de lavi | mart. 13, 2012 | Anunturi, Conferinte
PROGRAM
24 of March
9.00 Reception of the participants
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest
Splaiul Independentei 204
Amfiteatrul Mircea Florian
Opening addresses:
Prof. Mircea Dumitru, Rector
Prof. Romulus Brâncoveanu, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy
Moderator: Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest)
9.30-10.15 Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck College, University of London), Experientia literata and the experimental scrupulosity of Thomas Harriot
10.15-11.00 Ian Stewart (University of Kings College, Halifax), Bacon’s assessment of William Gilbert on experiment: theoria and praxis
11.00-11.30 Coffeee Break
Moderator: Daniel Garber (Princeton University)
11.30-12.15 Daniel Anderson (Oxford University) William Gilbert and the Limits of Empiricism in De mundo.
12.15-13.00 Laura Georgescu (University of Bucharest), Same experiment, different uses: Norman’s “The New Attractive” and Gilbert’s “De magnete”
13.00-14.00 Lunch Break
Moderator: Sorin Costreie (University of Bucharest)
14.00-14.45 Christoph Lüthy (Radbound University, Nijmegen), The hopes of seventeenth-century microscopists (and their apparent twentieth-century validation)
14.45-15.30 Maarten van Dyck (University of Ghent), Galileo’s use of experimentation and the limits of nature
15.30-15.45 Coffee Break
Moderator: Viorel Vizureanu (University of Bucharest)
15.45-16.30 Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest), “Much experience of Fact, and much evidence of Truth”: John Hartcliffe, Thomas Sprat, and the transformation of the intellectual virtues in an experimental context
16.30-17.15 Sebastian Mateiescu (University of Bucharest), Philip Melanchthon and the doctrine of ‘universal experimentation’
17.15-18.00 Dan Garber (Princeton University), Glanvill, More, and the ghosts of Humanism in the Royal Society
19.30 Dinner (Cocktail at Casa Universitarilor, str. Dionisie Lupu no. 46)
25 March
Moderator: Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest)
9.30-10.15 Cesare Pastorino (University of Sussex), Francis Bacon and the shape of “Experientia Literata”: the role of technical inventions
10.15-11.00 Doina Cristina Rusu (University of Bucharest and Radboud University Nijmegen) Types of experiments and their function in Bacon’s “Sylva Sylvarum”
11.0.11.15 Coffee Break
Moderator: Emanuel Socaciu (University of Bucharest)
11.15-12.00 Vlad Alexandrescu (University of Bucharest), De l’usage de l’infini chez R. Descartes et J.B. Morin
12.00-12.45 Epaminondas Vampoulis (University of Tessaloniki), Seventeenth-century experiments concerning the nature of matter
13.00-14.00 Lunch break
Moderator: Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck College, University of London)
14.00-14.45 Madalina Giurgea (University of Ghent), How instruments of measurement work epistemologically? Issac Beeckman’s study of impact
14.45-15.30 Martine Pecharman (Maison Francaise, Oxford), From “New experiments” to “Great Experiment”: Blaise Pascal on the epistemology of physics”
15.30-15.45 Coffee Break
Moderator: Christoph Lüthy (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
15.45-16.30 Mihnea Dobre (University of Bucharest), Experimental physics in Cartesian natural philosophy
16.30-17.15 Emanuel Socaciu (University of Bucharest) Hume and the science of morality
17.15-17.30 Break
Moderator: Martine Pecharman (Maison Francaise, Oxford)
17.30-18.15 Grigore Vida (New Europe College, Bucharest) Empiricism and Metaphysics in the Descartes-More Correspondence
18.15- 19.00 Robert Lazu (New Europe College, Bucharest), Descartes, the Turing test and the change of attitudes towards automatons
19.30 Dinner
The 3rd edition of Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science 24-25 March, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest: Creative experiments: Heuristic and Exploratory Experimentation in Early Modern Science.
This third edition of the Bucharest colloquium in early modern science is organized as an event of the grant PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0719: From natural history to science: the emergence of experimental philosophy, director of grant Dana Jalobeanu.
3rd Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science
Creative experiments:
Heuristic and Exploratory Experimentation in Early Modern Science
24-25 March 2012
Faculty of Philosophy
University of Bucharest
Organizers:
Center for the Logic, History and Philosophy of Science
Faculty of Philosophy
University of Bucharest
Research Center for the
Foundations of Modern Thought
University of Bucharest
Convenor: Dana Jalobeanu
Venue:
Faculty of Philosophy
Splaiul Independentei 204
Bucharest
http://www.filosofie.unibuc.ro/
This third edition of the Bucharest colloquium in early modern science is organized as an event of the grant PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0719: From natural history to science: the emergence of experimental philosophy
The past decade has seen a renewed interest in early modern experimentation. In particular, in its cognitive, psychological and social facets, as well as the complex interrelations between epistemic categories like experience, observation and experiment. Meanwhile, comparatively little has been done towards providing a more detailed, contextual and specific study of what might be described, a bit anachronistically, as the methodology of early modern experimentation. This ‘methodology’ comprises the ways in which philosophers, naturalists, promoters of mixed mathematics and artisans put experiments together, and the ways in which they reflected on the capacity of experiments to extend, refine and test hypotheses, on the limits of experimental activity, and on the heuristic power of experimentation.
