas and ABC of Impossibility, though he has written on topics as diverse as David Bowie, religion, and suicide. As moderator of The Stone at The New York Times, Critchley asks philosophers to weigh in on contemporary issues in art, literature, politics, and popular culture. Additional information about Professor Critchley is available at his personal website.
Recent Publications
Visit Simon Critchley’s website for a complete bibliography. Selected recent works include:
- Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us (Penguin Random House, 2019)
- What We Think About When We Think About Soccer (Penguin Random House, 2017)
- Suicide (Thought Catalog, 2015)
- Memory Theatre (Fitzcarraldo Editions). Kindle Edition (September, 2014)
- Bowie (OR Books, 2014)
- The Anarchist Turn, with Jacob Blumenfeld and Chiara Bottici (Pluto Press, London)
- Stay Illusion: The Hamlet Doctrine (Pantheon Books, New York) (Paperback, Vintage, 2014). Titled The Hamlet Doctrine in the UK (Verso, London, 2013)
- The Mattering of Matter. Documents from the Archive of the International Necronautical Society, with Tom McCarthy et al (Sternberg Presss, Berlin)
- The Faith of the Faithless (Verso, paperback, 2014)
- Impossible Objects (Polity Press, Cambridge, 2011)
- How to Stop Living and Start Worrying (Polity Press, Cambridge, 2010)
The dialogue with professor Critchley, devoted to his book, will engage phenomenological, aesthetical and moral approaches, and will be hosted by Oana Șerban, Executive Director of CCIF and professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest.
“It is an honour for us to have Professor Simon Critchley as a special guest of our cycle of conferences. Our dialogue will be inspired by some leading questions concerning his phenomenological reading of sport in the key of a poetics of soccer, his socialist considerations on the nature and experience of soccer or his implicit presuppositions related to the morals of football. I think this is a book that should be read by any philosopher who takes into account seriously the need to leave the Ivor Tower and turn philosophy back to society as a hygiene of life and an aesthetics of existence, in order to understand how vital is our professional engagement in philosophy and how it can support the understanding of power and competition in different strategic contexts, such as culture, sports or management.” (Oana Serban)
The conference will be broadcasted by the official channels of our faculty and university, including YouTube and other social media accounts. Stay tuned Monday, April 19, 2021, at 7PM.
de admin | apr. 15, 2021 | Actualitate, Anunturi, Avizier studenti, Seminar cercetare DFT
Următoarea conferință din cadrul seminarului de cercetare al Departamentului de Filosofie Teoretică în parteneriat cu CELFIS va fi susținută de Andrew Morgan (University of Alabama at Birmingham) & Ralph di Franco (Auburn University).
Titlul prezentării lor este: ‘Disability rights, selective abortion and expressive acts’. Iată şi rezumatul:
‘In this talk we will examine recent attempts to revive the disability rights critique that prenatal testing and selective abortion send harmful messages to the disability community. Our thesis will be that a few careful moves could help this “expressivist argument” to avoid some common criticisms. First, prenatal testing and selective abortion should not be uncritically grouped together. The reasons parents engage in prenatal testing are numerous, making any “message” this practice sends highly indeterminate. In contrast, the reason parents engage in selective abortion is (by definition) very specific: it is because, and only because, the fetus has a disability. Secondly, while it is difficult to justify the claim that individual acts of selective abortion send messages to the disability community (given that these procedures are not usually a matter of public knowledge), it does seem plausible that these acts can often involve manifesting a derogatory attitude towards individuals with disabilities. We conclude with some suggestions for how private expressive acts can inherit the moral defectiveness of the attitudes manifested.’
Conferința se va desfășura ȋn limba engleză luni, 19 aprilie, orele 18-20. Un link de conectare via Meet va fi distribuit cu câteva minute înainte tuturor celor ce își indică dorința de participare scriind la adresa
andrei.marasoiu@filosofie.unibuc.ro.
de admin | apr. 12, 2021 | Actualitate, Anunturi, Call for papers, Conferences, Conferinte
University of Bucharest, 5 and 6 November 2021
Call for papers
Abstract submission new date: June 30, 2021.
