America the Philosophical
Chair: Carlin Romano
Ursinus College
USA
Participants:
a) Steve Fuller
University of Warwick
United Kingdom
b) Luca Scarantino
IULM University
Italy
c) Elena Chebotareva
St. Petersburg State University
Russian Federation
Aristotle and Contemporary Science
Chair: Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou
"Interdisciplinary Centre for Aristotle Studies", of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Greece
Participants:
a) Evangelos Moutsopoulos
Academy of Athens
Greece
b) Enrico Berti
Università degli Studi di Padova
Italy
c) Lambros Couloubaritsis
Université libre de Bruxelles
Belgium
d) Richard McKirahan
Pomona College
USA
e) Dory Scaltsas
University of Edinburgh
U.K.
f) Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Greece
Bioethical Dialogue in South-East Europe
Chair: Mislav Kukoč
University of Split
Faculty of Philosophy
Croatia
Participants:
a) Ivana Zagorac
University of Zagreb
Croatia
b) Marija Todorovska
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje
FYROM
c) Sandra Radenovic
University of Belgrade
Serbia
d) Valentina Kaneva
St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia
Bulgaria
e) Stavroula Tsinorema
University of Crete
Greece
f) Harun Tepe
Hacettepe University, Ankara
Turkey
Business ethics and Globalization
Chair: Jacob Dahl Rendtorff
Roskilde University
Denmark
Participants:
a) Jacob Dahl Rendtorff
Roskilde University
Denmark
b) Øjvind Larsen, Copenhagen Business School
c) Maria Bonnafous-Boucher
d) Eric Pezet
Centenaire de Paul Ricœur (Ricoeur at 100, a French session)
Chair: Peter Kemp
Past President of FISP
Participants:
a) Pall Skulason
Institut International de Philosophie
Iceland
b) Peter Kemp
Institut International de Philosophie
Denmark
c) Roberta Picardi
Fonds Paul Ricoeur
Italy
d) Luca Possati
Fonds Paul Ricoeur
Italy
Classical American Pragmatism: Practicing Philosophy as experiencing life
Chair: Krzysztof (Chris) Piotr Skowronski
Opole University
Poland
Participants:
a) Ludwig Nagl
University of Vienna
Austria
b) Jacquelyn Kegley
California State University, Bakersfield
USA
c) John Lachs
Vanderbilt University
USA
d) Emil Visnovsky
Comenius University
Slovakia
e) Krzysztof (Chris) Piotr Skowronski
Opole University
Poland
Confucianism: Human Understanding and World Philosophy
Chair: Chung-ying Cheng
University of Hawaii at Manoa and Shanghai Jiaotong University
USA / China
Participants:
a) Chung-ying Cheng
University of Hawaii at Manoa and Shanghai Jiaotong University
USA / China
b) Guenter Zoeller
Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich and McGill University
Germany / USA
c) Dagfinn Føllesdal
University of Oslo and Stanford University
Norway / USA
Contemporary Chinese Aesthetics and Art
Chair: Curtis Carter
Marquette University Dept. of Philosophy; International Association for Aesthetics President
USA
Participants:
a) Curtis Carter
Marquette University Dept. of Philosophy; International Association for Aesthetics President
USA
b) Jianping Gao
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
China
c) Feng Peng
Peiking University
China
d) Yuedi Liu
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Philosophy)
Content and Communication
(Philosophy of Language)
Chair: Maite Ezcurdia
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Mexico
Participants:
a) Eleonora Orlando
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Argentina
b) Marco Ruffino
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
c) Maite Ezcurdia
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Mexico
Cosmopolitanism
Chair: Noriko Hashimoto
University of Aoyamagakuin
Japan
Participants:
a) David Rasmussen
Boston College
USA
b) Jürgen Habermas
Goethe Universität
Germany
c) Arne Johan Vetlesen
University of Oslo
Norway
Critical Theology
Chair: Joseph Cohen
University College Dublin
Ireland
Participants:
a) Raphael Zagury – Orly
Bezalel School of Fine Arts and Design
Israel
b) Hent de Vries
John Hopkins University
USA
c) Orietta Ombrosi
University of Rome I – Sapienza
Italy
d) Itzhak Benjamini
University of Beer-Sheva
Israel
De se contents - problems and motivations
Chair: Manuel Garcia - Carpintero
University of Barcelona
Spain
Participants:
a) Kathrin Gluer
University of Stockholm
