Bucharest Colloquium in Analytic Philosophy 2013: NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS

Bucharest Colloquium in Analytic Philosophy 2013: NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS

24-26 May 2013

Invited speakers:
Robert Batterman (Pittsburgh)
Brigitte Falkenburg (Dortmund)
Don Howard (Notre Dame)
Sandu Popescu (Bristol)
Miklós Rédei (London)

Program Committee:

Sorin Bangu (Bergen)
Robert Batterman (Pittsburgh)
Katherine Brading (Notre Dame)
Jeremy Butterfield (Cambridge)
Brigitte Falkenburg (Dortmund)
Don Howard (Notre Dame)
James Ladyman (Bristol)

Antigone Nounou (Athens)
Ilie Parvu (Bucharest)
Iulian Toader (Bucharest)

 

SYMPOSIUM ON EINSTEIN’S PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
25 May 2013
Invited speakers:

Mircea Flonta (Bucharest)
Carsten Held (Erfurt)
Don Howard (Notre Dame)
Local Organizing Committee:
Sorin Costreie (Bucharest)
Andreea Esanu (Bucharest)
Dana Jalobeanu (Bucharest)
Sebastian Mateiescu (Bucharest)
Laurentiu Staicu (Bucharest)
Gheorghe Stefanov (Bucharest)
Iulian Toader (Bucharest)
Program
Friday, 24 May
 
 
 9:00 – 9:30 Registration
 
9:30 – 10:45 Invited Lecture: Sandu Popescu 
(Bristol)
 
Coffee Break
 
11:00 – 11:50 Contributed Talk: Neil Dewar
(Oxford)
The Aharonov-Bohm effect and non-locality”
 
11:50 – 12:40 Contributed Talk: Alexandru Manafu
(Western Ontario)
„Piezoelectricity as a functional property”
 
Lunch
 
14:30 – 15:20 Contributed Talk: Elay Shech
(Pittsburgh)
„Phase Transitions and Essential Idealizations”
 
15:20 – 16:10 Contributed Talk: Doreen Fraser
(Waterloo)
„Intertheoretic relations between statistical mechanics and particle physics”
 
Coffee Break
 
16:25 – 17:40 Invited Lecture: Don Howard 
(Notre Dame)
 
19:00 – 21:00 Conference Dinner
Saturday, 25 May
 
 
 
9:30 – 10:45 Invited Lecture: Brigitte Falkenburg 
(Dortmund)
 
Coffee Break
 
11:00 – 11:50 Contributed Talk: Karim Thébault    (Munich)
„Time Remains”
11:50 – 12:40 Contributed Talk: Ioan Muntean
(Fort Wayne) 
„Principles, Constraints, and Equivalence in String Theory”
 
Lunch
 
14:30 – 15:30 Einstein Symposium:  Jeroen van Dongen 
(Utrecht)
 
15:30 – 16:30 Einstein Symposium: Carsten Held
(Erfurt)
 
Coffee Break
 
16:45 – 17:45 Einstein Symposium: Mircea Flonta 
(Bucharest)
„Eigentlich eine Ueberaschung? Einsteins Misstrauen gegenueber der Quantenmechanik”
 
17:45 – 18:45 Einstein Symposium: Don Howard
(Notre Dame)
Sunday, 26 May
 
 
 
9:30 – 10:45 Invited Lecture: Miklós Rédei 
(London)
 
Coffee Break
 
11:00 – 11:50 Contributed Talk: Gábor Hofer-Szabó
(Budapest)
 „On the localization problem of the common cause”
 
11:50 – 12:40 Contributed Talk: Sorin Bangu
(Bergen)
„A metaphysical lesson from the physics of the weak interaction”
 
Lunch
 
14:30 – 15:45 Invited Lecture: Robert Batterman 
(Pittsburgh)
 
Farewell

 

 

conferinta prof. Michal Wierzchon – "On subjective measures of consciousness"

In cadrul programului CEEPUS (Facultatea de Filosofie, UB), prof. Michal Wierzchon (Facultatea de Psihologie, Universitatea Jagiellonian, Cracovia, Polonia) va sustine conferinta „On subjective measures of consciousness„. Conferinta (in limba engleza) va avea loc in amfiteatru Mircea Florian, Facultatea de Filosofie, UB, joi 7 martie, orele 14.00.

