Notice for the speakers: There have been slight changes in the composition of the English panels. This is the final version, released today 12.11.2008. Please check your time-slots.

Reason in Contemporary Public Space

Bucharest, November 14th-15th

 

Thursday 13th

19: 00 – 22:00 Welcoming Cocktail at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest

 

Friday 14th

Plenary Session

Titu Maiorescu Room

Chair: Romulus Brancoveanu, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy

9:00 – 9:20 Opening Address: Romulus Brâncoveanu

9:20 – 10:10 Michael Mosher (University of Tulsa), It is Very Often Indifferent if Individuals Reason Well or Badly. Enlightment Politcal Theory on Civil Society

10:10 – 11:00 Mircea Dumitru (University of Bucharest), What Does It mean to Be Irrational. Could One Be Trully Irrational?

11:00 – 11:20 Coffee Break 

11:20 – 12:10 Joseph D. Lewandowski (University of Central Missouri), Public Reason and Social Space

12:10 – 13:00 Mihail- Radu Solcan (University of Bucharest), Reason and Liberalism in the Romanian Context

13:00 – 15:00 Lunch Break

 

Panel 1 (Ro)

S6 Room

Chair: Constantin Stoenescu (University of Bucharest)

15:00 – 15:30 Ion Vezeanu (Universite Pierre Mendes Grenoble), Dialogul, formă de raţiune publică

15:30 – 16:00 Valentin Mureşan (Universitatea din Bucuresti), Decizia etică – între uzul privat şi cel public al judecăţii morale

16:00 – 16:30 Dumitru Borţun (SNSPA, Bucureşti),  Noi evoluţii ale sferei publice: de la dezbaterea critic-raţională la exploatarea sistematică a visului

16:30 – 17:00 Nicolae Perpelea (Academia Română),  Regimuri de echilibrare etică a emoţiilor colective – modele normativ-expresiviste

17:00 – 17:30 Cristian Iftode (Universitatea din Bucuresti), Secularizare si postsecularizare

17:30 – 18:00 Alexandru Lucinescu (Universitatea din Bucureşti), Raţionalitatea ca virtute

18:00 – 18:30 Horia Pătraşcu (Universitatea „Spiru Haret”), Publicitate şi angoasă

 

Panel 2 (En)

Mircea Florian Room

Chair: Joseph D. Lewandowski (University of Central Missouri) 

15:00 – 15:30 Byron Kaldis (The Hellenic Open University), Public Reason and the Two Mirrors:Ethics and the Economy

15:30 – 16:00 Corina-Petronela Untea(EPHE), The Debate on the Presence of Icons in Public Schools – What is the Place for Reason in it?

16:00 – 16:30 Oana Grigore (University of Bucharest), Responsability of Agents within Virtual Worlds. Avatars and Real Persons

16:30 – 17:00 Abdal Malik H. Rezeski (The University of Texas), History and Utopia: Media Utopia through the Lens of Philosophy’s Anti-philosopher, EM Cioran

17:00 – 17:30 Diana Constantinescu (University of Bucharest) and Andrei Decu (Politechnica University of Bucharest), Social Cooperation within Virtual Worlds

17:30 – 18:00 Şerban Dragulin (University of Bucharest), Towards a Definition of Public Opinion

18:00 - 18:30 Ana Bazac (Politehnica University of Bucharest), Public Reason and Bureaucracy: Evolution of a Modern Debate

 

Saturday November 15th

 

Panel 3 (Ro)

S6 Room

Chair: Viorel Vizureanu (University of Bucharest)

9:00 – 9:30 Romulus Brâncoveanu (Universitatea din Bucureşti), Viclenia raţiunii în spaţiul public

9:30 – 10:00 Stoenescu Constantin (Universitatea din Bucuresti), Este posibilă o practică politică ghidată stiintific? Controversa dintre Popper şi Scoala de

la Frankfurt

10:00 – 10:30 Marin Bălan (Universitatea din Bucureşti), Raţiune şi tradiţie

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break 

11:30 – 11:30 Dorina Cucu (Universitatea din Bucureşti), Modelări sociale: raţionalitatea economică vs. raţionalitatea sociologică

11:30 – 12:00 Savu Totu (Universitatea din Bucureşti), Este credinţa religioasă iraţională?

12:00 – 12:30 Teodorescu Mihai Dănuţ, Conştiinţă şi inconştient în formarea obiectului credinţei religioase

12:30 – 13:00 Ana Petrache (Universitatea din Bucureşti), Raţiune şi relativism

13:00 - 13:30 Horváth Gizella (Universitatea Creştină „Partium” Oradea), Călătorii singuratici care trăiesc din cuvinte

 

Panel 4 (En)

Mircea Florian Room

Chair: Michael Mosher (University of Tulsa)

9:00 – 9:30 Saul Myers (Maryland Institute College of Art), Contemporary Skepticism About Reality in Politics: Searching for a New Realism

9:30 – 10:00 Emanuel Socaciu  (University of Bucharest), Restitution and Justice

10:00 – 10:30 Ionut Untea (EHESS, Paris), Public and Private Reason in a World of Diversity: a Hobbesian Perspective

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break 

11:00 – 11:30 Loredana Niculet (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Sensus Communis Aestheticus after Duchamp

11:30 – 12:00 Andrei Mărăşoiu (University of Bucharest), The Prejudice of Political Wisdom

12:00 – 12:30 Kevin W. Gray (Bard College), Can We Define the Public Sphere in the late Habermas?

12:30 – 13:00 Naushad Husain (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka), Reason and Rationality in Contemporary Sri Lanka

13:00 - 13:30 Catinca Florescu (University of Bucharest), About the Argument from Authority

13:30 - 14:00 Diana Deca (University of Bucharest) Why is Reasoning Better than Rhetoric?