de lavi | apr. 20, 2012 | Call for papers
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Journal SOCIETATE ȘI POLITICĂ is searching for articles and book reviews for its Autumn 2012 issue. This issue will focus on:
God and the Order of Nature in Early Modern Thought: Topics in Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Natural Science
Invited editors:
Laura Georgescu (University of Bucharest)
Grigore Vida (New Europe College, Bucharest & University of Bucharest)
In the contemporary world, we are used to consider science and religion as entirely separate domains. However, in the early modern period the aim of scientific inquiry was often considered to be the deciphering of God’s plan and will, as manifested in nature. It was not only theology and metaphysics that dealt with God; natural philosophy and even mathematics were also deeply tied to conceptions about God’s involvement in nature as a creator and sustainer of its order. Conceptions about God and his relation to the created world directly determined the scientific practice in terms of methodological, epistemological or metaphysical principles; at the same time, the effort to make nature intelligible ended up in revealing God’s intentions or even his “nature”. This special issue of Societate și politică aims to explore the ways in which God and the order of nature were treated in a single natural-philosophical enterprise, mutually influencing each other. Societate și politică welcomes research coming from different fields (history of philosophy, history and philosophy of science, history and philosophy of mathematics, etc.) and strongly encourages cross-disciplinary approaches.
SOCIETATE ȘI POLITICĂ is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by Western University “Vasile Goldiș”, Arad, Romania. See http://uvvg.ro/socpol/. It welcomes original, high-quality research coming from the disciplines of philosophy, history of political thought,
intellectual history, history and philosophy of science, favouring interdisciplinary and cross- disciplinary approaches. Papers no longer than 8.000 words, or book reviews no longer than 800 words, should be submitted by email to Grigore Vida, grigore.vida@gmail.com and Laura Georgescu, mailgeorgescu.laura@gmail.com.
For the authors guidelines see:
http://uvvg.ro/socpol/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=53
All papers will go through a process of blind-reviewing.
Deadline 15th of June 2012
de lavi | mart. 15, 2012 | Call for papers
Call for papers:
Workshop:
“Culture and Religions in the Carpato-Balkanic region. History and Actuality”,
June, 15-16, 2012
Bucharest, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Philosophy,
204, Splaiul Independenței, sect. VI, tel. +40.21.318.15.56
The dramatic political and social changes that took place in Bulgaria and Romania during the last two decades affected significantly the religious attitude of Romanian and Bulgarian peoples. In order to better understand which could be the consequences of these changes, we need to get a deeper vision on the fundamental relations between religion and its institution – the Church – on one side and various domains of life: political power, social life, economy and culture on the other side. Our research is centered on revealing especially the strong connection between religion and culture and how cultural life reflected the religious attitudes. Which were the relations between the Romanian and Bulgarian intelligentsia and the Christian Churches, especially the Orthodox one? How was religion perceived by the cultural elites in these two countries? And what cultural role did play the Church in the process of creating a cultivated society? We have to take also into consideration that in our countries, all the three monotheisms and the fundamental Christian beliefs used to have their believers since many centuries ago. How did this variety of religious attitudes succeeded in living together or, on the contrary, what made them become enemies? And what were their contributions to the cultural life of the two countries?
Another relevant aspect of this geographical region was and still is the rural religious attitude which includes and keeps active pre-Christian values and traditions.
Taking into consideration such aspects of the religious history of our countries, we could try to get answers that could be useful in understanding the new challenges of our contemporary society. Which is now the position of different religious communities in our societies and which are the consequences of the contemporary globalization process? Could one speak about certain misuse of religious believes by various social and political institutions? Is it also possible that the Church itself misuse its power in our countries?
These are questions to which our workshop “Culture and Religions in the Carpato–Balkanic region. History and Actuality” will try to get pertinent answers. Please, send your proposals (title and abstract of 200-300 words) to the email> workshop_religion@institutuldefilosofie.ro till May 25, 2012. (Final programme: June, 7, 2012
This workshop is part of a three years bilateral project between the Romanian Academy (Institute of Philosophy and Psychology) and the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Philosophy on one side and the Bulgarian Academy, Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge on the other side.
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de lavi | mart. 14, 2012 | Anunturi, Call for papers
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Philosophy of Saul Kripke
Special Issue of the Romanian Journal of Analytic Philosophy
Guest Editor: Mircea Dumitru (University of Bucharest)
Saul Kripke is one of the most original contemporary philosophers. His epoch-making logic and philosophical works changed the face of contemporary analytic philosophy. The Romanian Journal of Analytic Philosophy is editing a special issue with exegetical and critical assessments of Kripke’s achievements. We are looking for papers which explore the following topics of Kripke’s work:
- philosophical logic
- philosophy of language
- epistemology
- theory of truth
- metaphysics
- Wittgenstein and meaning
- history of analytic philosophy
- linguistics
We are also looking for book reviews of the following: Saul A. Kripke, Philosophical Troubles. Collected Papers, Volume 1. Oxford University Press, 2011; G. W. Fitch, Saul Kripke, Acumen, 2004; Christopher Hughes, Kripke: Names, Necessity, and Identity, Oxford University Press, 2004; Arif Ahmed, Saul Kripke, Continuum, 2007.
