Event

Graduate Conference in Philosophy

  • Location

    Maison des Sciences Humaines, Black Box

    11 porte des Sciences

    L-4366, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

  • Topic(s)
    FHSE, Humanities
  • Type(s)
    Conferences, In-person event

This conference invites graduate students working in any area of philosophy to present and discuss their current research. It targets especially doctoral candidates from the University of the Greater Region network: University of Liège, Université de Lorraine, University of Luxembourg, Saarland University, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau and Trier University. In that way, participants get to know their peers in the cross-border region and establish cooperation.

Besides, the conference features two keynote speeches given by Prof. Brigitte Falkenburg from TU Dortmund and Prof. Hans-Johann Glock from the University of Zürich.

Attending the conference is free but on registration only, limited spots.

Program

Day 1: Monday 28th April

09.15 Welcome

09.30 Conference Opening by Daniel Barrio Martinez, University of Luxembourg 

09.45 Kieran Salt, University of Luxembourg – How fictional objects constrain our imagination in thought experiments

10.45 Coffee Break

11.00 Thorsten Helfer, Saarland University – Desires Gone Wild: Who (or What) Gets to Have Well-Being?

12.00 Lunch Break

13.30 Woochang Choi – Some Questions on the Frustration Condition of Desire

14.30 Coffee Break

14.45 Ethan Field, University of Liège – Samuel Alexander’s compresence intuition – The basis for a realist revolution

15.45 Coffee Break

16.00 Invited Speaker Prof. Brigitte Falkenburg, TU Dortmund – The Myth of Determinism: Mechanistic Explanations in Neuroscience and Their Limits

Day 2: Monday 29th April

09.45 Johan Largo, University of Luxembourg – Human-AI interaction, epistemic credit and moral responsibility

10.45 Coffee Break

11.00 Danka Radjenović – RPTU University Kaiserslautern Landau – How does language relate to life? Or why the references to life are irreplaceable

12.00 Lunch Break

13.30 Mariam Mansuore, University of Liège – Perversion and simulacra in the thought of Gilles Deleuze : a metaphysical approach to literature

14.30 Coffee Break

14.45 Mareike Wagner, UniGR – Cross-border university cooperation

15.15 Coffee Break

15.30 Invited Speaker Prof. Hans-Johann Glock, University of Zürich – Are we alone in the space of reasons?

17.00 Conference Closure by Daniel Barrio Martinez, University of Luxembourg

Organisation & Contact

Daniel Barrio Martinez, University of Luxembourg