Topic: Conflict and harmony in the philosophical thought

What do conflict and harmony mean for the philosophical thought? How are these two concepts explained in the political and ethical theories and how should we understand both the realities of war and the fictions of the philosophical utopias? What importance does conflict and harmony have in the historical development of the modern human being and in its phenomenological interactions with the otherness? How can we experience from an aesthetic point of view the state of conflict and harmony and how are they discussed in the philosophy of art? What does it mean to be in conflict or in harmony with a specific philosophical tradition and how can we conceive those two opposing concepts at the level of agreement and disagreement between different philosophical positions and theories. These are some of the questions that the Conference for Doctoral Students in Philosophy will invite you to explore in its third edition.

More details:

The Doctoral School of Philosophy from Babeș-Bolyai University invites submissions for the third edition of the International Conference for Doctoral Students in Philosophy that is organized between May 19-20, 2023. The event will be held in a hybrid format. The conference is supported by three research centers of the Faculty of History and Philosophy: Center for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Center for Applied Philosophy and Department of Philosophy in Hungarian Language.

Official languages of the conference are: English, Romanian and Hungarian.

Besides the main topic of the event, we invite submissions of papers from all areas and topics of philosophy: phenomenology, semiology, hermeneutics, ethics, aesthetics, political philosophy, philosophy of culture and communication, logic, history of philosophy, studies of ancient and medieval philosophy, Romanian philosophy, Hungarian philosophy, and P4C (philosophy for children).

The conference will have thematic parallel panels organized according to the topics of the submitted papers, in all the official languages of the conference. The presentations will be made either online or on site, at the Babeș-Bolyai University, depending on the request of the participants. All the doctoral students of the Doctoral School of Philosophy are kindly asked to participate on site. Participants should specify when submitting their abstract whether they wish to participate physically or online. Before the event the participants should send a draft version of their paper. The organizers cannot cover the accommodation and traveling costs for those foreign participants who wish to attend the event on site.

Abstract and paper submission:

Abstracts should be up to 350 words, suitable for a 15-minute talk followed by 5 minutes Q&A, and anonymised for blind review. The papers should be no longer than 10 pages (text body: Times New Roman, at 12 ppt, justified, at 1,5 lines).

Deadline for abstract submissions: 3rd April 2023.

Communication of acceptance: 16th April 2023

Deadline for paper submission (only for accepted proposals): 6th May 2023.

For submissions, please send your anonymised work at vlad.ile@ubbcluj.ro. The author’s name, affiliation, contact information and attending method (online or on site) should be specified in the message.

Please feel free to get in touch with Ile Vlad, the secretary of the Doctoral School of Philosophy (vlad.ile@ubbcluj.ro), for any further questions you may have.

Publication opportunities:

The scientific committee of the conference will select a number of papers to be published in collective volumes hosted by Studia UBB Philosophia and Revista de Filosofie Aplicată.

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