“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.”
2021 marks the centennial of John Rawls’s birth and the 50th anniversary of A Theory of Justice’s publication. Rawls’s role in reviving substantial normative interrogations in political philosophy has long been acclaimed by moral and political philosophers, as well as by economists, political scientists, and legal theorists. Even while Rawls himself was rather reluctant to engage directly with ongoing critique of, or answers to, current events, much of the scholarship that he has inspired has massively extended his conceptual distinctions and insights, lines of argument, justificatory structures, and vocabulary, to cover increasing domains in the humanities and social sciences. Our conference explores the legacy of John Rawls and the various ways in which his philosophical thought can be used to understand the transformative political events and crises of the contemporary world that have brought a renewed set of interrogations and have changed the social and political landscape.
Keynote speakers: Katrina Forrester (Harvard University), Rex Martin (University of Kansas), Bruce Haddock (Cardiff University), and Peri Roberts (Cardiff University).
We welcome all paper contributions addressing Rawls’ philosophical legacy, but are especially interested in the following range of topics:
- Political philosophy:
- Ideal vs. non-ideal theory (civil disobedience, structural injustice, racial and gender injustice);
- Critiques of and alternatives to contractualism;
- Normative ethics and normative political theory;
- Methodology of normative reasoning in political philosophy (e.g., models of public reason and justification, thought experiments and political critique);
- Democratic theory;
- Pluralism and democratic institutions.
- Social philosophy:
- Debates about the constitutive elements of practices and institutions of justice (e.g, subject-matter of justice, types of distributive goods; individualism vs. holism);
- Luck, equality of opportunity and social justice;
- Social practices and social critique; new social movements: feminism, anti-racism and post-colonial studies, multiculturalism, environment;
- Conceptual and normative analyses of the state, institutions, and rules and rule-following;
- Critique of the capitalist Welfare State, Property-Owning-Democracy, Basic Income, Stakeholder Society, Pre-distribution versus redistribution.
- Legal philosophy:
- Natural law vs. legal positivism;
- Constitutionalism and rule of law;
- Global and international justice;
- The genealogy of rights.
- Moral philosophy:
- Applied ethics and ethical theory;
- Methodology of moral reasoning (e.g. reflective equilibrium, division of normative labor, burdens of judgment);
- Meta-ethics, constructivism, intuitionism;
- Moral psychology (e.g. the linguistic analogy, virtues of moral insight);
- History of ethics and moral thought. Kant, Mill, Sidgwick.
The abstracts should be no longer than 500 words (including 4 to 5 keywords from the list of topics above) and should be sent to the following address: 100Rawls@filosofie.unibuc.ro. Please indicate your institutional affiliation alongside the abstract.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the conference will be held online.
Important dates
Abstract submission: J̶u̶n̶e̶ ̶1̶5̶,̶ ̶2̶0̶2̶1̶, June 30, 2021.
Notifications: August 15, 2021.
Conference: November 5 and 6, 2021.
Global Justice Seminar, November 6, 2021: A roundtable on how to achieve fairness in the global COVID-19 vaccine distribution conducted by Thomas Pogge (Yale University).
Publishing opportunities
We intend to publish one special issue in Public Reason, and another one in the Annals of the University of Bucharest, Philosophy series. Depending on the papers, maybe also one special issue in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.
The Scientific Committee members are Onora O’Neill (University of Cambridge), Catherine Audard (London School of Economics), Ovidiu Caraiani (University Politechnica of Bucharest), Adrian Miroiu (The National University of Political Studies and Public Administration), Adrian Paul Iliescu (University of Bucharest), Romulus Brâncoveanu (University of Bucharest), Eugen Huzum (Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch).
Convenors: Dorina Pătrunsu (University of Bucharest), Camil Pârvu (University of Bucharest), Andrei Poama (Leiden University), Nicolae Dobrei (The National University of Political Studies and Public Administration), Emilian Mihailov (University of Bucharest), Constantin Vică (University of Bucharest), and Radu Uszkai (The Bucharest University of Economic Studies).
