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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Hungarian Philosophical Association is organizing an international conference on
"Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics".
Keynote speaker: Prof. Richard Shusterman
Experts, teachers and researchers in the field of aesthetics, arts, philosophy and life sciences are invited to submit papers for the international conference which will take place in Budapest (Hungary) on June 2-6, 2014.
Deadline for submitting abstracts is December 31, 2013
Standard papers as well as poster and electronic presentations are possible. The official language of the conference is English.
An ISBN publication with all accepted papers will be produced.
Registration fee: 15 Euro
For further information, please write to the leader of the Organizing Committee:
Dr. Alexander Kremer
kremeralexander5@gmail.com
DEWEY AND RORTY
International conference, November 6-7, 2009, Szeged, Hungary.
The conference is devoted to celebration of the 150th anniversary of John Dewey's birthday.
Location: Department of Philosophy, University of Szeged - Szeged, Petõfi S. sgt. 30-34. Lecture room 212. (Lectures are 30 minutes long.)
PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE
NOVEMBER 6th, 2009
10:00-11:00
Janos Boros (University of Pecs, Hungary): Dewey and Rorty on Democracy
11:00-12:00
Alexander Kremer (University of Szeged): Dewey and Rorty on Truth
Lunch break (12:00-14:00)
14:00-15:00
Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki, Finland):
Faith and Hope: Rorty and Dewey on Religion
15:00-16:00
Emil Visnovsky (Slovak Academy of Sciences): Dewey, Rorty, and Legal Pragmatism
NOVEMBER 7th, 2009
9:00-10:00
Miklós Nyírõ (University of Miskolc, Hungary): Dewey and Rorty on Language
10:00-11:00
György Pápay (papaygy@gmail.com, Hungary): Pragmatism and the Ordinary - The Rorty-Putnam Debate from a Different Angle
11:00-12:00
Radim Sip (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic):
The Pragmatic Education: Rort, Dewey and Multiculturalism
12:00-13:00
Daniel L. Golden (Institute for Philosophical Research at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Education and Edification
Lunch (13:00-15:00)
Konferenciák - Conferences
- Between the 17th-21st of September, 2008, the Third International Pragmatism Conference will be held at the Babeº-Bolyai University, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania: The Philosophy of Pragmatism: Salient Inquiries. Deadline: 1 July 2008.
- JDRC will inaugurate its activity with conference between the 19th-22nd of November, 2007, at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow.
- Between the 26th-29th of September, 2007, the Second International Pragmatism Conference will be held at the Babeº-Bolyai University, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania: The Philosophy of Pragmatism: Salient Inquiries. Deadline: 1 July 2007.
- Between the 27th of September and the 1st of October, 2007, a pragmatist conference will be held at the Constantin Brancusi University, in Targu-Jiu, Romania: Democracy, Liberalism and the Relevance of Pragmatism/Neopragmatism for the Constituing of Political Ideologies - Interdisciplinary Approaches.
- 23-26 May 2007, International Conference John Dewey Reconstructing Democracy.
Università della Calabria, Cosenza, Italy
- 27-30 September 2006, First International Pragmatist Conference The Philosophy of Pragmatism: Religious Premises, Moral Issues and Historical Impact. Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
RICHARD RORTY
Richard Rorty, 75, an intellectual whose often deeply unconventional approach to mainstream philosophic thought brought him wide public recognition as one of the leading thinkers of his era, died June 8 at his home in Palo Alto, Calif. He had pancreatic cancer. (http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2007/06/in_memoriam.html)
INAUGURATION CONFERENCE PROGRAM
NEW CONFERENCE ROOM OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED
JOHN DEWEY'S PHILOSOPHY
May 30 (WE), 2007
- 13:30 Opening Words - Dr. Tibor Almási, Dean of the Faculty of Arts
- 13:45 Welcome Words - Alexander Kremer
- 14:00 John Ryder: DEWEY, DEMOCRACY AND A COSMOPOLITAN IDEAL (J. Ryder is a professor of philosophy and the director of International Programs for the State University of New York, USA.)
- 14:45 Emil Visnovsky: DEWEYAN CONCEPTION OF PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY (E. Visnovsky is a professor of philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia.)
- 15:30 Lyubov Bugaeva: JOHN DEWEY AND A CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY OF ART (L. Bugaeva is a professor of philosophy, St. Petersburg State University, Russia.)
May 31 (TH), 2007
- 9:00 Don Morse: SITUATING DEWEY (D. Morse is a professor of philosophy, Webster University in St. Louis, USA.)
- 9:45 Sami Philstrom: THE REALISM ISSUE FROM A DEWEYAN PERSPECTIVE (Sami Philstrom is a professor of philosopy, University of Tampere, University of Helsinki, Finland.)
- 10:30 Radim Sip: THE UNDERGROUND OF OCCIDENTAL THINKING: DEWEY'S TENTATIVE METAPHYSICS (R. Sip is a professor of philosophy, Masaryk University, Czech Republic.)
- 11:15 Alexander Kremer: DEWEY AND RORTY (A. Kremer is a professor of philosophy, University of Szeged, Hungary)
COLLEAGUES, STUDENTS AND GUESTS ARE INVITED!