de Lilian Ciachir | iul. 13, 2017 | Anunturi, Call for papers, Conferinte
International Conference:
Reformation and Modernity
Bucharest, November 17-18, 2017
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest
OrganizersInvited speakersReformation and ModernityConference languagesSubmission of papersTravel and accommodation costsLocationOrganizing CommitteeSelection Committee
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Mircea Flonta (University of Bucharest)
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Günter Frank (Karlsruhe University)
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Hans Klaus Keul (University of Ulm)
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Mogens Laerke (ENS Lyon)
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Ilmari Karimies (Univerity of Helsinki)
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Charlotte Methuen (University of Glasgow)
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Vasilică Mugurel Păvălucă (Technical University Dortmund)
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Michal Valčo (Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra)
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Wolfram Weisse (Hamburg University)
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Scott Mandelbrote (University of Cambridge)
500 years ago, a piece of theological writing triggered an intellectual and social process with tremendous intellectual, social and political consequences. In many senses, we are still living in its aftermath, trying to understand its impact upon the social and cultural framework which we now perceive as familiar. Over time, the Reformation engaged the attention of philosophers, historians, sociologists, theologians, historians of ideas and historians of science attempting to understand its relation with the modern philosophy, the scientific revolution, capitalism, other cultural and social phenomena characteristic of European modernity.
Our conference aims to provide a forum for discussing current debates and breakthroughs on the subject of the inter-relations between Reformation and Modernity. We welcome papers coming from a variety of perspectives, and from all humanist disciplines. Students’ contributions will also be taken into consideration, since the organizers are planning to organize a student panel.
English and Romanian
Please send your abstract (max. 500 words) by email to conference@filosofie.unibuc.ro by September 15, 2017 October 15, 2017. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by September 30, 2017. Along with the abstract, please send us your contact details: current affiliation, address and telephone number.
Please mark that, while there will be no conference fee, the organizers will not cover any travel or accommodation costs.
The Conference will be held at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Splaiul Independenţei 204, Sector 6, postcode 060024, Bucharest.
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Franz Lothar Altmann (SWP Berlin)
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Romulus Brâncoveanu (University of Bucharest- Coordinator)
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Ştefan Buchiu (University of Bucharest)
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Otniel Bunaciu (University of Bucharest)
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Wilhelm Dancă (University of Bucharest)
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Gabriel H. Decuble (University of Bucharest)
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Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest)
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Florentina Niţu (University of Bucharest)
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Constantin Stoenescu (University of Bucharest)
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Sabin Totu (University of Bucharest)
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Sorin Bădrăgan ( University of Bucharest)
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Vasile – Adrian Carabă (University of Bucharest)
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Sorin Costreie (University of Bucharest)
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Ileana Dascălu ( University of Bucharest)
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Mihai Draganovici (University of Bucharest)
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Laurenţiu Gheorghe (University of Bucharest)
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Cristian Iftode (University of Bucharest)
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Ana Petrache (University of Bucharest)
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Ionuţ Alexandru Tudorie (University of Bucharest)
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Viorel Vizureanu (University of Bucharest – coordinator)
de Lilian Ciachir | iun. 16, 2017 | Anunturi, Avizier studenti, Conferinte, Scoala Doctorala
Drd. Dragos Vadana va sustine conferinta „Meditatie si constituire afectiva la Descartes. Libertate de indiferenta, generozitate si iubire”, miercuri, 21 iunie, la ora 18.00.
Va asteptam in sala 8 (Tudor Vianu), la ultima prelegere a ciclului de conferinte CCIIF din acest an universitar.
de admin | iun. 9, 2017 | Anunturi, Conferinte, ERASMUS, featured, seminarii
Pe 12, 13 și 14 iunie 2017 profesori și cercetători ai Universității din Oxford se vor afla la București pentru a participa la cea de-a patra ediție a Bucharest – Oxford Workshop in Applied Ethics, parte a seriei Bucharest Colloquium in Analytic Philosophy (BCAP 2017). Întâlnirile vor avea loc la Facultatea de Filosofie a Universității din București, fiind organizate de Centrul de Cercetare în Etică Aplicată (CCEA) al Facultății de Filosofie în parteneriat cu Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, cu sprijinul Societății Române de Filosofie Analitică și al programului Erasmus+.
