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Seminar cercetare DFT ‘Is Dialetheism the only way out for Deflationism?’

de | iun. 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 dr. Paula Tomi (Universitatea București & Universitatea Politehnică București)..
Titlul prezentării sale este: ‘Is Dialetheism the only way out for Deflationism?’. Iată și rezumatul:

‘Deflationary theories of truth had two different responses to the Liar. A first class of deflationists considers that this paradox does not represent a problem for their theories (Grover, Gupta). On the other hand, other deflationists, among who is the minimalist approach (Horwich), find the Liar to be a serious issue. Because of this, Horwich excludes the paradoxical instantiations of the T-schema from his theory. His solution faces some serious criticism. The main problem seems to be that he limits the generalization of the T-schema and this generalization is the main reason why truth is not redundant and has a function. Following this line of criticism Beall and Armour-Garb argued that a deflationist should also be a dialetheist. The aim of this presentation is to critically present Beall and Armour-Garb’s solution and try to provide an answer to the question mentioned in the title: is dialetheism the only solution for a minimalist?’

Conferința se va desfășura ȋn limba engleză luni, 14 iunie, orele 18-20. Detaliile de conectare via Zoom vor fi distribuite 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 ‘Intellectual virtues and the epistemology of modality’

de | mai 28, 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 dr. Alexandru Dragomir (Universitatea din București).
Titlul prezentării sale este: ‘Intellectual virtues and the epistemology of modality’. Iată și rezumatul:

‘Virtue epistemologists have changed the typical analysis of the concept of knowledge: instead of defining it in terms of various properties of belief, they have defined it in terms of certain properties of the epistemic subject, i.e. its intellectual virtues. Two major varieties of virtue epistemology have emerged in the literature: the reliabilist variety, which identifies intellectual virtues with those faculties that reliably guide the epistemic subject to form true beliefs (vision, memory, deductive reasoning etc.), and the responsibilist variety, which identifies virtues with intellectual character traits like open-mindedness, thoroughness, perseverance, courage etc.

The purpose of my presentation is to tackle the problem of what justifies our beliefs about modalities and how we gain knowledge of what is possible/necessary, from a virtue-theoretic perspective. I will argue that both kinds of intellectual virtues, i.e. faculty-virtues and character-virtues, play an essential role in explaining modal knowledge and justifying modal beliefs.’

Conferința se va desfășura ȋn limba engleză luni, 31 mai, orele 18-20. Detaliile de conectare via Zoom vor fi distribuite 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 ‘A multiset interpretation of non-eliminative structuralism’

de | mai 20, 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 dr. Adrian Ludușan (Universitatea Babeș Bolyai).

Titlul prezentării sale este: ‘A multiset interpretation of non-eliminative structuralism’. Iată și rezumatul:

‘The focus of this presentation is a particular version of structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics, known as non-eliminative structuralism. A number of objections (Assadian 2018, Leitgeb 2020b) have been raised with regard to certain tenets that appear to characterize non-eliminative structuralism, of which I will concentrate primarily on the permutation/automorphism objection. In light of these objections, two lines of responses have been articulated on behalf of non-eliminative structuralism, one based on a new axiomatic approach to unlabeled graph theory (UGT) due to (Leitgeb 2020a, 2020b), the other based on neo-Fregean flavored abstraction principles, first developed by (Linnebo & Pettigrew, 2014), and further refined by (Schiemer & Wigglesworth, 2019). After assessing how these specific proposals address the permutation/automorphism test, I will develop a new approach, based on multiset theory, and argue that it passes the permutation/automorphism test in agreement to standard mathematical practice in areas such as probability and combinatorics, and that it is compatible with Leitgeb, Linnebo & Pettigrew, Schiemer & Wigglesworth’s proposals.’

Conferința se va desfășura ȋn limba engleză luni, 24 mai, orele 18-20. Detaliile de conectare via Zoom vor fi distribuite 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 ‘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.