Philosophy, society
Department of
Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities
and Social Sciences
University of Rijeka
Rijeka, Croatia
and the sciences
17th Edition of the International Conference
Contemporary Philosophical Issues
Croatian Society for
Analytic Philosophy
(Hrvatsko društvo za
analitičku filozofiju)
Rijeka, 28-29 May, 2015
Filozofski fakultet u Rijeci
Sveučilišna avenija 4, 51000 Rijeka
Rijeka, Croatia
Day I – Thursday May 28 2015
Social epistemology and the sciences
9.45 – 10.00
10.00 – 11.00
11.00 – 11.40
11.40 – 12.00
12.00 – 12.40
12.40 – 13.20
13.20 – 15.20
15.20 – 16.00
16.00 – 16.40
16.40 – 17.00
17.00 – 17.40
Conference opening
Keynote speaker: Steve Fuller (Warwick University)
Writing the history of social epistemology with an eye to the future
Snježana Prijić-Samaržija (University of Rijeka)
Disagreement, epistemic autonomy and epistemic authority
Coffee break
Slobodan Perović (University of Belgrade)
Epistemic, social, and experimental diversity in mega-laboratories
Andrea Berber, Sandro Radovanović, and Vlasta Sikimić (University of
Belgrade)
Measuring efficiency of knowledge acquisition in a laboratory: the case of
Fermilab
Lunch break
Sergio Volodia Cremaschi (Università del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo
Avogadro”, Alessandria, Novara, Vercelli)
Adam Smith on the causes of social oppression
Boran Berčić (University of Rijeka)
Etnogenesis and essence
Coffee break
Jelena Mijić (University of Belgrade)
On some aspects of Quine's naturalized epistemology and feminist social
epistemology
Day II – Friday May 29
Scientific classification and explanation
10.00 – 11.00
11.00 – 11.40
11.40 – 12.00
12.00 – 12.40
12.40 – 13.20
13.20 – 15.20
Keynote speaker: Thomas Reydon (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Metaphysics naturalized? The case of classification in the sciences
Predrag Šustar (University of Rijeka)
Adaptationism and evolutionary molecular biology
Coffee break
Zdenka Brzović (University of Rijeka)
Psychopathy as a psychiatric kind
Bruno Pušić (Centre for Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb)
A survey of biologists on the species problem: comparison of a pilot survey
and the final survey
Lunch break
Other philosophical issues
Session A
Session B
15.20 – 16.00
Elvio Baccarini (University of Rijeka)
Public Reason and Treatment –
Enhancement of Psychopaths
16.00 – 16.40
Filip Čeč Marko Jurjako and Luca
Malatesti (University of Rijeka)
Moral responsibility and
psychological capacities in the
psychopath
Coffee break
Aleksandra Golubović and Jelena
Kopajtić (University of Rijeka)
Rethinking the argument from
design
Iris Vidmar (University of Rijeka)
Getting it right, fitting it all together:
virtues and values of philosophy
Vojislav Božičković (University of
Belgrade)
Anti-Individualism, confused
thoughts, and the subject’s
perspective
Dušan Dožudić (Centre for Croatian
Studies – University of Zagreb)
The standard relational analysis, its
commitments, and its rivals
16.40 – 17.00
17.00 – 17.40
17.40 – 18.20
Miljana Milojević (University of
Belgrade)
First Wave vs. Second Wave
extended cognition
Stipe Pandžić (Centre for Croatian
Studies – University of Zagreb)
The substratum theory and
constructive reasoning
Conference organisers: Slobodan Perović, Filip Čeč, Luca Malatesti, Zdenka Brzović