NICA recommends | OZSW ReMa Winter School 2023
NICA recommends | OZSW ReMa Winter School 2023
Dates: 24-25 February 2023
Location: Aurora (room within VU Main Building, De Boelelaan 1105, Amsterdam)
Registration: here
Registration Deadline: 31 January 2023
Organizer: Daniel Muller, VU University Amsterdam, d.muller2@vu.nl
Credits: 2.5-3 ECTS
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The Dutch Research School of Philosophy (OZSW) and the VU University Amsterdam invite Research Master students and PhD candidates in Philosophy and Humanites to send in papers and register for the two-day conference ReMa Winter School 2023.
Keynote speakers
Prof. Richard Gaskin – Liverpool University
Richard Maxwell Gaskin is a British philosopher who serves as a professor at the University of Liverpool. He has published on metaphysics, philosophy of language and logic, and history of philosophy, as well as on philosophy of literature, literary theory, and the European literary tradition.
Gaskin is the author of many published articles and nine books, including: Language and World: A Defence of Linguistic Idealism (2020), Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: a Philosophical Perspective (2018), Language, Truth, and Literature: a Defence of Literary Humanism (2013), The Unity of the Proposition (2008), Experience and the World’s Own Language: a Critique of John McDowell’s Empiricism (2006), and The Sea Battle and the Master Argument: Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus on the metaphysics of the future (1995).
Prof. dr. Annemie Halsema – Leiden/VU University
Annemie Halsema is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Professor by Special Appointment of Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy at Leiden University.
Her research project is entitled: ‘Hermeneutics of the gendered, racialized and ageing body’. Most philosophical theories about personal identity take embodiment into account but do not consider social situatedness. Dr. Halsema wants to philosophically understand what embodied factors such as gender, race and age imply, both in terms of a person’s personal identity and in terms of being socially signified.
She wrote two books on Luce Irigaray, Dialectiek van de seksuele differentie (1998) and Luce Irigaray and Horizontal Transcendence (2010), co-edited several books, among which Feminist Explorations of Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophy (2016). Another co-edited volume will appear in 2021, Bodies That Still Matter. Resonances of the Work of Judith Butler.
Prof. Katherine Dormandy – University of Innsbruck
Katherine Dormandy is a professor of philosophy at the Department of Christian Philosophy, University of Innsbruck.
One major focus of research is epistemology and its applications in social settings. Central topics include partiality in beliefs, epistemic authority, religious and worldview disagreement, and the epistemic import of trust and first-person narratives.
The research is sensitive to the psychological and moral-psychological aspects of human reasoning, and to the relevance of our social location on the way we think. Another focus is to apply the tools of philosophy to medicine and medical information science, with an eye toward improving the ways in which medical information systems and databases enable anonymized patient data to be shared and used.
Dr. Tamer Nawar – University of Groningen
Tamer Nawar is ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona, and was Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. Research interests include: ancient philosophy, medieval philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language and logic.
Dr. Naomi Kloosterboer – VU University
Naomi Kloosterboer is a lecturer and researcher in philosophy, teaching in philosophy of mind in the philosophy bachelor and philosophy of science and ethics to students enrolled in biology, life sciences and biomedical science. Her PhD project was part of the overarching project ‘Science beyond Scientism’, focusing on rational agency and self-knowledge. More specifically, she engages in discussions centered around the first person perspective and transparency.
Prof. dr. Sebastian Köhler – Frankfurt School
Sebastian Köhler is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. There he teaches within the “Management, Philosophy & Economics” BSc concentration and in the Master of Applied Data Science. He is also responsible for the FS Philosophy Forum. Before joining the Frankfurt School, Köhler was a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Universität Duisburg-Essen and a Lecturer at Princeton University. A major part of Köhler’s research so far has focused on meta-ethical questions surrounding normativity, at the intersection to the philosophies of Mind and Language. Currently he is interested in the concept of responsibility and surrounding concepts, such as the concept of personal identity. He also has some research interest in the ethics of emerging information technologies. Köhler’s research has been published in internationally leading journals, such as The Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, The Philosophical Quarterly, Erkenntnis or Ratio.
Call for papers
Submission: d.muller2@vu.nl
Submission Deadline: 26 January 2023
Note of decision: approx. 30 January 2023
There are 6 time slots for presentations by RMA students, each taking 30 minutes, 15 minutes presentation, and 15 minutes Q&A. Paper proposals should consist of an abstract of 400 words and should be sent to Daniel Muller (d.muller2@vu.nl).
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