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Dear colleagues,

the 16th year of the annual conference Young Philosophy 2020 for PhD students and young researchers will take place on 23-24 April 2020 at the SAS 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.

Sections:

analytic philosophy,
continental philosophy,
history of philosophy,
social and political philosophy.

Keynote speakers:

Jon Stewart (Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences),
Geoffrey Dierckxsens (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences).

An application form together with short abstract suitable for a 20-min presentation (100-200 words) should be emailed to mladafilozofia@gmail.com by January 31, 2020.
Abstracts can be written in English, Slovak or Czech. Note that analytic philosophy section will be held in English only.

Organizing committee: Daniela Glavaničová, Irakli Chedia, Mariana Jankechová, Alžbeta Kuchtová, Katarína Dženisa Rajtíková, Peter Daubner, Martin Farbák, Róbert Mihály, Dominik Sadloň

SAS Institute of Philosophy, Klemensova 19, Bratislava

Thursday, 23. April 2020 to Friday, 24. April 2020

Application form

Previous conferences proceedings

Filozofia - current issue

Bielik, L. Kinds of Disagreement and Their (Semi)Formal Reconstruction

Abstract: The phenomenon of doxastic (epistemic) disagreement pertains to contemporary discussions in epistemology. Moreover, a related notion of the difference of opinion (or standpoints) is...

Halas, J. Abstraction, Idealization, and The Use of Arguments

Abstract: The methods of abstraction and idealization are typically examined in connection with their applications in modeling and explanation. This paper investigates how the use of abstract...

Gahér, F. Mill’s Mistaken Objection of Petitio Principii Against Deductive Logic

Abstract: The critique of logic, as it was taught on the British Isles, intensified at the beginning of the 19th century. A systematic critique of Aristotelian (syllogistic) logic was...

Marko, V. The Promises and Procedures

Abstract: The work tends to point out the deficiency of some opinions claiming simplified presentation of the promise as the act that directly rise obligation for the promisor. Promises,...

Zouhar, M. Subjective Taste and Argumentation

Abstract: Argumentation is usually used to achieve a state in which one participant of a dialogue brings another participant to accept a belief the former presents. This idea is acceptable...

Kollárik, T. Is Disagreement Between Compatibilists and Incompatibilists Merely Verbal?

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to show that disagreement between compatibilists and incompatibilists about compatibility of free will with determinism is merely verbal, since although one...

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Filozofia - previous issue

Muránsky, M. Liberalism, Civil Rights and Economic Unfreedom (On the Tugendhat’s Concept of Human Rights in the Context of People with Disabilities)

Abstract: The aim of the paper is to explain the normative ambivalent interconnection between civil rights and economic rights based on the example of people with disabilities. The article...

Smreková, D. On the Problem of Collective Moral Responsibility of Unstructured Groups

Abstract: The hypothesis of the article is the idea that the collective moral responsibility is meaningful also at the level of unstructured groups, which do not have a stable identity capable...

Foltin, M. Reasoning of Human Rights in the Concept of Effective Altruism

Abstract: The paper deals with the normative reasoning of human rights in the concept of effective altruism. It focuses on the analysis of the works of Peter Singer and Thomas W. Pogge, who...

Smolková, E. On the Philosophical Bases of Current Models of Health Care

Abstract: Most of us understand health care as a system in which certain values and moral standards must apply. We will try to grasp different types of health care sys- tems, the way they work...

Glavaničová, D. Hyperintensionality of Deontic Modals: An Argument from Analogy

Abstract: A plenitude of motivations can and has been be enlisted to speak for the hyperintensionality of epistemic modals. This fact is well-known and many logical frameworks have been...

Vacek, M. Fictional Characters as Alien Individuals

Abstract: The metaphysical nature of fictional characters is a matter of extensive philosophical debate. The related positions come in various flavours and are accom- panied by more or less...

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