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Seminar cercetare DFT ‘Bubbles, bladders and the “folds of matter”: on the interplay between experimentation and metaphysics in Baconian natural and experimental histories’

de | mai 14, 2021 | Actualitate, Anunturi, Avizier studenti, Seminar cercetare DFT

Următoarea conferință din cadrul seminarului de cercetare al Departamentului de Filosofie Teoretică în parteneriat cu CELFIS va fi susținută de Dana Jalobeanu (ICUB & Facultatea de Filosofie a Universității din București).
Titlul prezentării sale este: ‘Bubbles, bladders and the “folds of matter”: on the interplay between experimentation and metaphysics in Baconian natural and experimental histories’.
Conferința se va desfășura ȋn limba engleză luni, 17 mai, orele 18-20. Pentru detaliile de conectare, vă rugăm să vă semnalați dorința de a participa la 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

Seminar cercetare DFT ‘Slurs and the Lexicon: Meaning Variation as Polysemy Resolution’

de | apr. 23, 2021 | Actualitate, Anunturi, Avizier studenti, Seminar cercetare DFT

Următoarea conferință din cadrul seminarului de cercetare al Departamentului de Filosofie Teoretică în parteneriat cu CELFIS va fi susținută de Dan Zeman (Universitatea din Varșovia). 

Titlul prezentării sale este: ‘Slurs and the Lexicon: Meaning Variation as Polysemy Resolution‘. Iată şi rezumatul:

‘Many authors have claimed that slurs are lexically rich – in the sense that they comprise at least a descriptive and an expressive/evaluative dimension. Postulating more than one dimension of meaning helps with accounting for various uses slurs have besides the main, derogatory one. In this presentation I explore how more fine-grained lexical theories can be usefully employed to that end. In addition to the documented non-derogatory uses, I present novel data about a sui-generis non-derogatory type of use of slurs (“identificatory”) based on some uses of the ethnic slur “țigan” within Roma communities in Eastern Europe. My main claim is that this slur (and similar ones) should be construed as polysemous. I then show how a certain rich-lexicon view of polysemy accounts for the whole range of the data. I compare this view with other rich-lexicon views in the literature and raise some problems for the latter.‘

Conferința se va desfășura ȋn limba engleză luni, 26 aprilie, orele 18-20. Un link de conectare via Meet va fi distribuit cu câteva minute înainte tuturor celor ce își exprimă intenția de a participa la 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

Conference „Bridges between the epistemology and the phenomenology of understanding”

de | apr. 21, 2021 | Actualitate, Anunturi, Conferences, Conferinte, Seminar cercetare DFT

Delighted to announce an online conference co-hosted by the Department of Theoretical Philosophy and ICUB at the University of Bucharest. The conference, held on May 13-14, 2021, is titled ‘Bridges between the epistemology and the phenomenology of understanding’. A poster is attached, and the program is below.

Thursday, May 13
3.30pm Ro / 8.30am EST Opening remarks (Mircea Dumitru, Viorel Vizureanu, Constantin Stoenescu)
4pm Ro / 9am EST Mircea Dumitru (U. Bucharest), „Knowledge and Understanding Between the Analytic Approach and the Knowledge First Approach. Is Becoming Aware of What One Knows Validated by the KK Principle?”
5pm Ro / 10am EST Stephen Grimm (Fordham), “Knowledge, Understanding, Know-How, and Wisdom: An Epistemic Guide”
6pm Ro / 11am EST Catherine Elgin (Harvard, keynote speaker), “Awareness, Apperception, and Understanding”
7pm Ro / 12pm EST Kareem Khalifa (Middlebury), „Should Friends and Frenemies of Understanding be Friends?”
8pm Ro / 1pm EST David Bourget (UWO), “Understanding and phenomenology”
9pm Ro / 2pm EST Daniel Wilkenfeld (Pittsburgh), “Simply Understanding the World: Patterns and Compression”

Friday, May 14
4pm Ro / 9am EST Sorin Costreie (U. Bucharest), „Russell’s Acquaintance: Logic vs. Epistemology”
5pm Ro / 10am EST Andrei Mărăşoiu (U. Bucharest), “Understanding: Conscious Experience and Epistemic Norms”
6pm Ro / 11am EST James Cargile (UVa, keynote speaker), “Identifying Assertions and Predications”
7pm Ro / 12pm EST Finnur Dellsén (U. Iceland), “Gaining Understanding”
8pm Ro / 1pm EST Monica Solomon (Stanford), ” Understanding vs. Imagination: The Role of Mathematics in Thought Experiments”

The conference is sponsored by the Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation (UEFISCDI) in Romania, via the postdoctoral grant PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2019-0535 received by Andrei Mărăşoiu, and hosted by the Humanities Branch of the Research Institute at the University of Bucharest.

To register, please message andrei.marasoiu@filosofie.unibuc.ro  We’re eager for you to join us! And please share widely if you see fit.

