Jam Session
The ICREA Jam Session comes back! We have changed the venue after discovering a little cafe in La Rambla del Raval: Café de les Delícies. They have a decent piano, a cosy room, a well stocked bar, and food if you feel like snacking something. We’ll meet at 19h, and we have the place booked until 22h. The cafe is next to a giant cat by Fernando Botero (who has not been invited).
The event is free and everyone is welcome but there are two restrictions: the place will not take more than 40 people, and we have to buy our own drinks and food (just like last year).
Remember: everyone is encouraged to bring their (portable) musical instruments and we guarantee an unconditionally supportive audience!
82nd ICREA Colloquium - Democracy and self-determination: perspectives from historical sociology and political philosophy
Speakers: ICREA Research Professor Peter Wagner (UB) and Prof. Daniel Gamper (UAB)
When: 22nd of May 2018, 18:00h
Where: ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, 6th floor
Abstract:
Human rights and democracy are today often considered as universal normative principles. Even though not uncontroversial either, such assertion may be relatively unproblematic for individual human rights. The notion of democracy, however, clearly begs further questions: How is it that "the people" can govern and exert authority? What is the collective "self" that determines its laws and rules for living together? These are time-honoured questions of political thought. Despite being fundamental, they have never found a definitive answer. Rather, the answers vary with the historical context in which they are provided. The speakers will try to show, in different ways, that conceptual reflections from political philosophy need to be joined with historico-sociological observations on changing ideas of "people" and the capacity to self-govern, with a view to arriving at more adequate views on current topical issues.
The ICREA colloquia are a great way to learn about remote fields of research from our best experts. We usually have two speakers, who offer their opinions on the same subject from very different angles. Open to all ICREAs and their guests.
83rd ICREA Colloquium - Ageing as a treatable condition
Speakers: ICREA Research Professors Pura Muñoz (UPF) and Prof. Manuel Serrano (IRB Barcelona)
When: 9th of October 2018, 18:00h
Where: ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, 6th floor
The ICREA colloquia are a great way to learn about remote fields of research from our best experts. We usually have two speakers, who offer their opinions on the same subject from very different angles. Open to all ICREAs and their guests.
81st ICREA Colloquium - Two Perspectives on the Relation between Philosophy and Science
Speakers: Prof. Paula Casal (UPF) and Prof. Thomas Sturm (UAB)
When: 6th of March 2018, 18:00h
Where: ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, 6th floor
Abstract:
Casal and Sturm will present two different ways in which philosophy relates to science. Sturm begins by sketching “philosophical naturalism”, a view that tries to answer philosophical questions employing methods and data from the empirical sciences. He then analyses the ongoing debate between the “heuristics and biases” approach and the “bounded rationality” program in order to assess the potential of naturalizing rationality, and its limits. Casal turns to ethics. Ethics is a branch of philosophy usually divided in three levels: metaethics, normative ethics and applied ethics. Casal will focus on the relevance of scientific findings, particularly in evolutionary biology, to major controversies in all these levels.
The ICREA colloquia are a great way to learn about remote fields of research from our best experts. We usually have two speakers, who offer their opinions on the same subject from very different angles. Open to all ICREAs and their guests.
