Category: News

2017. August

Berčić, B. (ed.) Perspectives on the Self. University of Rijeka 2017.

Can we upload ourselves to computers? Are our iPhones and Notebooks parts of us? Why is Know thyself! still a good advice? What did the logical positivists think about the Cogito? Why did the Buddha argued that the self does not exist? Did the Ancients have a notion of subjectivity? What does it mean to put oneself in someone else’s shoes? Should we feel sorry for those who have never been born? In what sense does Emma Bovary exist? What counts as a good answer to the question “Who am I?”

In this collection of articles an international team of seventeen authors raise and answer these and many other interesting questions about the self and related matters.

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The project CEASCRO and the Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy invite you to a two day conference entitled “Psychopathy: scientific and social challenges”.

The conference will be held on 3.-4.7.2017. at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka.

See the invitation and programme here.

The Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy invites you to a talk by professor Katja Džepina entitled “Inequality in air quality”.
The talk will be held on Thursday June 8th at 14.15. at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, room 401.

See the official call here.
The abstract of the talk and a short biography can be read here.

The Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy invite you to a conference on topics in metaphysics. The conference is organized by Boran Berčić (University of Rijeka) and Michael Watkins (Auburn University)

Date: 5.-9.6.2017

Venue: Inter University Centre in Dubrovnik (Croatia)

See the programme here.

Talk abstracts can be read here.

We regret to inform our colleagues, friends, and acquaintances about the sudden and unexpected departure of professor Berislav Žarnić.

Professor Žarnić (born 1959) was one of the leading Croatian logicians and a member of the Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy since it was founded in the year 2000. He was a full professor of philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split. During his career, he thought undergraduate and graduate courses in different areas of logic at the University of Rijeka and University of Zagreb. He was also a visiting fellow at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation in the University of Amsterdam. In addition to being a logician, he was a passionate educator and philosopher of pedagogy. His personal web page can be seen here.

Berislave, dear professor, friend, and colleague, you will be greatly missed.

A book by Davor Pećnjak and Tomislav Janović entitled “Prema dualizmu (Eng. Towards Dualism)” has been published by Ibis grafika from Zagreb.
The book consists of essays in which Pećnjak and Janović discuss topics from the contemporary philosophy of mind.

The doctoral programme “Philosophy and Contemporaneity” and the Department of Philosophy in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka invites you to a series of lectures by professor José Luis Bermúdez.

Professor Bermúdez (Texas A & M University) will deliver a series of 5 tele-lectures (via Skype) on his recent book:
Understanding “I”, Oxford University Press, 2017.

The lectures will be delivered on the 25., 26., 27., 29., 30. of May 2017 at 16:00 at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sveučilišna avenija 4, 51000 Rijeka.
For the detailed programme of lectures and their venues, please see here.

The Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy invites you to participate in Rijeka’s annual conference “Contemporary Philosophical Issues”.

See the conference schedule here.

The Institute of Philosophy (Zagreb, Croatia) invites submissions for a two-day conference entitled “Politics and morality”.
Plenary lectures will be given by professor Giuseppe Girgenti (Milano), professor Christoph Horn (Bonn), and professor Neven Sesardić (Zagreb).

The deadline for submissions is 31 May 2017.
The conference will be held on 18-19 October 2017 at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb.

See the official call for papers here.
The application form can be downloaded here.

The Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy is inviting you to a talk by Emiliano Loria. The title of the talk is “Teleological reasoning in infancy”.

See the invitation here.

Abstract of the talk

Emiliano Loria is a PhD Student at Consortium FINO, University of Turin and University of Genoa (Italy).

The event will take place on 25.4.2017. at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, room 106, at 14:15.
The venue: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka.

The handout for the talk can be downloaded here.