mercredi 16 septembre 2015

Many-Minded Leibniz's Many Minds (G. Hunter)

Conférence | Lecture


(University of Ottawa)


Many-Minded Leibniz's Many Minds

Source : Wikipedia


The idea of “panpsychism” has recently become fashionable again. It holds that minds, or mind-like things, are more pervasive and ontologically primitive than analytic philosophers and philosophers of science used to think. A major stimulus to the resurgence of panpsychism has been the apparent impossibility of giving a plausible evolutionary account of the mental. It is striking, however, how much of the new panpsychism goes over ground already well explored by Leibniz. This talk, written for a forthcoming collection of papers on panpsychism, is about Leibniz’s right to be numbered among the panpsychists.


Friday, September 25th, 2015
3:00pm

University of Ottawa
Desmarais Hall (55, Laurier East)
Room 8161

vendredi 19 juin 2015

The Philosophy of Lawrence Dewan: Metaphysics and Ethics

Date: 
Thursday, November 5, 2015 - 13:00 to Saturday, November 7, 2015 - 13:00
Location: 
Albert the Great Hall, Dominican University College, 96 Empress Ave, Ottawa, Ontario

The Philosophy of Lawrence Dewan: Metaphysics and Ethics
Symposium
The Philosophy of Lawrence Dewan: Metaphysics and Ethics.
Professor Lawrence Dewan, O.P., enriched the areas of Thomistic metaphysics, natural philosophy and ethics for over forty years. With the outstanding lucidity, depth and comprehensiveness of his work, Father Dewan’s research has become a point of reference for scholars working on various aspects of the legacy of Thomas Aquinas.
The specific theme of the Metaphysics and Ethics symposium is intended in part to elicit thinking on the personal contribution of Father Lawrence Dewan to both areas of philosophical research. This forum invites researchers to present proposals for papers related to the focus of the Symposium or subjects with a link to the main theme. Since the event is trilingual, we invite you to submit papers in English, French or Spanish. Graduate students are also encouraged to submit an abstract.
Abstracts should be no more than one page (double-spaced) and must include a contact email address or phone number, along with the name of one’s affiliated university. Deadline for submitting an abstract: September 30th, 2015.
Registration fee: $80 (reduced for students)
For more information on the symposium, please contact Eduardo Andújar, dean of the Faculty of Philosophy of Dominican University College at eduardo.andujar@dominicanu.ca or (613) 233 5696, ext. 330

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vendredi 29 mai 2015

Hegel, la religion et la politique | Hegel, Religion and Politics



Appel de communications
Hegel, la religion et la politique 
Enjeux et actualité


Dans la préface à la Phénoménologie de l’esprit (1807), G. W. F. Hegel soulignait que son époque était en proie à de profondes transformations qui touchaient l’ensemble des institutions en lesquelles s’étaient incarnés, jusqu’à ce moment, les croyances, les principes et, plus généralement, « la conception du monde » (Weltanschauung) propres à l’Occident. Parmi ces transformations, celles que subissaient la religion et la politique lui paraissaient revêtir une importance toute particulière. Aussi n’est-il pas surprenant que de ses premiers écrits théologiques de jeunesses jusqu’à ses travaux systématiques de la maturité, en passant par la Phénoménologie de l’esprit, Hegel se soit maintes fois intéressé aux bouleversements qui affectaient la façon dont ses contemporains comprenaient les rapports entre l’Église et l’État, le sacré et le profane, le divin et l’humain.

Il s’est certes écoulé un peu plus de deux siècles depuis que Hegel a entrepris de rendre compte des transformations politiques et religieuses qui, dans le prolongement de la Révolution française, ont secoué l’Europe. Cependant, depuis quelques décennies plusieurs penseurs et philosophes plaident en faveur d’une « relecture » et d’une interprétation à nouveaux frais des volets politiques et religieux de la philosophie hégélienne. En effet, si pendant un certain temps, la pensée religieuse et politique de Hegel semblait avoir été « dépassée » par le marxisme ou par le libéralisme politique, nombre de penseurs contemporains soutiennent plutôt qu’elle contient des ressources conceptuelles permettent de mieux comprendre la complexité des diverses transformations qui, dans le monde actuel, affectent les rapports entre la religion et la politique.

