something about philosophy as practice

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Summer Session 2009

Dates/ period: August 18-26, 2009

Title/Theme: PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY CROSSING DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES

The summer session 2009 continues the co-operative work of elucidation of the “practical turn” and of its consequences for re-orientation of philosophy in regional universities; the first session (2008) focused mostly on new thematic fields emerged in the result of the “practical turn”, while the actual session concentrates on the changes in disciplinary self-identification of philosophy.

Participants: all project participants (16 persons)

Resource faculty: Timo Airaksinen (University of Helsinki), Jurate Baranova (Vilnius Pedagogical University, Vitaly Kurennoy (Higher School of Economy, Moscow), Ilya Inishev (European Humanities University), Tatiana Shchyttsova (European Humanities University). Olga Shparaga (European Humanities University)

Detailed program of activities

Tentative program of the contact session includes:

First module (August 18, 2009)

Theme: Practically inspired philosophy beyond the disciplinary boundaries

Resource faculty: Ilya Inishev, Tatiana Shchyttsova

Main topics for discussion:

outcomes of the first project year and the actual thematic focus of activities;

institutional implications of the “practical turn”;

philosophy and interdisciplinary syntheses;

practical philosophy beyond the academic sphere.

Second module (August 19-20, 2009)

Theme: Integration of philosophical and sociological perspectives in comprehending social life

Resource faculty: Vitaly Kurennoy, Olga Shparaga

Main topics:

Is the social philosophy possible today?

“Social imaginary”: from social-philosophical ontology to the comparative study of “multiple modernities”;

Society and knowledge: revising the interaction between them

Philosophy and institutes

Depoliticized society and social-political theories

Basic readings:

Gaonkar Dilip (2002) Toward New Imaginaries, in *Public Culture, *14 (1)

Latour B. When things strike back: a possible contribution of ‘science studies’ to the social sciences.

Knorr Cetina K. Sociality with objects. Social relations in postsocial knowledge societies

Taylor Charles (2004) Modern Social Imaginaries. Duke University Press

Куренной В. Уединение университетского философа // Логос. 2007. № 6. С. 63-74.).

Фурс В. Нищета социальной философии. Российская социальная философия

сегодня (http://russ.ru/pole/Nischeta-social-noj-filosofii)

Фурс В. Белорусский проект “современности”?

(http://n-europe.eu/evropeiskaya_perspektiva_belarusi_intellektualnye_modeli),

Фурс В. Белорусская “реальность” в системе координат глобализации (постановка

вопроса) (http://belintellectuals.eu/publications/249/)

Шпарага О. Закон, солидарность, власть и борьба за власть: политика в нормативном смысле слова и ее границы.

Third module (August 21-22, 2009)

Theme: Applied ethics: between theoretical arguments and practical decision

Resource faculty: Timo Airaksinen, Tatiana Shchyttsova

Main topics:

Professional Ethics:

The meaning and definition of a ‘classical profession’.

Problems for engineers and engineering: safety, health, and welfare.

Heterogenous professional ethics; or the many roles of the modern professional.

Biotechnology and Вioethics:

ethical problems of technological intervention in human reproduction;

transformation of the traditional image of parenthood;

human nature and autoevolution (naturalization of humanity via the modern sciences/technologies).

Basic readings:

Airaksinen T. The Philosophy of Professional Ethics.

Airaksinen T. Professional Ethics.

K. Bayertz. GenEthics. Technological Intervention in Human Reproduction as a Philosophical Problem.

F. Fukuyama, Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution.

J. Habermas The Future of Human Nature.

Щитцова Т. К вопросу о непристойности биотехнологий.

(http://topos.ehu.lt/zine/2007/2/schytzova.pdf)

Fourth module (August 24-25, 2009)

Theme: Philosophy and/as literature

Resource faculty: Jurate Baranova, Ilya Inishev

Main topics:

Interconnections between philosophy and literature: philosophy as a way of conceptualization of literature – literature as a medium of philosophizing

The possibilities of institutional self-identification of philosophy: between science, social critics and writing

The epistemological potential of literary experience

Political and existential-practical dimensions of literature

Social and literary imaginary: social-theoretical potential of literary experience

Basic readings:

Derrida J. This Strange Institution Called Literature // Derrida J. Acts of Literature/ ed. D. Attridge, New York, London; Routledge, 1992

Deleuze G. Literature and Life // Deleuze G. Essays Critical and Clinical. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997

Gumbrecht H.-U. Presence Achieved in Language (With Special Attention Given to the Presence of the Past)

Iser W. Fictionalizing: The Anthropological Dimension of Literary Fictions

Rorty R. Philosophy as a Kind of Writing: An Essay on Derrida

Rancière J. The Politics of Literature

Fifth module (August 26, 2009)

Concluding general discussion.

Planning of the inter-session activity.

Resource faculty: Ilya Inishev, Tatiana Shchyttsova.