We're delighted to invite you to the research seminar of the Department of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bucharest. These are organized in partnership with CELFIS, the Center for Logic, Philosophy and History of Science at UB. For details, don't hesitate to reach out at [email protected].

Fall 2026

October 27, 5pm: Bradley Armour-Garb (State University of New York at Albany, f2f), "A Pretense Account of Property-Talk for Property Deflationists"

November 9, 4pm: Gheorghe Ștefanov (University of Bucharest, f2f), "It follows by reason"

November 17, 4pm: Cătălin Teoharie & Nansi Lungu (University of Bucharest, f2f), "What is Consciousness? A View from Predictive Processing"

November 24, 5pm: Matt Duncan (Rhode Island College, hybrid), "Experiencing Ourselves in the World"

December 8, 4pm: Andreea Eșanu (New Europe College, f2f), "A defeasible and relational account of epistemic trust? – Some reflections on the epistemology of deep-learning AI"

December 14, 9am: Michael Kirchhoff (University of Wollongong, hybrid), "Idealization, Computation and Cognition"

December 22, 4pm: Codruța Hainic (Babeș-Bolyai University, hybrid), TBA

Spring 2027

Pii Telakivi (University of Helsinki, hybrid)

Ioana Leuștean (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, f2f)

Miklos Redei (London School of Economics, f2f)

Previous events in the series are available at:

2021-22: https://philevents.org/event/show/93365

2022-23: https://philevents.org/event/show/105249

2023-24: https://philevents.org/event/show/115878

2024-25: https://philevents.org/event/show/127766

2025-26: https://philevents.org/event/show/141649

https://filosofie.unibuc.ro/category/seminar-cercetare-dft/

https://icub.unibuc.ro/2022/06/14/workshop-semantic-cognition-and-truth/

For those of you who would like to join some of the meetings but have overlapping commitments, we will do our best to record the meetings whenever everyone in attendance consents to it, and to then upload the recordings on the Department's YouTube channel. Previous talks are available here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOgUq3dN8CXI4L6DhZT1f_Q

Stay tuned, as there will be weekly announcements concerning the titles and abstracts of upcoming talks on the Facebook page titled "Seminarul Departamentului de Filosofie Teoretica UniBuc".

https://www.facebook.com/p/Seminarul-Departamentului-de-Filosofie-Teoretica-UniBuc-100063082908977/