de lavi | mai 20, 2012 | Anunturi
Syllabus of the MA and PhD Class in Analytic Metaphysics
Syllabus of the MA and PhD Class in Analytic Metaphysics
Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki
Metaphysics of Modality
Brief description and objectives of the class:
The class will cover material from the ongoing debates in analytic metaphysics of modality. We pay close attention to the recent literature devoted to both the formal apparatus of quantificational modal logics and to the recent work in the philosophy of modalities.
The following topics are of particular interest: the metaphysical notion of possible worlds and individuals, the relation between modal languages and quantificational first-order languages, different semantic systems for modalities, and the challenges which are raised by the epistemology of the modal discourse.
Prerequisites
A working knowledge in first order logic and an intro class in analytical metaphysics.
Topics for discussion for ten hours
1. Basic notions of the possible worlds semantics (2 hours).
2. Quine’s modal skepticism (2 hours).
3. Priorism (modal actualism) (2 hours).
4. Modal realism (2 hours).
5. Modal anti-realism (2 hours).
Basic references
Chihara, C. (1998), The Worlds of Possibility, Oxford University Press.
Fine, K. (2005), Modality and Tense, Clarendon Press – Oxford University Press.
Fitting Melvin & Richard L. Mendelsohn (1999), First Order Modal Logic (Synthese Library), Springer.
Forbes, G. (1985), The Metaphysics of Modality, Oxford University Press.
Garson, J. (2006), Modal Logic for Philosophers, Cambridge University Press.
Hale, B. & A. Hoffmann (eds.) (2010), Modality. Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology, Oxford University Press.
Lewis, D. (1986), On the Plurality of Worlds, Oxford: Blackwell.
Marcus, R. B. (1993), Modalities. Philosophycal Essays, Oxford University Press.
Melia, J. (2003), Modality, Acumen.
Plantinga, A. (1974), The Nature of Necessity, Oxford University Press.
Prior, A. & K. Fine (1977), Worlds, Times, and Selves, Amherst: University of Massachusetts.
Quine, W. V. O. (1966), Three Grades of Modal Involvement, in The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays, Harvard.
Rosen, G. (1990), Modal Fictionalism, in Mind, 99, 327 – 54.
Stalnaker, R. (2003), Ways a World Might Be. Metaphysical and Anti-Metaphysical Essays, Oxford University Press.
Tooley, M. (1999) (ed.), Necessity and Possibility. The Metaphysics of Modality, Harvard.
de lavi | mai 20, 2012 | Conferinte, Filosofie
Colloquium Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest
Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality.
Themes from Kit Fine
Place – The Scientific Research Center of the University of Bucharest in Cumpatu-Sinaia, Romania
Thursday, May 24
Chair: Mircea Dumitru
14:00 – 14: 50 Kit Fine (NYU), Truthmaker semantics
15:00 – 15:50 Graeme Forbes (University of Colorado Boulder), On Fine’s truthmaker semantics
15:50 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:20 Fabrice Correia (Geneva), How to reduce modality to essence
17:30 – 18:20 Scott Shalkowski (University of Leeds), Essence and nominalism
Friday, May 25
The morning session
Chair: Graeme Forbes
9:30 – 10:20 Paul Horwich (NYU), The nature of necessity
10:30 – 11:20 Bob Hale (University of Sheffield), The problem of De Re modality
11:30 – 12:20 Friederike Moltman (CNRS, Paris), Variable Objects
12:30 – 13:20 Alasdair Urquhart (University of Toronto), Fine on arbitrary objects
The afternoon session
Chair: Bob Hale
15:00 – 15:50 Philip Percival (University of Nottingham), Branching worlds or beyond reality
16:00 – 16:50 Gabriel Rabin (UCLA), Well-founding grounding grounding
17:00 – 17:50 Steve Kuhn (Georgetown University), Necessary, Transcendental & Universal Truth
18:00 – 18:50 Mircea Dumitru (University of Bucharest), Fine’s semantic relationist approach to Frege’s puzzle and opacity
List of Participants
1. Kit Fine (NYU)
2. Fabrice Correia (Geneva)
3. Mircea Dumitru (University of Bucharest)
4. Graeme Forbes (University of Colorado Boulder)
5. Bob Hale (University of Sheffield)
6. Paul Horwich (NYU)
7. Steve Kuhn (Georgetown University)
8. Friederike Moltman (CNRS, Paris)
9. Philip Percival (University of Nottingham)
10. Gabriel Rabin (UCLA)
11. Scott Shalkowski (University of Leeds)
12. Alasdair Urquhart (University of Toronto)
Place: The Scientific Research Center of the University of Bucharest, Cumpatu-Sinaia, Romania Time: May 24-26, 2012
de lavi | mai 19, 2012 | Conferinte
Facultatea de Filosofie
Sala 6,
21 Mai 2012, ora 16
Instituționalizarea eticii_afis
Institutionalizarea eticii – intre analiza si constructie
16:00 – 16:15
Georgiana Ciobanu
Educatia morala in institutii
16.15 – 16:30
Damaschina Diaconescu
Rolul consultantului etic in institutii
16:30 – 16:45
Andreea Neculae
Etica in sistemele de detentie din Romania
16:45 – 17:15
Marius Voineag si Razvan Bogdan
Etica deontologica aplicata in Social Media
17:15 – 17.30
Andreea Nicolae
Institutia si cercetatorul – auto-instruire etica
17:30 – 17:45
PAUZA
17:45 – 18:00
Cosmin Patlageanu
Metode de decizie etica – a literature review
18:00 – 18:15
Marina Patlageanu
Auditul etic
18:15 – 18:30
Alexandra Parvulescu
Expertiza si comitetele de etica in institutiile de sanatate
18:30 – 19:00
Malina Grab si Stefania Vrabie
Responsabilitatea fata de angajati – instruire etica
de lavi | mai 19, 2012 | Conferinte
Seară cu Ştiinţă: miercuri 23 Mai 2012, la ora 16:00, în amfiteatrul Titu Maiorescu. Controlul mintal şi psihopatologia – Conferenţiar Doctor Aura Szentagotai de la Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Facultatea de Psihologie şi Ştiinţele Educaţiei, Catedra de Psihologie Clinică şi Psihoterapie
Afis-Celfis-Szentagotai
