Următoarea conferință din cadrul seminarului de cercetare al Departamentului de Filosofie Teoretică în parteneriat cu CELFIS va fi susținută de Monica Solomon (Bilkent Üniversitesi). Mai multe detalii despre vorbitor sunt accesibile aici: http://www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr/index.php/monica-solomon/ Dr. Solomon a colaborat și cu Notre Dame, USC și Stanford.

Titlul prezentării sale este ‘Newton’s Bucket: From Myth to Method’. Iată și rezumatul:

‘Newton’s example of a rotating bucket filled with water has the reputation of a landmark argument for the existence of absolute space. Recently, however, the role of this example has been changed to a successful criticism of Descartes’ concept of proper motion. This paper provides a novel take on Newton’s scenario. I start by briefly setting the record straight: the traditional ‘metaphysical’ reconstruction is a bad argument. Moreover, it is also a bad reconstruction. I agree that it is a clear and successful criticism of Descartes’ definition of proper motion. I diverge, however, from recent scholarship on how this goal is achieved and what the passage aims to do for Newton’s own project.

Unlike recent interpretations, it is essential to my description of the rotating bucket that we refer not to states of motion or rest, but to quantities of motion and changes of those quantities.  Accordingly, there are three goals which the example achieves: (1) it criticizes Descartes’ concept of proper motion as failing to provide the ground for the quantitative project he’s aiming for; (2) it provides a self-contained, careful description of how the quantity of true motion of a body of water changes (under which conditions and with what kind of effects); (3) it suggests there is a double aspect to the analysis of the true circular motion of a body: one pertaining to identifying the causes of changes in motion, the other – to representing the motions mathematically. In this example, I provide a unifying perspective: all three roles are achieved via the use of Newton’s definitions and laws of motion.’

Conferința se va desfășura ȋn limba engleză luni, 28 februarie, 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

Următoarea conferință din cadrul seminarului de cercetare al Departamentului de Filosofie Teoretică în parteneriat cu CELFIS va fi susținută de prof. Sorin Bangu (Universitatea din Bergen). Mai multe detalii despre vorbitor sunt accesibile aici: https://sites.google.com/site/sorinbangu/

Titlul prezentării sale este ‘An analogous investigation? Later Wittgenstein on psychological and mathematical discourse’. Iată și rezumatul:

‘In a remark in what has come to be known as the second part of his Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein says that “An investigation is possible in connection with mathematics, which is entirely analogous to our investigation of psychology.” The aim of this talk is to explain what he may have had in mind.’

Conferința se va desfășura ȋn limba engleză luni, 21 februarie, 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 

Următoarea conferință din cadrul seminarului de cercetare al Departamentului de Filosofie Teoretică în parteneriat cu CELFIS va fi susținută de drd. Bogdan Dumitrescu (Universitatea din București). Mai multe detalii despre vorbitor sunt accesibile aici: https://unibuc.academia.edu/DumitrescuBogdan

Titlul prezentării sale este ‘Free Will and the Metaphysics of Time: Is there a Future for Freedom?’. Iată și rezumatul:

‘Traditionally, the problem of free will is viewed as a conflict between the concept of freedom and the concept of determinism. However, a less popular way of re-framing the problem, that’s been proposed by Carl Hoefer (2002), is through the idea that our concept of freedom could be actually in tension with our metaphysics of time, not with determinism. We generally think that the past is fixed and settled, that the present is a constantly changing instant of time and that the future is unfixed, unsettled and open to possibilities.

Philosophers that define freedom as the ability to do otherwise often claim that a requirement for free will is that there be open possibilities available to the agent to choose from at the moment of deliberation. Often such authors appeal to the metaphysical picture of a Forking Road in order to show that free will requires the existence of alternate possibilities. Such a libertarian conception of free will, I argue, assumes that the future is ontologically open. For an agent to have the ability to do otherwise than how in fact they did, it’s necessary that the future be open to possibilities. Thus, arguably, any metaphysical conception of time that assumes a non-open, fixed and existent future is in tension with this conception of freedom. What may be compatible with freedom, then, is a theory of time that assumes an open future.

