The question whether there is a place for philosophers nowadays and how much influence they exercise in our everyday life seems as valid as it was 25 centuries ago in the time of Socrates. It will be also the leitmotif of the conference devoted to the practical philosophy of John Lachs (presently leading American pragmatist), during which academic world meets everyday life. If you want to listen to philosophical debate about values, the art of acting ethically, relativism, the state of being in love with life or you just wish to challenge your theoretical mind, it is the place to be.
John Lachs’s Practical Philosophy Conference Speakers
August 11-13, 2015
List of Speakers (August 6, 2015)
titles of their presentations and abstracts/texts
- John Lachs, PhD, Centennial Professor at Philosophy Department, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA; “Practical Philosophy”
- Jason Bell, PhD, Assumption College, Massachusetts, USA: “Lachs and the Prudential Opposition to Tyranny“
- Edgar Cabanas Díaz, PhD, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Centre for History of Emotions, Berlin, Germany; “Pragmatism: An ethic for life or an ethic for science (or are they the same)?” Abstract
- Stephen Faison, PhD, Florida A&M University, USA: “Poetic Justice: Apology Overdue” TEXT
- Andrew Fiala, PhD, Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Director of the Ethics Center California State University, Fresno, USA; “Lachs, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness” Abstract TEXT
- Ian Hlavka, PhD Candidate, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic: “Lachs on Wm James” Abstract
- Michael Hodges, PhD, Professor at Philosophy Department, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA: “Lachs on Transcendence: Art and the Life of Reason” Text
- Nora Horvath, PhD, University of West Hungary: “Philosophy as a Life-Practice: Philosophical Notions about the Ameliorative Care of the Self“
- Othmar Kastner, PhD, Philosophy Department, University of Vienna, Austria: “James, Habermas, and Lachs on Pluralism“
- Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley, PhD, Director, Helen Louise Hawk Honors Program Chair, CSUB Academic Senate, California State University, Bakersfield, USA; “Are Acts of Institutions Really Fully Analyzable Into Constituent Actions of Human Beings?” TEXT
- Phillip McReynolds, PhD, Assistant Professor at Philosophy Department, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; “Practical Posthumanism in the Philosophy of John Lachs” TEXT
- Uliana Nikolaeva, PhD, Professor at Moscow State University, Russia: “Guess Who Comes to Dinner: Archaic World in Modern Everyday Life”
- Maja Niestrój, PhD Candidate, Chairwoman, Berlin Practical Philosophy International Forum, Berlin; Viadrina University, Frankfurt-Oder, Germany; Opole University, Poland; “In Love with Life: A Groundwork for An Erotic Philosophy”
- Charles Padrón, PhD, Independent Scholar, Gran Canaria, Spain; “‘Just Do It’: Reflections on John Lachs, Meaningful Effort, and the Broken World Abstract
- Daniel Pinkas, PhD, Professor at University of Media Design, Geneva, Switzerland: “Stoic and Epicurean Strands in Santayana, Montaigne, and Lachs” Abstract
- Nikita Pokrovsky, PhD, Professor at National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moskow, Russia — “Life After the City: Practical Philosophy of Interaction Between Man and Nature Reconsidered”
- Richard M. Rubin, PhD, University College, Washington University in St. Louis, USA: “Lachs vs. Santayana” Abstract TEXT
- Patrick Shade, PhD, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rhodes College, Memphis, USA: “Detente in the Family: Tolerance and Blindness in Facing Death.” Abstract
- Krzysztof (Chris) Piotr Skowroński, PhD, Associate Professor at Philosophy Department, Opole University, Poland; “Relativism in Philosophical Education” Text (shorter version) Abstract
- Michael Sullivan, PhD, Associate Professor at Philosophy Department, Emory University, Atlanta, USA; “John Lachs’s fröhliche Wissenschaft: deep thoughts with a light touch and practical purpose“
- Shannon Sullivan, PhD, Chair and Professor at Philosophy Department, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; “‘Raisins in the Bread of Life’: On the Practical Joys of John Lachs’s Stoic Pragmatism” TEXT
- Chris Taylor, Yale, USA: “Lachs’s Individualism“
- Griffin Trotter, MD, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, Salus Center, Saint Louis University, USA;“Nominalism in Ethics”
- Eric Thomas Weber, PhD, Associate Professor of Public Policy Leadership and Affiliate Faculty Member in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA: “Self-Respect, Positive Power, and Stoic Pragmatism: Rawls, Dewey, and Lachs on Justice and Happiness”
OTHER PARTICIPANTS:
- James Crippen Jr., PhD, California State University, Fullerton, USA
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