First ALEF Workshop in Analytic Philosophy, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, December 19-20, 2018
This is the first workshop organized by the group, aiming to bring together Romanian researchers in an effort to make their work known to each other. Presentations covered topics in metaphysics, philosophy of language, argumentation theory, logic, philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, ethics and political philosophy. Below you can find the program of the workshop. For more details, check the webpage of the event.
PROGRAM
Wednesday, December 19
10.00-11.00: Dan Zeman (University of Vienna), “A Rich-Lexicon Approach to Evaluative Expressions”
11.00-12.00: Nicoletta Bartunek, “‘Meaning is Use’ and Therapy”
12.00-13.00: Bianca Savu (University of Bucharest), “The Notion of Decline in Auguste Comte. A Discussion on the Lessons 52-55th from Course de philosophie positive“
Lunch break
14.00-15.00: Andreea Popescu (University of Bucharest), “Kripke’s Semantical Considerations, Naming and Possible Objects”
15.00-16.00: Gheorghe Ștefanov (University of Bucharest), “Direct Reference – A Conceptual Proposal”
Thursday, December 20
9.00-10.00: Ariana Guga (Babeș-Bolyai University), “The Myth of the Saviour in the Communication Strategies Used in Romanian Presidential Election Campaigns after 1989”
Coffee break
10.15-11.15: Adrian Ludușan (Babeș-Bolyai University), “Can the Internal Categoricity of Arithmetic Secure Its Referential Determinacy?”
Coffee break
11.30-12.30: Bogdan Dicher (University of Lisbon), “Logical Nihilism: An Obituary”
Lunch break
14.30-15.30: Paula Tomi (University of Bucharest), “A Possible Minimalist Response to The Liar“
15.30-16.30: Mihai Rusu (Babeș-Bolyai University/USAMV Cluj-Napoca), “A (General?) Problem for Modal Epistemology”
Coffee break
16.45-17.45: Ciprian Bogdan (Babeș-Bolyai University), “Speculative Realism: A (Mostly) Critical Perspective”
Second ALEF Workshop in Analytic Philosophy, Babeș-Bolyai University, online, September 25-26, 2020
This is the second workshop organized by the group, aiming to bring together Romanian researchers in an effort to make their work known to each other. This edition’s presentations covered topics in epistemology, logic, metaethics, metaphysics, philosophy of action, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and political philosophy. Below you can find the program of the workshop. For more details, check the webpage of the event.
PROGRAM
Friday, September 25
Chair: Paula Tomi
9.50-9.55: Welcome
10.00-10.50: Robert Chiș-Ciure (University of Bucharest), “A Kantian Inheritance: Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness and the Transcendental Deduction” [live session]
11.00-11.50: Iulian Toader (University of Vienna) & Constantin Brîncuș (University of Bucharest), “Categoricity and Logical Revisionism” [live session]
12.00 – 12.25: Bogdan Dicher (University of Lisbon) & Francesco Paoli (University of Cagliari), “Substructurality on Metainferential Conceptions on Logic” [live Q&A]
Lunch break
Chair: Adrian Briciu
14.00-14.50: Andreea Popescu (University of Bucharest), “Evaluating Singular Action Sentences” [live session]
15.00-15.50: Dan Zeman (Slovak Academy of Sciences) & José R. Torices (University of Granada), “Implicaturist-Expressivist Accounts of Disagreement” [live session]
Break
16.30-16.55: Mihaela Popa-Wyatt (ZAS Berlin), “Norm Shifting through Slurs” [live Q&A]
17.00-17.25: Andrei Moldovan (University of Salamanca), “Questions and Presuppositions” [live Q&A]
17.30-17.55: Laura Nicoară (University of Southern California), “Moral and Political Worries about Multiple Meanings Accounts of Gender Terms” [live Q&A]
Saturday, September 26
Chair: Dan Zeman
10.00-10.50: Mona Simion (University of Glasgow), “Resistance to Evidence and the Duty to Believe” [live session]
11.00-11.50: Andrei Mărășoiu (University of Bucharest), “The Truth in Understanding” [live session]
12.00-12.50: Sergiu Spătan (University of Hamburg), “Certainty-Based Invariantism and the Lottery” [live session]
Lunch break
Chair: Mihai Rusu
14.00-14.50: Sorin Băiașu (Keele University), “Merit and the Epistemological Argument Against Desert” [live session]
15.00-15.50: Alexandru Volacu (University of Bucharest), “Free-riding and Compulsory Voting” [live session]
16.00-17.25: Adina Covaci (University of Warwick), “The Real Problem with Moral Deference” [live Q&A]
In addition, the following presentations were featured on our YouTube channel (Fri & Sat, 10.00-18.00):
Alexandru Dragomir (University of Bucharest), “On the Possibility of Achieving Suprapersonal Moral Status as a Result of Cognitive Enhancement – Are We Justified to Believe It?”
Camil Golub (Rutgers University/University of Leeds), “Normative Quasi-Naturalism and Its Virtues”
Nora Grigore, “Understanding Presuppositions of Moral Normativity”
Third ALEF Workshop in Analytic Philosophy, ICUB and UBB, online/Bucharest , January 21, 2023
Organized by Mihai Rusu (UBB)
PROGRAM
Saturday, January 21
12.00-12.45: Alexandru Dragomir (University of Bucharest), "Ideal Conceivers, the Nature of Modality and the Response-Dependent Account of Modal Concepts"
12.45-12.55: Coffee Break
12.55-13.40: Mihai Rusu (Babeș Bolyai University), "The Epistemology and Metaphysics of Essence. A Perspective on the Current Debate"
13.40 – 14.00: Discussions