John McDermott, Texas
A&M University, USA Transiency and Amelioration: Revisited
Chair:
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:45
Session I
- Ethics
Paul Thompson, Purdue
University, USA Pragmatism, Discourse Ethics, and Occasional Philosophy
John Shook, Oklahoma State
University, USA Democratic Deliberation, Pluralism, and Pragmatic Moral
Evaluation
Alexander Kremer, Hungary What is the Origin of Obligation? (Why has J. D. Caputo
Deconstructed Ethics?
Chair:
13:00-14:00
Lunch
14:15-16:00
Session II
- Knowledge and Action
Larry Hickman, Dewey Center,
Southern Illinois University, USA Reconstructing Cognitive Relativism: Contextualism,
Technoscience, and Democracy
Emil Višňovsky, Slovak
Academy of Sciences, Slovakia The Pragmatist Reconstruction of Human Rationality
Vincent Colapietro, The
Pennsylvania State University, USA Doing - and Undoing- the Done Thing: John Dewey & Pierre
Bourdieu on Agency, Habituation and Transformation
Chair:
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-18:15
Session
III - Community,
Democracy, and Freedom
Gert-Rudiger Wegmarshaus,
Germany Cooperation, Education, and Community: Reconstructing John
Dewey’s Concept of democracy as a Way of Life. Considering
Implications in the New Democracies of Central and Eastern Europe
Andrzey Szahaj, Poland Community and Freedom. Some Remarks on the Margin of the Debate
between Liberals and Communitarians
Nikita Pokrovsky, Higher
School of Economics, Russia The Chicago School of Sociology and American Pragmatism: Its
Impact on Today’s Russian Thought
Chair:
18:30
Dinner
Walks and Talks
Sunday, June 9
8:00
Breakfast
8:45-10:30
Session IV
- Social Reconstruction
James Campbell, University
of Toledo, USA Institutions and Their Reconstruction
Michael Eldridge, University
of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA Social Reconstruction and Philosophy
Mark Lovas, Slovakia Are ‘Deconstruction’ and ‘Reconstruction’ Useful
Metaphors to Use When Considering the Organization of Societies?
Chair:
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:45
Session V
- Self and Other
Lyubov Bugaeva, St.
Petersburg State University, Russia Santayana’s Imaginative Knowledge: Presenting an Object
Leszek Koczanowicz,
University of Opole, Poland Between Concrete and Generalized Other. Pragmatism and the
Controversies in Post-Conventional Ethics
Lukasz Nyslar, Poland Deconstruction and Reconstruction of the Self? John Dewey’s
Concept of Selfhood and Subjectivity
Chair:
12:45-13:30
Lunch
14:00-19:00
Excursion
Kraków
20:30
Dinner
Walks and Talks
Monday, June 10
8:00
Breakfast
8:45-10:30
Session VI
- Art and American Philosophy
Richard Hart, Bloomfield
University, USA Radical Empiricism, Alexander Calder, and the Re-construction
of Experience and Values
Anthony Graybosch,
California State University, Chico, USA American Beauty
Timothy Madigan, University
of Rochester Press, USA Unlikely Friendship: John Dewey, Albert Barnes, and ”Art and
Experience”
Chair:
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:45
Session
VII - Pragmatists
Jane Skinner, University of
Natal, South Africa Deformation and Reformation: Richard Rorty and Joseph Margolis
in the Pragmatist Tradition
Bohdan Dziemidok, Poland About Joseph Margolis’ Philosophical Views
Jurate Baranova, Lithuania The Reception of Pragmatism in Postphilosophy: Jacques Derrida
and Richard Rorty
Chair:
13:00-14:00
Lunch
14:15-16:00
Session
VIII - Realism
Piotr Gutowski, Poland Realism and Naturalism: The Case of John Dewey
Tadeusz Szubka, Poland Anti-Realism and Pragmatism (Dewey, Dummet, Putnam, Rorty)
Mateusz Oleksy, Poland Pragmatism and Deconstruction on the Question of Realism
Chair:
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-18:15
Session IX
- Pragmatism and Its Problems
Vladimir Zeman, Concordia
University, Canada Humanism - Should We De-Construct and/or Re-Construct It? On
the Capacity of Contemporary Pragmatism to Handle Some Pressing
Socio-Political Problems
Martin Kilanowski, Poland Rejecting the Distinctions in Dewey’s Social and Political
Thought
Igor Hanzel, Comenius
University, Slovakia The Construction and Deconstruction of Reality in the
Pragmatism of Habermas and Rorty
Chair:
18:30
Dinner
Walks and Talks
Tuesday, June 11
8:00
Breakfast
8:45-10:30
Session X
- Pragmatism and Europeans
Hans-Peter Krueger, Germany Dewey’s Classical Pragmatism and Plessner’s Philosophical
Anthropology. A Systematic Comparison of Their Parallels
Zdenka Kalnická, University
of Ostrava, Czech Republic Metaphors of Pragmatic Thought: The Case of Karel Capek
Anna Ganzha, Russia Florian Znaniecki and American Pragmatism: Love-Hate
Relationship
Chair:
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:45
Session XI
- Aesthetics
Armen Marsoobian, Southern
Connecticut State University, USA Is There a Pragmatist Aesthetics?
Krystyna Wilkoszewska,
Jagielonnian University, Poland How to Build a Pragmatist Aesthetics
Leif Ostman, Finland The Client as Designer – Interpretations of Design in the
Mirror of Pragmatist Aesthetics.
Chair:
12:45-1:15
Conclusion
John Ryder, State University
of New York, USA American Philosophy in Its Place
