The Actuality of Peirce’s Thought. The 2014 Lisbon centennial Peirce (1839-1914) Workshop

The Actuality of Peirce’s Thought.
The 2014 Lisbon centennial Peirce (1839-1914) Workshop 
10th of November 2014, Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon

Frederik Stjernfelt, University of Kopenhagen: On the Actuality of Peirce's doctrine of Dicisigns

14-17h

11th of November 2014 at the Faculty of Science,  University of Lisbon (Portugal) 10-18h
The Actuality of Peirce’s Thought. Workshop
Confirmed participants: Mats Bergman (University of Helsinki), Frederik Stjernfelt (University of Kopenhagen),Henrik Rydenfelt (University of Helsinki), Olga Pombo (University of Lisbon, CFCUL), Nuno Nabais (University of Lisbon, CFCUL) Alexander Gerner (University of Lisbon, CFCUL)

 
organized by Alexander Gerner (CFCUL, University of Lisbon) and Nuno Nabais (CFCUL) and the strategic line of the CFCUL (2015-2020): Philosophy of Human Technology http://cfcul.fc.ul.pt/LT/FTH/
 

Possible Topics (among others) for participation:
-      Peirce and Philosophical approaches to Cognitive Enhancement
-      Peirce and Virtual Enhancements of the Mind
-      The Actuality of Peirce´s doctrine of Dicisigns
-      Technologies of thinking: Tool use and model based reasoning, writing and diagramming techniques

-       Peirce´s concept of continuity and the foundations of mathematics
-       Peirce´s Actuality for a Philosophy of Technology Assessment (TA)
-       Moving images and Moving Pictures of Thought
-       Peirce Actuality for Medical Reasoning
-       Iconicity and Scientific Imaging technologies        
-       Body Diagrams: Gestures and Diagrams
-       Peirce’s Externalism and contemporary enactive mind approaches
-       Peirce´s Diagramatology and Diagram Praxis    
-       Peirce and Artistic Praxis  
-       Peirce´s Rethorics and Theory of Communication
-       Peirce's Semiotics and the perceptivity and operationality of signs
-       Peirce´s actuality for Philosophy of perception, attention, self
-       Peirce and mental and bodily techniques
-       Peirce’s contributions to a Philosophy of Information
-       Interpretant vs Interpreter? On the Artificial and the Virtual
-       AI and bio-and artifactual reasoning
-       Applying  Peirce´s Theory of Evolution
-       Peirce´s description and invention of epistemic modes, techniques
        and technologies of logical thinking
-       Collateral knowledge, methodeutic, and other heuristic strategies of    knowledge development
-       Diagrammatic reasoning and technical applications
-       Peirce and the Community of Research
-       Theorematic/Theoric reasoning and their applications
-       Peirce and social forms of reasoning/cognition   
-       Abductive/ retroductive modes of reasoning and their applications
-       Diagrammatic Mind, Cognition, Embodiment/”Exbodiment”
-       Hypostatic abstraction and theorematic reasoning
-       Fallibilism as technique  of innovation
-       Methodeutic, Rethoric as epistemic technics
-       Peirce´s Habit concept and applications
-       Techniques and Technologies of Observation and Experimentation
-       Productivity and operationality of fallible thoughts, thought experiments, errors and deviations

-       Abduction and Retroduction and their actual applications      
 
Call for Participation
Please sent an abstract of an original proposal between 250-500 words asap, indicating as well your affiliation and name and a short bio in doc(x). and .pdf to the organizer latest  25st of October 2014 to this email address: [email protected] with the following heading [Peirce Lisbon 2014, your name]
You will be notificated asap ( latest 25th of October)
Each chosen paper will be offered 20 min of presentation time and a 10-15min discussion afterwards and time to debate Peirce’s actuality and importance for a Philosophy of Technology.
 
There will be no inscription fee (and unfortunately no travel or accommodation refund is possible, although we can help you find accomodation)
There will be a peer reviewed book proposal later on Peirce’s Actuality for a Philosophy of Human Technology in May 2015 (please also indicate if you would be interested in submitting your original paper in May 2015 as well)
Contact:
Dr. Alexander Gerner
Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (CFCUL)
Campo Grande
Campo Grande, Edifício C4, 3º Floor, Room 4.3.20
1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
[email protected]