Philosophy

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Tim Crane is Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy in the University of Cambridge and a Professorial Fellow of Peterhouse.

Abstract:

The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to the next screening of its Philm Club on social experiments. The series features a selection of movies tackling questions of social behavior and norms. Specifically, we selected allegories and experiments that question the behavioral norms of "normality" and present humans in limit situations to examine their responses.

Exam (2009)

101 minutes

directed by Stuart Hazeldine

When we look into the history of classical Islamic philosophy, we can notice the paramount importance of ethical writings from the 10th to the16th century. In my present study, I will try to focus on the specificity
of this classical ethics; to underline its relationship to Greek ethics but also its close relationship to the Qur’ān and the Sunna and try to show how this very specific heritage has its place in Muslim contexts today.

The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to the next
screenings of its Philm Club on social experiments. The series features
a selection of movies tackling questions of social behavior and norms.
Specifically, we selected allegories and experiments that question the
behavioral norms of "normality" and present humans in limit situations
to examine their responses. The topics range from Kafkaesque existential
mazes to the "classic" prison experiment and unorthodox
school experiments on ideology.

Das experiment (The Experiment, 2001)

I start by considering John Broome’s recent account of instrumental reasoning in some detail. After raising objections to it, I offer a very different picture of reasoning in general, which makes much more sense of the possibility of reasoning to a sufficient means. I than raise some difficulties for my own account.

A draft of a chapter from Prof Dancy's forthcoming book, which covers the material of the talk, is posted on the departmental colloquium's e-learning site.

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The Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to the Public Defense of the PhD Dissertation by   Alexandra Varga on A Formal Model of Infants? Acquisition of Practical Knowledge from Observation

Committee Members:

Supervisors: Gergely Csibra and Gyorgy Gergely (CEU) Internal Examiner: Pierre Jacob (Institut Jean Nicod / CEU) External Examiner: Keith Stenning (University of Edinburgh)   Chair: Hanoch Ben-Yami  

The defense will be held on Friday, 22nd March from 10.00 AM in Zrinyi 14/401