The Fifth International Conference for Doctoral Students in Philosophy

The Fifth International Conference for Doctoral Students in Philosophy proposes a discussion concerning the boundaries and interactions between two epistemic states, ubiquitous experienced by human beings and differently construed by various philosophical traditions in their long historical development: knowing and being ignorant. Doctoral students are invited to explore problems related to the philosophical mapping of knowledge and ignorance through different historical stages, by investigating questions such as: what can different philosophical attitudes and theories teach us about human knowledge, its limitations and capabilities? how distinct philosophical traditions have accounted for the everyday ignorance and how ignorance has been reinvented as a philosophical concept? how knowledge or ignorance translates into action and how the fact of knowing or ignoring something has a normative effect? how can ethical and political decision-making processes be influenced when these two polarizing states are applicable on a macro-social level? why philosophical education can be seen as an appropriate tool against ignorance? what norms, principles and standards have been used or should be used for distinguishing between knowledge and ignorance?

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Friday, May 16
11.00-12.00 Plenary Lecture I
MARTINA PROPERZI (Pontifical Lateran University of Rome) – Surfing Complexity: Minimal Self-Awareness in a Transdisciplinary Perspective
Room 138/François Chamoux and online

Saturday, May 17
10.00-11.00 Plenary Lecture II
MARIO LOCONSOLE (University of Salento) – Challenging the Aristotelian Epistemological Paradigm on the Motion of Inanimate Bodies. An Idea Behind a successful Marie Skłodowska-Curie Project
Room 138/François Chamoux and online

Programme