Seminar cercetare DFT „Disability rights, selective abortion and expressive acts”

de | apr. 15, 2021 | Actualitate, Anunturi, Avizier studenti, Seminar cercetare DFT

Următoarea conferință din cadrul seminarului de cercetare al Departamentului de Filosofie Teoretică în parteneriat cu CELFIS va fi susținută de Andrew Morgan (University of Alabama at Birmingham) & Ralph di Franco (Auburn University).
Titlul prezentării lor este: ‘Disability rights, selective abortion and expressive acts’. Iată şi rezumatul:
‘In this talk we will examine recent attempts to revive the disability rights critique that prenatal testing and selective abortion send harmful messages to the disability community. Our thesis will be that a few careful moves could help this “expressivist argument” to avoid some common criticisms. First, prenatal testing and selective abortion should not be uncritically grouped together. The reasons parents engage in prenatal testing are numerous, making any “message” this practice sends highly indeterminate. In contrast, the reason parents engage in selective abortion is (by definition) very specific: it is because, and only because, the fetus has a disability. Secondly, while it is difficult to justify the claim that individual acts of selective abortion send messages to the disability community (given that these procedures are not usually a matter of public knowledge), it does seem plausible that these acts can often involve manifesting a derogatory attitude towards individuals with disabilities. We conclude with some suggestions for how private expressive acts can inherit the moral defectiveness of the attitudes manifested.’
Conferința se va desfășura ȋn limba engleză luni, 19 aprilie, orele 18-20. Un link de conectare via Meet va fi distribuit cu câteva minute înainte tuturor 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

Seminar cercetare DFT ‘Newton and Descartes on True Motion’

de | apr. 7, 2021 | Anunturi, Avizier studenti, Seminar cercetare DFT

Următoarea conferință din cadrul seminarului de cercetare al Departamentului de Filosofie Teoretică în parteneriat cu CELFIS va fi susținută de Monica Solomon (Stanford University).
Titlul prezentării sale este: ‘Newton and Descartes on True Motion’. Iată şi rezumatul:

‘Isaac Newton’s scholium to the definitions in the Principia (1687/1713/1726) articulates clearly distinctions pertaining to the concepts of time, space, place, and motion. A well-known example therein describes the motion of the water within a revolving bucket. Trivial as it may seem, the example has captured the imagination of philosophers ever since. Recent work in the history and philosophy of science has revealed that the example is best read contextually, as an argument against the Cartesian definition of proper motion.
In this talk I make the further argument that what is truly at stake is finding a quantitatively adequate measure of true motion. The example is not an argument for the existence of absolute space or motion, and the attack against the Cartesian framework is both more substantial and more targeted than it has been previously shown in the literature. This conclusion will then lead us to reconsider the role of the scholium: I suggest that it is a commentary to a set of fundamental physical quantities, and a “space-and-time” scholium only derivatively. Finally, I am going to develop the implications of this analysis for Newton’s methodology of science and its later reception in the eighteenth century.’

Conferința se va desfășura ȋn limba engleză luni, 12 aprilie, orele 18-20. Un link de conectare via Meet va fi distribuit cu câteva minute înainte tuturor celor ce își indică dorința de participare scriind la adresa andrei.marasoiu@filosofie.unibuc.ro.

Seminar cercetare DFT „A few thoughts on later Wittgenstein and quasi-realism”

de | mart. 31, 2021 | Anunturi, Avizier studenti, Seminar cercetare DFT

Următoarea conferință din cadrul seminarului de cercetare al Departamentului de Filosofie Teoretică în parteneriat cu CELFIS va fi susținută de Nicoletta Bartunek.

Titlul prezentării sale este: ‘A few thoughts on later Wittgenstein and quasi-realism’. Iată şi rezumatul:

‘Roughly, there are three main ideas underlying Blackburn’s quasi-realism: that moral statements do not represent facts or properties (1); that such statements „project our sentiments” onto actions – they are best seen as „attitudes” – (2); finally, that moral statements can be said to be true or false, and they can be embedded in conditionals (and in the logical calculus in general) (3). And Wittgenstein seems to agree with all of these. Indeed, he stresses (1) as soon as the Tractatus and there is no reason to think he changed his mind about it. Moreover, he later links the status of ethical terms to those of avowals and gestures of approval and disapproval – as the quasi-realist does at (2). Concerning (3), Wittgenstein prefers to avoid “truth” for non-descriptive statements, but he acknowledges that relying on it is not misguided.

This presentation will defend the proposed juxtaposition from the following two counter-arguments. Firstly, that Wittgenstein abandoned the topic of morals and ethics in his later philosophy, making (2) implausible. Secondly, against (3), that Blackburn advocates for a separate semantics for ethical and moral discourse, and this is thoroughly unwittgensteinan. My claim on the first account will be that Wittgenstein’s idea that „meaning is use” can very well cover the disputed topics. On the second, that Blackburn himself changed his mind about the workings of his project: the stated purpose now is to give a Wittgensteinian perspicuous representation of morals. And Wittgenstein’s views about truth not only confirm Blackburn’s (3) but can enrich it greatly.’

Conferința se va desfășura ȋn limba engleză luni, 5 aprilie, orele 18-20. Un link de conectare via Meet va fi distribuit cu câteva minute înainte tuturor celor ce își indică dorința de participare scriind la adresa andrei.marasoiu@filosofie.unibuc.ro. Prezentarea va fi ȋnregistrată şi va fi disponibilă pe YouTube ȋn perioada următoare.

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