Ce colloque intitulé Hegel, la religion et la politique : enjeux et actualité est organisé par le Centre de recherche en éthique publique et gouvernance de l’Université Saint-Paul et aura lieu les 15 et 16 avril, 2016 à l’Université Saint-Paul (Ottawa, Ontario). Les organisateurs sollicitent des communications (en français ou en anglais) qui portent sur différents aspects reliés à ce thème. Les personnes intéressées sont priées d’envoyer un résumé d’environ 300 mots (accompagné d’un court CV) avant le 31 décembre, 2015 aux professeurs Martin Thibodeau (mthibodeau@ustpaul.ca) et Sophie Cloutier (scloutier@ustpaul.ca). Les personnes sélectionnées (15 janvier, 2016) devront envoyer le texte complet de leur communication avant le 15 mars, 2016. Les propositions retenues feront l’objet d’une communication de 30 minutes.


Source : Wikipedia


Call for Papers
Hegel, Religion and Politics
Issues and Actuality


In the preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), G.W. F. Hegel stresses that his time is one of deep transformations affecting the very principles, beliefs and, more generally, the “worldview” (Weltanschauung) which have shaped the whole set of institutions constituting the Western world. Among those transformations, the ones altering religion and politics appeared to him as crucially important. It is therefore no surprise that, from his early theological writings to his late systematic works, Hegel wrote extensively about the disruptions that were profoundly transforming the manner in which his contemporaries understood the relationship between church and state, the divine and the human, and the sacred and the secular. 

Certainly, more than two centuries have elapsed since Hegel explored the religious and political transformations that shook Europe in the aftermath of the French Revolution. However, in the last decades, several thinkers and philosophers have defended the relevance of Hegel’s religious and political philosophy. Indeed, although it has often been argued that Hegel’s religious and political thought appeared to be outdated by Marxism or by political liberalism, many philosophers now propose that it contains the conceptual resources needed to best understand the complexity of the diverse transformations that are affecting the relationship between politics and religion in the contemporary world.

The conference Hegel, Religion and Politics: Issues and Actuality is organized by the Research Center in Public Ethics and Governance at Saint Paul University (Ottawa, Ontario) and will take place on April 15th and 16th. Proposals (in either English or French) must be submitted by email to Prof. Martin Thibodeau (mthibodeau@ustpaul.ca) and Prof. Sophie Cloutier (scloutier@ustpaul.ca) before December 31, 2015. Proposals must be 300 words long and accompanied by a short CV. Selected writers will be notified by January 15th, 2016, and will be asked to submit a 30 minute-presentation by March 15th, 2016.

mardi 19 mai 2015

Being Modern: What the Enlightenment Can Still Teach Us (D. Moggach)

Being Modern:  What the Enlightenment Can Still Teach Us

The 18th century Enlightenment changed everything. “All that is solid melts into air,” as Karl Marx famously describes the modern world the Enlightenment inaugurates. Institutions, religious beliefs, cultural values, even the sense of ourselves as individuals and our place in nature and society: these are all now subject to critical examination, and must prove their validity in light of human reason.  This call to interrogate the legitimacy of reigning institutions remains a clarion call to human freedom, opposed to fundamentalisms of all kinds that continue to afflict the modern world.  The Enlightenment is incomplete, but it sets standards of rationality and ethical behaviour that remain vital to our present-day concerns.  In the face of challenges from irrationalists and sceptics, the legacy of the Enlightenment requires fulfilment, and not abandonment.  So at least Doug Moggach, internationally renowned political philosopher will argue, with special emphasis on the figures of the German Enlightenment.
Speaker:  Professor Douglas Moggach
Date:  Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Time:  7:00 pm
Place:  Ottawa Public Library Main Auditorium (120 Metcalfe Street, Ottawa, ON)



Biography:   Professor Douglas Moggach has a doctorate from Princeton University and has held the University Research Chair in Political Thought at the University of Ottawa.  His area of research interest is political thought and philosophy from 1650 to 1850.  He was named Distinguished University Professor at the University of Ottawa in 2011.