10th Anniversary Conference titled

 Ten Years of Philosophy at Central European University

January 27-28, 2011

The Department of Philosophy at CEU was founded in 2000, and hence we celebrate not only the 20^th anniversary of CEU, but also the 10^th  anniversary of our Department this year. For this occasion, we organized a conference

with the participation of outstanding members of the profession who

contributed to the CEU philosophy program in the last ten years with

seminars, lectures, advice and friendship.

Thursday, 27 January, 2011

In front of the Popper room (Nádor 9 building - 1^st floor)

12:30 PM - coffee

Popper room (Nádor 9 building - 1^st floor room 102)

1.00 PM -1.15 PM

Introductory remarks – Katalin Farkas, Pro-Rector, Professor of Philosophy, Former Head of CEU Philosophy Department

1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Dominik Perler (Institut für Philosophie  Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

‘Spinoza on Skepticism’

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Barry Loewer (Rutgers University)

‘Boltzmann Brains and other Epistemological Catastrophies’

AUDITORIUM  (Nádor 9 building - ground-floor)

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Ronald Dworkin (New York University)

‘What Democracy Is’

Popper room, Gellner room  (Nádor 9 building - 1^st floor room 102,103)

6.45 PM – 8.00 PM Reception

Friday, 28 January, 2011

In front of the Popper room (Nádor 9 building - 1^st floor)

9:30 AM - coffee

Popper room (Nádor 9 building - 1^st floor room 102)

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tim Crane (University of Cambridge) 

‘What is the difference between existing and not existing?’

11.45 AM - 1:15 PM

Ferenc Huoranszki (Central European University)     

‘The Reality of Nominal Essences’

Lunch break (optional)

2:45 PM - 4:15 PM

Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)              

‘What can we still learn from Aristotelian ethics?’

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Dan Sperber  (Jean Nicod Institute / CEU )

‘Epistemic vigilance in cognition, communication  and society’