What are "altruism" and "selfishness" in human action, and do they exclude each other? Which role do they play in economics? What's the point of accusing someone of being "selfish", and is the pleasure of feeling morally superior not "selfish" in its own way?

Let's continue exploring philosophy and its borders in a conversation between Christoph Fehige, Professor of Practical Philosophy at Saarland University in Saarbrücken and Senior Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg, and Urs Fischbacher, Professor of Applied Research in Economics at the University of Konstanz and Head of the Thurgau Institute of Economics. Chaired by Nathalie Behnke, Professor of Public Administration at the University of Konstanz, the next event of this new lecture event series will take place under the heading:

"Human Action between Altruism and Selfishness. A conversation between a Moral Philosopher and an Economist"

Wednesday, 9th of May 2012

5.00 p.m. - 6.30 p.m.

in V 1001 (Senatsaal)

This event will be followed by a modest reception.

It is possible to offer child-care during this evening. Please contact Stefanie Sender on this matter (stefanie.sender@uni-konstanz.de).

On Monday, 30th April 2012, another workshop of the Department of Philosophy will take place from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. in V 1001. All Members of the Zukunftskolleg are invited to join this workshop. Among others Jeffrey A. Barrett will discuss about "Logic".

Program

On Monday, 19th March 2012, a workshop of the Department of Philosophy will take place from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. in V 1001. All Members of the Zukunftskolleg are invited to join the workshop with Jeffrey A. Barrett dealing with "Philosophy of Science".

Program

The Zukunftskolleg is happy to greet Senior Fellows Christoph Fehige (University of Saarbrücken) and Dimitri Ginev (University of Sofia) who both arrived at the University of Konstanz on 09.01.2012. Christoph Fehige (nominated by Atilla Tanyi) deals with the topics of Practical Philosophy and his current project at the University of Konstanz is titled "Peace and Tolerance in Consequentialist Ethics". The focus of Dimitri Ginev (nominated by Jeff Kochan) is on Hermeneutics. His current project theme is "Hermeneutic Program in the Philosophy of Science". Also, within the framework of his Senior Fellowship, David Leep (University of Kentucky) is at the Zukunftskolleg since 09.01.2012.

We warmly welcome all Senior Fellows.

On Monday December 12^th, 2011, Jeffrey A. Barrett will chair a first workshop taking place 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. in room V 1001. Following topics are intended:

15:00-16:00: Jeff Barrettt (UC Irvine/Senior Fellow): Pure Wave Mechanics and the Very Idea of Empirical Adequacy

16:15-17:15: Mathias Frisch (Maryland/Munich): Incantations of Causation and Other Philosophical Sins

17:30-18:30: Carl Hoefer (Barcelona): A Humean Looks at Quantum Probability

18:45-19:45: Charlotte Werndl (London School of Economics): Evidence in Climate Science and the Problem of Double-Counting and Future Uncertainty

The Zukunftskolleg welcomes Prof. Jeffrey Alan Barrett who arrived in Konstanz today. He will stay as Senior Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg until July 31^st, 2012. Jeffrey A. Barrett comes from the University of California in Irvine (USA) where he is Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the School of Social Sciences. He was nominated by the Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg Franz Huber. During his stay he will work on the project „Modeling the coevolution of descriptive language and physical theory“.

Samuel Schindler, who just moved as an Associate Professor in Philosophy of Science from the Zukunftskolleg to the University of Aarhus in Denmark, will be back in Konstanz as one of the organizers of the PSX2—2nd International Workshop on the Philosophy of Scientific Experimentatio. The workshop of the Department of Philosopy (University of Konstanz) is supported by the Zukunftskolleg and will take place October 21/22 2011.

more information

In the winter term Dr. Wolfgang Freitag, fellow at the Zukunftskolleg and "Privatdozent" at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Konstanz, will substitute an "Assistenzprofessur" at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He will work for the Institute of Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities from 01.08.2011 to 31.01.2012.

The fellow of the Zukunftskolleg Wolfgang Freitag organizes a workshop titeled "The Nature of Possibility" for the Department of Philosophy of the University of Konstanz . The first talk "Lewis - He Himself! - On the Analysis of Modality" will be given by John Divers (Univesity of Leeds) on Thursday 26th May at 6.15.pm (room G 307). Also there will be talks by members of the Department of Philosophy on various topics surrounding possibility and necessity (room C 358) on Friday 27th May, from 9.30 am to 4.45 pm.

More information about the programm and abstracts you will find here.

The Department of Philosophy and Zukunftskolleg Fellow Franz Huber are organising the following events at the University of Konstanz:

7th Formal Epistemology Workshop 2010
FEW 2010
University of Konstanz
September 2-4, 2010
program available at:
http://fitelson.org/few/

Actual Causation Conference
University of Konstanz
September 23-24, 2010
program will be available at:
http://www.uni-konstanz.de/FuF/Philo/Philosophie/philosophie/301-0-Spohn.html

Causation, Coherence, Concepts
Themes from the Philosophy of Wolfgang Spohn
University of Konstanz
November 11-13, 2010
program available at:
http://www.uni-konstanz.de/philosophie/fe/index.php?article_id=4

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