Eleventh International Conference
Power in Theory and Practice
May 30 – June 3, 2022, Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov, Prešov, Slovakia
The Central European Pragmatist Forum is grateful for the support of the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Prešov, The Slovak Philosophical Association of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy.
29 May, Sunday
Arrival in Prešov
Accommodation
Hotel:
Hotel Lineas
Budovatel’ská 14
Prešov 08001
reception: 00421 51 77 23 325
https://www.lineas.sk/
Conference Venue:
University of Prešov
Contact Information:
Sandra Zákutná: +421949176293
sandra.zakutna@unipo.sk or sanzak@gmail.com
John Ryder: +15203957107
jryder6682@gmail.com
(Breakfasts are at the hotel)
19:00 Welcome Dinner at the Faculty of Arts:
Meet Sandra Zákutná at the hotel at 18:45
Note – Papers that have been submitted electronically are available at CEPF Papers
Welcoming Remarks and Keynote – Lecture Room 94; all other sessions – Dean’s Boardroom
30 May, Monday
Breakfast
9:45 Walk to the university: From our hotel it takes 5-10 minutes to reach the conference room.
10:00 – 10:30 Welcoming Remarks
Peter Kónya, Rector, University of Prešov
Beáta Balogová, Dean, Faculty of Arts
Adriana Jesenková, President, Slovak Philosophical Association, Slovak Academy of Sciences
Emil Višňovský, CEPF Co-Chair
John Ryder, CEPF Co-Chair
House Keeping
Sandra Zákutná
Institute of Philosophy
10:30 – 12:00 The Michael Eldridge Keynote Lecture
Vincent Colapietro: “Practices of Freedom”: Pragmatic Reflections on a Foucaultian Theme
12:30 – 13:45 Lunch Biely Salonik (on campus)
Session I Political Affairs
14:00 – 15:00
Carlos Mougan: Open-Mindedness as a Pragmatist Virtue: From Epistemological Virtue to Civic Engagement
15:00 – 16:00
Just Serrano: Democracy and Expressive Domination: A Deweyan Account
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30
John Ryder: Rethinking Political Theory
18:00 Dinner Biely Salonik
Walks and Talks
31 May, Tuesday
Breakfast
Session II Hans-Herbert Kögler’s Critical Hermeneutics
10:00 – 11:00
Hans-Herbert Kögler: Ontological Articulation or Deflationary Compliment: Rorty versus Hermeneutics on Truth
11:00 – 12:00
Panel on Hans-Herbert Kögler’s Critical Hermeneutics
Ľubomír Dunaj
Kurt C.M. Martel
Just Serrano Zamora
William Outhwaite
Hans-Herbert Kögler
12:30 – 13:45 Lunch Biely Salonik
Session III Experience, Relations, Knowledge
14:00 – 15:00
Philipp Dorstewitz: Pragmatism, Crypto-Anarchism, and the Disembodiment of Participative Relations
15:00 – 16:00
Miklós Nyíró: On the Concept of Experience: Pragmatic Naturalist and Hermeneutical
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30
Tomaž Grušovnik: Pragmatist Views of Ignorance
18:00 Dinner Biely Salonik
Walks and Talks
1 June, Wednesday
Free Day
Bus Excursion to the High Tatras
Lunch and Dinner not included
2 June, Thursday
Breakfast
Session IV Language and Argument
10:00 – 11:00
László Komlósi: Presumptive Argument and Epistemic Impasse: A Challenge to Deliberative Public Discourse
11:00 – 12:00
Lee McBride: Poetry and Well-patterned Language (in Philosophy)
12:30 – 13:45 Lunch Biely Salonik
Session V Thoughts on American Philosophy
14:00 – 15:00
James Campbell: Emerson as Social Reformer
15:00 – 16:00
Michael Festl: Experimental Democracy: An Approximation via John Dewey’s Liberalisms
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30
Scott Pratt: The Logic of Power: Peirce and Royce on Interpretation
18:00 Dinner Biely Salonik
Walks and Talks
3 June, Friday
Breakfast
Session VI History and Its Meanings
10:00 – 11:00
Armen Marsoobian: Controlling the Narrative: Why History Matters
11:00 – 12:00
Radim Šip: Eurasianism and the Lost Individuals of the West
12:30 – 13:45 Lunch Biely Salonik
Session VII Humanism
14:00 – 15:00
Alex Kremer: Humanism, Transhumanism, Pragmatism
15:00 Final Thoughts
19:00 Farewell Dinner Location TBA
4 June, Saturday
Breakfast
Departure
Bon Voyage!