[MaFLa] CEU Summer University courses in philosophy - JULY 2018 - APPLY NOW!

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CEU Summer University invites applications from graduate students, postdocs and junior faculty and researchers. Tuition waivers are available.
Application deadline: February 14, 2018.
See course details below.
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MORAL EPISTEMOLOGY
JULY 12 - JULY 19, 2018 BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
COURSE DIRECTORS: Chrysovalantis Margaritidis, Simon Rippon (CEU)
FACULTY: Matt Bedke (University of British Columbia), Robert Cowan (University of Glasgow), Julia Driver (Washington University in St. Louis), Antti Kauppinen (University of Tampere) and Paulina Sliwa (University of Cambridge)
The course will explore issues related to the nature and justification of intuitions, the concept of a reflective equilibrium, the ideas of moral testimony and moral expertise, how disagreement in moral matters affects our accounts of moral knowledge and evolutionary debunking arguments of morality. Each thematic area will be examined separately. For each area, a lecture will address the most important themes, followed by discussions in seminar format. Students will be required to prepare the corresponding collection of principal texts found in their reader. The last part of the course will include individual consultations with the instructors and presentations by the participants.
For further academic information on the course and on eligibility criteria and funding options please visit the web site at http://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/epistemology-2018
THE HISTORY AND METAPHYSICS OF THE CONCEPT OF LAWS OF NATURE
JULY 2 - 10, 2018, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
COURSE DIRECTOR: Barry Loewer (university of Rutgers)
FACULTY: David Albert (Columbia University), Thomas Blanchard (Illinois Wesleyan University), Heather Demarest (University of Colorado Boulder), Michael Griffin (CEU), Michael Townsen Hicks (University of Oxford), Stathis Psillos (University of Athens), and Christopher Gregory Weaver (University of Illinois)
 The purpose of the course is to acquaint course participants with recent work on the history and metaphysics of the concept of scientific law and related concepts that are central to the development and understanding of science. These concepts are important to philosophical accounts of both science and to metaphysics. While there has been a great deal of active research on writing on the metaphysics of laws and also on the history of the concept of laws there has been little interaction between researchers involved in each project. Such interaction will greatly enhance work on both projects. One of the goals of the summer course is to initiate and encourage such interaction.
The idea that one of the primary aims of the sciences, especially fundamental physics, is to discover the laws that govern or describe phenomena emerged during the 16th to 18th centuries from the view that the world is governed by Divine will. Laws described the regularities that are divinely imposed on the world. During the 19th and 20th centuries the theological origin of the concept of laws faded away but it left the question of exactly what makes a regularity lawful - what are scientific laws and how are they related to phenomena? This question has become of central interest in metaphysics and philosophy of science. A number of views about what laws are and how they are related to explanation, causation, and probability have been developed in recent philosophy. This course will address aspects of both the history and the accounts of scientific laws.
The course will meet on 8 days. Each day will be divided into two lectures in the morning 10-1, lunch, and discussions or lecture 3-5 in the afternoon. Students will be asked to send 2 questions on the readings and lectures to the faculty after each morning session. The afternoons will also provide opportunities for one on one meetings between students and faculty to discuss student's questions and work.
The course will begin with two days of lectures on how the concepts of scientific law and causation developed in the 16th and 17th centuries, in particular in the work of Galileo, Descartes, Leibniz, Newton. Hume, Kant and its subsequent development later in Hamilton, Lagrange, Laplace, Maxwell and Boltzmann. The next three days of lectures will concern the three main metaphysical accounts of laws: Humean views (Lewis, Earman, Loewer), Governing views (Maudlin, Armstrong, Tooley), Powers views (Bird, Ellis). Arguments for and against these various positions will be discussed. Days six and seven will be concerned with the role of laws in explanation, induction, and causation. The last day will be devoted to whether there are laws of the special sciences and if there are how they are related to fundamental laws of physics and to summary of the course.
For further academic information on the course and on eligibility criteria and funding options please visit the web site at https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/metaphysics-2018
THINKING ABOUT THE POSSIBLE
9 JULY - 14 JULY, 2017, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
COURSE DIRECTORS: Patricia Ganea, (University of Toronto), Agnes Kovacs, Department of Cognitive Science, (CEU)
FACULTY: Sarah Beck (Department of Psychology, University of Birmingham), Ruth Byrne (School of Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin), Gergely Csibra (Department of Cognitive Science, CEU), Felipe de Brigard (Department of Philosophy, Duke University), Paul Harris (Graduate School of Education, Harvard University), Christoph Hoerl (Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick), Ferenc Huoranszki (Department of Philosophy, CEU), Karen S. Lewis (Department of Philosophy, Barnard College), Christopher Lucas (School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh), Teresa McCormack (School of Psychology, Queen's University), Eva Rafetseder (Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling), Erno Teglas (Department of Cognitive Science, CEU) and Caren Walker (Department of Psychology, University of California San Diego)
Thinking about the possible and impossible and exploring counterfactual ("what if?") scenarios are fundamental aspects of the human mind. The boundary conditions for counterfactual thinking, and the extent to which it shares the same underlying cognitive machinery with related abilities such as episodic future thinking and pretend play, are currently the subjects of substantial debate in philosophy and psychology. The course will bring together diverse perspectives on imagination and counterfactual reasoning, with seminars offered by faculty from the fields of Developmental and Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Informatics on a range of topics. Course participants will learn about empirical techniques and findings from studies in cognitive development, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience and will engage with theoretical perspectives on the nature of imagination and counterfactual reasoning.
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APPLICATION DEADLINES: FEBRUARY 14, 2018
Central European University's summer school (CEU SUN), established in 1996, is a program in English for graduate students, junior or post-doctoral researchers, teachers and professionals. It offers high-level, research-oriented, interdisciplinary academic courses as well as workshops on policy issues for professional development, taught by internationally renowned scholars and policy experts (including CEU faculty). Application from all over the world is encouraged.
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