So far, the sustained interest in the role played by experiments in early modern science has usually centered on ‘evidence’-related problems. This line of investigation favors examination of the experimental results but neglected the ‘methodology’ that brought about the results in the first place. It also neglects the creative and exploratory roles that experiments could and did play in the works of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century explorers of nature.
This colloquium aims to investigate particular cases of early modern experiments or early modern discussions of experimental methodology. We aim to put together a selection of interesting and perhaps relevant case studies that might lead to an innovative and fruitful line of research, namely the investigation of the heuristic, analogical and creative role of early modern experiments.
The intention of the organizers is to publish some or all the papers presented at the colloquium as a special issue of the Journal of Early Modern Studies. In view of this, the participants are kindly asked to circulate their papers 1 week before the beginning of the workshop.
A treia ediţie a colocviului Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science va fi în acest an consacrată problematicii experimentului şi naşterii ştiinţei experimentale. Evenimentul este organizat ca parte a grantului PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0719: From natural history to science: the emergence of experimental philosophy, director de grant Dana Jalobeanu. Colocviul aduce la Bucureşti cercetători de la marile universităţi americane şi europene.
O parte din lucrările colocviului vor fi publicate în numărul al doilea al Journal of Early Modern Science.
de lavi | mart. 12, 2012 | Anunturi, Conferinte
miercuri, 14. martie, seminarul departamentului de filosofie teoretică
îl va avea ca invitat pe:
Prof. dr. Mircea Flonta (Universitatea din București)
_Câteva reflecții asupra relativismului_
„Critica relativismului în filosofia științei este o temă
persistentă în literatura de limbă engleză din ultimele decenii.
Criticii înfățișează relativismul drept o poziție
antiraționalistă, o formă pernicioasă de subiectivism. Relativismul
si subiectivismul sunt imputate unor autori cu un profil atât de
diferit cum sunt Kant, Quine, Kuhn și Rorty. Se poate vorbi, prin
urmare, de o mânuire relativ arbitrara a etichetei _relativism _de
către filosofi pentru a califica puncte de vedere pe care ei le combat
și le resping. Considerațiile mele converg spre concluzia că termenul
poate fi folosit în mod rezonabil pentru a desemna contestarea, pe
diferite temeiuri, a obiectivității cunoașterii științifice și,
drept consecință, a raționalității schimbărilor în cadrele
generale ale gândirii științifice. Din această perspectivă, ceea ce
apropie acele poziții care pot fi calificate _relativiste_ nu este
atât un punct de vedere pozitiv, cât o neînțelegere, neînțelegere
a ceea ce distinge în mod esențial cunoașterea științifică de alte
forme ale culturii moderne.”
Seminarul va avea loc (ca de obicei) de la ora 18, în amfiteatrul Titu
Maiorescu.
de lavi | mart. 12, 2012 | Anunturi, Facultate, mass-media
FESTIVITATEA DE DECERNARE A TITLULUI DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA profesorului DANIEL GARBER (Princeton University)
Marti 20 martie, ora 10, in Amfiteatrul Stoicescu, de la Facultatea de Drept, va avea loc festivitatea de decernare a titlului DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA al UNIVERSITATII DIN BUCURESTI profesorului DANIEL GARBER (Princeton University).
Daniel Garber este o personalitate marcanta a filosofiei moderne, autor al unor carti care au intemeiat un intreg domeniu (early modern philosophy) precum: Descartes’ Metaphysical Physics (University of Chicago Press, 1992) sau Lebniz: Body, Substance and Monad (Oxford University Press 2010), editor al Cambridge History of Seventeenth Century Philosophy si editor general al prestigioasei editii Yale Leibniz, director al departamentului de filosofiei al Universitatii Princeton si intemeietor al mai multor seminarii si grupuri de lucru in filosofia moderna. Daniel Garber este si un adevarat mentor pentru o intreaga generatie de profesori si cercetatori ai Universitatii din Bucuresti, membru fondator al Centrului de Cercetare Fundamentele Modernitatii Europene si co-organizator al prestigiosului seminar anual Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, ajuns deja la editia a 12-a.
de lavi | mart. 10, 2012 | Anunturi, Apariții editoriale
Special Issue – Public Reason 3 (2): Public Services on the Market
We are pleased to announce you that a special issue of Public Reason, entitled ‘Public Services on the Market’ and edited by Rutger Claassen, is
now available online at http://www.publicreason.ro/cuprins/7
All articles are available for download as .pdf, .mobi, and .epub.
