Isabelle Thomas Fogiel – Entre voir et savoir; histoire d’une rencontre

 

Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel (Philosophie, U. Ottawa)

"Entre voir et savoir; histoire d’une rencontre"

Les Ateliers Montréalais de Réflexions sur l’Art et l’Esthétique ont le plaisir d’accueillir la professeure Isabelle Thomas Fogiel (Phil., U. Ottawa) ce jeudi 19 novembre à 20h dans la salle 404 du Thomson House (3650 McTavish). La présentation de madame Fogiel, Entre voir et savoir; histoire d’une rencontre est particulièrement adaptée aux fins multidisciplinaires des AMRAE puisqu’elle sera vouée à une réflexion sur la question du croisement entre les disciplines sans exclusion ni annexion de l’une par l’autre. Le texte de la présentation est disponible à ceux et celles qui voudraient le lire. J’espère vous y retrouver en grand nombre.

Veuillez prendre note, par ailleurs, qu’il s’agira de la dernière rencontre ‘régulière’ des AMRAE en 2009. Il y a donc fort à parier que nous soyons nombreux à visiter le premier étage du Thomson House après la présentation! 

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The Montreal Reflections on Art and Aesthetics Workshop are pleased to receive professor Isabelle Thomas Fogiel (Phil., U. Ottawa) this Thursday, November 19th, at 8pm in room 404 of Thomson House (3650 McTavish). Prof. Fogiel’s presentation, Entre voir et savoir; histoire d’une rencontre, is particularly suited to MRAAW’s multidisciplinary ends as it deals with the question of disciplines engaging with one another without excluding or dominating each other. A text is available to those who would like to read it. I hope to see you there in great numbers.

Please note that this will be MRAAW’s last ‘regular’ meeting for this year 2009. There is consequently a good chance that many of us will be visiting Thomson House’s first floor after the presentation!

Sincerely,

Sincèrement,

Olivier Mathieu   

Robert Wisnovsky – Avicennian Ontology in the Islamic East (Mashriq) in the 12th Century CE: A Sketch

McGill Philosophy Department Colloquium Series

Robert Wisnovsky (Islamic Studies, McGill University)

“Avicennian Ontology in the Islamic East (Mashriq) in the 12th Century CE: A Sketch”

Friday, November 20th, 3:30-5:30 in Leacock 927.

McGill Undergraduate Colloquium

Hello,
The next installment of the undergraduate colloquium is scheduled for Tuesday, November 17th, from 6-8 PM in Leacock 927. There are two presentations set up (abstracts appended) as well as the usual bevy of cookies, tea and coffee. I hope that you can make it.
best,
Brooke Struck

Andy Yu – Metaphors… Literally
In this paper, I critically examine Davidson’s challenge to the view that metaphors have metaphorical meanings in addition to literal meanings. I begin by suggesting that we might think that metaphors have metaphorical meanings for two reasons: first, that they are so obviously false (or true) that we think something other than literal meaning is at stake, and second, that they draw our attention to similarities in the world. We reason by analogy with ordinary uses and literal meanings that metaphorical uses are linked to metaphorical meanings. Next, I review Davidson’s more general program for the philosophy of language, showing that it is incompatible with the view that metaphors have both literal and metaphorical meanings. So he must reject the view if he is to maintain his program. Finally, I discuss Davidson’s negative claim that the view confuses meanings with their uses, as well as his positive claim that metaphors can achieve their wow-factor without appealing to metaphorical meanings.

Anna Cook – Ethics of Care
Drawing on the works of Carol Gilligan, Nel Noddings, Grace Clement, Virginia Held and Eva Kittay, I expound care ethics’ definitions of the self, of care-giving and of care-receiving in contrast to the concepts as defined by an ethics of justice. I will explore how an ethics of care can be applied to a medical ethical dilemma in which a patient refuses life-saving treatment. Viewing this medical dilemma through a care framework raises further questions on the ethics of care— such as whether the mother-child relationship is an appropriate model for the physician-patient relationship, what role proximity plays in the care-giving of strangers, and how care ethics can prevent abuses of care within the physician-patient relationship.

Dimitris Vardoulakis, ‘Melancholic Sovereignty: Reading Hobbes through Hamlet’

Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas
McGill University

Tuesday, 17 November, 1-2:30pm (rsvp)
Dimitris Vardoulakis, ‘Melancholic Sovereignty: Reading Hobbes through Hamlet‘
New Chancellor Day Hall, rm. 202
(Faculty of Law; 3644 Peel St.)

Lancement de livre sur Jacques Peuchet

Afin de souligner la parution, aux Presses de l’Université Laval, coll. Mercure du Nord, du nouveau livre d’Ethel Groffier

Un encyclopédiste réformateur, Jacques Peuchet (1758-1830)

Vous êtes cordialement invités à assister à la causerie le vendredi 27 novembre à 18h 00 à la Librairie OLIVIERI

Avec Éthel Groffier, Josiane Boulad-Ayoub et Marc Angenot

Entrée libre – Réservations obligatoires: 514.739.3639

5219 chemin de la Côte des Neiges; métro Côte des Neiges.

