CFP: IX International Conference "Modes of Thinking, Ways of Speaking"

Submission deadline: February 1, 2018

Conference date(s):
April 26, 2018 - April 30, 2018

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Conference Venue:

School of Philosophy, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Moscow, Russia

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Producing of actual humanitarian knowledge implies continual reflection (and auto-reflection as well) aimed to refine and improve an academic set of resources, abilities, and skills. Critical reconsideration and verification of the various disputable current issues as well as a profound revaluation of the questions already raised to achieve a high degree of scientific perfection – that is the modus pursued by the scholars of the Humanities since Ancient Greece.

Different modes of thinking (being voiced in the academic environment) determine different ways of answers concerning methodology as well as descriptive-positive aspects.

The organisers announce the call for papers addressed those participants who are interested in comprehension of the current processes of the reflection in the history of philosophy and theology; philosophy of language and logic; ontology and gnoseology; philosophy of communication.

The conference will focus on various ways of modelling different philosophic problems trajected through the prism of social and cultural codes, as well as different obstacles in translation from ancient and modern languages, correction and development of the conceptual framework in the humanities.

An interdisciplinary approach allows the Conference to engage different sections of human sciences, particularly, history of literature and language, epistemology, hermeneutics, significant issues of socio-cultural communication, etc. The speciality of the Conference of 2018 will be its orientation towards the History of Concepts (Begriffsgeschichte), as a most relevant for a present-day humanitarian knowledge strategical and methodological guideline.

Our first plenary session named "Understanding ancients, understanding like ancients" will be dedicated to the problem of the ancient philosophical text's interpretation. The philosophical writing is a result of multiple interpretations: written fixation of an oral teaching, copying and editing process, translations and scholarly commentaries. These are the stages of the complicated interpretative process which preconditions our understanding of an ancient text. Our awareness of this complexity is therefore necessary for a valid interpretation. Nevertheless, we often tend to approach ancient authors as if they were our school-mates, and carelessly ‘extract’ philosophical doctrines ‘from’ their texts as if these texts were mere ‘containers,' devoid of any philosophical significance. So, the first scope of the plenary session will be to discuss hermeneutical problems related to ‘understanding the ancients.'

As the second part of the title suggests, the ancients themselves paid much attention to the questions of interpretation, so our hermeneutical efforts are inevitably determined, to a greater or lesser degree, by ancient tradition. It is in Antiquity that the question "how to understand" (be that oracles, Plato, the Scripture or ourselves) was formulated for the first time, and we construct our interpretations either in polemics or agreement with the answers given to us. In ‘understanding the ancients’ we are bound to understand ‘like ancients.'

Within the frames of the second plenary session, we propose to discuss the problematics of the History of Concepts and its relations with the Political Philosophy and the History of Political Thought of Russia and Europe from XV to XX cent. Among the possible speakers are Claudio Sergio Nun Ingerflom (CNRS, Paris – CONICET, Buenos-Aires), Constantine Yerusalimsky (RSUH, Moscow) and Michael Velizhev (HSE, Moscow). The third plenary session will traditionally be dedicated to the problems of the correlation between the language, gnoseology, logic, and ontology. The main argument of this year will be the theory of concepts and its principal questions, like the correlation between the formal and substantial, the problem of universals, issue of the "language of thought" etc.

The list of the sections proposed already includes the panels on a) the problematics of the constitutional power in the Russian political thought of 1890-1917 (moderator - Andrey Teslya);

b) the correlation between the private and public spaces in the same texts (moderators - Liubov Bibikova, Andrey Teslya);

c) the Post-Kantian philosophical debates on knowledge and the dynamization of the a priori in the long 19th century (moderator - Nadia Moro);

d) the transformations of the phenomenon of the Political, change of its properties and limits (moderators - Alexey Salikov, Alexey Zhavoronkov);

e) the modes of speaking about and with demons in the intellectual culture of the Early-Modern Europe (moderator - Olga Togoeva);

f) the philosophy of conscience and the problem of the free will (moderator - Alexander Mishura).

Indeed, this list is open for your suggestions.

The official language of the conference will be Russian and English.

The Conference will be held on April 26-30 2018, at the base of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE).

Abstracts, of no more than 1000 words, in English, should be sent to [email protected]until February 1, 2018. In addition to the abstract, please include in your proposal your academic title, name, affiliation, and the title of your contribution.

 

The Honour Committee of the Congress:

·       Maria Yudkevich, PhD, a Vice Rector of the Higher School of Economics

·       Alexey Rutkevich, Dr.Hab., full professor, a Dean of the Faculty for the Humanities (HSE)

·       Vladimir Porus, Dr.Hab., full professor, a Director of the Department of Philosophy (HSE)

·       Dmitry Nosov, Ph.D., full professor, a vice-dean (HSE)

·       Michail Boitsov, Dr.Hab., full professor, a vice-dean (HSE)

The Organization Committee:

·       President: Alexander Marey, LL.D., assistant professor (HSE)

·       Executive secretary: Maria Marey, PhD (HSE)

·       Olga Alieva, Ph.D., assistant professor (HSE)

·       Victor Gorbatov, senior lecturer (HSE)

·       Alexander Mishura, lecturer (HSE)

·       Alexey Salikov, Ph.D., Senior Researcher (HSE)

·       Maria Schteinman, PhD, assistant professor (RSUH)

·       Andrey Teslya, Ph.D., assistant professor (BSU, Kaliningrad)

·       Elizaveta Zakharova, grad.student (HSE)

·       Sophia Porfirieva, grad.student (HSE)

·       Daria Chaganova, grad.student (HSE)

 

Conditions for participants:

The Committee does not cover the travel expense and accommodation in Moscow. Meanwhile, the possible places of the housing may be provided.

Participation fee includes one thousand roubles (1000 rub) per person

Formats of participation

Plenary session (speech aprox.40 min, question & discussion 20 min)

Thematic section (speech aprox.20 min, question & discussion 10 min)

Panel discussion (speech aprox.15 min, question & discussion 5 min)

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