International Conference Relation and Representation

Nikola Benin Ph.D

◊ СЪБИТИЕТО

Институт за литература към Българската академия на науките

Международна научна конференция Relation and Representation

19 – 20 април 2018 г., конферентните зали на хотел „Дом на учения“,  бул. „Шипченски проход“, 50

◊ ПРОГРАМА

Thursday, 19 April

9:00 – 9:45 Registration and Welcome Coffee

9:45 –10:00 Opening

10:00 – 11:00

. Mihaly Szivos - Hungarian Academy of Sciences

The Forms of Representation and the Most Important Peircean

Classification of Sign

. Anna Boncompagni – University of Florence

Epistemological Themes in Peirce and the Later Wittgenstein

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:30

. Ivan Mladenov – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Before a Thought Appears. The Notion of the ‘Ground’ in Peirce’s Early Thought: Relation as Representation

. Vasil Penchev – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Why Anything Rather than Nothing? The Answer of Quantum Mechanics

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:00

. Gregory Phipps – University of Iceland

“It Sinks to The Condition of a Railway Junction”: Charles Peirce and Representations of the Unity of Belief

. Aleš Vaupotič - University of Nova Gorica

Theory of Discourse and Semiotics in Comparative Literary Studies:

Foucault, Bakhtin, Peirce

15:30 Social Program

A Guided Tour of the Boyana Church in Sofia

18:30 Reception

Friday, 20 April

09:00 – 10:00

. Reni Yankova - New Bulgarian University

The Three Steps of Habit-change in Charles Peirce’s Philosophy

. Aleksandar Feodorov – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

The Mystery of Aesthetic Grounding in Peirce’s Philosophy

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 13:00 Round Table

Non/Cognate Approaches: The Birth of a New Concept?