From LLMs to Theory of Mind: Zuzanna Rucińska at the Faculty of Philosophy

“Enactive approaches to LLM and human interaction”

October 9-10, 2025

We’re delighted that Zuzanna Aleksandra Rucińska, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) will be in Bucharest in October 2025, at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest. She will be a speaker in the the “Enactive approaches to LLM and human interaction” conference, to be held October 9-10, 2025, at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest (https://philevents.org/event/show/139506), and also at the international workshop ‘Theory or Narratives? New Grounds for the Theory of Mind’, to be held October 11-12, 2025 in Bran. She will also teach the “Evolutionary Psychology” masterclass in the “Mind the Brain” programme in Fall 2025.

The conference “Enactive approaches to LLM and human interaction” is part of „The effects of LLM interaction on TOM in digital and virtual environments” ICUB grant in enhancing institutional performance at the University of Bucharest, gathering a research team from philosophy, linguistics, cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology. The event will take place 9-10 October, between 10-20 PM, local time for Bucharest, Romania, on October 9th and 09:00 -13:00 on October 10th. Regular presentations will be 30 minutes long, followed by 15 minutes long Q&A.It will have a mixed format, in that speakers may choose whether they present online only or face to face at the event’s location (if so, their session will enjoy a live audience, but it will also be streamed to remote participants) (https://philevents.org/event/show/139506)

Înscrierea în a.u. 2025–2026: Licență, Master, Doctorat

Înscrierea în a.u. 2025 – 2026

Program înscrieri: 

Licență și Master: 01-30 octombrie 2025, de luni până joi, între orele 12.00 – 15.00

Doctorat: 13-23 octombrie 2025, de luni până joi, între orele 12.00 – 15.00

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Înscrierea este obligatorie pentru toți studenții și se face numai personal.

„Representations, Models, and Rules”, articol publicat de Acad MIrcea Dumitru în revista Topoi

Colegul nostru, Acad. Mircea Dumitru, a publicat de curând articolul „Representations, Models, and Rules” în prestigioasa revistă Topoi – An International Review of Philosophy.

In this paper I present and assess, firstly independently from one another, and then comparatively, the strengths and the weaknesses of three views on semantics: model-theoretic, truth-conditional, and proof-theoretic. The whole philosophical perspective from which I explore these three approaches is motivated by the investigation of the connection between truth and meaning, as well as by the understanding of the role and place of meaning within a physicalist outlook of the world. I also hint at how one can combine and coordinate the three approaches depending on the philosophical issues which those systems seek to model. In the process, I present the philosophical rich and nuanced positions of Donald Davidson who pioneered the Tarski-type truth-conditional semantics for natural languages, and of Wilfrid Sellars who made an essential contribution to the understanding of both semantic and pragmatic aspects of the relations between truth and meaning from an inferentialist (proof) based perspective. I offer a sketch of how certain problems within the Davidsonian framework can be fixed by using the Sellarsian framework. The paper ends with some critical points and challenges that I raise against the proof-theoretic (inferentialist) approach questioning its power to give a complete account of the issue concerning the relationship between truth, meanings, and rules.

Facultatea de Filosofie – gazda celei de-a V-a ediții a Forumului Studenților Români de Pretutindeni

Facultatea de Filosofie – gazda celei de-a V-a ediții a Forumului Studenților Români de Pretutindeni

23-25 septembrie 2025

Facultatea de Filosofie a Universității din București are onoarea de a găzdui cea de-a V-a ediție a Forului Studenților Români de Pretutindeni (FSRP) – o inițiativă dedicată dialogului activ, formării aplicate și colaborării dintre tinerii români din țară și diaspora și reprezentanți ai administrației publice centrale.

După deschiderea oficială desfășurată ieri la Palatul Victoria, participanții s-au reunit astăzi în cadrul Facultății de Filosofie pentru o zi dedicată formării aplicate în domeniul politicilor publice. Programul a debutat cu două workshop-uri tematice, ce au vizat fundamentele teoretice și instrumentele practice ale procesului decizional guvernamental. Studenții au explorat metode de analiză, planificare și intervenție, necesare pentru elaborarea de politici publice eficiente.

În a doua parte a zilei, tinerii – organizați în cadrul a cinci ministere simulate: Educație, Sănătate, Tineret, Mediu și Afaceri Externe – au participat la sesiuni de lucru asistate de specialiști din mediul academic, instituțional și civic. Activitatea a fost concentrată pe formularea unor soluții concrete și fezabile, fiecare „minister” urmând să elaboreze propriile propuneri de politici publice.

Ediția din 2025 aduce un format inovator: fiecare minister este structurat pe departamente funcționale – politici publice, juridic, economic, comunicare și proiecte –, oferind participanților o experiență simulată complexă, apropiată de realitatea guvernamentală.

În zilele următoare, echipele vor continua consolidarea propunerilor, beneficiind de sesiuni de consultare cu reprezentanți ai administrației publice. Evenimentul se va încheia pe 26 septembrie, cu o dezbatere finală, în cadrul căreia studenții își vor susține inițiativele în fața unor parlamentari și factori de decizie.

DESCHIDEREA ANULUI UNIVERSITAR 2025-2026

FESTIVITATEA DE DESCHIDERE
a noului an universitar 2025-2026
va avea loc marți, 30 septembrie 2025, începând cu ora 10.00,
în Amfiteatrul Titu Maiorescu

CURSUL FESTIV
Copilul și filosofia
va fi susținut de Conf. univ. dr. Marin BĂLAN

Mesajul din partea Conducerii Universității din București
va fi transmis de colegul nostru, Conf. univ. dr. Constantin VICĂ,
Prorector Internaționalizare și Relații Publice

Vă așteptăm!

Screening of short documentaries produced through the SPOTLIGHT Summer School in Bucharest on placemaking (2024) and multispecies relations (2025)

Screening of short documentaries produced through the SPOTLIGHT Summer School in Bucharest on placemaking (2024) and multispecies relations (2025)

Save the date: September 30, 2025, 10AM

Screening of short documentaries produced through the SPOTLIGHT Summer School in Bucharest on placemaking (2024) and multispecies relations (2025).

by

Michał Wanke, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Opole

Clara Kleininger-Wanik, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Opole; Department of Communications, Drama and Film, University of Exeter.

Moderator:

Oana Șerban, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest.

An event hosted by the UNESCO Chair in Interculturality, Good Governance and Sustainable Development.

Save the date: September 30, 2025, 10AM.

The screening follows the international SPOTLIGHT Summer School on Audiovisual Capturing of the Dynamics of Place Attachment and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe. This program has been held in Opole (Poland), Budapest (Hungary), and twice in Bucharest (Romania), with financial support from the University of St. Gallen and co-hosting by New Europe College and UNATC (I. L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film).

Each year, students from across Europe collaborate in teams to develop short documentaries within a one-week intensive workshop. This event will present four short films created during the Bucharest editions of the Summer School. The screening (approx. 45 minutes) will be followed by a discussion (approx. 45 minutes) focusing on the conceptual and methodological dimensions of visual research in urban contexts. This year, the docs explore human and more-than-human relationships, multispecies encounters and urban ecology and we invite you to watch your city through their frames.

Please join us for a multimodal intellectual journey: to watch, feel, think, and talk together.

The films will be introduced and pitched by Dr. Michał Wanke, sociologist and Head of the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Opole, and Clara Kleinigner-Wanik, documentary filmmaker and visual anthropologist affiliated with the University of Opole and the University of Exeter, where she is completing her PhD on film, multispecies relationships and Indigenous knowledge.