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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

Zarka, Y.Charles Does the Concept of Human Nature Still Make Sense?

Abstract: When we investigate the historicity of humans, we must inevitably address the concept of human nature, since it seems that the historicity excludes the idea of ahistorical or...

Muránsky, M. Tugendhat's Problem of “Truth“ in Confrontation with Heidegger

Abstract: The aim of the study is to provide a critical commentary on the position held by E. Tugendhat in his work Egocentricity and Mysticism (published in 2003) in terms of his own criteria...

Šajda, P. Schmitt’s Theory of the Enemy as a Challenge for Kierkegaard’s Theory of Nonpreferential Love

Abstract: The aim of the paper is to confront Kierkegaard’s theory of nonpreferential love with Schmitt’s theory of the enemy and to point out new lines of philosophical reflection enabled by...

Juchniewicz, N. Dialectical Technology – Hegel on Means, Tools and the Machine

Abstract: The paper concerns G.W. F. Hegel’s philosophy of technology. By assuming two methodological strategies – reading selected paragraphs of Hegel’s texts where he speaks about technology...

Blaščíková, A. - Vašek, M. The Problem of Intention (Intentio) in the Works of Peter Abelard and Thomas Aquinas

Abstract: The aim of this article is to examine the core of Abelard's intentionalist ethics, his understanding of intention, and some of the problems present in his conception. It also aims to...

Novák, A. “There never has been Phenomenology”: Heidegger’s Criticism of Phenomenology in his Self-Critical Continuous Remarks on ‘Being and Time‘

Abstract: In 1936 Heidegger started to write down his continuous remarks to his book Being and Time. At the very beginning he discussed the methodology of his research and the...

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Organon F - Current Issue

Guerco, N.Lo Some Remarks on the Mill-Frege Theory of Names

Abstract: In a recent paper García-Carpintero (2017) argues that proper names possess, in addition to their standard referential truth conditional content, metalinguistic descriptive senses...

Hunt, M.William Conciliationism and Fictionalism

Abstract: This paper offers fictionalism as a new approach to the problem of reasonable disagreement discussed in social epistemology. The conciliationist approach to reasonable disagreement...

Moreno, L.F. Should a Causal Theory of Reference Borrowing Be a Descriptive-Causal Theory?

Abstract: In a reference theory a distinction can be made between a theory of reference fixing and a theory of reference borrowing. M. Devitt and K. Sterelny, and especially the former, have...

Glavaničová, D. The Free Choice Principle as a Default Rule

Abstract: It is quite plausible to say that you may read or write implies that you may read and you may write (though possibly not both at once). This so-called free choice...

Arzroomchilar, E. - Novotný, D.D. Verbeek on the Moral Agency of Artifacts

Abstract: One of the important questions discussed by philosophers of technology has to do with the moral significance of artifacts in human life. While many philosophers agree that artifacts...

Salgueiro, A.Blanco Theories of Reference and Linguistic Relativity

Abstract: The challenge to traditional theories of reference posed by experimental philosophers puts the focus on the question of diversity, cultural and linguistic, on the one hand, and...

Kuzma, K. Returning to a Tension within Grice’s Original Account of Nonnatural Meaning

Abstract: It has become a commonplace to regard Grice’s project in “Meaning” as plagued by circularity, and almost as prevalent to dismiss such charges as unfounded. Much of the controversy...

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