ARTICLES
Public Services on the Market: Issues and Arguments
Rutger Claassen (Leiden University)
Three Normative Models of the Welfare State
Joseph Heath (University of Toronto)
The State and the Market – A Parable: On the State’s Commodifying Effects
Tsilly Dagan (Bar Ilan University)
Talia Fisher (Tel Aviv University)
Political Philosophy and Public Service Broadcasting
Russell Keat (School of Social and Political Science, University of
Edinburgh)
Quasi-Market versus State Provision of Public Services:
Some Ethical Considerations
Julian Le Grand (London School of Economics)
The Commodification of the Public Service of Water:
A Normative Perspective
Adrian Walsh (University of New England)
Freedom of Choice and Freedom from Need
David P. Levine (Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University
of Denver)
The Marketization of Security Services
Rutger Claassen (Leiden University)
Public Reason is a peer-reviewed journal of political and moral philosophy. Public Reason publishes articles, book reviews, as well as discussion notes from all the fields of political philosophy and ethics, including political theory, applied ethics, and legal philosophy. The Journal encourages the debate around rationality in politics and ethics in the larger context of the discussion concerning rationality as a philosophical problem.
Public Reason is committed to a pluralistic approach, promoting interdisciplinary and original perspectives as long as the ideal of
critical arguing and clarity is respected. The journal is intended for the international philosophical community, as well as for a broader public
interested in political and moral philosophy. It aims to promote philosophical exchanges with a special emphasis on issues in, and
discussions on the Eastern European space.
Starting from 2010 Public Reason publishes two issues per year, in June and December. Public Reason is an open access e-journal, but it is also
available in print.
de lavi | mart. 5, 2012 | Anunturi
Sunt invitaţi să participe: studenţi, masteranzi, doctoranzi, absolvenţi, profesori universitari
Când & unde: în fiecare sâmbătă, 14.00 – 17.00 , la Facultatea de Filosofie
Statut: cerc de studiu, fără credite.
Nota: o dată pe lună, cercul va găzdui prelegerile unor invitaţi speciali: psihanalişti, psihologi, profesori universitari, oameni de cultură, artişti
Descriere: Cercul de psihanaliza aplicata este deschis tuturor celor interesati de cunoaşterea şi înţelegerea conceptelor psihanalizei şi de posibilităţile de aplicare în cultură şi societate a metodei psihanalitice. Cercul este un spaţiu interdisciplinar care invită la studiu hermeneutic şi o provocare de a descoperi, din mers şi deja puse la treabă, conceptele cheie propuse de Freud, Jung, Lacan, Adler, Rank, Melanie Klein, Winnicott ş.a. Departe de a fi un curs introductiv în psihanaliză, cercul va însemna în primul rând studiu în comun şi descoperire împreună a unui teritoriu – psihanaliza – pe care îl vom înconjura, folosindu-ne de pretexte literare, cinematografice, sociale, artistice, politice pentru a testa periferic intrările în textele clasice de psihanaliză. De asemenea, vom testa şi cheile psihanalitice prin care se promite dezlegarea sensurilor sociale şi pentru individ ale disciplinelor, domeniilor culturale şi instituţiilor actuale. Nu vor fi ocolite şi nu vor lipsi abordările critice ale psihanalizei.
Obiective pentru membrii cercului:
· să devină familiari cu ideile psihanalizei, în special cu teoriile lui Freud şi Jung.
· să îţi apropie textele clasice ale psihanalizei dintr-o perspectivă aplicată, altfel spus, cu o privire pragmatică prin care conceptele şi metoda psihanalizei sunt puse la treabă ca instrument pe care ni-l putem însuşi pentru o critică aprofundată şi eficientă a actualităţii.
· să identifice influenţa şi relevanţa psihanalizei în discursul contemporaneităţii.
· să “producă” dorinţa membrilor de a deschide un centru de cercetare şi de traducere în limba română a unor texte de referinţă din domeniul psihanalizei.
Beneficii pentru membrii cercului:
· îşi vor însuşi limbajul şi metoda psihanalizei, putându-le folosi avizat în discursul critic şi în argumentaţie
· vor avea la dispoziţie un discurs care poate să deschidă un dialog viu între disciplinele academice
· vor avea referinţe bibliografice solide pe care le pot folosi în lucrările academice
Cercul se desfăşoară sub tutela Facultăţii de Filosofie a Universităţii Bucureşti, cu sprijinul Asociaţiei Philos, la propunerea următorilor absolvenţi ai Facultăţii de Filosofie: Claudia Vîlceanu, Ştefan Brânduşescu, Dragoş Dodu.
