PHILO CAFE 
Afis PHILO CAFE
Librariile Adevarul si Facultatea de Filosofie va invita la Philo Cafe, miercuri, 15 mai, ora 19:00, Libraria Adevarul din Str. Doamnei nr. 27-29
Tema intalnirii: „Vor toti oamenii sa fie fericiti?”
invitati sa dezbata: Constantin Aslam si Daniel Nica.
Moderator Cristian Iftode
The Center for the Logic, History and Philosophy of Science is organizing its fourth graduate 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 May 10-11, 2013 at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Bucharest (Splaiul Independenţei, 204).
Invited speakers:
Participants:
Program Committee: Mihnea Dobre, Dana Jalobeanu, Sorin Costreie, Sorana Corneanu
Organizing Committee: Dana Jalobeanu, Claudia Dumitru, Mihnea Dobre.
Programme:
Friday, May 10
9.00-9.30: Opening address, coffee
9.30-10.30: Richard Serjeantson: ‘Francis Bacon and the “Interpretation of Nature” in the Late Renaissance’
10.30-10.50: Coffee Break
10.50-11.30: Daniel Schwartz (University of California San Diego): Crucial Instances and Bacon’s Quest for Certainty
11.30-12.10: Claudia Dumitru (University of Bucharest): Crucial Experiments and Demonstrative Induction in Newton’s New Theory about Light and Colors
12.10-13.20: Lunch
13.20-14.00: Monica Solomon (University of Notre-Dame): Newton’s Mathematical Time Remains Hidden in Plain Sight
14.00 – 14.40: Lucio Mare (University of South Florida): Leibniz’ Soul Pointilism: from the Resurrection of Body to the Indestructibility of Bugs
14.40-15.00: Coffee Break
15.00-15.40: Sarah Tropper (King’s College, London): What ‘Matter’ Might Have Been for the Young (and Older) Leibniz
15.40-16.20: Julia Weckend (University of Reading): Leibniz on Ordinary Objects
16.20-16.40: Coffee Break
16:40-17.20: Ville Paukkonen (University of Helsinki): Berkeley’s Notion of Notion
17:20-17:30: Coffee Break
17:30-18:30: Vlad Alexandrescu: Some Remarks of an Intellectual Historian Facing a Herculean Task: Translating Anew Descartes’ Correspondence.
Saturday, May 11
9.30-10.30: Peter Anstey: The Problem of Necessity in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
10.30-10.50: Coffee Break
10.50-11.30: Mike Misiewicz (King’s College, London): “The ‘geology’ of the Short Treatise: Tracing the evolution of Spinoza’s conception of the mind-body relationship”
11.30-12.10: Daniel Collette (University of South Florida): Pascal, Spinoza, and Defining “Cartesianism”
12.10-13.20: Lunch
13.20-14.00: Aaron Spink (University of South Florida): Descartes and the Eternal Truths
14.00 – 14.40: Max Gavrilciuc (University of Bucharest): The Angelic Mind in Descartes’ Replies to Burman and Henry More
14.40-15.00: Coffee Break
15.00-15.40: Dragos Vadana (New Europe College): The Innate Idea of God and the Limits of Natural Theology: Descartes and Voetius
15.40-16.20: Dan Savinescu (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj): Plurality of Worlds and Philosophy of Language in the Writings of John Wilkins
16.20-16.40: Coffee Break
16:40-17:20: Matthew Keeler (Texas Tech University): Reid and the Representational Theory of Mind
17.20-18.00: Bennett McNulty (University of California, Irvine): Rehabilitating the Regulative Use of Reason. Kant on Empirical and Chemical Laws
Seminarul Departamentului de Filosofie Teoretica: Miercuri, 22 mai, ora 18:00, in amfiteatrul CRM, prelegerea sustinuta de Dr. Tudor Baetu (University of Vienna) „The Mathematics of Mechanisms: Explanatory Pluralism in Biology”
Prof. dr. Monique Castillo, Université Paris Est, va sustine o conferinta cu tema
L’Identité culturelle européenne, vineri, 17 mai, de la ora 12, in amfiteatrul Mircea Florian. Conferinta este deschisa tuturor persoanelor interesate.
UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCUREŞTI
FACULTATEA DE FILOSOFIE
VĂ INVITĂ LA CONFERINŢA
Kierkegaard’s Concept of the Self (and the Debt of Heidegger and Sartre)
SUSŢINUTĂ DE
Sheridan Hough
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
College of Charleston (USA)
Kierkegaard’s complex account of how a human self is forged creates an ontology full of existential and phenomenological possibilities. I will explain Kierkegaard’s notion of selfhood, and examine his claim that a self is created through a passionate commitment to a vocation (and how this constitutes the ‘life of faith.’) Heidegger and Sartre owe much to this conceptual scheme, and I will explore some of the ways in which Kierkegaard remains a lively presence in their work.
Conferinţa va avea loc Marţi 21 MAI 2013, ORELE 12.00
AMFITEATRUL MIRCEA FLORIAN
UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCUREŞTI
FACULTATEA DE FILOSOFIE
VĂ IVITĂ LA CONFERINŢA
The Ineliminable Character of Reflexive Awareness: What is at Stake in Contemporary Debates?
SUSŢINUTĂ DE
Christian Coseru
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
College of Charleston (USA)
“Every consciousness upon whatever object it is primarily directed, is constantly directed upon itself,” wrote Franz Brentano in 1874 in his seminal work, Psychology From an Empirical Standpoint. This assertion of the unity of consciousness as reflexive awareness, which finds its roots in Aristotle, has been both criticized and vigorously defended by contemporary philosophers working in the interdisciplinary field of Consciousness Studies. In this presentation, I first consider various alternatives to the reflexivist theory of consciousness, specifically higher-order, representationalist, token-physicalist, and dualist theories. I then review evidence from embodied cognitive science that highlights various problems these latter theories face in accounting for the character of consciousness. Finally, I entertain the question whether this sort of evidence provides sufficient ground for claiming that something like a pre-reflective self-awareness is prior to the types of consciousness that presuppose conceptual and narrative competence.
Conferinţa va avea loc MIERCURI 22 MAI 2013, ORELE 18.00
AMFITEATRUL MIRCEA FLORIAN