Conference programme:
Saturday, May 26
Room: 03004
9:00 – 9:30 Registration
9:30 – 9:45 Welcome address
09:45 – 11:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE: TORIL MOI (DUKE UNIVERSITY, USA): The Trouble with Formalism: The Case of Literary Characters
Full program now available here:
Centre member Niklas Forsberg will present a paper at “The XIII Prague Interpretation Colloquium: Fiction and Pretense” at the Department of Analytic Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences. Forsberg’s talk focuses on Martha Nussbaum’s claim that by reading literature, one may learn what a particular way of like “feels like,” and explores the limitations of such forms of “empathetic readings” of literature.
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We are very happy to welcome Valeria Candio, PhD student in philosophy at the University of Genoa, as visiting PhD student to the Centre for Ethics. Valeria’s research concerns moral perception and moral progress in Iris Murdoch’s thought. Her main interests lie in ethics, moral epistemology and moral psychology. During her stay at the Centre ((April – June 2018), she will work Murdoch’s thought and of possible developments of her insights on topics as moral perception and moral progress.
Our colleague, Tomáš Hejduk will talk this weekend on a Nordic Society for Phenomenology conference in Gdansk, Poland. The conference focuses on phenomenology of solidarity. His paper is on The Philosophical Legacy of Charter 77 (Patočka´s and Hejdánek’s Concept of Non-political Politics), which should make a thrilling philosophical talk. You can find more about the conference HERE.
The Centre for Ethics will have its first visiting researcher from mid March to end of May - Olli Lagerspetz from Åbo. You can view his full profile HERE.
We welcome Olli and we hope he will have nice and productive stay in Pardubice, being a good (although only temporary) addition to our team.
