Ultima conferință din cadrul seminarului de cercetare al Departamentului de Filosofie Teoretică în parteneriat cu CELFIS din semestrul al II-lea al anului 2021/2022 va fi susținută de dr. Mihnea Dobre (Universitatea din București) și dr. Timothy Lyons (Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis). Mai multe detalii despre vorbitori sunt disponibile la https://sites.google.com/g.unibuc.ro/mihneadobre/home şi, respectiv, https://philpeople.org/profiles/timothy-d-lyons?app= 

Prezentarea dr. Mihnea Dobre (ce începe la ora 16.00) este intitulată: ‘ “Nonsense” in the history of philosophy and science: the case of historiographical categories’. Iată un rezumat:

‘How to use historiographical categories in the history of philosophy and science? The paper will explore some answers to this question, which are based on a case study about a physics textbook published at the time of the Scientific Revolution of the early modern period. What is peculiar to the selected case is the mixture of seemingly opposite schools of thought: Cartesians vs Newtonians. The book (“Traité de physique“) was authored by a Cartesian philosopher (Jacques Rohault) and later translated and annotated by the Newtonian Samuel Clarke. Some time ago, the famous historian of science, George Sarton, considered the Clarke edition of Rohault as a peculiar case in the history of the modern science. However, he argued that labelling it as a Cartesian-Newtonian treatise on natural philosophy would be a “nonsense.” The paper will challenge this long-standing view and claim that “nonsense” – in the way depicted by Sarton – should be allowed in the history of philosophy and science.’

Prezentarea dr. Timothy Lyons (ce începe la ora 16.45) este intitulată: ‘Prioritizing the Quest for Truth over Belief: Socratic Scientific Realism’. Iată un rezumat:

‘I contend that the threats faced by epistemic realism—the view that we can justifiably believe our successful scientific theories—are greater than is commonly recognized. Bracketing our obsession with trying to justify our beliefs about the world, and focusing instead on the realist claim that science seeks truth, I argue for a Socratic Scientific Realism: essentially, science seeks a specific subclass of true claims, including truths about unobservables, irrespective of whether we can justifiably claim to possess them.’

Conferința se va desfășura ȋn limba engleză luni, 27 iunie, orele 16-18. Detaliile de conectare via Zoom vor fi distribuite celor ce își indică dorința de participare scriind la adresa andrei.marasoiu@filosofie.unibuc.ro

Mai multe detalii sunt disponibile prin anunțul de pe pagina Facebook a seminarului: https://www.facebook.com/Seminarul-Departamentului-de-Filosofie-Teoretica-UniBuc-285279685738329 sau pe PhilEvents: https://philevents.org/event/show/93365 

Următoarea conferință din cadrul seminarului de cercetare al Departamentului de Filosofie Teoretică în parteneriat cu CELFIS va fi susținută de Micah Pimaro Thomas, Jr., lector al Universității din Calabar, Nigeria, şi doctorand al Universității din București.

Titlul prezentării sale este „Rethinking time in African philosophy”. Iată și rezumatul:

„Time has been studied extensively in African philosophy, from being subjective and dependent on human experiences to being a simple expression of cosmic and universal power. Is there a distinction between space and time in African philosophy, or may they be blended into a seamless, interconnected whole? What is African philosophy’s perspective on time transcendence? This paper explores the fundamental notion of time as it relates to its ambivalence in African philosophy and the implication of time transcendence in the epistemology of observation.”

Conferința se va desfășura ȋn limba engleză luni, 6 iunie, orele 16-18. Detaliile de conectare via Zoom vor fi distribuite celor ce își indică dorința de participare scriind la adresa andrei.marasoiu@filosofie.unibuc.ro

Mai multe detalii sunt disponibile prin anunțul de pe pagina Facebook a seminarului: https://www.facebook.com/Seminarul-Departamentului-de-Filosofie-Teoretica-UniBuc-285279685738329 sau pe PhilEvents: https://philevents.org/event/show/93365

Următoarea conferință din cadrul seminarului de cercetare al Departamentului de Filosofie Teoretică în parteneriat cu CELFIS va fi susținută de Marian Călborean (Universitatea din București).

Titlul prezentării sale este „Reasoning by brute force – implementing a natural deduction proof calculator with minimal heuristics”. Iată și rezumatul:

„One result of the ‘Logic and software’ elective course held in 2022 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest was the interactive development of a Lemmon-style NK calculator that successfully proves all exercises in classical textbooks (e.g. G. Forbes’ 1994 ‘Modern Logic’). The project is original in three ways. First, the calculator is written in Python, a common programming language, allowing the easy study and change of the software code corresponding to NK rules. Secondly, it uses brute force – running all allowable NK rules until the conclusion is adequately derived, then retracing the steps to display the shortest path to it; no human-like rules-of-thumb or backwards reasoning were used. Since the computational complexity required speed optimizations, proving their soundness would be a third original contribution.”

Conferința se va desfășura ȋn limba engleză luni, 30 mai, orele 20-22. Detaliile de conectare via Zoom vor fi distribuite celor ce își indică dorința de participare scriind la adresa andrei.marasoiu@filosofie.unibuc.ro

Mai multe detalii sunt disponibile prin anunțul de pe pagina Facebook a seminarului: https://www.facebook.com/Seminarul-Departamentului-de-Filosofie-Teoretica-UniBuc-285279685738329 sau pe PhilEvents: https://philevents.org/event/show/93365