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Conference of the Dutch-Flemish Association for Analytic Philosophy
27 January 2015 - 30 January 2015
|The Dutch-Flemish Association for Analytic Philosophy (VAF) organizes its 7th Conference from Wednesday afternoon 28 January uptill and including Friday morning 30 January 2015 at the Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), The Netherlands.
Theme
The theme of the Seventh Conference of the Dutch-Flemish Association for Analytic Philosophy (VAF) will be Scepticism.
Keynote speakers
– Bryan Frances (Fordham University, USA):
Worrisome Scepticism about Philosophy
– Katerina Ierodiakonou (University of Athens, Greece; University of Geneva, Swiss):
The Triple Life of Thought Experiments
– Martijn Blaauw (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands):
Scepticism and Privacy
Topics of interest
Scepticism about:
- the scientific status of economics;
- realism (knowing reality as it is in and of itself);
- the senses (they somehow deceive us, distort the world, or narrow our view intolerably);
- going beyond the senses (empiricism, instrumentalism, pragmatism);
- moral values (there aren’t any);
- aesthetic values (there aren’t any);
- knowledge (scepticism, also: fallibilism, contextualism, solipsism, pragmatism);
- the impossibility of communication or understanding, or both;
- politics and (the future of) humanity at large, sceptical activism;
- solving problems in the philosophy of mind or in practical philosophy (e.g. free will)
by an appeal to neuroscience (neuromania);
- solving problems in moral philosophy and ethics by an appeal to biology (Darwinitis);
- solving problems in metaphysics by an appeal to physics;
- under-determination theses in and outside philosophy of science;
- resolvability, or even the meaningfulness, of metaphysical problems and disputes;
- philosophy tout court, or only analytic philosophy, or only continental philosophy;
- science as a whole, or certain aspects of science (method, scientistic claims);
- religion (e.g. existence-claims about god or gods, or its claimed virtues);
- ever obtaining gender balance in (analytic) philosophy;
- how (analytic) philosophy is practised and organised today in Academe;
- the aims, claims and aspirations of logic.
Submission
Send a PDF with your name, affiliation, and abstract (maximum: 500 words) in a single document to: eurvaf2015@gmail.com not later than Sunday 9 November 2014.
Important Dates (put them in your agenda now)
– Deadline of Submissions: Sunday 9 November 2014.
– Notification of Acceptance: Monday 1 December 2014.
– Conference Dates: Wednesday 28 – Friday 30 January 2015.
Publication
A selection of papers will be published in Philosophica.
Organizing Committee (VAF Board members)
– Filip Buekens (Tilburg Unversity; Catholic University of Leuven)
– Lieven De Cock (Free University Amsterdam)
– F.A. Muller (Erasmus University Rotterdam; Utrecht University)
– Sabine Roeser (Delft University of Technology)
– Katrien Schaubroeck (University of Antwerp)
Chairs (Fac. Philosophy, EUR)
Tim De Mey & F.A. Muller
Local Organizing Committee (Fac. Philosoph, EUR):
– Tim De Mey
– F.A. Muller
– Ceciel Meiborg
– Fabian van Dijk
– Floris van der Pol
– Gijs Leegwater
– Geurt Sengers
– Stefan Wintein
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