In this talk, my aim is to briefly survey the most popular metaphysical theories within the analytic philosophy of time (A-theories and B-theories) and argue that an A-theoretic branching theory of spacetime such as the one developed by Storrs McCall (1994) is compatible or consistent with freedom understood as the ability to do otherwise’

Conferința se va desfășura ȋn limba engleză luni, 17 ianuarie, orele 20-22. 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 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 dr. Lavinia Marin (TU Delft). Mai multe detalii despre vorbitor sunt accesibile aici: https://www.laviniamarin.eu/  https://www.tudelft.nl/…/postdocs/drir-l-lavinia-marin

Titlul prezentării sale este ‘Informational skills and agency on social media’. Iată și rezumatul:

‘Researchers from various disciplines have shown the various detrimental effects of using Social media platforms, mostly by highlighting the decline in the well-being of their users. Complementing these approaches with a perspective drawn from the philosophy of information, I will highlight an additional problematic effect of social media usage, namely how users as informational agents are deprived of informational agency. This talk will propose a concept of informational skills inspired by situated cognition and social epistemology. By linking informational skills with informational agency and digital flourishing, I will examine the limits of Social media platforms as informational environments. I will show that Social media platforms are usually constraining on the informational agency of their users and lead, in the long term, to the deskilling of said users.’

Conferința se va desfășura ȋn limba engleză miercuri, 12 ianuarie, 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 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 Henk de Regt (Radboud Universiteit, din Nijmegen). Mai multe detalii despre vorbitor sunt accesibile aici: https://www.ru.nl/english/people/regt-h-de/ Cartea pe care Henk o va prezenta este și cea pentru care a primit prestigiosul premiu Lakatos: https://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blog/2019/06/14/henk-w-de-regt-wins-the-2019-lakatos-award/

Titlul prezentării sale, omonim, este ‘Understanding Scientific Understanding’. Iată și rezumatul:

‘It is widely acknowledged that a central aim of science is to achieve understanding of the world around us, and that possessing such understanding is highly important in our present-day society. But what precisely is scientific understanding, and when is it achieved? In my book Understanding Scientific Understanding (OUP, 2017), I develop a philosophical theory of scientific understanding that answers these questions. In contrast to most existing studies in this area, my approach takes into account scientists’ views on understanding and their role in scientific debate and development. In my talk I will outline my theory of scientific understanding and illustrate it with a case study from the history of science.’

Conferința se va desfășura ȋn limba engleză luni, 13 decembrie, orele 20-22. 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 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 David Kovacs (Tel Aviv University). Mai multe detalii despre vorbitor sunt accesibile aici: https://davidmarkkovacs.weebly.com/    https://philpeople.org/profiles/david-mark-kovacs 

Titlul prezentării sale este: ‘Toward an ontology of nations’. Iată și rezumatul:

‘What is a nation? Political philosophers, historians, and ethnographers have given a number of different answers, ranging from ethnic to civic and voluntaristic conceptions, but not much by way of consensus has crystallized in the literature. Yet the question of what a nation is has crucial importance because of the role of nations in political philosophy. Nations are often taken to be groups with distinctive characteristics, rights, and obligations: they are the appropriate units to possess a right to self-determination (which is typically though not always taken to amount to the prima facie right to an independent state); they are the entities at issue in philosophical defenses of nationalism and criticisms thereof; and they may play an important role in arguments over the ethics of immigration. In this talk, I will attempt to make the first steps toward an ontology of nations. I will suggest that nations are four-dimensional objects, and that they are the best candidate referents of national demonyms and our ‘we’-attitudes in national contexts. I will also argue that this view is not only intuitively plausible but can also handle a number of problems that arise with alternative conceptions of nationhood.’

Conferința se va desfășura ȋn limba engleză luni, 29 noiembrie, orele 20-22. 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 sau pe PhilEvents: https://philevents.org/event/show/93365