de lavi | nov. 3, 2011 | Anunturi, mass-media
Profesorul Valentin Mureşan a câştigat premiul Profesorul universitar al anului (locul II), acordat de Fundatia „Dinu Patriciu” în cadrul Galei Premiilor pentru Educaţie 2011.
Muresan preda cursuri de filosofie morala la toate cele trei cicluri de invatamant superior si un curs masteral de Managementul eticii în cadrul Facultăţii de Filosofie a Universităţii din Bucureşti. Este de asemenea directorul Scolii doctorale. Cursul sau Teorii etice are un manual in forma electronica la adresa academia.edu valentin muresan. Metodele de decizie etica din cursurile pe care le preda, cat si unele teme mai noi sau mai dificile, sunt prevazute cu mijloace electronice de autotraining. Rolul acestora este de a-l ajuta pe student sa invete singur, acasa si sa rezolve unele cazuri noi, folosind interactiv calculatorul, explica profesorul universitar.
Ghid Etic al Personalului Universitatii
Muresan este directorul Centrului de Cercetare in Etica Aplicata din cadrul Universitatii. Aici unii studenti fac practica sub supravegherea studentilor doctoranzi. In cadrul centrului, au fost organizate doua sesiuni de comunicari stiintifice pe temele Etica si dreptul si Etica, dragostea si sexul. Aceste teme sunt o premiera in spatiul public romanesc, spune profesorul. Insa, continua el, de departe cea mai importanta realizare a Centrului pe care-l conduce este lansarea temei managementului eticii care a devenit un nou curs masteral.
Muresan a initiat Ghidul Etic al Personalului Universitatii. Centrul poate oferi consultanta in acest sens prin profesorii, doctoranzii si masteranzii lui. Anul trecut, alaturi de alti doi colegi, a prezentat la Universitatea din Bucuresti o modalitate prin care incidentele de imoralitate (plagiat, discriminare, alocare incorecta a resurselor institutiei) pot fi controlate daca exista un sistem integrat de management al eticii in universitate.
Valentin Muresan conduce si Revista romana de filosofie analitica.
de lavi | nov. 1, 2011 | Call for papers
International Conference
Global Justice: Norms and Limits
Bucharest, 10 – 12 May, 2012
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest
Worldwide suffering caused by large-scale famine as well as poverty, human rights violations, military interventions or environmental degradation have a global dimension, because those responsible are not only individuals, but also states and international institutions. Recently, what some have perceived as global injustices related to military interventions and economic exploitation seem to motivate terrorist and piracy attacks that cause indiscriminate suffering. Having gained an unprecedented urgency, the topic of global justice has received increasingly public and academic attention, and has lately become a central issue in moral and political philosophy. Our conference seeks to be a forum for discussing the most important theories of global justice, their central concepts and constraints.
Keynote and guest speakers include: Thomas Pogge (Yale), David Miller (Oxford), Hillel Steiner (Manchester), Véronique Zanetti (Bilefield), Sebastiano Maffettone (Roma), Paula Casal (Barcelona), Andreas Føllesdal (Oslo), and Lea Ypi (Oxford).
The conference will be held at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest. The conference is organized by the The Center for the Study of Rationality and Beliefs
Submission of papers
We welcome papers concerning any topic related to global justice.
Contributions are expected from researchers from different academic fields who are interested in the outlined topic or in closely related ones.
Students are also invited to submit papers for the conference, as we intend to organize a student panel.
Abstracts should be sent by e-mail as attachment at globaljustice@ub-filosofie.ro until the 30th of January 2012. The deadline for submitting the full version of your paper is the 1st of March 2012. Along with the abstract, please send us your contact details: current affiliation, address and telephone number.
The organizers cannot support any travel or accommodation costs.
Follow-up:
The organizers intend to publish a volume including papers from the conference. Acceptance of the paper for the conference does not guarantee the inclusion in the proceedings. We kindly remind you that by submitting the paper you implicitly agree to allow its publication in the conference proceedings.
For easier post-conference editorial work, it would be best if you would format your paper using Chicago style of reference, but this is not a formal condition for the publication.
Programme
The conference programme will be available soon at the following address: http://filosofie.unibuc.ro/calls#globaljustice
Location
The Conference will be held at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest.
The address is: Splaiul Independenţei 204, Sector 6, postcode 060024, Bucharest, Romania.
You can access one of Bucharest’ on-line maps here:
http://harta-bucuresti.bucharest-guide.ro/
Contact
globaljustice@ub-filosofie.ro
Mircea Tobosaru
Assistant Professor
Department of Social Sciences
Politehnica University of Bucharest
PhD Student
Department of Philosophy
University of Bucharest
de lavi | nov. 1, 2011 | Conferinte
Facultatea de Filosofie a Universităţii din București organizează miercuri, 2 noiembrie 2011, conferinţa Explanation through scientific models, susţinută de Richard David-Rus.