În cadrul întâlnirilor se vor aborda subiecte de actualitate, cu impact asupra agendei publice din România și celei globale, folosind metodele eticii aplicate și filosofiei practice. Este schimbarea climatică cea mai importantă provocare morală a secolului nostru? Ce este normativitatea și cum se poate fi ea (re)gândită? De ce e importantă virtutea socială a autenticității? Cum putem evalua și controla algoritmii care ne guvernează viața digitală? De ce genetica și epigenetica au nevoie de o etică? A mai rămas vreo șansă pentru viața mentală privată într-o lume a intervențiilor neuronale? Ce argumente putem aduce în favoarea îmbunătățirii și ameliorării morale? Acestea sunt doar câteva dintre întrebările și temele pe care cercetătorii britanici și români le vor analiza pe parcursul celor două zile. Printre cei peste cincisprezece participanți se numără Julian Savulescu (Oxford), Roger Crisp (Oxford), Ingmar Persson (Oxford), Mircea Dumitru (Rector, Universitatea din București) și Emilian Mihailov (Universitatea din București).
De asemenea, luni, 12 iunie, de la ora 16.00, vor avea loc două cursuri deschise susținute de profesorii Roger Crisp și Julian Savulescu. Primul curs privește relația dintre noroc moral și egalitatea de șanse, iar cel de-al doilea rolul conștiinței profesionale în cazurile controversate ale bioeticii de azi. În plus, marți și miercuri profesorii de la Oxford vor ține o serie de tutoriale cu studenții masteranzi și doctoranzi ai Facultății de Filosofie.
Reunind pentru a patra oară cercetătorii din sfera eticii aplicate și filosofiei practice din Anglia și România, Bucharest – Oxford Workshop in Applied Ethics este rezultatul unui parteneriat de lungă durată între Universitatea din Oxford și Universitatea din București. Acesta este menit să susțină o colaborare permanentă între profesori și cercetători ai celor două universități.
Workshopul are loc la sediul Facultății de Filosofie, Splaiul Independenței 204, București, în amfiteatrul Mircea Florian, începând de marți, 13 iunie, ora 09.30. Limba evenimentului este engleza. Accesul este deschis studenților, cercetătorilor, profesorilor și celor interesați de etica aplicată în limita locurilor disponibile.
Programul workshopului se găsește aici.
Programul cursurilor deschise se găsește aici.
de Lilian Ciachir | mai 22, 2017 | Anunturi, Conferinte
Institute of Anthropology Francisc I Rainer, Romanian Academy
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest
Institute for Research in Humanities, University of Bucharest
invites you to the
Polish-Romanian Workshop on Scientific modeling and explanation
Philosophical & scientific perspectives from cognitive science and beyond
Model-based methods have become tools of choice in many sciences. However, their use still remains more art than science, and various ways understanding and explanation is made possible by various types of models is still not entirely clear. The workshop is part of an interacademic project (between Romania Academy, University of Bucharest and Polish Academy of Sciences) that aims to focus in particular on various types of models and their explanatory virtues, investigating the ways the representational power of models and possible explanatory usage depends on the kind of models (for example, immediate models, computer simulations, and mathematical models). This workshop brings together the results of recent work of a few young philosophers and scientific researchers (including a representative group from Polish Academy of Sciences) directed on the investigation of the explanatory virtues of different models and representations in cognitive science but also on the general topic of modeling and explanation from philosophy of science.
Program
Part I, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, 26 June 2017, starting 10.00 am
Opening introduction: Richard David-Rus
First session 10.00-12.00
Paweł Gładziejewski, Polish Academy of Sciences
„Are Bayesian models of perception explanatory?”