Germany
b) Teresa Marques
LANCOG, University of Lisbon
Portugal
c) Peter Pagin
University of Stockholm
Sweden
Epistemology of Knowing How
Chair: Jesus Vega - Encabo
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Spain
Participants:
a) Jason Stanley
Rutgers University
USA
b) Josefa Toribio
iCREA and Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona
Spain
c) Eva – Maria Jung
Westfaelische Wilhelms – Universitaet Muenster
Germany
Experience, World and Time. Philosophical Perspectives in the Horizon of the 21st Century
Chair: Francisco Naishtat
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Centro de Investigaciones Filosóficas (CIF), CONICET
Argentina
Participants:
a) Carlos Pereda
Instituto de Filosofía de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Mexico
b) Daniel Brauer
Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), CIF, CONICET
Argentina
c) Luca Maria Scarantino
IULM University, Milan - Secretary-general of FISP
Italy
Fallibilism and its Limits
Chair: Thomas Grundmann
University of Cologne
Germany
Participants:
a) Wolfgang Kuhlmann
RWTH Aachen
Germany
b) Stephen Hetherington
University of New South Wales
Australia
Freedom, Responsibility and Science
Chair: G. John Abbarno
D’ Youville College
USA
Participants:
a) G. John Abbarno
D’ Youville College
USA
b) Thomas Magnell
Drew University
USA
c) Juha Räikkä
Turku University
Finland
d) Ian Church
St. Louis University
USA
e) Lydia Amir
Israel
G.A. Cohen on Marxism, Socialism, and Social Justice
Chair: Rodney G. Peffer
University of San Diego
USA
Participants:
a) Richard Arneson
University of California
USA
b) Mark Evans
University of Swansei
U.K.
c) Hon Lam Li
Chinese University of Hong Kong
d) Rodney G. Peffer
University of San Diego
USA
e) Duon Zhonqqiao
Renmin University
P.R. China
Issues in Contemporary Epistemology
Chair: Claudio de Almeida
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Brazil
Participants:
a) Ignacio Avila Canamares
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Colombia
b) Pablo Quintanilla
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Peru
c) Claudio de Almeida
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Brazil
Jain Philosophy of Anekanta as the Panacea for the Present-day Problems of the World
Chair: Dr. Dipak Jain
Insead, The Business School for the World, France
Participants:
a) Narendra Bhandari
Indian National Science Academy
India
b) Mahavir Raj Gelra
India
c) Kusum Jain
P.G. School of Humanities
U.G.C. Centre of Advanced Study in Philosophy, University of Rajasthan
India
d) Chaitanya Pragya
Jain Vishva Bharati University, INDIA & Florida International University
USA
Knowledge and the Space of Reasons
Chair: James O’Shea
University College Dublin
Ireland
Participants:
a) John McDowell
University of Pittsburgh
USA
b) James O’Shea
University College Dublin
Ireland
c) Michael Williams
Johns Hopkins University
USA
Knowledge, Understanding, and Wisdom
Chair: Nenad Miscevic
University of Maribor and CEU, Budapest
Participants:
a) Iskra Fileva
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
USA / Bulgaria
b) Sharon Ryan
West Virginia University
USA
c) Sarah Wright
University of Georgia
USA
Leibniz’ s Synthesis of Platonism and Aristotelianism
Chair: Hans Poser
Institute of Philosophy, Technische Universität Berlin
Germany
Participants:
a) Michel Fichant
Université de Paris – Sorbonne
France
b) Christa Mercer
Columbia University, New York
USA
c) Riccardo Pozzo
Lessico Intellettuale Europeo e Storia delle Idee
Italy
Leonard Cohen: Philosophy, Music, Song
Chair: Gary Shapiro
University of Richmond
USA
Participants:
a) Babich Babette
Fordham University
USA
b) John McCumber
University of California – Los Angeles
USA
c) Gary Shapiro
University of Richmond
USA
Limits of knowledge: transparency, certainty, and chance
Chair: Paulo Faria
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Brazil
Participants:
a) Eleonora Cresto
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas
Argentina
b) Gómez Antonio Modesto
Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca
Spain
c) Paulo Faria
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Brazil
Metaphysics: Logical inquiry and the way of life. Competing or corresponding?
