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Dear colleagues,

the 15th year of the annual conference Young Philosophy 2018 for PhD students and young researchers will take place on 18-19.2018 at the Institute of Philosophy (conference venue: Klemensova Street 19, Bratislava). If you have any questions please feel free to contact us at our e-mail address mladafilozofia@gmail.com or at Facebook https://www.facebook.com/mladafilozofia/.

We are happy to announce that our keynote speakers Joseph Cohen and Raphael-Zagury Orly for continental philosophy section, Frederik Heraldsen for analytic section.

Separate sections will consist of the following fields:
social and political philosophy, history of philosophy, analytic philosophy, continental philosophy

Organizing committee
Daniela Glavaničová, Alžbeta Kuchtová, Zuzana Zelinová, Irakli Chedia

Young philosophy 2018

Filozofický ústav SAV, Klemensova 19, Bratislava

Thursday, 18. October 2018 to Friday, 19. October 2018

Program

Call for abstracts

Application form

Extended deadline: 16th September 2018! Since some of you have asked for a deadline extension, we've agreed to give you more time. We look forward to meeting you in Bratislava!

Institute of Philosophy of Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava
kindly invites you to the 15th annual international conference

Young Philosophy 2018

for Ph.D. students and early career researchers.

The conference will take place at the Institute of Philosophy on the 18th and 19th of October 2018

Previous conferences proceedings

Filozofia - Current Issue

Zouhar, M. The Indexical Nature of Epistemic Modals

Abstract: The aim of the present paper is defending the idea that epistemic modals like “may”, “might”, “must”, etc. are indexical expressions and providing an outline of their semantics in...

Schmidt, M. On a Less Radical Approach to Meaning, Essences, and Modalities

Abstract: M. Duží, B. Jespersen and P. Materna rejected a revolution in analytic philosophy brought about by S. Kripke and H. Putnam. The revolution championed new views on meaning, modalities...

Gahér, F. Open Texture of Concepts – the Original Meaning and the Critique

Abstract: The aim of this article is to analyze and explain in more detail Waismann’s idea of the open texture of concept (Die Porosität der Begriffe) as a means for criticizing the principle...

Taliga, M. Justification Can Be Neither Discovered nor Created by Argumentation

Abstract: Can argumentation discover that statements are justified? Or can justification of statements originate in argumentation? In the paper it is argued that as far as epistemic...

Šedík, M. On the Nature of Knowledge in Art

Abstract: This article analyzes the epistemological status of work of art. It starts with two propositions. The first one is an ontological proposition: (1) “Something new emerges in the...

Lohmann, G. On the Methodological Issues of Anthropology and “the Image of Man” with “Human Dignity”

Abstract: The study deals with the genealogy of the meaning of anthropology. We encounter it first in Aristotle’s negative definition of anthropology as a “narrative about man” with features...

Muránsky, M. Ernst Tugendhat on Heidegger’s Problem of Truth

Abstract: The paper departs from actual critical reception of Tugendhat’s critique of Heidegger’s notion of truth (Wrathall/Malpas), according to which the failure of Tugendhat consist in his...

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Organon F - Current Issue

Kijania-Placek, K. Descriptive Singular Terms

Abstract: In “Descriptive indexicals and indexical descriptions” Nunberg claimed that only indexicals among singular terms may have descriptive uses, i.e. have nonsingular contributions to the...

Bärnthaler, R. The Fallacy of Naturalism as a Response to the Relativist

Abstract: This article is a response to Howard Sankey’s (2010) ‘Witchcraft, Relativism and the Problem of the Criterion.’ It seeks to refute two central arguments that are brought forward by...

Rastall, P. Knowing Subject and External Object in Language and Linguistic Analysis

Abstract: The claim of linguistics to be a ‘science’ is connected to its ‘objectivity’. The same is true of the philosophy of language. This implies a clear distinction between the language...

Michels, R. Cross-World Comparatives for Modal Realists

Abstract: Divers (2014) argues that a Lewisian theory of modality which includes both counterpart theory and modal realism cannot account for the truth of certain intuitively true modal...

Kolman, V. Intuition and the End of All -Isms

Abstract: In my paper, some of the most influential -isms in the philosophy of mathematics are discussed with respect to their attitude to intuition. By the end of the all -isms, at first,...

Spinelli, N. Essence and Lowe’s Regress

Abstract: Some philosophers believe that entities have essences. What are we to make of the view that essences are themselves entities? E.J. Lowe has put forward an infinite regress argument...

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