de lavi | iul. 4, 2013 | Anunturi, Filosofie, mass-media
Seria dialogurilor „Inapoi la argument cu Horia-Roman Patapievici” a continuat joi, 25 aprilie, la Libraria Humanitas de la Cismigiu. Horia-Roman Patapievici l-a avut invitat pe Mircea Dumitru, Rectorul Universitatii Bucuresti.
Tema discutiilor celor doi a fost „Argumentul lui Kurt Goedel în favoarea existenţei lui Dumnezeu”.
Argumentul ontologic al lui Kurt Goedel, pe care autorul insusi l-a vazut mai degraba ca investigatie logica, este o demonstratie, in termenii logicii modale, ca existenta lui Dumnezeu este un adevar necesar, in toate lumile posibile.
Mircea Dumitru este profesor la Catedra de filozofie teoretica si logica a Facultatii de Filosofie, Universitatea Bucuresti si in prezent rector al Universitatii din Bucuresti. Este doctor in filozofie, specializarea logica, al Universitatii Tulane, New Orleans, SUA (mai 1998) si doctor in filozofie, specializarea filozofia limbajului, al Universitatii din Bucuresti (iulie 1998). Principalele domenii de interes sunt logica filozofica, filozofia limbajului si filozofia mintii. Autor al monografiilor On Modal Incompleteness (UMI, Arm Arbor, 1998), Modalitate si incompletitudine. Logica modala ca logica de ordin superior (Bucuresti, Editura Paideia, 2001) si coautor (impreuna cu P. Bieltz) al manualului pentru licee Logica si Argumentare (Editura ALL, 1999). Pentru Editura Humanitas a tradus (impreuna cu M. Flonta) L. Wittgenstein Tractatus Logico–Philosophicus si Cercetari filozofice.
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de lavi | iul. 4, 2013 | Anunturi, Facultate
CALENDAR ADMITERE 2013
Studiiuniversitare de MASTER
Potrivit Hotărârii Consiliului de Administrație din 2.07.2013 înscrierile pentru examenul de admitere la studii universitare de masterat încep în data de 15 IULIE 2013 conform următorului calendar:
• 15 – 21 IULIE – ÎNSCRIERI
• 23 IULIE – INTERVIU
CALENDAR SEPTEMBRIE ADMITERE 2013 – Învăţământul universitar de MASTER
Înscrieri: 3 – 10 septembrie
Pentru mai multe detalii despre masterat, vizitati pagina de admitere: http://filosofie.unibuc.ro/admitere_master
de lavi | iun. 25, 2013 | Conferinte
3 iulie 2013
Title: „Much ado about nothing – the concept of vacuum in physics and philosophy”
Speaker: Sorin Paraoanu (Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland)
Abstract:
The concept of vacuum appears in different branches of physics, from condensed matter physics to black holes and cosmology; most likely it will be a key element for the unification of gravitation and quantum physics. Unlike classical „emptiness”, the quantum vacuum is not an inert object: it is bursting with activity, with virtual processes of creation/annihilation occuring all the time due to quantum fluctuations. I will briefly discuss an experiment done in our lab [P. Lahteenmaki, G. S. Paraoanu, J. Hassel, and P. J. Hakonen, Dynamical Casimir effect in a Josephson metamaterial, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 110, 4234 (2013)] demonstrating that one can transform these virtual particles into real ones. I will examine the implications of this experiment, as well as other related ones, on concepts such as reality (actuality) versus potentiality.
With the introduction above as an example, I will then continue with a more general discussion, with the participation of the audience, on the radical shift that happened relatively recently between physics and philosophy (especially metaphysics): in the last decades, venerable metaphysical concepts such as causality, space and time, free will, determinism, reality, etc. have become accessible to experiment and are gradually becoming part of the mainstream physics. It looks as if physics is capable of incorporating its own meta-physics. I hope to spark a dialogue on what are the consequences of this shift for the relation between physics and philosophy.
Acest eveniment face parte din cadrul Seminarului Departamentului de Filosofie Teoretica, iar intalnirile se desfasoara in zilele de miercuri, de la ora 18:00 in amfiteatrul Constantin Radulescu Motru al Facultatii de Filosofie.
de lavi | iun. 22, 2013 | Call for papers
CFP: Instruments & arts of inquiry: natural history, natural magic and the production of knowledge in early modern Europe
Editors: Dana Jalobeanu, Cesare Pastorino
The second half of the sixteenth-century saw the growing popularity of accounts detailing instrumental practices and experimental recipes in at least two emerging (and extremely popular) fields: natural magic and the tradition of the books of secrets. A typical example of this cultural phenomenon was the influential work of Giambattista della Porta. By the beginning of seventeenth-century, experimental practices and instruments became equally popular in natural history. In fact, almost the same period saw the transformation – in the works of Francis Bacon – of the traditional bookish discipline of natural history into a collaborative, experimental and practically oriented study of nature.
What was the relation between these apparently parallel transformations taking place in these subjects? Does it make sense to think that the Baconian transformation of natural history from a “science of describing” to an experimental and practically oriented discipline was influenced by the technologies and “recipes” elaborated by the practitioners of natural magic and the “Secrets” tradition? How about other forms of natural history? Did the “wonderful” instruments and “magical” techniques so common in the books of secrets “migrated” into more “sober,” more systematic works of natural history? Or, to put it in a different way, did natural historians borrow their instruments, technologies and practices from natural magicians and authors of secrets? And, if so, what were the mechanisms behind such borrowings?
This special issue of the Journal of Early Modern Studies seeks papers exploring the intersections between the disciplines of natural history, natural magic and the books of secrets tradition in the early modern period. We are particularly interested in the various ways in which texts and practices in the tradition of natural magic and the books of secrets were absorbed, transformed and integrated in the renovated natural histories of the seventeenth century.
JEMS is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal of intellectual history, dedicated to the exploration of the interactions between philosophy, science and religion in Early Modern Europe. It aims to respond to the growing awareness within the scholarly community of an emerging new field of research that crosses the boundaries of the traditional disciplines and goes beyond received historiographic categories and concepts.
JEMS publishes high-quality articles reporting results of research in intellectual history, history of philosophy and history of early modern science, with a special interest in cross-disciplinary approaches. It furthermore aims to bring to the attention of the scholarly community as yet unexplored topics, which testify to the multiple intellectual exchanges and interactions between Eastern and Western Europe during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
JEMS is edited by the Research Centre “Foundations of Modern Thought”, University of Bucharest (http://modernthought-unibuc.blogspot.com/), and published and distributed by Zeta Books (http://www.zetabooks.com/).
de lavi | iun. 21, 2013 | Facultate
Studenţii din anul I master (an universitar 2012/2013) şi anii I, II studii de licenţă (an universitar 2012/2013) sunt rugaţi să depună la secretariat diplomele de licenţă şi de bacalaureat în original, până pe data de 6 septembrie 2013, pentru a putea beneficia , în funcţie de medie, de un loc la buget în anul II sau III (2013/2014). Nedepunerea diplomelor în original va face ca locul pe care-l ocupă studenţii să fie cu taxă.
