Young Scholars Pramatism Conference

Further information including abstracts of talks can be found here: https://yspc1.sciencesconf.org/

YOUNG SCHOLARS PRAGMATISM CONFERENCE 2018
From Interactions to Institutions: Pragmatism and Collective Experience

Thursday, January 18th

9.15 – 9.45 Welcome (coffee/tea and light fare)
9.45 – 10.00  Introductory Remarks

10.00 – 11.30 Keynote Session
Chair: Olivier Gaudin (Centre d'études des mouvements sociaux, EHESS)

Rosa Maria Calcaterra (Roma Tre University)
The Ambiguity of Norms. Steps Towards a New Pragmatic Anthropology
Respondant: Pierre Steiner (Université de Technologie de Compiègne)

11.30 – 12.15 Session A Social Communication
Chair: Camille Casale (ACTE/IDHES, Paris 1)

Raffael Joggi (University of Fribourg)
A Pragmatist Take on the Puzzle of Verbal Disagreements

12.15 – 13.45 Lunch on site (buffet)

13.45 – 16.00 Session B Social Cognition and Social Ontology
Chair: Matteo Santarelli (Università del Molise) 

Duygu Uygun Tunc (Universität Heidelberg/Helsingin Yliopisto)
Symbolic Interaction and Perspective-Taking

Francesco Consiglio (Universidad de Granada)
Bridging the Divide Between Human and Animal Collective Cognition Through Stigmergy and Peircean Semiotics

Ulysse Gadiou (Université de Lille, UMR STL 8163)
Whitehead’s Philosophy as a Pragmatic Social Cosmology

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee/Tea break

16.30 – 18.45 Session C Political and Ethical Deliberation
Chair: Olivier Gaudin (Centre d'études des mouvements sociaux, EHESS) 

Michael Ivo Räber (University of Zurich)
Political Judgments as Interpretive Judgments: Dewey and Kant on the Cognitive Dimension of Politics

Belén Pueyo-Ibáñez (Emory University)
Motives for Consensus: Habermas and Kitcher on Ethical Deliberation

Nicolas Bernier (University of Sherbrooke)
John Dewey and the Ethical Forms of Power

18.45- 20.30 Free time
20.30 onwards Dinner at restaurant

Friday, January 19th

9.00 – 9.30 Coffee/tea and light fare

9.30 – 11.45 Session D Social Inquiry and the Constitution of the Public
Chair: Just Serrano (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) 

Martin Ejsing Christensen (Aalborg University)
Social Inquiry and Collective Experience: Dewey vs Deleuze

Marie Kerveillant (ESCP Europe)
Does the public exist? Opening the Black Box of its Construction Process

Christophe Point (Université de Lorraine/Laval University)
How to Think of the Role of the Conflict in the Formation of the Public?

11.45 – 13.30 Lunch on site (buffet)

13.30 – 15.00 Session E Social habits and Social Belief
Chair: Céline Henne (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris)

Matthias Kramm (University of Utrecht)
Tradition and Progress – A Pragmatist Proposal

Inni Youh (Cornell University)
Politics in a New Key: The political Vision of William James’s Pragmatism

15.00 – 15.15 Break

15.15 – 16.00 Session F Democratic Experimentalism
Nicolas Bernier (University of Sherbrooke) 

Ed Quish (Cornell University)
Towards an Experimental State?: John Dewey on the Institutionalization of Social Cooperation

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee/Tea break

16.30 – 18.00 Keynote Session
Chair: Camille Pascal (Chaire Hoover, UCL)

Hans Joas (Humboldt University/University of Chicago)
Pragmatism and the Formation of Ideals
Respondant: Roberto Frega (CNRS/CMB Berlin)

18.00-18.15 Concluding Remarks
18.15 – 19.30 Free Time
19.30 onwards Dinner at restaurant