Philosophy Conferences and Calls for Papers

All interested are welcome to participate, and are encouraged to register by July 15th

Program:

Day 1. Social Ontology and Mutual Recognition

9.00 Registration
9.15 Opening
9.30 Margaret Gilbert (Connecticut):
“Mutual Recognition” and Some Related Phenomena
10.30 Robert Brandom (Pittsburgh):
The Structure of Desire and Recognition
11.30 Coffee Break
12.00 Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer (Leipzig):
Practices and Persons. On Self-Conscious Control in a We-Mode.
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Heikki Ik*heimo (Jyv*skyl*):
Rehabilitating Hegel’s Spirit – “Recognitive Attitude” as a Social Ontological Concept
15.30 David Schweikard (Cologne):
Recognition as a Constitutive Relation
16.30 Coffee Break
17.00 Arto Laitinen (Jyv*skyl*):
On The Normative Relevance of Recognition

Day 2. Normativity and collectivity

9.15 Wolfgang Detel (Frankfurt):
On a General Notion of Basic Social Norms
10.15 Raimo Tuomela (Helsinki):
Obeying Norms
11.15 Coffee Break
11.45 Frank A. Hindriks (Groningen):
Is There Such a Thing as a University?
12.45-14.15 Lunch
14.15 Eerik Lagerspetz (Turku):
TBA
15.15 Ludger Jansen (Rostock):
What’s in a Group? The Constitution of Human Collectives
16.15 Coffee Break
16.45 Larry May (Washington University in St. Louis):
The International Community, Solidarity, and the Duty to Aid

18.30 CONFERENCE DINNER: Suomenlinna island, restaurant Walhalla

Colloquium Venue:
Auditorium XIII, Main Building, University of Helsinki
Street address: Unioninkatu 34

Organizers:

“Social ontology and recognition” - a research project funded by the Academy of Finland
with
Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyv*skyl*;
Department of Social and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki;
Department of Philosophy, University of Turku

in co-operation with the
Conference on Collective Intentionality V: Collective Responsibility (Coll Int V)
Helsinki 31st August-2nd September 2006.