The Actuality of the Early Analytic Philosophy

Location: Faculty of Philosophy
204 Splaiul Independentei, Sector 6, Bucharest
Web: http://filosofie.unibuc.ro/

Transportation: 1) Bus: 601. Coming from Piaţa Universităţii (University Square), Stop at: Grozavesti - Carrefour
2) Bus:123. Coming from Gara de Nord, up to Podul Eroilor
3) Subway - Stop at: Grozavesti.

Abstracts - temele lucrarilor din cadrul acestui colocviu

• Thu June 3, 2010, Faculty of Philosophy

  10.00am Jaakko Hintikka - Doctor Honoris Causa
  Chairman: Gabriel Sandu
  3pm - 4pm Jaakko Hintikka: Past, present and future of set theory
  4pm - 5pm Mircea Dumitru: Opacity. Then and Now
  Chairman: Gabriel Sandu
  5pm- 5.30pm Coffee Break
  5.30pm - 6.30pm Ilie Parvu: In which sense is 'On Denoting' a paradigm of philosophy?
  Dinner

• Fri, June 4, 2010, Faculty of Philosophy

  Chairman: Mircea Dumitru
  9.30am- 10.30am Jaakko Hintikka- Rule-following in logic and in Wittgenstein
  10.30am - 11.30am Gabriel Sandu: Frege, Ramsey and the foundations of mathematics
  11.30am- 12.00pm Coffee Break
  12.00pm - 1pm Danielle Machbeth: Frege's Proof of Theorem 133: A Case Study in Ampliative Deductive Proof
  1pm- 3pm Lunch Break
  3pm - 4pm Sorin Costreie: Frege on contentful arithmetic
  4pm - 5pm Greg Lavers: On the Quinean Analyticity of Arithmetic
  5pm- 5.30pm Coffee Break
  5.30pm - 6.30pm William Demopolous: Carnap's Thesis
  Dinner

• Sat, June 5, 2010, Faculty of Philosophy

  Chairman: Sorin Costreie
  9.30am- 10.30am Genoveva Marti Empirical data and the theory of reference
  10.30am - 11.30am Derek Brown: Why Russell mistook his table for sense-data, but why it may still be lost
  11.30am- 12.00pm Coffee Break
  12.00am - 1.30am Alexandra Cornilescu: : Vindicating Russell's view of descriptions: a linguistic perspective
  

The Bucharest Graduate Conference

Location: Faculty of Philosophy
204 Splaiul Independentei, Sector 6, Bucharest
Web: http://filosofie.unibuc.ro/

Transportation: 1) Bus: 601. Coming from Piaţa Universităţii (University Square), Stop at: Grozavesti - Carrefour
2) Bus:123. Coming from Gara de Nord, up to Podul Eroilor
3) Subway - Stop at: Grozavesti.

• 21st of May, Faculty of Philosophy

  9.30am - 10.00am Welcome reception
  10.00am - 11.00am Invited Speaker: Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest) – TBA
  11.00am - 11.45am Seth Jones (University of Iowa) – Weak (Naturalistic) Objectivism in Hume's Moral Theory
  11.45am - 12.30pm Johan Olsthoorn (University of Leuven) – Justice, Equity and Equality: Thomas Hobbes’s Concept of Distributive Justice
  Chairman: James Abordo Ong
  12.30pm - 1.30pmLunch
  1.30pm - 2.15pm Nienke Roelants (University of Ghent) - Visual Perception and Rationality in Early Copernicanism
  2.15pm - 3pm Adriana Monica Solomon (University of Bucharest) - Scientific Methods and Conceptual Changes. The Case of Induction: A Historical Approach
  3pm - 3.45pm Grigore Vida (University of Bucharest) - Newton on Ether
  Chairman: Kristopher Phillips
  

  3.45pm - 4pm Coffee Break
  4pm - 5pm Invited Speaker: Eric Schlisser (University of Ghent) – How Epicurean Is (the first edition) of Newton's Principia?
  5pm - 5.45pm Robert Arnautu (CEU Budapest) – The Rise of Mechanical Philosophy
  5.45pm - 6.30pm Madalina Giurgea (University of Bucharest) – An Interpretation of Descartes’ Time Problem
  Chairman: Doina-Cristina Rusu
  8.30pm Dinner(optional)
  

• 22th of May, Faculty of Philosophy

  10.00am - 10.45am Eugen Stafie and Mircea Stoica (University of Bucharest) The Alchemical Journey: A comparative analysis of two alchemical hermetic texts
  10.45am - 11.30am Doina-Cristina Rusu (University of Bucharest)Imagination and Medicine in Francis Bacon
  11.30am - 12.15pm Laura Georgescu (University of Bucharest) Induction as a “motion” of the intellect
  Chairman: Chairman: Michael-John Turp
  1.15pm - 2pm Lunch
  1.15pm - 2pm James Abordo Ong (Duke University) A Puzzle in Spinoza's Assessment of Contempt
  2pm - 2.45pm Kristopher Phillips (University of Iowa) The True Dichotomy Between Objective and Subjective Interpretations of Spinoza’s Theory of Attributes
  Chairman: Johan Olsthoorn
  2.45pm - 3pm Cofee Break
  3pm - 4pm Invited Speaker: Koen Vermeir (CNRS, Paris)Henry More (and Newton) on space, atoms and spirit
  4pm - 4.45pm Jerilyn Tinio (University of Wisconsin) On the Relation between Kant and Berkeley: Berkeley’s Two Senses of Externality
  4.45pm - 6.15pm Michael-John Turp (Durham University) Hume on 'is' and 'ought'
  Chairman: Seth Jones
  8.30pm Dinner (optional)