Philosophy

John Cottingham is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Reading and an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.

His principal research interests are in early-modern philosophy (especially Descartes), moral philosophy, and the philosophy of religion.

Human Nature and the Transcendent

Sune Laegaard works on issues of nationalism, multiculturalism and related themes within political philosophy and theory, including issues about immigration, the politics of recognition, toleration and secularism.

Title: Is change normatively required?

Abstract:

Abstract: Wrong kind of reasons (WKR) objections to fitting-attitude analysis of value, as well as the
very idea of the wrong kind of reasons, can be defused by paying close attention to the attitudes that
are posited or imagined by scenarios, e.g., in which we are told that an evil demon will punish us with
extreme pain unless they admire him. My argument, based on considerations relation to the role proattitudes
must play in defeasible practical inference, is that such attitudes are strictly impossible. If the

Workshop Schedule:

9:30 - 10:00 Coffee

10:00 - 10:45 Peter Sajda (Institute of Philosophy, Bratislava): The Choice of Oneself: Guardini's Critique of Kierkegaard's Concept of Selfhood

11:00 - 11:45 David Weberman (CEU Philosophy Department): Freedom and Authenticity in Sartre and Foucault

12:00 - 12:45 Martin Muransky (Institute of Philosophy, Bratislava): Tugendhat and the Problem of Freedom in Kant's Practical Philosophy

12:45 - 14:15 Lunch

The CEU  Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to the next screening
of its Philm Club series:

Delicatessen, 1991

Directed by Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
French with English subtitles, 99 min.

Delicatessen is hard to pin down under a specific genre label; it's a surreal black comedy, a human drama, a post-apocalyptic horror movie, a twisted thriller, a futuristic fantasy; and all in all one of the strangest and most original films ever made.