Louis-André Dorion – La nature et le statut de la sophia dans les Mémorables de Xénophon

Louis-André Dorion (Université de Montréal)

“La nature et le statut de la sophia dans les Mémorables de Xénophon¨

Jeudi, 12 Novembre, 17h, Thompson House (3650 McTavish, #406)

John Lysaker – Our Subjective Multiplicity

The Concordia Philosophy Colloquium Series Presents:

John Lysaker
Department of Philosophy
Emory University

Our Subjective Multiplicity

Friday November 20, 2009, 16:00-18:00
PR-100, Philosophy Department, 2100 Mackay

Abstract: For decades, philosophers have “de-centered” the self, calling into question essentialist conceptions of human nature and ego based theories of mind, to the point that theorists like Rorty relinquished the project of self-discovery in favor of a project of self-creation while Foucault could announce, with confidence, the “total dispersion of the human” into networks of social forces. In the wake of such arguments, a reconstructive account has gone missing, however, that is, few theorists have ventured a non-egological account of selfhood. Taking my leave from Nietzsche’s provocative reference to the self as a “subjective multiplicity,” I am developing a non-egological conception of the self that brings hermeneutic phenomenology and critical social theory into conversation with the dialogical self theory developed by Hubert Hermans and others in the Netherlands in the 1990’s. My claim will be that the self, in its personal, social, and material occurrence, is best understood as a constellation (or dynamic system) of interanimating self-positions, including social roles (e.g. self-as-parent, what I term “character positions”), psycho-physiological states (e.g. self-as-anxious, what I term “organism positions”), and moments of reflective self-regard (e.g. self-as-failure, what I term “meta-positions”). Moreover, I will claim that such an interanimating system is sufficient to underwrite the meaning-making projects that each human life is.

Prof. Lysaker is co-author of Schizophrenia and the Fate of the Self (Oxford, 2008) as well as the author of Emerson and Self-Culture (Indiana, 2008) and You Must Change Your Life: Poetry and the Birth of Sense (Penn State, 2002), and is co-editor of the forthcoming Emerson and Thoreau: Figures of Friendship (Indiana, 2009).

All Welcome

The Colloquium Series is sponsored by the Concordia University Philosophy Department.

For more information: artsandscience.concordia.ca/philosophy

Or google: FaceBook Concordia Philosophy Friends and Alumni

Quelle place pour la philosophie?

Vous êtes cordialement invités, dans le cadre de la célébration de la journée mondiale de la philosophie décrétée par l’UNESCO, à vous joindre à la journée d’études organisée par la Chaire Unesco de philosophie et le département de philosophie de l’UQAM

Le jeudi 26 novembre, de 9h 15 à 17h 00
UQAM, Pavillon Thérèse-Casgrain, W 5215, 455, René-Lévesque Est

Thème général :
Quelle place pour la philosophie ?
Le programme d’Éthique et culture religieuse un an après avec des enseignants des Cegeps et des Universités répartis en trois Panels et une table
ronde finale:

Panel 1: Finalités et orientations générales du programme E.C.R.
Panel 2: L’éthique dans le programme E.C.R.
Panel 3: La formation des maîtres: quelle place pour la philosophie ?
Table ronde : Le programme E.C.R. un an après : enjeux pour la philosophie

Deux pauses café sont prévues
Entrée Libre

Renseignements 514 987 4161

NB: L’affiche ci-jointe donne plus de détails. Prière de la faire circuler.

JEtudesJMPh2009

Karen Nielsen – Aristotle and Epictetus: On what is up to us

McGill Philosophy Deapartment Colloquium Series

Time:3:30 – 5:30, LEA 927
Karen Nielsen (Western Ontario)
Title: Aristotle and Epictetus: On what is up to us

Nancy Fraser – Pour qui la justice?

La Chaire Nycole Turmel, sur les espaces publiques et les innovations politiques (UQAM), est heureuse d’inaugurer sa série de grandes conférences en accueillant la philosophe politique américaine de réputation internationale Mme Nancy Fraser.

Pour qui la justice?

Qui compte en tant que sujet de justice? Il n’y a pas si longtemps, il était largement accepté que ceux qui «comptaient» étaient simplement les citoyens d’un État territorialement défini. Cependant, aujourd’hui, alors que des activistes dénoncent des injustices qui transcendent les frontières, cette vision ‘westphalienne’ est contestée et la question du «qui» de la justice devient l’objet de débats importants.

Nancy Fraser est professeure et directrice du dép. de philosophie et de science politique à la New School for Social Research de New York. Dans son plus récent volume, Scales of Justice: Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing World (Columbia University Press, 2008), Nancy Fraser tente de reconstruire certains concepts clés de la philosophie politique dans la «constellation postwestphalienne» et offre ainsi une réflexion poussée sur «qui doit quoi à qui» en cette ère de mondialisation néolibérale.

www.turmel.uqam.ca

Le 20 novembre 2009, de 18h30 à 20h30

Studio Théâtre Alfred-Laliberté, UQAM
405, rue Ste-Catherine E.
Local J-M400

ENTRÉE LIBRE