Chair: Claudia Bickmann
Participants:
a) Ryosuke Ohashi
Japan
b) Chung-Ying Cheng
University of Hawai at Manoa and Shanghai Jiaotong University
USA / China
c) Gabor Boros
Hungary
Morality and Rationality
Chair: Myrto Dragona – Monachou
University of Athens
Greece
Participants:
a) Ioanna Kuçuradi
Maltepe University
Turkey
b) Voula Tsinorema
University of Crete
Greece
c) Amatayakul Supakwadee
Chulalongkorn University
Thailand
New Realism: Philosophy in a Cosmopolitan Sense
Chair: Maurizio Ferraris
Unversita di Torino
Italy
Participants:
a) Peter Bojanic
University of Belgrade
Serbia
b) Maurizio Ferraris
Unversita di Torino
Italy
c) Kurt Hilgenberg
Technische Universität Berlin
Germany
d) Riccardo Pozzo
Dipartimento Scienze Umane, Consiglio Nazionalle delle Ricerche
Italy
Paradox and Predication
Chair: Mario Gomez – Torrente
Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Mexico
Participants:
a) Eduardo Barrio
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Argentina
b) Jose Martinez Fernandez
Universidad de Barcelona
Spain
c) Mario Gomez - Torrente
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Mexico
Philosophy as a Way of Life – From Stoicism and Confucianism to Music as Philosophy
Chair: Hyun Höchsmann
East China Normal University
China
Participants:
a) Guorong Yang
East China Normal University
China
b) Arabella Pare
Hochschule fuer Musik
Karlsruhe
c) Cheng Chung-Ying
University of Hawaii
d) Hyun Höchsmann
East China Normal University
China
Philosophy in the Media
Chair: Ernest Lepore
Rutgers University
USA
Participants:
a) Peter Catapano
New York Times
United States
b) Simon Critchley
New School for Social Philosophy
United Kingdom
c) Esa Saarinen
Aalto University
Finland
Philosophy of Mind: Concept and Content
Chair: Laura Duhau Girola
Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM
Mexico
Participants:
a) Manuel Rodríguez Tudor
Universidad de Chile
Chile
b) Ernesto Perini Santos
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Brazil
c) Laura Duhau Girola
Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM
México
Philosophy of the Emotions
Chair: Olbeth Hansberg
Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas, UNAM
Mexico
Participants:
a) Juan Jose Acero
University of Granada
Spain
b) Miguel Angel Perez
Universidad Javeriana
Colombia
c) Olbeth Hansberg
Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM
Mexico
Place and Philosophy - Common Ground
Chairs:
Jeff Malpas
University of Tasmania
Australia
Elias Constantopoulos
University of Patras
Greece
Participants:
a) Jeff Malpas
University of Tasmania
Australia
b) Elias Constantopoulos
University of Patras
Greece
c) Juhani Pallasmaa
Arkkitehtitoimisto Juhani Pallasmaa KY, in Helsinki
Washington University, St. Louis, U.S
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, U.S.
Finland
d) Giorgos Xiropaidis
University of Athens
Greece
e) Vassilis Ganiatsis
Technical University of Athens
Greece
f) Albert Perez-Gomez
McGill University
Canada
Radical Rawlsianism, Critical Theory, & Liberation
Philosophy: A Common Project?
Chair: Rodney G. Peffer
University of San Diego
USA
Participants:
a) Lubos Baha
Slovakia Academy of Sciences
Slovakia
b) Enrique Dussel
Autonomous Metropolitan University
Mexico
c) Rodney G. Peffer
University of San Diego
USA
d) David Rasmussen
Boston College
USA
e) Gerald Doppelt
University of California
USA
Rationality as a Cultural Value
Chair: Vladislav Lektorskiy
Institute of Philosophy
Russian Academy of Sciences
Russia
Participants:
a) Vjacheslav Stepin
Institute of Philosophy
Russian Academy of Sciences
Russia
b) Hans Lenk
Karlsruhe University
Germany
c) Tom Rockmore
Duquesne University
USA
Ricoeur at 100
Chair: David Pellauer
DePaul University
USA
Participants:
a) David Pellauer
