Finnland Insitut (our conference place) is located just at the Friedriechstrasse train station, one of the biggest train/metro stations in Berlin, easily communicated with all other stations (it is a next station to Hbf, or the very main station). Very close to this place we have tens, if not hundreds of pubs and and restaurants on both sides of the river (you have the Spree close by). Also, very short distance (5 min on foot) to Island of Museum, to Brandenburg Gate (10-15 min on foot) and … [Read more...]
Pragmatist Bioethics in John Lachs’s Perspective: an Outline
Chris Skowroński, Opole University, Poland/Berlin Forum, Germany There have always been controversies over the practicality of philosophy even when given authors claimed in their books and lectures that philosophy and ethics are vitally important for the members of the public. Yet not always have they been convincing in their claims. For some audiences, academic philosophers seem to stay closed within the university rooms and heard by hardly anybody else than the students and other … [Read more...]
Phil Oliver, Immediacy and the Future
“Parents are betting on their children, and their children after them, and theirs… If you don’t believe in the future, unreservedly and dreamily… I don’t see how you can have children.” Michael Chabon “One thing that makes us unique as a species is that for the last five or ten thousand years we have been the beneficiaries of conscious planning by our parents and cultures. Today we are actively concerning ourselves with what the world is going to be like in the future. We have strong beliefs … [Read more...]
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