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Issues on the (Im)Possible conference
Some pictures from the conference
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Talk at the Georgian American University in Tbilisi, Georgia.
On May 29-30, 2024, Miloš Kosterec, the principal investigator of the project, along with researcher Irakli Chedia, were invited to present their project findings at School of Law, Social Sciences and Diplomacy, at Georgian American University in Tbilisi.
During this occasion Miloš Kosterec presented the project and delivered a talk regarding dispute between theists and atheists from the perspective of analytical philosophy. Irakli Chedia delivered a talk titled "Replacing the Idea of God". Both talks sparked engaging discussions and generated big interest.
We are grateful to the Georgian American University in Tbilisi for hosting us and providing a platform to share our research insights.
Talk at the Department of Philosophy, University of Maribor (Slovenia)
On May 22, 2024, Miloš Kosterec, the principal investigator of the project, along with Mirco Sambrotta and Irakli Chedia, were invited to present the project findings at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Maribor in Slovenia.
On this occasion, Mirco Sambrotta delivered a compelling talk titled "On the Necessity of God's Existence," which captivated the audience and sparked engaging discussions.
We are grateful to the University of Maribor for hosting us and providing a platform to share our research insights.
Several talks at the "Výročná konferencia SFZ pri SAV: Filozofia ako prekračovanie hraníc" (Košice, Slovakia)
Miloš Kosterec, the principal investigator of the project, along with Naomi Osorio-Kupferblum and Mirco Sambrotta, participated in the "Výročná konferencia SFZ pri SAV: Filozofia ako prekračovanie hraníc" held at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia, from October 25 to 27, 2023. This annual conference, co-organized by Slovenské filozofické združenie pri SAV, the Institute of Philosophy of Slovak Academy of Sciences v.v.i, and the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, featured Kosterec's presentation on "The Limits of the Logic of Essences", Osorio-Kupferblum's talk on "How to be a Topic", and Sambrotta's discussion on "If God Looked into AI Systems, Would He Be Able to See Whom They Are Speaking Of?".
Talk at the XXVII Czecho-Slovak Symposium on Analytic Philosophy (Bratislava, Slovakia)
Miloš Kosterec, the project's principal investigator, participated in the XXVII Czecho-Slovak Symposium on Analytic Philosophy held by the Department of Logic and Methodology of Sciences at Comenius University in Bratislava from September 11 to 13, 2023. He delivered a talk titled "TIL and Existence" (for additional details in Slovak, visit: https://fphil.uniba.sk/katedry-a-odborne-pracoviska/klmv/veda/cssafxvii/).
The 15th Conference of the Italian Society of Analytic Philosophy (Alessandria, Italy)
Naomi Osorio-Kupferblum and Mirco Sambrotta actively engaged in the 15th Conference of the Italian Society of Analytic Philosophy (SIFA23) "Who is afraid of Philosophy", which took place at the University of Eastern Piedmont in Alessandria, Italy, from September 7 to 11, 2023. Osorio-Kupferblum delivered a talk titled "Aboutness, by Jove!", while Sambrotta's presentation focused on "The Necessity of God's Existence: Divine Names and Modality."
Symposium at the 11th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (Vienna, Austria)
Several members of the project participated in the 11th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (ECAP11) held at the University of Vienna from August 21 to 25, 2023. They presented a symposium titled "A Semantic Problem of Divine Names." The project members involved were Naomi Osorio-Kupferblum, Mirco Sambrotta, Daniela Vacek, and Martin Vacek. Additionally, Jozef Sábo, an external expert, also contributed to the symposium. The talks explored various facets of divine names, covering topics such as the structured systems underlying divine names and the conceptual challenges posed by them. In particular, Naomi Osorio-Kupferblum advocated for an ontologically neutral account of aboutness, in her talk titled "What Divine Names Are About." Mirco Sambrotta proposed an expressivist approch to modal claims involving divine names, in his presentation titled "The Necessity of God's Existence: Divine Names and Modality." Daniela Vacek presented the main findings of her paper "God is a Concept: A Semantic Problem of Divine Names"; the paper is co- authored with project members Marie Duží and Miloš Kosterec, and aims to motivate a hyperintensional analysis of divine names. Martin Vacek, in his presentation "The Vacuity of the Notion of God," discussed some of the challenges and complexities arising from divine names in the context of possible (and impossible) world semantics. Finally, in his talk "God is a Rule: Divine Names and System of Rules" Jozef Sábo viewed religions as structured systems of rules and divine names as the rules of validating them.