DePaul University
USA
b) Bengt Kristensson Uggla
Abo Akademi University
Finland
c) Morny Joy
University of Calgary
Canada
Skepticism and Epistemic Circularity
Chair: Miguel Angel Fernandez – Vargas
Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas, UNAM
Mexico
Participants:
a) Ernest Sosa
Rutgers University
USA
b) Jose Zalabrado
University College of London
Spain
c) Elia Zardini
Northern Institute of Philosophy
Italy
d) Stewart Cohen
University of Arizona
USA
Social Epistemology after 25 years: Where We Have Been and Where We Might Go
Chair: Ilya Kasavin
Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russia
Participants:
a) Steve Fuller
University of Warwick
United Kingdom
b) Ilya Kasavin
Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russia
c) Joan Leach
The University of Queensland
Australia
d) James Collier
Virginia Tech
USA
Temporal Points of View: Objective and Subjective Aspects
Chair: Margarita Vázquez
University of La Laguna
Spain
Participants:
a) David Pérez Chico
University of Zaragoza
Spain
b) Manuel Liz
University of La Laguna
Spain
c) Steven Hales
University of Bloomsburg
USA
d) Sebastián Álvarez
University of Salamanca
Spain
e) Mikel Henda Gómez de Segura
University of Salamanca
Spain
f) Jesús Ezquerro
University of Basque Country
Spain
The Analytic - Continental Divide
Chair: Stelios Virvidakis
University of Athens
Greece
Participants:
a) Pascal Engel
Université de Genève / Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales
Switzerland / France
b) Marina Bykova
North Carolina State University
USA
c) Simon Critchley
New School for Social Research
USA
The art of living and the life of art
Chair: Gerhard Seel
University of Bern
Switzerland
Participants:
a) Ben Ami Scharfstein
University of Tel Aviv
Israel
b) Curtis Carter
Marquette University
USA
c) Ken-ichi Sasaki
Nihon University, Tokyo University
Japan
The character of classical logic
Chair: Oswaldo Chateaubriand
Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Participants:
a) Daniel Isaacson
Oxford University
UK
b) Danielle MacBeth
Haverford College
USA
c) Oswaldo Chateaubriand
Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
The Ethics of Life
Chair: Jacob Dahl Rendtorff
Roskilde University
Denmark
Participants:
a) Juha Räikkä
Turku University
Finland
b) Ulrik Hovlind Rasmussen
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
c) Rosa Rantanen
Turku University
Finland
d) Bernard Reber
CNRS, Sorbonne
France
The First Person:Alternative Views
Chair: Diana I. Pérez
Universidad de Buenos Aires- CONICET/SADAF
Argentina
Participants:
a) Angeles Eraña
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
México
b) Antoni Gomila Benejam
Universidad de las Islas Baleares
Spain
c) Diego Lawler
CONICET/ Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas- SADAF
Argentina
d) Diana Inés Pérez
University of Buenos Aires- CONICET/SADAF
Argentina
The Legitimacy of international Human Rights Courts and Tribunals
Chair: Andreas Follesdal
University of Oslo
Norway
Participants:
a) Reidar Maliks
University of Oslo
Norway
b) James Nickel
University of Miami
USA
c) John Tasioulas
UCL - University College London
UK
The Philosophy of Information
Chair: Luciano Floridi
University of Hertfordshire, UK Fellow,
St. Cross College, University of Oxford
UK
Participants:
a) Guido Van Steendam
KULeuven Higher Institute of Philosophy
Belgium
b) Itala M.L. D’ Ottaviano
Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science – CLE State University of Campina (UNICAMP)
Brazil
c) Luciano Floridi
University of Hertfordshire, UK Fellow, St. Cross College, University of Oxford
UK
d) Jean Gabriel Ganascia
University Pierre at Marie Curie, Paris
France
e) Xiaohong Wang
Xian Jiaotong University
China
The Relativism Debate: Where are we now?