Mateusz Hohol, Polish Academy of Sciences
„Explaining abstract concepts in the embodied mind”
Mira Marcinów, Polish Academy of Sciences
„Understanding mental disorders through computational models”
Jakub Matyja, Polish Academy of Sciences
„The Cartesian Theatre of the Musical Mind and its Chimeras”
12.00-13.30 lunch
Second session 13.30-15.00
Diana Stanciu, Institute for Research in Humanities, University of Bucharest
Conscious Agency and Embodied Cognition: A Few Research Questions
Bogdan Amuzescu, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest
Evolution and perspectives in modeling neural networks
Elena Druica, University of Bucharest
Simply clustering. Glimpses into Romanians’ mindfulness (original work coauthored with Rodica Ianole-Calin)
15.00 – 15.45
Marcin Miłkowski, Polish Academy of Sciences
„How to see whether a research program is degenerated?”
(invited talk also in the frame of the seminar Consciousness and Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Approach, coord. Diana Stanciu IRH-ICUB)
for further information please contact Dr. R. David-Rus at rusdavid@gmail.com
About the speakers:
Marcin Milkowski is Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. His work focuses on philosophy of cognitive science, in particular mechanistic and computational explanation in cognitive science. His recent publications include Explaining the Computational Mind (MIT Press 2013), for which he won the annual prize of the Polish National Science Center in the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2014. He also runs a project “Cognitive Science in Search of Unity” funded by the National Science Center.
Mira Marcinów earned her PhD in psychology from Jagiellonian University in Cracov (Poland). She received Prime Minister’s Award for the best PhD dissertation. She is currently a Post-Doc in the project ‘Cognitive Science in Search of Unity’ at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. She is also an Affiliated Lecturer in the Institute of Clinical Psychology SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. Her research interests focus on philosophy of psychiatry.
Paweł Gładziejewski is a Post-Doc in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, funded from FUGA program of the National Science Center. He has published papers and a monograph on explanatory uses of mental representation.
Jakub Matyja is a PhD student at the Graduate School of Social Research (Polish Academy of Sciences), and his work focuses on explanatory uses of the notion of imagination in embodied music cognition from the mechanistic perspective.
Mateusz Hohol earned his PhD for his work on patterns of explanation in cognitive neuroscience. He is currently a Post-Doc in the project ‘Cognitive Science in Search of Unity’ at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, and works on explanations of geometrical cognition (his own book project funded also by National Science Center).
Diana Stanciu has been doing research and teaching at the University of Bucharest, the Central European University, the University of Athens, the University of Cambridge, the University of St. Andrews, the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, the Catholic University of Leuven and the University of Oxford. She is presently the convenor of a research seminar and a series of lectures on consciousness in philosophy and neuroscience at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of Bucharest.
Bogdan P. Amuzescu, MD (1991), PhD (2003) for research in ion channel biophysical properties. Fellowships at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2000-2003). Currently associate professor in Dept. Biophysics & Physiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest.
Elena Druica is full professor of Applied Econometrics with the University of Bucharest, Department of Economic and Administrative Sciences. She was trained as a mathematician, she holds a Ph Degree in Statistics and Probability Theory and another one in Economics. Her research relates to Behavioral Economics, in particular with the conformity of the Eastern European countries to the results obtained in previous research conducted in the West, and is currently focused on the relation between savings and consumption, and the differences between being focused on present, and present focus bias. Her interest in mindfulness is explained by the effectiveness of this practice on the documented negative effects triggered by over – consumption societies.
de Lilian Ciachir | mai 21, 2017 | Anunturi, Conferinte
În data de 24 mai 2017 va avea loc evenimentul Promoting Multiculturalism in Higher Education, organizat de Universitatea din București, cu ocazia Zilei mondiale pentru diversitate culturală, pentru dialog și dezvoltare (marcată în fiecare an la data de 21 mai).
Programul general al evenimentului este următorul:
- 13:00 – 13:30 – Vernisaj al concursului de fotografie BE MultiCOOLtural, dedicat studenților internaționali înmatriculați la Universitatea din București, concurs derulat pe pagina de Facebook a Biroului Relații Externe al UB (IROuniv Bucharest): https://www.facebook.com/profi le.php?id=100011763097292,
- 13:30 – 14:30 – Conferința Means of enhancing intercultural dialogue in higher education,
- 14:30 – 15:00 – Ceremonia de premiere a câștigătorilor concursului de fotografie BE MultiCOOLtural.
