Philosophy

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 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)  

Abstract:

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)

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)

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.

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

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.