This Spring features a series of workshops on formal aspects pertaining to understanding, hosted by the Humanities division of the University of Bucharest’s Research Institute (ICUB-SSU).
April 14, 5pm Andreea Popescu (SNSPA & UB) “Overdetermination and Successfully Carrying out an Intention”
April 28, 5pm Paula Tomi (Politehnica & UB) “A Critical Perspective on Thomasson’s Metaphysical Deflationism”
May 12, 5pm Marian Călborean (UB) “Logicalism in the study of natural language – The case of Kit Fine’s global vagueness and my ‘vagueness as dispersion’ “
May 26, 5pm Mihai Rusu (UBB) “Modal knowledge and the source of modality”
June 9, 6pm Bogdan Dumitrescu (UB) “Eternalism, time travel and Ludovician compossibility: A defense of David Lewis’ response to the Grandfather Paradox”
All hours are local time for Bucharest, Romania.
The talks will be given in English. However, the Q&A may occasionally veer into French, Romanian or German, according to which language the speaker and audience feel more comfortable communicating in.
Meetings are held virtually via Google Meet. Whenever possible, talks will be recorded and posted on the YouTube channel of the Department of Theoretical Philosophy at UB (here).
The workshops are part of the “Understanding: phenomenal and epistemic aspects” project. This is an UEFISCDI postdoctoral project granted to Andrei Mărășoiu (no. PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2019-0535; details here.
The meetings are part of an initiative to encourage early career researchers, to build research networks, develop new insights and collaborative projects, all the while exploring the metaphysical and epistemological significance of understanding in a variety of contexts of inquiry. The Spring’s series follows a similar series of events in Fall 2020.
If you’d like to attend any of the workshops, please message andrei.marasoiu@filosofie.