Annonces
Membres TCEP/EPTC présente au Congrès 2011 des sciences humaines à le University of New Brunswick (UNB) et St. Thomas University (STU), Fredericton, Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada :
Saša Stanković (Guelph)
The Problem of Self-Knowledge in Kant’s Critical Philosophy
l'Association canadienne de philosophie
MacLaggan Hall 16 (UNB)
Lundi 30 mai, 10h15-11h15
Résumé : How can Kant's philosophy remain critical while at the same time committing itself to the existence of the thing in itself? In this paper I argue that as long as we understand the thing in itself in terms of the transcendental object, it cannot. However, I argue that we can also understand the thing in itself differently. If we understand the thing in itself in terms of human faculties, then we can in fact know it. However, this knowledge does not take the form of representation, but rather of actualization. In this way I answer my question. I close the paper by giving one example of knowledge as actualization, namely self-consciousness.
Christine Daigle (Brock) & Christinia Landry (WLU)
Existentialist Ethics: Transcendence in Sartre and Beauvoir
l'Association canadienne de philosophie
MacLaggan Hall 015 (UNB)
Lundi 30 mai, 11h30-12h30
Résumé : In Being and Nothingness, Sartre's notion of transcendence as project is diametrically opposed to the fleshy immanence of the body. However, this undermines being-with-others. Conversely, Beauvoir's notion of ambiguity unveils bodily immanence as the necessary condition for transcendence rather than a trap as Sartre argues. This is a sophisticated and potentially richer view than Sartre's whereby acknowledging one's immanence puts oneself at risk toward the Other but is also the only way to generate an authentic and harmonious encounter with the Other.
Don Landes (McGill)
Defending Collingwood’s Difficult Ethics
l'Association canadienne de philosophie
MacLaggan Hall 111 (UNB)
Lundi 30 mai, 11h30-12h30
Résumé : In a recent defence of Collingwood's The Principles of Art, Aaron Ridley attempts to scale back Collingwood's claim that every human gesture or utterance is a work of art. Although Ridley‘s defence of Collingwood's theory of expression is correct, his rejection of Collingwood's generalization threatens Collingwood's underlying ethical point against the "corruption of consciousness." In this paper, I argue that accepting Collingwood's account of the process of expression entails accepting his difficult ethical position.
Frédérick Bruneault (Laval) (TCEP/EPTC agent de communications)
La fondation pragmatico-transcendantale de l'éthique de la discussion
l'Association canadienne de philosophie
MacLaggan Hall 015 (UNB)
Lundi 30 mai, 14h00-15h00
Résumé : L'objectif de ce texte est d'examiner l'utilisation proposée par Apel du travail de Peirce en vue de la fondation de l'éthique de la discussion. Je procéderai en trois étapes : j'examinerai d'abord les grandes lignes du travail d'interprétation qu'offre Apel de la pensée de Peirce, plus particulièrement sa théorie du signe. J'analyserai ensuite la conclusion que tire Apel de cette interprétation, principalement l'établissement du concept de communauté illimitée de communication. Je soulignerai enfin de quelle façon ce travail permet à Apel de déterminer certaines règles morales fondamentales démontrées transcendentalement et donc objectivement valides.
Ami Harbin (Dalhousie), Kym Maclaren (Ryerson) & Alexis Shotwell (Laurentian)
(Joint Session) Memory, Feeling, and Opperession: A Philosophical Celebration of the Work of Sue Campbell
l'Association canadienne de philosophie
MacLaggan Hall 111 (UNB)
Lundi 30 mai, 14h00-17h30
Chloë Taylor (Alberta) (TCEP/EPTC présidente)
(Book Symposium) Ladelle McWhorter's Racism and Sexual Opperssion in Anglo-America: A Genealogy
l'Association canadienne de philosophie
MacLaggan Hall 14 (UNB)
Mardi 31 mai, 14h00-17h30
Matthew King (York) (TCEP/EPTC vice-président)
Dialectic Is the Good: On the Ambiguity of Republic 533
l'Association canadienne de philosophie
MacLaggan Hall 14 (UNB)
Mercredi 1 juin, 10h15-11h15
Résumé : I argue that an ambiguity between dialectic and the good at Republic 533 suggests that dialectic is the good. I explain why it is implausible that Glaucon can't follow an account of what dialectic is; more plausibly, what Glaucon can't follow is an account of the identity of dialectic and the good. Finally, I show how the idea that dialectic is the good coheres with what is said about the go in Book 6.
Christophe Perrin (Paris-Sorbonne / Fondation Thiers)
Carnap et Heidegger : L’entente cordiale
l'Association canadienne de philosophie
MacLaggan Hall (UNB)
Mercredi 1 juin, 10h15-11h15
Résumé : Dépassement de la métaphysique – Le mot est de Carnap qui y voit un génitif objectif, l'idée de Heidegger qui le conçoit subjectif. Si en métaphysique nous savons au moins confusément qui dépasse quoi, reste à comprendre distinctement qui dépasse qui, ou plutôt en quoi Heidegger dépasse Carnap. Or c'est parce qu'il le convainc que Heidegger vainc Carnap qui saisit bien ce qu'il veut dire et n'est pas sans l'affirmer à son tour. Cordiale entente donc.
John Duncan (Toronto) (TCEP/EPTC président fondateur)
Between the Perception of Peacekeeping and the Realities of International Credibility
Association canadienne de recherche pour la paix
Margaret Norrie McCain Hall 203 (STU)
Vendredi 3 juin, 9h30-11h45
Résumé : Polls show that Canadians believe that Canada has a significant heritage of peacekeeping. However, many pundits argue that Canada has really pursued national interests in foreign conflict situations, and that peacekeeping has never guided Canadian foreign policy. Recently, the pundits say, Canadian foreign policy aims have been primarily to improve Canadian credibility at the table of international affairs, which for Canada is a table dominated by the United States. Canadians have to interpret national policy and action between the perception of peacekeeping and the realities of international credibility. From the perspective of elements of Canadian peace movements, the perception of peacekeeping is used as a normative standard against which to evaluate Canadian foreign policy and hold it accountable. However, the dangers of such immanent critique must be acknowledged. Proponents of policy aims in accordance with the realities of international credibility have deployed Canadian perceptions of peacekeeping to cloak the pursuit of real interests within the perceptions of peacekeeping.