Richard David-Rus este membru al Institutului de Antropologie „Francisc J. Rainer”. Interesele sale de cercetare sunt metodologia cercetării ştiinţifice, filosofia ştiinţei, modelarea statistică a datelor biomedicale.
Conferinţa face parte din seria seminarului săptămânal al Departamentului de Filosofie teoretică al Facultăţii de Filosofie din cadrul Universităţii din Bucureşti. Acesta este un seminar de cercetare deschis, în care profesori şi cercetători din ţară şi străinătate îşi expun rezultatele cercetărilor şi discută liber cu participanţii prezenţi la fiecare întâlnire.
Conferinţa Explanation through scientific models, se va desfăşura începând cu ora 18:00 în Amfiteatrul Titu Maiorescu al Facultăţii de Filosofie (Splaiul Independenţei, nr. 204, sector 6).
de lavi | oct. 31, 2011 | Anunturi, Conferinte
Program
Friday, November 11th
Keynote session (chair E. Socaciu):
9 – 9.30: Opening addresses
9.30 – 10.30: Kenneth Binmore (UCL) : The Origins of Fairness Norms
10.30 – 10.45: Coffee break
10.45 – 11.45: Mircea Dumitru (University of Bucharest): Metaphysics of Norms
11.45 – 12.45: Mihail-Radu Solcan (University of Bucharest): On the Survival of Scientific Theories
12.45 – 15.00: Break
Panel 1: Epistemology and Cognition (chair L. Staicu)
15.00 – 15.30: Virgil Iordache (University of Bucharest): Ontological and Epistemic Assumptions of the Theories of Selection
15.30 – 16.00: Teodor Negru („Al. I. Cuza” University of Iaşi): Emergence of the Self: Consciousness in Dynamic Cognitive Systems
16.00 – 16.30: Sorin Costreie (Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch): What Can Mathematical Cognition Tell Us About Norms?
16.30 – 17.00: Andreea Esanu (University of Bucharest): What Is the Difference between the Process of Evolution in a Computer and the Process of Evolution Outside the Computer?
17.00 – 17.15: Coffee break
Panel 2: Evolutionary Modelling (chair L. Gheorghe)
17.15 – 17.45: Marcel Cremene, Ligia Cremene, D. Dumitrescu (Technical University Cluj-Napoca): Cooperation. Why doesn’t it simply happen?
17.45 – 18.15: Alexandru Dragomir (University of Bucharest): Reaching Common Knowledge in Multi-Agent Systems Through Public Announcements
18.15 – 18.45: Richard David-Rus (Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch): Some Considerations on Explanation through Evolutionary Models and Simulations
18.45 – 19.15: Gabriel Istrate (Babes Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca): Towards a Logic of Stylized Facts in Computational Social Science
Saturday, Nov. 12th
Panel 3: Evolution and Culture (chair S. Costreie)
09.00 – 09.30: Laurentiu Staicu (University of Bucharest): Cultural Change and Human Enhancement. A Tale of Coevolution
09.30 – 10.00: Dan Chitoiu („Al. I. Cuza” University of Iaşi): The East European Cultural Area: a Special Case in the Evolution of Norms?
10.00 – 10.30: Coffee break
10.30 – 11.00: Constantin Vica (University of Bucharest): Cooperation within networks
11.00 – 11.30: Gabriel Radu (SNSPA Bucharest): A Local Case of Norm Evolution: Integenerational Justice
11.30 – 12.00: Constantinos Maritsas (Sofia University): The Principle of Natural Selection in Nature and Civilization
12.00 – 14.00: Break
Panel 4: Evolving Norms (chair K. Binmore
14.00 – 14.30: Jonathan Grose, Cedric Patternote (University of Bristol): Social Norms and Game Theory: Harmony or Discord?
14.30 – 15.00: Emanuel Socaciu (University of Bucharest): Ethics and Game Theory: a Coordination Game?
15.00 – 15.30: Emilian Mihailov (University of Bucharest): De Waal’s Moral Evolutionism and Kantian (Empirical) Ethics
15.30 – 16.00: Radu Uszkai (University of Bucharest): Robert Nozick and the Evolutionary Approach to Ethical Norms. A Philosophical Reconstruction
16.00 – 16.30: Coffee break
Panel 5: Order and Institutions (chair E. Socaciu)
16.30 – 17.00: Ionut Sterpan (University of Bucharest): On Institutional Incoherence
17.00 – 17.30: Ioana Anton, Georgiana Nenciu (University of Bucharest): Evolution and Subjectivity in Hayek
17.30 – 18.00: Laurentiu Gheorghe (University of Bucharest): Political Order and the Evolution of Norms
18.00 – 18.30: Dan Panaet (University of Bucharest): A Reconstruction of Hayek’s Account of Social Evolution, Centered on the Idea of Order Selection
