Tapahtumat heinäkuulle 2010

Conference and call for papers:

International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry
4th Annual Conference

Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Friday July 29 – Sunday August 1, 2010

Proposal deadline: 1st of February 2010
ISME encourages paper proposals addressing the entire spectrum of ethical, social, political, historical and ideological problems related to the current economic crisis, drawing on or responding to the works of Alasdair MacIntyre.

Keynote Speakers

Bob Brecher
Center for Research and Development, University of Brighton
Zenonas Norkus
Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Vilnius
John O’Neill
School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester
Clemens K. Stepina
Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Sciences, University of Vienna

THEME:
Virtue and Economic Crises

Alasdair MacIntyre once argued that Karl Marx left philosophy and turned to political economy at a time when his philosophical enquiry was still incomplete.  From After Virtue to Dependent Rational Animals MacIntyre’s work has laid a solid philosophical foundation for building an understanding of the nature of human rationality, virtue and practice. This conference aims to encourage interdisciplinary research into the field of ethics, philosophy, political economy, social theory and theology in order to think through the moral and political aspects of the future of economic development. Its underlying presupposition rests in our belief that the orthodox neoclassical economic theory has to be theoretically challenged. A robust Aristotelian social theory and moral philosophy can contribute in rethinking these presuppositions and beliefs.

Possible Questions to Address Include:
* The importance of moral and intellectual virtues for equitable economic development.
* What are the moral and philosophical presuppositions behind the neoclassical economic thought and behind the existing socio-economic order of market capitalism?
* What can economic theory learn from moral philosophy and virtue ethics?
* What is the role of business ethics in times of economic crises?
* What does the current economic crisis tell us about the place of an ethics of social relationships in the economic system of advanced modernity?

Please submit proposals, including title and abstract, of no more than 350 words to: Dr. Andrius Bielskis, Department of Political Sciences, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania, e-mail: andrius.bielskis(at)mruni.eu

For more information on theme please visit
http://www.macintyreanenquiry.org/Vilnius2010/Vilnius2010.html

Aino Acktén huvilan filosofialuennot alkavat tiistaina 4.5. klo 19, jolloin filosofi Eero Ojanen avaa Aino Acktén huvilan v. 2010 kulttuurikauden luennollaan Hyvyys. Luento on osa Eero Ojasen luentosarjaa joka toteutetaan Aino Acktén huvilassa touko-lokakuun aikana joka kuukaden ensimmäisenä tiistaina. [Ohjelma alla, pdf: http://www.ainoacktenhuvila.fi/AA_ESITE_2010.pdf]

Aino Acktén huvilan kotisivut ovat avautuneet, osoitteesta löydätte lisäinformaatiota Huvilasta ja kauden kulttuurikalenterimme tiedot
www.ainoacktenhuvila.fi

Tervetuloa Huvilaan!
Suvi Olavinen
taiteeellinen johtaja
Aino Acktén huvila
suvi.olavinen(at)ainoacktenhuvila.fi
www.ainoacktenhuvila.fi


Eero Ojanen:
Filosofian suuria käsitteitä -luentosarja

Aino Ackten huvilan filosofialuennot
Filosofian suuria käsitteitä, Filosofins stora begrepp.
Filosofiaa kauniin luonnon helmassa. Filosofi i naturens sköte.

Eero Ojasen filosofialuennot Aino Acktén huvilassa touko-lokakuussa joka kuukauden 1. tiistai  klo 19.00 (paitsi ti. 6.7. poikkeava kellonaika klo 18.00)

ti 4.5. klo 19                               
Hyvyys, Godhet                                
                         
ti 1.6. klo 19                               
Totuus, Sanning                           
                
ti 6.7. HUOM klo 18                             
Kauneus, Skönhet        
Runon ja Suven päivä, Eino Leinon päivä, esitelmän jälkeen runo-musiikkiesitys Matkalla niityn yli runoilija Lassi Nummen tuotantoon.
Suvi Olavinen, lausunta ja laulu
Kai Olander, huilut ja sävellys
Leif Karlson, luuttu
  
ti 3.8. klo 19
Luonto, Naturen

ti 7.9. klo 19
Tieto, Vetenskapen

ti 5.10. klo 19
Henki, Anden
  

Abraham Anderson
Are the Pyrrhonists a Sect of Liars?

perjantai 2.7.
klo 13-15
U40 so. Metsätalo, sali 11

Abraham Anderson (Columbia University, Ph.D, 1986) teaches philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York. He has also taught at American University in Cairo, St. John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico and University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Professor Anderson research interests are skepticism in early modern philosophy (Hume, Kant), Descartes on science, method, and knowledge, and the notion of enthusiasm in Kant and Shaftesbury. He has published on Hume, Kant, Descartes and early modern philosophy. In 1997, his book on "The Treatise of the Three Impostors" came out. He has also translated "The Course of Remembrance and Other Essays on Hölderlin" by Dieter Hendrich. Currently Professor Anderson is working on a book on Kant's Awakening.

Abstract

At the end of the Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume asks whether skepticism is really possible and whether skeptics really exist. His answer seems ambiguous; he seems to say that both Cartesian doubt and radical Pyrrhonism are impossible, but also that Pyrrhonism can be useful by tempering dogmatism and leading to a 'more mitigated or academical scepticism.' I will argue that his treatment of this question is a response to Arnauld, who said that 'the Pyrrhonists are not a sect of honest people who maintain an opinion they believe, but a sect of liars.’" Arnauld regarded Pyrrhonism as a strategy for subverting religion, and Hume accepts this view.
 

CFP:
Narratives of Health and Illness
http://www.genna.gender.uu.se/themes/BodyEmbodiment/Nordic_Network_Gender_Body_and_Health/Network_Meetings/

September 16-17, 2010

The Nordic Network Gender, Body, Health in collaboration with The Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Sweden

The Nordic Network Gender, Body, Health invites submissions for the symposium Narratives of Health and Illness that will take place at Uppsala University, Sweden on September 16-17, 2010. We welcome submissions for papers, panels, poster-presentations, workshops and different forms of art-work approaching issues within the overarching theme from a broad range of disciplines and fields of research.

Topics can include, but are not limited to:

·        Narratives of Health vs. Narratives of Illness

·        Relations between Narrators and Narratives

·        Narrating Bodies

·        Narrative Coherence and Narrative Disruption

·        Narrative Medicine

·        Scientific Narratives

·        Narratives of Power/Powers of Narrative

·        Narratives of Sex and Gender

·        Narratives and Intersections of Identity

·        Autobiography, Subjectivity and Self-Representation

·        Narrative, Memory and History

·        Expression of Narrative and Narrative Expressivity

·        Narrative Forms and Media

One page abstracts are due July 1, 2010. Please submit your abstracts to
body(at)gender.uu.se and state clearly the form of your proposed contribution.

For further information, please contact Lisa Folkmarson Käll, Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University (lisa.kall(at)gender.uu.se).

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The Nordic Network Gender, Body, Health is based at the Centre for Gender Research at Uppsala University, Sweden. With the aim of achieving productive interdisciplinary work on issues concerning gender, body, and health, the network gathers researchers and practitioners from a number of diverse fields such as medicine, comparative literature, philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, human geography, sports- and health sciences, psychiatry, social psychology, and history of science. More information about the network: www.genna.gender.uu.se/genderbodyhealth