Twelfth International Conference
Pragmatism as Global Philosophy
10-14 June 2024, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
The Central European Pragmatist Forum is grateful for the support of The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy.
Program
Day 1, Monday, June 10
14:00 – 14:15 – opening words dean of the faculty – Prof. Hans-Bernhard Schmid,
Co-chairs of the CEPF – Scott Pratt, Lyubov Bugaeva
14:15 – 15:45 – The Michael Eldridge Keynote Lecture
The Tragic, Pragmatism and Dystopia or Why James, Hook, Dewey and King were Wrong about Experience but Right about Fiction
Leonard Harris, Joyce and Edward E. Brewer Chair in Applied Ethics, Purdue University
Break – 15 minutes
16:00 – 17:30 – Session
Claiming the Moral Self through an Ideal Space to Be
Amrita Banerjee, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
Dewey, Globalism, And Education: Pragmatism’s Challenges and Challenges to Pragmatism
Deron Boyles, Distinguished University Professor, Georgia State University
19:00 – Reception and welcome dinner
Day 2, Tuesday, June 11
9:00 – 10:30 – Session
Absolute Pragmatism as Global Philosophy
Scott L. Pratt, Professor and Head of Philosophy, University of Oregon
Civics in a Postcolonial Global World and the Potential of Pragmatism
Radim Šíp, Associate Professor, Tomas Bata University
Break 30 minutes
11:00 – 12:30 – Session
The Specter of Disembodiment: Rethinking Education in the Age of New Immersive Digital Experiences
Phillip Dorstewitz, Associate Professor, American University of Ras Al Khaimah
Emerson and Education
James Campbell, Distinguished University Professor, University of Toledo
12:45 – 14:00 – Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 – Session
Reassessing the Truth
Jane Skinner, Research Development Practitioner, The Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Kant’s Idea of Perpetual Peace: Still Relevant Today?
Sandra Zákutná, Associate Professor of History of Philosophy, University of Presov
Break 30 minutes
16:00 – 17:30 – Session
Social Values and Political Principles
John Ryder, Independent Scholar
Communicative-Pragmatic or Neo-Confucian Universalism? On Moral Genealogies as Sources for Global Politics
Hans-Herbert Kögler, Professor of Philosophy, University of North Florida; Alpen-Adria Universität
18:30 – Dinner
Day 3, Wednesday, June 12
9:00 – 10:30 – Session
Feminist Pragmatism and post-Versailles International Society: Jane Addams, Publicness and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom as a Transnational Counterpublic
Molly Cochran, Reader in International Relations, Oxford Brookes College
Disclosing Global and Pluralistic Pragmatic Values: Solving the Global Scourge of Women’s Oppression and Criminalization
Rebecca Farinas, Lecturer in Philosophy, Texas State University
Break 30 minutes
11:00 – 12:30 – Session
Who’s Afraid of Inquiry?
Mark D. Tschaepe, Professor of Philosophy, Prairie View A&M University
The Doubled and Divided Self: a Naturalist Approach
Lyubov Bugaeva, Professor, St. Petersburg University
12:45 – 14:00 – Lunch
14:30 – 18:30 – Excursion
3-hour tour of the Belvedere Complex
1+ hour Stephansdom, Hofburg-Gardens and the medieval city centre
19:00 – Dinner
Day 4, Thursday, June 13
9:00 – 10:30 – Session
Perception and Understanding of Health, Illness and Pain: Rorty between Gadamer and Dennett
Kristina Bosáková, Associate Professor, Pavol Jozef Safarik University
Insurrectionist Ethics and the Putnam-Rorty Debate
Chris Voparil, Associate Professor, Lynn University
Break 30 minutes
11:00 – 12:30 – Session
Denialism and Its Consequences: The Epistemic Injustice of National Narratives
Armen Marsoobian, Professor of Philosophy, Southern Connecticut University
Teaching Indigenous and Pragmatist Philosophies of Place
Anna Cook, Associate Professor and Head of Philosophy, University of the Fraser Valley
12:45 – 14:00 – Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 – Session
The Community of Possible Moral Relations
Randall Auxier, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Why Pragmatism? Which Pragmatism?
Ľubomír Dunaj, Post-Doc, Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna
18:30 – Farewell Dinner
Day 5, Friday, June 14
9:00 – 10:30 – Session
Placing Philosophy in the Parks: A Neighborhood Praxis Towards a Global Orientation
Barbara J. Lowe, Professor of Philosophy, St. John Fisher University
The Open Spaces of Democracy: Pragmatist Placemaking, Peacebuilding, and Public Lands
Tess Varner, Associate Professor, Concordia College (Minnesota)
Break 30 minutes
11:00 – 12:30 – Session
Temporal Quality and the Poetics of Surering
Bethany Henning, Assistant Professor, College of St. Scholastica
Epistemology Naturalized and the Conceptual Systems in the Cupboard
Lee A. McBride, III., Professor of Philosophy, College of Wooster
13:30 – 15:00 – Lunch and End of the conference