Conference Schedule
Conference Schedule
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Sep 03 Wednesday
19:00-22:00
Pre-meeting at Č (Dzirnavu iela 82)
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Sep 04 Thursday
9:30-9:45 Registration
9:45-10:00 Welcoming words from the organising team
10:00-10:40
The Nexus of Friendship and Politics in Aristotelian Thought
Monika Višnevska (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)
10:40-11:20
Nominalist Approach to Modalities in the Late Medieval Philosophy
Miglė Gorskytė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
11:20-11:40 Coffee Break
11:40-12:20
The Ethics of Desire Care: Relational Flourishing and Careful Interventions
Fulvio Maina (University of Oslo, Norway)
12:20-13:00
Animal Property Rights and Human-Wildlife Conflict: Toward a Framework of Justice for Shared Territories
Susanne Aanestad (University of Oslo, Norway)
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-14:40
Was the beloved rationalist philosopher actually a mystic? Spinoza and intuitive knowledge
Kai Pesti (University of Tartu, Estonia)
14:40-15:20
An Idealist Reading of Attributes in Spinoza‘s Ethics
Donatas Getneris (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
15:20-15:40 Coffee Break
15:40-16:20
The Applicability of Mathematics: an Ontological or an Epistemic Problem?
Liis Soon (University of Tartu, Estonia)
16:20-17:00
Keynote speaker
Līva Rotkale (University of Latvia, Latvia)
18:00-20:00 Contemporary art festival Survival Kit exhibition (Zemitāna iela 9)
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Sep 5 Friday
10:00-10:40
Sacred art between the Orthodox and the Catholic Church: how apophatic and cataphatic religious epistemologies affected the representation of divinity
Alessandra de Marchi (Uppsala University, Sweden)
10:40-11:20
The Problem of sensus communis in Kant’s Critique of Judgment
Ieva Šmitaitė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
11:20-11:40 Coffee Break
11:40-12:20
Deflationism through Implicit Commitment Thesis?
Lukas Butkevičius (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
12:20-13:00
Unity of science beyond reductionism
Samuel Salenius (University of Helsinki, Finland)
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-14:40
The Predictive Mechanisms of Weakness of Will
Arvid Häggqvist (Uppsala University, Sweden)
14:40-15:20
Mind-Branching Compatibilism: Locating Free Will and Responsibility In A Monist A-series
Arvid Lorimer Olsson (Umeå University, Sweden)
15:20-15:40 Coffee Break
15:40-16:20
Hostile architecture: The mechanisms of suppressing social and political progress in urban design
Elza Māzere (University of Latvia, Latvia)
16:15-17:00
In Support of the Neurodiversity Paradigm: from Disorder to Divergence
Heldi Marleen Lang (University of Tartu, Estonia / University of Oslo, Norway)
18:00-22:00 "Labietis" taproom (Aristida Briāna iela 9a)
* The address of the conference venue is Jelgavas iela 3, Rīga.
What is NordPhil?
What is NordPhil?
NordPhil is a philosophy conference series for students affiliated with a Nordic university. It has previously been held at the University of Oslo, Uppsala University, Lund University, University of Copenhagen, Stockholm University, Tampere University, Tartu University. The conference provides a valuable platform for philosophy students who wish to present their own academic projects.
In 2024, the eight edition of NordPhil was held at Tartu University, and the ninth edition of NordPhil will be held at the University of Latvia on September 4th and 5th.
Why NordPhil?
Why NordPhil?
NordPhil aims to invigorate Nordic academic philosophy by the roots, providing an arena for aspiring Nordic philosophy students to develop their professional skills and test their ideas in an encouraging critical environment.
More broadly, the conference intends to foster a greater exchange of ideas between Nordic philosophers with the long term goal of promoting the international standing of Nordic philosophy.
When and where?
When and where?
NordPhil 2025 will take place at the University of Latvia on September 4-5.
See more info about the call for abstracts.
Who is NordPhil?
Who is NordPhil?
NordPhil 2025 is organized by the Latvian philosophy journal "Tvērums" and a group of students at the host university. Please contact us if you have any questions.
Nordphil 2025 is funded by the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Latvia and The Nordic Council of Ministers.
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