Colloquium: The Order of Nature, Theological Anthropology, and Medicine of the Mind: Francis Bacon and Religion Reconsidered

baconPentru toţi cei interesaţi de filosofia lui Francis Bacon şi/sau de relaţia dintre ştiinţă, religie şi filosofie în general la începutul epocii moderne, New Europe College găzduieşte pe 1-2 martie un colocviu cu titlul „The Order of Nature, Theological Anthropology, and Medicine of the Mind: Francis Bacon and Religion Reconsidered”. Evenimentul este organizat în cadrul proiectului european Medicine of the mind in early modern England, coordonat de Guido Giglioni  (Warburg Institute), Dana Jalobeanu (Universitatea din Bucureşti) si Sorana Corneanu (Universitatea din Bucureşti), şi va avea loc la sediul New Europe College (strada Plantelor, nr. 22). Programul evenimentului este disponibil mai jos:

<strong>Friday, March 1</strong>

9:30 – 10:00 Coffee

Morning Session | Chair: Sorana Corneanu

10:00 – 11:00 Guido Giglioni (The Warburg Institute, London), Bacon on the Human Soul: Between Perpetual Rest and Eternal Sabbath

11:00 – 12:00 Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest), Idolatry, the Fallen Mind and the Interpretation of Nature

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

Afternoon Session | Chair: Guido Giglioni

13:30 – 14:30 James Lancaster (The Warburg Institute, London), Francis Bacon and the Material Soul

14:30 – 15:30 Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest), Body, Soul and Human Nature: Bacon in Medico-Theological Context

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee

16:00 – 17:00 Daniel Andersson (Oxford University), Two Chimeras: Scepticism and Naturalism in the Discourse of Elizabethan Practical Divinity

<strong>Saturday, March 2</strong>

9:30 – 10:00 Coffee

Morning Session | Chair: Dana Jalobeanu

10:00 – 11:00 Silvia Manzo (Universidad Nacional de La Plata – CONICET), Matter, God and the Order of Nature from Chaos to the Postlapsarian Age

11:00 – 12:00 Steven Matthews (University of Minnesota Duluth), Eriugena’s Cosmos and the Baconian Vision

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

Afternoon Session | Chair: James Lancaster

13:30 – 14:30 Giuliano Mori (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and University College London), The Order of the World in Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy

14:30 – 15:30 Chiara Petrolini (The Warburg Institute, London), Men go to China both by Straits and by Cope: Tobie Matthew between Francis Bacon and the Jesuits

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee

16:00 – 18:00 Roundtable: Francis Bacon and Religion Reconsidered

Bogdan Boghitoi – Mintea extinsa – strategii argumentative

Saptamana viitoare (27 februarie 2013), seminarul de filosofie teoretica il va avea ca invitat pe Bogdan Boghitoi, cercetator postdoctoral al Universitatii din Bucuresti (POSDRU/89/1.5/S/62259). Titlul lucrarii este „Mintea extinsa – strategii argumentative”. Seminarul de filosofie teoretica are loc miercuri, de la ora 18, in Sala Titu Maiorescu, la Facultatea de Filosofie

Întâlnire omagială dedicată Domnului Academician Ion Ianoşi

Ion-IanosiFacultatea de Filosofie are bucuria de a serba în ziua de 25 aprilie 2013 pe una dintre personalităţile marcante ale culturii române contemporane, Domnul Academician şi Profesor al Facultăţii de Filosofie, Ion Ianoşi. Invităm pe toţi admiratorii săi să participe la această întâlnire care va avea loc la sediul Facultăţii începând de la ora 10.
Organizator : Profesor Univ. Dr. Vasile Morar