Chair: Maria Baghramian
University College Dublin
Ireland
Participants:
a) Paul Boghossioan
New York University
USA
b) Max Kölbel
University of Barcelona
Spain
c) Steven D. Hales
Bloomsberg University
USA
The Role of Humanities in the Intercultural Dialogue
Chair: Edward Demenchonok
Fort Valley State University
USA
Partcipants:
a) Mikhail Epstein
Emory University & Durham University
USA / UK
b) David Rasmussen
Boston College
USA
c) Eduardo Mendieta
Stony Brook University
USA
d) Rodney Peffer
University of San Diego
USA
e) Edward Demenchonok
Fort Valley State University
USA
The Role of Intuitions in Philosophy
Chair: Herman Cappelen
University of St. Andrews
UK
Participants:
a) Paul Boghossian
New York University
USA
b) Ernest Sosa
Rutgers
USA
c) Herman Cappelen
University of St. Andrews
UK
The Role of Passion in Sören Kierkegaard’s Authorship
Chair: Pia Soeltoft
Sören Kierkegaard Research Center, University of Copenhagen
Denmark
Participants:
a) Pia Soeltoft
Sören Kierkegaard Research Center, University of Copenhagen
Denmark
b) Joakim Garff
Sören Kierkegaard Research Center, University of Copenhagen
Denmark
c) Réne Rosfort
Sören Kierkegaard Research Center, University of Copenhagen
Denmark
The Way of Living: Competition, Cooperation and the Art of Controversies
Chair: Marcelo Dascal
Tel Aviv University
Israel
Participants:
a) Anna Carolina Regner
Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS)
Brasil
b) Matthias Armgardt
University of Konstanz
Germany
c) Daniel L. Everett
Bentley University
USA
d) Thomas Gloning
Justus-Liebig-Universität
Germany
e) Shahid Rahman
Université Charles de Gaulle III
France
Thinking in the flesh: Carnal Hermeneutics
Chair: Richard Kearney
Boston College
USA / Ireland
Participants:
a) John Panteleimon Manoussakis
University of the Holy Cross
USA
b) Simon Critchley
New School, New York
USA / UK
c) Richard Kearney
Boston College
USA /Ireland
Time and time measuring in Mesoamerican cultures
Chair: Lourdez Velázquez
Universidad Anáhuac
Mexico
Participants:
a) Laura Sotelo
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Mexico
b) Martha Ilia Nájera
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Mexico
c) Roberto Romero
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Mexico
d) Lourdez Velázquez
Universidad Anáhuac
Mexico
Time in Mesoamerican Thought
Chair: Mercedes de la Garza
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Mexico
Participants:
a) Alfredo Lopez Austin
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Mexico
b) Carmen Valverde
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Mexico
c) Michela Craveri
Universidad Catolica de Milan
Italy
d) Mercedes de la Garza
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Mexico
Transcendentalisms? session I
Chair: Gertrudis Van de Vijver
Ghent University
Belgium
Participants:
a) Jan De Vos
Ghent University
Belgium
b) Santiago Zúňiga
Senescyt, Équateur/ UCL)
Belgium
c) Jens De Vleminck
Ghent University
Belgium
Transcendentalisms? session II
Chair: Gertrudis Van de Vijver
Ghent University
Belgium
Participants:
a) Delia Popa
FNRS/Université Catholique de Louvain
Belgium
b) Filip Kolen
Centre for Critical Philosophy, Ghent University
Belgium
c) Quentin Landenne
Centre for Théorie Politique, ULB
Belgium
Value and Norm
Chair: Chienkuo Mi
Soochow University
Taiwan
Participants:
a) Wan-Chuan Fang
Institute of European and American Studies
Academia Sinica
Taiwan
b) Peter Graham
Department of Philosophy
University of California at Riverside
USA
c) Stephen Grimm
Department of Philosophy
Fordham University
USA
d) Chienkuo Mi
Soochow University
Taiwan
Varieties of scientific realism
Chair: Stathis Psillos
Department of Philosophy and History of Science
University of Athens
Greece
Participants:
a) Ilkka Niiniluoto
University of Helsinki
Finland
b) Michel Ghinis
Institut Supérieur de Philosophie
Université catholique de Louvain
Belguim
c) Mario Alai
Universita di Urbino “Carlo Bo”
Italy
Western Philosophy in South Korea I
Chair: Hwa Yol Jung
Moravian College
USA
Participants:
a) Hwa Yol Jung
Moravian College
USA
b) Nam-in Lee
Seoul National University
South Korea
c) Heisook Kim
Ewha Womans University
South Korea
d) Young Ahn Kang
Sogang University
South Korea
Western Philosophy in South Korea II
Chair: Hwa Yol Jung
Moravian College
USA
Participants:
a) Chung Shig Shin
Kyung Hee University
South Korea
b) Yersu Kim
Kyung Hee University
South Korea
c) Seon-Wook Kim
Soongsil University
South Korea
d) Jin Park
The American University
USA
Why History of Philosophy?
Chair: Riccardo Pozzo
Istituto per il Lessico Intellettuale Europeo e Storia delle Idee (ILIESI-CNR)
Italy
Participants:
a) Gholamreza Aavani
Iranian Institute of Philosophy
Iran
b) Marcelo Dascal
Tel Aviv University
Israel
c) Hans Poser
Technische Universitaet Berlin
Germany
d) David Schrader
University of Delaware
USA