de lavi | feb. 5, 2011 | Anunturi, Facultate, Filosofie
Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
Professor: Bryan Hall, Ph.D., Fulbright Scholar from Indiana University, Southeast
Description: Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is arguably the most important book from the modern era of philosophy. It had a major influence on subsequent philosophical thinking and remains relevant today. Its main topic is the nature, scope, and limits of human cognition. Its main conclusion is that a priori knowledge, natural science, freedom, and human experience itself are possible if and only if transcendental idealism is true. Transcendental idealism holds that we cannot cognize objects as they might exist in themselves but only insofar as they appear to us spatiotemporally and in accordance with our concepts of them, where not only these concepts but space and time themselves are contributions of the subject to her experience of these objects. The purpose of this course is to give a close, critical reading of the many arguments that that together go to support Kant’s theory of transcendental idealism in the Critique. This course will be taught in English. Classes will be a mixture of lecture, classroom discussion, and close reading of the primary text. The course is open to both undergraduate and graduate students.
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de lavi | ian. 24, 2011 | Anunturi, Call for papers, Facultate
SIMPOZION NAŢIONAL Emil Cioran – sensuri metafizice, etice şi estetice ale operei, prilejuit de împlinirea a 100 de ani de la naşterea filosofului. Simpozionul este organizat de Facultatea de Filosofie a Universităţii din Bucureşti împreună cu Societatea Română de Filosofie şi Institutul de Filosofie şi Psihologie „C. Rădulescu-Motru” al Academiei Române, în ziua de 20 mai 2011.
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de lavi | ian. 22, 2011 | Anunturi, Call for papers, Facultate
METODE, SISTEME ŞI ALTE STRUCTURI NECONSOLATE
(ediţia a doua)
Filosofia contemporană pare destul de sigură de sine atunci când îşi impune lipsa de direcţie croindu-şi cu minuţiozitate traseul întru eranţă. Actualul simpozion va pune (poate) în discuţie metodele, sistemele şi alte structuri filosofice destinale (vizibile sau invizibile) aşa cum ele sunt prezente în mentalul filosofic actual.
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de lavi | ian. 16, 2011 | Facultate, Filosofie
Proiectul de cercetare Modelări evoluționiste ale emergenței normelor interacțiunii sociale, afiliat Centrului de Cercetare in Etica Aplicata, și-a lansat de curând site-ul ce poate fi accesat aici: http://www.normev.ro/
de lavi | ian. 12, 2011 | Anunturi, Facultate
Programare licenta si disertatie – sesiunea februarie 2011:
Inscrieri: 17 ianuarie – 21 ianuarie 2011
Sustinere licenta: 14 februarie, ora 9:00
Sustinere disertatie: 15 februarie, ora 9:00
de lavi | ian. 5, 2011 | Anunturi, Conferinte, Facultate
Miercuri, 2 martie, la ora 18:00 va avea loc seminarul departamentului de filosofie teoretica. Invitat, prof. Mircea Dumitru va tine o conferinta cu titlul: A Finean Semantic-Relationist Approach to Opacity.
Rezumatul conferintei:
A FINEAN SEMANTIC-RELATIONIST APPROACH TO OPACITY
Mircea Dumitru
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest
mirdumitru@yahoo.com
mircea.dumitru@unibuc.eu
In his book, Semantic Relationism, Kit Fine argues in favor of a fundamentally new view of meaning, which he calls “Semantic Relationism”. What is the main idea behind this approach? Fine’s view is that there may be irreducible semantical or representational relationships between expressions or elements of thought, ones that are not reducible to the intrinsic semantic features of the expressions or elements of thought themselves between which they hold. This semantic approach leads naturally to a novel view on representation in both language and thought. The explanatory job Fine does is twofold. He shows how this view can be articulated to offer solutions to persistent and intriguing puzzles in philosophical logic and philosophy of language, such as Frege’s identity puzzle, Russell’s antinomy of the variable, Moore’s paradox of analysis, Kripke’s puzzle about belief. And he also uses his new doctrine to ground a more defensible form of direct reference theory, one which can successfully meet the criticism that Fregeans have recently mounted against it.
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