Philosophy

Human Project

Duration: 
September, 2009 to September, 2014
Funding: 
Hungarian National Office for Research and Technology (NKTH) - MAG Zrt.

Ten Years of Philosophy at Central European University

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Building: 
Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Room: 
Popper Room
Date: 
January 27, 2011 - 9:00am to January 28, 2011 - 5:00pm

The Department of Philosophy at CEU cordially invites you to its

10th Anniversary Conference titled


Ten Years of Philosophy at Central European University

January 27-28, 2011

Conference Schedule:

Thursday, 27 January, 2011

In front of Popper room (Nádor 9 building - 1st floor)

12:30 PM - coffee

Popper room (Nádor 9 building - 1st floor room 102)

3rd In-house Graduate Philosophy Conference

Building: 
Zrinyi u. 14
Room: 
412, 411
Date: 
October 8, 2010 - 9:00am to October 9, 2010 - 6:00pm

3rd Annual CEU Philosophy In-house Graduate Conference   -

October 8-9, 2010

 

CEU, Zrinyi utca 14, rooms 411 and 412

 

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Friday, October 8

 

9:00 - 9:30       Coffee - room 412

9:30 – 10:45     First Keynote Address - room 412 (chair:Gábor Betegh)  

Philip Goff (University of Hertfordshire): A Priori Physicalism and Lonely Ghosts

Type: 
Lecture
Building: 
Zrinyi u. 14
Room: 
412
Date: 
October 19, 2010 - 4:30pm to 6:15pm

Abstract:

Benj Hellie: Perceptual Acts and Sensational States

Type: 
Lecture
Building: 
Zrinyi u. 14
Room: 
412
Date: 
June 9, 2010 - 4:30pm to 6:15pm

Ksenija Puskaric: The Skeptical Challenge: A Cartesian Approach

Type: 
Doctoral Defenses
Building: 
Zrinyi u. 14
Room: 
401
Date: 
June 15, 2010 - 10:00am to 12:00pm

Doctoral Defense of Ksenija Puskaric

The Skeptical Challenge: A Cartesian Approach

 

Supervisors: Katalin Farkas, Nenad Miscevic (secondary)

Thesis committee members:

Internal committee member: Howard Robinson (Department of Philosophy,CEU)

External committee member Alvin Plantinga (University of Notre Dame, in absentia)

Chair: Michael V.Griffin (Department of Philosophy,CEU)

Monica Jitareanu: Being About the World - An Analysis of the Intentionality of Perceptual Experience

Type: 
Doctoral Defenses
Building: 
Zrinyi u. 14
Room: 
401
Date: 
June 8, 2010 - 10:00am to 12:00pm

Doctoral defense of Monica Jitareanu

on “Being About the World - An Analysis of the Intentionality of Perceptual Experience"

Supervisor: Katalin Farkas

Internal committee member: Howard Robinson (Department of Philosophy, CEU) external committee member: Benj Hellie (University of Toronto)

Chair: Hanoch Ben-Yami (Department of Philosophy, CEU)

Guido Melchior (University of Graz): Perspectives of Self-Knowledge

Type: 
Lecture
Building: 
Zrinyi u. 14
Room: 
412
Date: 
November 30, 2010 - 4:30pm to 6:15pm

I understand self-knowledge as any kind of knowledge about one's own mental states, which also includes knowledge about the truth of one's own beliefs. In the first part of my talk, I will illustrate that we can acquire self-knowledge from two different perspectives, firstly from an ordinary first-person-perspective and, secondly, from a detached point of view, which I call first-person-knowledge from a third-person-perspective.

A School of Morals: The Ethics of Theatre

Type: 
Lecture
Building: 
Zrinyi u. 14
Room: 
412
Date: 
November 2, 2010 - 4:30pm to 6:15pm

Philosophy and theatre have always enjoyed a close but troubled
relationship. My talk explores one dimension of this relationship – that
between theatre and morality. Some philosophers have claimed that theatre
has a special role to play in training us to be moral; others argue that,
to the contrary, it is of the essence of theatre that it is a foolish,
deceitful entertainment which, at the very best, keeps wicked people
distracted for a couple hours so that, for this brief period of time, they

Avoiding Logical Determinism and Retaining the Principle of Bivalence within a Tense-modal Logic System

Type: 
Lecture
Building: 
Zrinyi u. 14
Room: 
412
Date: 
October 5, 2010 - 4:30pm to 6:15pm

Jan Lukasiewicz was the first logician in the history of modern logic who has become completely aware of the fact that Aristotle’s reasoning related to his famous future see battle example does not undermine so much the principle of the excluded middle but, in the first place, the principle of bivalence.. In order to avoid such a kind of determinism, later called logical determinism, Lukasiewicz introduced many-valued logic. So, in the trivalent system, a sentence can happen to be neither true nor false at a given time.