Month: March 2019

We invite you to a talk by Daria Jadreškić (Leibniz Universität Hannover) titled “Goal Setting, Speed, and Methodological Trade-offs in Gravitational Wave Physics” that will be held on Wednesday 24.04.2019. at 14:15 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, room 405.
The abstract of the talk can be read here.

Project ThUMB 2019 (Croatian Science Foundation) has a call for applications for its Summer School in Philosophy of the Life Sciences: Molecular Biology and Evolution, which will take place at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka (University of Rijeka, Croatia), from July 15 to July 18, 2019.

The Summer School has three main objectives: (1) assessing new trends in philosophy of molecular biology (including mechanistic explanation, reductionism, gene concepts, genome evolution); (2) focusing on different ways through which current practice in molecular biology might refresh discussion of some traditional philosophical and methodological issues in general philosophy of science, such as, but not limited to, model-building, scientific explanation, and evidence; (3) offering support to the attendees’ future research careers by establishing group and individual interactions among the peers and with the School’s speakers and advisors.

The target group of the Summer School attendees are early stage researchers (post-docs, PhD students, late stage MA students), but also other interested researchers.

In order to apply, please, send a short CV and 500 word abstract on a topic that you would like to present at the Summer School. Please submit the material in a pdf form to Predrag Šustar, psustar@uniri.hrThe submission deadline is May 15 2019.

Accepted applicants will not be charged with a tuition fee. Coffee, refreshments and lunches will be provided by the organizer. There is a possibility for accommodation in student housing at a reduced fee (however, the places are limited so it will work on a first-come first-served basis).

We invite all interested participants to apply and spend productive 4-days with prominent keynote speakers and advisors in pleasant surroundings of northern Adriatic coastal city of Rijeka, Croatia (European Capital of Culture 2020).

For any further inquiries, please contact Predrag Šustar (University of Rijeka) psustar@uniri.hr or Zdenka Brzović (University of Rijeka) zdenka@uniri.hr, or visit the ThUMB project website: http://thumb.ffri.hr/

Speakers and Advisors:

Tudor Baetu (University of Quebec in Trois-Rivieres, Canada)

Agnes Bolinska (University of Cambridge, UK)

James DiFrisco (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Tomislav Domazet-Lošo (Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia)

Sahotra Sarkar (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Organizing committee:

Zdenka Brzović (University of Rijeka, Croatia)

James DiFrisco (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Predrag Šustar (University of Rijeka, Croatia)

We invite you to a promotion of the book “Kant and Bioethics” by dr Igor Eterović (University of Rijeka).
The promotion will take place at Ex Libris, Riva Boduli 3b, 51000 Rijeka, on Thursday 21.03.2019 at 19.00.

See the invitation here.

We invite you to an interdisciplinary conference titled “Emotions – approaches and perspectives” that will be held on Tuesday 19.03.2019 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka at 9:30, room 401.
See the invitation here.

The European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) announced 18 EPSA Fellowships for junior philosophers working in Central and Eastern Europe to visit a leading research institution in Western Europe. The application deadline is April 15 2019.
For more information see http://philsci.eu/fellowships

We invite you to the roundtable titled “Literature and society: values of reading practices” that will be held on Monday 11.03.2019 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, room 206, starting at 11 O’Clock.

Participants to the roundatble:
Dr. sc. Korina Udina, Society of librarians Rijeka
Prof. Verena Tibljaš, City library Rijeka
Doc. dr. sc. Maja Opašić, Society “Portić”
Prof. Daniela Samaržija, School for applied arts Rijeka
Prof. Lorena Mrvčić, Elementary school “Kraljevica”
Moderator: assistant. dr. sc. Iris Vidmar (University of Rijeka)

For more information see the invitation here.

The Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka and the Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy invite you to participate in the  21st  annual conference “CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES”.

The conference will be held from the 16th to the 17th of May 2019 at the Faculty of Humanitiesand Social Sciences in Rijeka (Croatia).

The official language of the conference is English.

Submissions on any subject in analytic philosophy broadly understood are welcome.

Please send a Word compatible file with the title, the name of the author(s) with academic affiliation(s), and abstract of your talk, maximum 500 words, no later than the 15^th April 2019 to the following email address: agolub@ffri.hr. 

There is no conference fee. Coffee and refreshments will be served during the breaks.