Philosophy | Department of Philosophy

Successful Doctoral Defense of George Turturea

June 20, 2012

The Department of Philosophy at CEU is happy to announce the successful Doctoral Defense of the PhD Dissertation by

George Turturea on
"Can Interdependent Reasoning Help Provide a
Solution to the Problem of Political Obligation?"

Supervisor: Janos Kis

The defense was held on Wednesday, 20 June, 2012

Members of the Defense Committee:

External member George Klosko (University of Virginia)

Internal member Andres Moles

Chair Ferenc Huoranszki

Ian Carter (Pavia): The Constitutive Value of Distributive Equality

Date:

March 12, 2013 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm

Speaker:

Ian Carter

5th In-house Graduate Philosophy Conference

Date:

October 12, 2012 - 9:00am to October 13, 2012 - 7:00pm

The department will hold its 5th in-house graduate philosophy conference on Friday and Saturday, October 12-13, 2012.

The purpose of the event is to give students the chance to present and discuss their research and learn about each others' work and to welcome new students. Each student will have 20-30 minutes to present a talk or paper followed by 20-25 minutes of discussion. So roughly 50 minutes are allotted to each presenter.

Tentative Schedule:

5th Annual In-House Philosophy Graduate Conference

Ana Dimiskovska (Skopje): Logic, argumentation and law: What can a logician learn from the study of legal reasoning?

Date:

March 19, 2013 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm

Abstract:

Josep Macia (Barcelona): Functional Role Semantics and the Meaning of Logical Expressions

Date:

March 5, 2013 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm

Abstract:
Functional role semantics (FRS) can be viewed as a semantic theory that claims that the meaning of an expression is certain role, or it can be viewed as a metaphysical theory that claims that what makes it the case that a certain expression has the meaning it has is that the expression has such-and-such kind of role.