30 May - 1 June Arrival
1 June 7:00 pm Welcome Dinner
2 June
8:00 am Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 Keynote Address
John Lachs Leaving Others Alone
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:45 Session I
PRAGMATISM AND EDUCATION
Emil Višňovskı
- Education, Human Nature and Social Norms James Campbell - Reconstruction
Through Education
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:15 - 16:00 Session II
COMPARATIVE PRAGMATISM I
Peter H. Hare - Varieties of
Holistic Pragmatism in William James, W.V. Quine and Morton White
Jane Skinner - Dewey, Freire and Cognitive Science: Democracy
Divided Against Itself
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:15 Session III
A PROBLEM WITH PRAGMATISM?
John Ryder - Is Pragmatic Political Technology a Reasonable
Possibility?
Michael Eldridge - Think Democracy Too Much? Try Pragmatism Lite
18:30 Dinner
Walks and Talks
3 June
8:00
am Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 Session IV
EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY
Gert
Wegmarshaus - John Dewey on the
Role of Schools in Teaching Democracy as a Way of Life:
Implications for Germany in Research and Practice Larry Hickman - Nature,
Social Control and Social Efficiency: Educating for Democracy
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:45 Session V
PRAGMATISM AND MORALITY
Sami Pihlstrom
- Pragmatic Moral Realism: Education for Ethical Seriousness
Richard Hart - Persons and Educational Values: Socrates, Buber and
Dewey Dirk Joerke - Against the Communitarian Absorption: John
Dewey's Conception of Reflective Morality and Its Practical
Implications
13:00 Lunch
Excursion
4 June 8:00 am
Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 Session VI
UNDERSTANDING THE SELF
Kathleen Wallace - Educating for
Autonomy: Identity and Intersectional Selves Erin McKenna - Pluralism and
Democracy: Individualism by Another Name
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:45 Session VII COMPARATIVE PRAGMATISM II
Paul Thompson - Polanyi and
Pragmatism
Sophie Rost - How to Connect John Dewey's Conception of the Public
with the Development of the Self in the Approach of George Herbert
Mead
Vincent Colapietro - Pragmatic Steps to an Ecology of Creative
Intelligence: John Dewey in Light of Gregory Bateson
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:15 - 16:00 Session VIII
ART AND EDUCATION
Krystyna Wilkoszewska - Dewey's
Idea of Aesthetic Experience in the Process of Education
Lyubov Bugaeva - Art as Education: Instrumentalism and Russian
Constructivism
Leif Östman - The Contradiction between Dewey's Lessons on Art
and the Structure of the Avant-Garde
Armen Marsoobian - Some Deweyan
Lessons for Democratic Nation-Building
Carlos Mougan Rivero - John Dewey and the Necessity of Civic
Democratic Education
18:30 Dinner
Walks and Talks
5 June
8:00
am Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 Session X
REFLECTIONS ON RORTY
Igor Hanzel
- Consequences of Rorty's Pragmatist Turn for Humanities Alexander Kremer - Philosophy and Education: About Dewey's
and Rorty's Consideration
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:45 Session XI
IMPLICATIONS OF PRAGMATISM
Donald Morse
- The Necessity of Criticism: Dewey, Derrida, and Democratic
Education Today Hans Peter Krüger - Is Dewey's Pragmatism Only
Instrumentalism
