Workshop “Self – environment – normativity”

The workshop will focus on conceptualising the boundary between the self and the environment. It is a lens through which we interrogate the relationship between the self and the situated environment, conceiving the self-environment boundary as a dynamic structure of anticipation, constraint, and sedimentation. The investigations will bring forward the continuously negotiated interplay between bodily experience, interpersonal relations, and sociocultural norms. Taking into account (practical and epistemic) normativity will also allow us to explore how embodied agents recognize opportunities for action in their environment and how they constantly reconfigure their behavior. We will ground our investigations in diverse research insights spanning, among others, mental health, virtual reality, and sport.

Our guest speaker is Dr. Zuzanna Aleksandra Rucińska (Humboldt Research Fellow, University of Bochum, Germany, you can find out more about her recent work here https://news.rub.de/english/2026-08-20-philosophy-philosophical-questions-about-virtual-reality and here https://www.zuzannarucinska.com/

Young researchers, including master's and doctoral students, will have the opportunity to present their research. The workshop will take place mainly in person.

The programme and more info will available soon.

Coordinators: Ion Copoeru (Dept. of Philosophy, UBB Cluj-Napoca)

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Sandra Brânzaru (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest)

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Programme

Friday, 9th

09:45 Opening

Prof. Dr. Ion Copoeru (Facultatea de Istorie şi Filosofie, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai)

Drd. Sandra Brânzaru (Facultatea de Filosofie; Facultatea de Psihologie şi Ştiinţele Educaţiei; Universitatea din Bucureşti)

10:00 Keynote: Dr. Zuzanna Rucinska (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)."The authentic self in pretense: Is authenticity compatible with role-playing?"

11:00 Dr. Cristian Bodea (Departamentul de Cercetări Socio-Umane (DCSU), Academia Română Filiala Cluj-Napoca). “The original multiplicity of the self and the normative role of language in a more-than-human world”

11:40 Drd. Daniela Nica (Şcoala Doctorală de Filosofie, Facultatea de Filosofie, Universitatea din Bucureşti). “The Reality of Variation: Psychological Categories as Real Patterns”

12:20 Drd. Ramona Zăgrean (Şcoala Doctorală de Filosofie, Facultatea de Filosofie, Universitatea din Bucureşti). “Norms, agents and responsibility: lessons from environmental epistemology"

13:00-14:30 Break

14:30 Dr. Andrei Mărăşoiu (Facultatea de Filosofie; ICUB; Universitatea din Bucureşti) “Be well: self-narratives and social roles in each other's crosshairs”

15:10 Dr. David-Augustin Mândruț (Academia Română, filiala Cluj) “The self-in-dialogue. Phenomenological remarks on Martin Buber’s thought”.

15:50: Irina Alexe (Facultatea de Psihologie şi Ştiinţele Educaţiei, Universitea din Bucureşti) “A 4E approach to trauma-induced dissociative experiences: developmental trauma as disruption in the ecological niche”

Saturday, 10th

10:30 Drd. Martina Properzi si drd.Manuela Luchetta (Şcoala Doctorală de Filosofie, Facultatea de Istorie şi filosofie, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai) "The Normativity of Body Boundaries".

11:10 Daniel Stancu (Facultatea de Filosofie, Universitatea din Bucureşti). “Spreading the self too thin: Arguing Against the Socially Extended Self”

11:50 Dr. Codruţa Hainic (Facultatea de Istorie şi Filosofie, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai). “Recombination without Reactivation: Self, Sediment and the Normativity of Meaning”

12:30 Rareș-Mihnea Iosifescu (Facultatea de Psihologie şi Ştiinţele Educaţiei, Universitea din Bucureşti). "Towards an Enactive Drama Therapy: Implications in the Counselling of Disabled Clients"

13:00 – 14 30 Break

14:30 Maria Ofileanu (Facultatea de Filosofie, Universitatea din Bucureşti) “Self, show yourself! The validity of attributing value judgements of an agents' self-based on their impulse reaction to critical situations.”

15:10 Lena Roşu (Facultatea de Filosofie, Universitatea din Bucureşti) “Epistemic Thickness at the Self-Environment Boundary”

15:50 Drd. Alex Stan (Facultatea de Istorie şi Filosofie, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai)şi Dr. Mihai Rusu (Facultatea de Istorie şi Filosofie, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai; ICUB, Universitatea din Bucureşti) “A bottom-up approach to modal knowledge: from abilities to the possibilities of the environment”

16:30 Dragoş Manoilă (Facultatea de Filosofie, Universitatea din Bucureşti) “All Ears Beings – The Role of Iconicity in (Interspecific) Languaging”

17:10 Dr. Adrian Luduşan (Facultatea de Studii Europene, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai). “Reframing Normativity: Model-Theoretic Semantics as Models of Cognition.”