Programme 2012

Session 1 - Topics on Kant (Mercierzaal)

• Chair: Prof. M. Moors
• Moderator: Christopher Johnson
  • Cody Staton (MA), “Maimon and the Logic of Genesis”
  • Weija Wang (MPhil), “The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Moral Good in Kant’s Critique of Judgment”
  • Ryan H. Wines (PhD), “Groundwork I’s Analysis of Common Moral Rational Cognition”

Session 2- Phenomenology: From Classical to Contemporary Approaches I: the Art of Living (Room N)

• Chair: Prof. R. Breeur
• Moderator: Kristopher Escobar
  • Julie Van der Wielen (MA) & Corry Shores (PhD), “Friendship as a Condition for Thought: Blanchot, Deleuze and the Discourse of Philosophy”
  • James DiFrisco (PhD), “Vital Organization in Bergson and in Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics”
  • Daniel Minch (MA in Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion ), “The Contingency of Experience: Edward Schillebeeckx and the Absolute Limit”

Session 1 - Hegel Reconsidered (Mercierzaal)

• Chair: Prof. W. Desmond
• Moderator: James Luke
  • McInnis Meryem Ucar (PhD), "The Role of Recollection in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit"
  • Stephen Hudson (PhD), "Hegel as a Conservative Political Thinker: Elaborations on Roger Scruton’s Project"
  • Lydia Azadpour (MPhil), "Hegel and Brunonian Medicin"
  • Wanderley Dias da Silva (MA), "Vilém Flusser: Is the Devil an Idiot, Mr. Hegel?"

Session 2 - Ego and Anthropology (Room N)

• Chair: Prof. R. Visker
• Moderator: Jiha Kang Allen
  • Thomas Jones (PhD), “Habitus, Repetition, and the Ego in the Early Pre-Psychoanalytical Thought of Freud”
  • Oleg Lebedev (MPhil), “The Animal House of Lacan”
  • Filippo Carraro (MPhil), “Deleuze’s Aesthetical Answer to Heraclitus”

Session 3 - Ethics and Ontology (Room S)

• Chair: Prof. G. Van Riel
• Moderator: Brian Garcia
  • Antonio Ramos Díaz (MPhil), “Cognitive Voluntarism”
  • Christopher D. B. Johnson (MA),”The Implicit Ontology of Thomas Hobbe’s Leviathan”
  • Michael Jaworzyn (PhD), “Eternal Beatitude and the Devil in Arnold Geulincx’s Ethics”

   

Lunch (Raadzaal)

13:30 - 14:45

Session 1 - Political Thought I: Language and Power (Mercierzaal)

• Chair: Prof. H. De Schutter
• Moderator: James Luke McInnis
  • Donatas Šinkūnas (MPhil), ”The Value and Preservation of Endangered Languages”
  • Gabriele Ciampini (PhD, University of Florence), “Bertrand de Jouvenel and the Problem of Oligarchy in Modern Politics”
  • Esma Baycan (MA), “David Miller’s Theory of Migration: A Critical Assessment. The Nature of the States’ Border Regimes”

Session 2 - Phenomenology: From Classical to Contemporary Approaches II: the Question of Meaning (Room N)

• Chair: N. de Warren
• Moderator: Stephen Hudson
  • Xavier Meulders (MPhil), “Liberty and the Good: A Phenomenological Account”
  • Kris Goffin (MPhil), “The Ritual as Expression of Human Meaning: In Dialogue with Frazer, Wittgenstein and Collingwood”
  • Kris Escobar (MPhil), “Love as a Motive: Ethical Duty and Love’s Demands”

Session 3 - Medieval Topics (Room S)

• Chair: Prof. R. Friedman
• Moderator: Efi Giannakoura
  • Michaël Bauwens (MPhil), "Why We are Free: Duns Scotus and the Contemporary Free Will Debate”
  • Brian Garcia (MPhil), “Introducing the Vis Cogitativa: Thomas Aquinas’ Other ‘Imagination’”
  • Cyril Kenneth Crawford, OSB (PhD), “Beingness and God: St. Maximus the Confessor and the Ontology of Ontotês”

Session 1- Truth, Possibility and Freedom (Mercierzaal)

• Chair: Prof. K. de Boer
• Moderator: Meryem Ucar
  • Fabrizio Luciano (PhD), “Truth as Excess and Authenticity in Heidegger”
  • Joel Hubick (MPhil), “Heidegger on Possibility”
  • Osvaldo Ottaviani (PhD, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), “On Kant’s Notion of Real Possibility”
  • Tomas Šinkūnas (MA), “Kierkegaard’s Notion of Freedom in Concept of Anxiety”

Session 2 - Traversing Religion, Modernity and Science (Room S)

• Chair: Prof. A. Cloots
• Moderator: Stephen Hudson
  • Ben Schewel (PhD), “Religion with the Soul of Science”
  • Gert Meyers (MSC), “Challenging the Humanities”
  • Eleonora Mingarelli (MPhil), “Becoming Personal: Whitehead’s Alternative to Parfit’s Reductionist Account of Personal Identity”
  • Robyn Penney (MPhil), “The Difficulty of Being a Self”: Taylor and Gauchet on the Modern Human Condition”

Session 3 - Political Thought II: Law and Institutions (Room N)

• Chairs: Prof. B. Raymaekers, Dr. R. Geenens
• Moderator: Daniel Burnfin
  • Stijn Van Tongerloo (MPhil), “Searle, Codification, and the Emergence of Institutions”
  • Lode Cossaer (MPhil), “A Nozickean Argument for Good Samaritan Laws”
  • James Luke McInnis (MPhil), “Hart and the Supreme Rule of Recognition”
  • David Tracey (CADES), “Is Genuine Political Rebellion Possible? A Foucauldian Reading”

16:30 - 16:45

Coffee Break (Raadzaal)

16:50 - 18:10

Session 1 - Political Thought III: Understanding Ideas (Mercierzaal)

• Chairs: Prof. T. Heysse, Dr. M. Lievens
• Moderator: Lode Cossaer
  • Liesbeth Schoonheim (MPhil), “From Ideology to Fragmentation”
  • Daniel Burnfin (MPhil), “‘Capital’ as ‘Parallax’: An Essay on Understanding Marx’s Value-Form”
  • Alberto De Piccoli (MPhil), “The Concept of Alienation from Marx to Marcuse. The Problematic Character of an Idea in the Late Industrial Society”

Session 2 - On Human Agency (Room S)

• Chairs: Dr. J. Heylen, Dr. Ch. Kelp
• Moderator: Jiha Kang
  • Lorenz Demey (PhD), “Reduction Axioms in Dynamic Logics of Agency”
  • Harmen Ghijsen (PhD), “Two Rejoinders on Behalf of Eliminative Phenomenal Disjunctivism”
  • Jean Goldi Horta (International Scholar), “How Can Imagination Help Us Conceive of Meaning Anew?”

Session 3 - The Power of the Mind (Room N)

• Chair: Prof. A. De Block
• Moderator: Kristopher Escobar
  • Hugh Desmond (PhD), “Pragmatic-Phenomenological Aspects of Meditation: How Far Can a Purely Neuroscientific Approach Go?”
  • Sam Cardoen (MA), “Suffering, Sympathy, Skepticism”
  • Jonathan Sholl (PhD), “A Non-Phenomenological Account of Disease: Goldstein, Merleau-Ponty, Canguilhem”

Keynote Speaker (Mercierzaal)

• Prof. N. de Warren, “Resentment and the Paradox of Forgiveness”