Manuscripts must be submitted till 15th May, 2012. All submissions will go through the regular double-blind review process and follow the standard norms and processes.
For more information please contact the Special Issue Editors at redactia@srfa.ro or mircea.dumitru@unibuc.eu.
The Romanian Journal of Analytic Philosophy is a peer-review journal which aims to bring together the contributions of analytically oriented philosophers in every field of philosophy: metaphysics, logic, epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, ethics, political philosophy, history of philosophy, aesthetics, etc. We use analytic philosophy „in a broad sense”, as it is proposed by the European Society of Analytic Philosophy.
de lavi | feb. 3, 2012 | Anunturi, Call for papers
Data limita pentru trimiterea propunerilor s-a prelungit pana pe 12 februarie.
Conferinţa naţională studenţească – ediţia I
29-30 martie 2012
Filosofie şi modernitate
De ce (nu) (mai) suntem moderni?
Conferinţa se va desfăşura la sediul Facultăţii de Filosofie, Universitatea Bucureşti, Splaiul Independenţei nr. 204, Bucureşti, în perioada 29-30 martie 2012
Conferinţa naţională studenţească este un proiect anual, iniţiat şi organizat de Facultatea de Filosofie a Universităţii din Bucureşti, cu scopul de a încuraja activitatea de cercetare în rândul studenţilor şi comunicarea, la nivel naţional, între studenţii interesaţi în această direcţie. Prima ediţie a conferinţei naţionale va fi consacrată explorării teoretice, istorice şi istoriografice a conceptului de modernitate filosofică, înţeles în sens larg.
Pot participa la conferinţa naţională studenţi de la orice facultate din ţară (nivel licenţă şi masterat), interesaţi de filosofie şi dispuşi să scrie lucrări originale de cercetare în orice ramură a filosofiei. Sperăm ca în conferinţa naţională să fie reprezentate cât mai multe dintre domeniile filosofiei: metafizică, epistemologie, filosofia ştiinţei, istoria filosofiei, filosofie morală şi politică, estetică, filosofia artei, istoria ideilor etc. Tema conferinţei este generoasă şi poate fi abordată atât istorico-filosofic, cât şi analitic-conceptual.
Lucrările conferinţei, desfăşurate pe secţiuni paralele, vor consta în prezentări de maximum 20 de minute ale unor lucrări individuale originale, urmate de discuţii. Lucrările propuse spre prezentare în conferinţa naţională vor fi selecţionate de către un comitet de selecţie format din profesori şi cercetători.
Cele mai bune comunicări, traduse de autori în limba engleză, vor fi publicate în Analele Universităţii Bucureşti. Seria filosofie, publicaţie editată de Facultatea de filosofie.
Cei interesaţi să participe sunt invitaţi să trimită un rezumat extins de 800-1000 de cuvinte (inclusiv bibliografie) si un CV pe adresa de email: conferinta_nationala_filosofie@yahoo.com
Termenul limită pentru trimiterea rezumatelor: 12 februarie 2012
Comunicarea rezultatelor selecţiei: 20 februarie 2012
Comitetul de organizare:
Conf. dr. Viorel Vizureanu
Prof. dr. Romulus Brâncoveanu
Lect. dr. Dana Jalobeanu
Lect. dr. Cristian Iftode
Comitetul de selecţie a lucrărilor:
Conf. dr. Constantin Stoenescu
Conf. dr. Sabin Totu
Conf. dr. Laurenţiu Staicu
Conf. dr. Mihaela Pop
Conf. dr. Radu Dudău
Lect. dr. Sorin Costreie
Lect. dr. Emanuel Socaciu
Asist. drd. Laurențiu Gheorghe
de lavi | ian. 28, 2012 | Call for papers
The Center for the Logic, History and Philosophy of Science organizes its third postgraduate conference for advanced master and PhD students working on early modern philosophy and on the history and philosophy of science. The
event will be held on March 22-23, 2012 at the University of Bucharest,
Romania.
Invited speakers:
Prof. Daniel Garber (University of Princeton)
Prof. Christoph Lüthy (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Dr. Mihnea Dobre (University of Bucharest)
Please send your abstracts on any topic related to early modern philosophy by February 5th, 2012. Abstracts should
not exceed 800 words and should be prepared for blind review. Participating
papers will be given 40 minutes (30 minutes talk, 10 minutes open
discussion). The Program Committee will notify authors of its decision by
February 13th.
Please send abstracts by email to szamszy@yahoo.de
de lavi | ian. 12, 2012 | Anunturi, Call for papers
The Center for the Logic, History and Philosophy of Science organizes its
third postgraduate conference for advanced master and PhD students working
on early modern philosophy and on the history and philosophy of science. The
event will be held on March 22-23, 2012 at the University of Bucharest,
Romania.
Invited speakers:
Prof. Daniel Garber (University of Princeton)
Prof. Christoph Lüthy (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Dr. Mihnea Dobre (University of Bucharest)
We cordially invite graduate students to forward abstracts on any topic
related to early modern philosophy by February 5th, 2012. Abstracts should
not exceed 800 words and should be prepared for blind review. Participating
papers will be given 40 minutes (30 minutes talk, 10 minutes open
discussion). The Program Committee will notify authors of its decision by
February 13th.
Please send abstracts by email to: mailgeorgescu.laura@gmail.com
