31 May
1995
31 May
'95
1:55 a.m.
The Popper Project
Spring Workshop
The Popper Project Spring Workshop will be held from 6-14 June in Budapest. Philosophers
from ten different countries will explore problems in understanding, translating, and
teaching
Popper's philosophy through:
I. A Translators' Workshop, consisting of five two hour sessions, devoted to
problems related to translation in general and to the translation of Popper's
philosophy in particular. These sessions will be conducted by philosophers such as
Vadim Sadovsky (Institute for Systems Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences) and
Ilie Prvu (University of Bucharest) who have produced authorized translations of
Popper's books.
II. A Seminar on Teaching Popper's Philosophy, consisting of five two hour
sessions, devoted to problems related to teaching Popper's philosophy at the
undergraduate and graduate levels. Discussion topics will include Popper and
Positivism; Popper's Anti-Justificationism (corroboration vs inductive
confirmation);
the relationship between Open Society, Criticism, and Democracy; World 3 and the
Self; and the relationship between Science and Metaphysics.
III. Public Lectures by Friedrich Stadler (Wiener Kreis Institute), David Miller
(University of Warwick), Mark Notturno (CEU Popper Project), Vadim Sadovsky
(Russian Academy of Sciences), and Jiri Fiala (Charles University) devoted to
specific
aspects of Popper's philosophy.
IV. A Lecture/Concert by Julien Musafia on Popper's philosophy of music.
The Popper Project Spring workshop is sponsored by the HESP with additional funding from
the Ianus Foundation. Travel to and accomodations in Budapest, plus a $25.00 per
diem, are
available for workshop participants. Candidates who are interested in participating should
contact Mark Notturno (tel/fax: 36 1 275 0980; Email: notturno(a)sirius.ceu.hu).
The Popper Project
Spring Workshop
Tuesday, June 6:
8:00 P.M. Welcoming Party, Astoria Hotel.
Wednesday, June 7:
9:30 - 11:30 A.M. Translators' workshop. CEU Building V, room 104.
Mark Notturno, Central European University, Budapest:
Introduction to the Popper Project.
2:00 - 4:00 P.M. Teachers' seminar. CEU Building V, room 104.
Mark Notturno, Central European University, Budapest:
`Justification, Objectivity, Rationality and World 3'.
6:00 P.M. Lecture. CEU, Building I, Conference Room.
Friedrich Stadler, Wiener Kreis Institute, Vienna:
`Popper's Relationship to the Vienna Circle'.
Thursday, June 8:
9:30 - 11:30 A.M. Translators' workshop. CEU, Building I, Conference Room.
Vadim Sadovsky, Institute for Systems Analysis, Moscow:
The Open Society and Its Enemies.
2:00 - 4:00 P.M. Teachers' seminar. CEU, Building I, Conference Room.
Friedrich Stadler, Wiener Kreis Institute, Vienna:
`Popper and the Vienna Circle'.
6:00 P.M. Lecture. CEU, Building I, Conference Room.
David Miller, University of Warwick, Warwick:
`Popper's Indeterminism'.
Friday, June 9:
9:30 - 11:30 A.M. Translators' workshop. CEU, Building I, Conference Room.
Vadim Sadovsky, Institute for Systems Analysis, Moscow:
The Open Society and Its Enemies.
2:00 - 4:00 P.M. Teachers' seminar. CEU, Building I, Conference Room.
David Miller, University of Warwick, Warwick:
`Probability and Verisimilitude'.
6:00 P.M. Lecture. CEU, Building I, Conference Room.
Mark Notturno, Central European University, Budapest:
`Education for an Open Society'.
Saturday, June 10:
6:00 P.M. Lecture and recital. Bla Bart"k House.
Julien Musafia, University of California:
`Popper's philosophy of music'.
A reception for the workshop will follow at Dr. Notturno's
home at Kiss Aron 15 in Budapest's XIIth district.
Monday, June 12:
9:30 - 11:30 A.M. Translators' workshop. CEU, Building I, Conference Room.
Ilie Parvu, University of Bucharest, Bucharest:
`Epistemology without a Knowing Subject'.
2:00 - 4:00 P.M. Teachers' seminar. CEU, Building I, Conference Room.
Vadim Sadovsky, Institute for Systems Analysis, Moscow:
`Piecemeal Engineering'.
6:00 P.M. Lecture. CEU, Building I, Conference Room.
Jiri Fiala, Charles University, Prague:
`Nonsense: Carnap, Ingarden, Popper, Wittgenstein, and Frege'.
Tuesday, June 13:
9:30 - 11:30 A.M. Translators' workshop. Building IV, room 307.
Jiri Fiala, Charles University, Prague;
Peter Szegedi, Etvs Lor nd University, Budapest:
The Logic of Scientific Discovery.
2:00 - 4:00 P.M. Teachers' seminar. Building IV, room 307.
Jiri Fiala, Charles University, Prague:
`Popper's Philosophy of Mathematics'.
6:00 P.M. Lecture. Building IV, room 307.
Vadim Sadovsky, Institute for Systems Analysis, Moscow:
`Popper in Russia'.
Popper Project Workshop Lecturers
Friedrich Stadler, Wiener Kreis Institute, Vienna:
`Popper's Relationship to the Vienna Circle'.
Friedrich Stadler is the Scientific Head of the Institut `Wiener
Kreis'.
He is the author of Studien zum Wiener Kreis. Ursprung, Entwicklung
und Wirkung des Logischen Empirismus im Kontext and the series-
editor of the Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, which provides an
interdisciplinary and international forum for the history and philosophy
of science.
David Miller, University of Warwick, Warwick:
`Popper's Indeterminism'.
David Miller teaches philosophy at the University of Warwick,
England. He has worked closely with Karl Popper on the theories of
probability and verisimilitude. He is the author of Critical Rationalism,
and the editor of the popular Popper Selections.
Mark Notturno, Central European University, Budapest:
`Education for an Open Society'.
Mark Notturno is the director of the CEU's Popper Project. He is the
author of Objectivity, Rationality, and the Third Realm: Justification
and the Grounds of Psychologism, and the editor of Perspectives on
Psychologism. He is also the editor of Karl Popper's last two books,
The Myth of the Framework and Knowledge and the Body-Mind
Problem. He is currently working on Introduction to Scientific
Methods, which is based on ten years of Sir Karl's lectures on
scientific method at the LSE.
Julien Musafia, California State University
`Popper's Philosophy of Music' at the Bla Bart"k House.
Julien Musafia is Professor of Music, Emeritus, at California State
University, Long Beach. He holds degrees in composition, piano
performance, ethnomusicology and political philosophy. He is the
author of The Art of Fingering in Piano Playing, and he has recorded
solo works for MGM, Columbia Pictures, Orion Master Recordings
and "ebs records GmbH" (Germany).
Jiri Fiala, Charles University, Prague:
`Nonsense: Carnap, Ingarden, Popper, Wittgenstein, and Frege'.
Jiri Fiala teaches Philosophy at Charles University in Prague. He has
translated Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and
Philosophical Investigations into Czech. And he is currently working
on a translation of Karl Popper's The Logic of Scientific Discovery.
Vadim Sadovsky, Institute for Systems Analysis, Moscow:
`Popper in Russia'.
Vadim Sadovsky is Chief of the Department for Philosophical and
Sociological Problems of Systems Research at the Institute for Systems
Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the co-author of
Systems Theory: Philosophical and Methodological Problems and the
author of numerous articles in the philosophies of logic and science.
He is also the editor of the first Popper's selection in Russia and the
first Russian edition of The Open Society and Its Enemies.