Category: News

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.

The Croatian Society of Analytic Philosophy invites you to a mini conference with Michael Devitt
The topic of the conference will be Linguistic intuitions and natural kinds

See the invitation and conference schedule here.

The conference will be held on Saturday 22.04.2017. at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, room 406 (fourth floor).

The members of the Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy want to express their solidarity with the Central European University and express their concern regarding Bill T/14686 amending Act CCIV of 2011 on national higher education accepted by the Hungarian Parliament on April 4, 2017. The Bill renders CEU’s continued operations in Budapest virtually impossible and strikes a severe blow against the academic freedom that enables all universities, including those in Hungary, to flourish.

The letter of support can be read here.

The Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy is inviting everyone to attend the talk by Marco Viola Title of the talk “Saving one-to-one mapping in Cognitive Neuroscience: the problem of Multiple Realization”
Marco Viola is a PhD student at the Center for Neurocognition and Theoretical Syntax, Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia (Italy).

See the invitation here.

The talk will take place on 12.4.2017. at 14:15, room 450.

Venue: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka.

The Society for the Advancement of Philosophy invites you to participate at the Zagreb Applied Ethics Conference 2017.
This year’s topic of the conference is The Ethics of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.

See the call for papers here.
Application form can be downloaded here.

Date: 5.-7.6.2017.
Venue: the Palace of the Matrix Croatica (Matica Hrvatska street 3), Zagreb, Croatia.

The Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy invites all interested to participate in Rijeka’s annual conference “Contemporary Philosophical Issues”.
This year, the symposium will be dedicated to John Searle who will deliver the plenary lecture.

Date: 22.-23.5.2017.
Venue: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, Sveučilišna avenija 4, 51000 Rijeka (Croatia).
See the invitation here.