SÍSIFO: março 2011

quinta-feira, 31 de março de 2011

Recrutement en philosophie à l'Université de Poitiers

L’Université de Poitiers, dans le cadre de la campagne 2011, recrutera trois collègues en philosophie. Ces trois postes seront rattachés au Centre de recherches sur Hegel et l’Idéalisme allemand (EA 2626) :

Professeur des universités (section 17)
Libellé du poste : Philosophie allemande. Esthétique
Profil du poste
Comité de sélection
Enseignement : Département de philosophie de Poitiers

Maître de conférences (section 17)
Libellé du poste : Éthique et philosophie sociale
Profil du poste
Comité de sélection
Enseignement : Département de philosophie de Poitiers

Maître de conférences (sections 17 et 70)
Libellé du poste : Philosophie morale et politique
Profil du poste
Comité de sélection
Enseignement : IUFM Poitiers/Angoulème

Debating Public Reason (University of Poitiers)

http://philo.labo.univ-poitiers.fr/spip.php?article140

Debating Public Reason
International symposium
Date : November 2011, 4th & 5th
Location : University of Poitiers

Call for papers

500 words (maximum) abstracts should be submitted via email (colloque.poitiers@gmail.com), in French or English, by June 15, 2011. Please insert "Public Reason symposium proposal" as subject line. Along with your submission, please attach a short biography, including your contact information, selected publications, and affiliation.

Presentation

The philosophical tradition has questioned the epistemological and pragmatic superiority of the public use of reason compared to its private use since Hobbes and Kant. The idea of public reason is experiencing a broad revival of interest in the practical field, including that of political praxis. Due to John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas, it has become a central idea of contemporary political theory. The growing attention to the concept of public reason is connected to an attempt to refound political legitimacy and is thereby often the basis for a renewal of democratic theories. This is especially the case for deliberative democracy which can be considered to constitute a real "turning point". The impossibility for social order to refer to a transcendent foundation has led to an emphasis on public justification, bringing the legitimacy issue to the heart of the public sphere and opening a broad reflection on the elaboration of norms of justification. In this context, public reason would participate in a process of improvement of public institutions. However, can and shall it define, even as a regulative ideal, the exercise of democratic citizenship ? Debating public reason has been rendered necessary by the very characteristics of modern societies. In democracies that are essentially open and multicultural societies, public reason would allow for the coexistence of a plurality of values. The recognition of the 'fact of pluralism' is actually a key element of reflection about public reason. Would it not be eliminated however by the very modalities of its exercise ? What validity can we attribute to its underlying anthropological assumptions ? This issue is widely debated and some critics consider that public reason gives rise to a logic of exclusion. The importance given to rational argumentation would expel a large number of participants from discussion, in particular minority groups (based on gender, ethnicity, culture). Isn't it possible that, by restricting upstream public expression, the demand of consistent consensus (and not of a mere a modus vivendi) corresponds to an avoidance of conflicts under the pretext of social stability ? Similarly, the specific rationality inherent in public reason could unduly exclude other forms of rationality. What is the relevance of the criterion of distinction between public and non-public reasons ? Should we, among other things, accommodate a place for emotions in the process of justification ? The question of appealing to alternative discursive models then challenges the understanding of public reason, especially in its procedural dimension. To what extent the ideal of public reason could be transformed and can it actually incorporate the criticisms raised ?

The objective of the symposium is to better grasp the various stakes involved in the idea of public reason and determine to what extent it can constitute an operational tool. Some points of reflection emerge which are not restrictive :
Public Reason and the conceptions of the good
Procedural rationality and public reason modalities
Public Reason and social conflict

Organization

This international symposium addresses primarily to Phd students and post-doctoral researchers. The program consists of two days, with an introduction and a conclusion made by a senior researcher during a one hour intervention. Each senior researcher will have the task of supervising one panel in which the young researchers will speak, and to initiate discussion. Three panels of one and a half hour each will take place in each day. Each panel will permit to two or three young researchers to make a presentation of twenty minutes.

We are planning to organize a publication of these interventions.

Organizing Committee :
Pauline Colonna d'Istria, Phd Student, Université de Poitiers, CRHIA
Naël Desaldeleer, Phd Student, Université de Poitiers, CRHIA
Jean Nestor, Phd Student, Université de Poitiers, CRHIA
Thierry Ngosso, Phd Student, Université Catholique de Louvain, chaire Hoover
Cédric Rio, Phd Student, Université de Poitiers, CRHIA

Scientific Committee :
Catherine Audard, Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
Alain Caillé, Professor, Université Paris X Nanterre, France
Sophie Guérard de Latour, Lecturer, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Roberto Merrill, Research Fellow, Université de Braga, Portugal
Hervé Pourtois, Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgique
Patrick Savidan, Professor, Université de Poitiers, France
Etienne Tassin, Professor, Université Paris VII – Denis Diderot

Programme

Under construction

How to get there

Under construction

For further information, please send an e-mail to colloque.poitiers@gmail.com

This symposium is organized in the frame of the CRHIA of the Poitiers University, with the help of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société of Poitiers. In partnership with the Hoover chair of Université Catholique de Louvain.

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Roberto Merrill
Researcher in political philosophy at CEHUM, Portugal
Homepage : http://sites.google.com/site/nrbmerrill/

MayDay Porto Acção Divulgação 2009

Mistérios de Lisboa

Spot Tv 4 PT from Clap Filmes on Vimeo.

Bit of friendly advice, Portugal

Dear Portugal, this is Ireland here. I know we don't know each other very well, though I hear some of our developers are down with you riding out the recession.

They could be there for a while. Anyway, I don't mean to intrude but I've been reading about you in the papers and it strikes me that I might be able to offer you a bit of advice on where you are at and what lies ahead. As the joke now goes, what's the difference between Portugal and Ireland? Five letters and six months.

Anyway, I notice now that you are under pressure to accept a bailout but your politicians are claiming to be determined not to take it. It will, they say, be over their dead bodies. In my experience that means you'll be getting a bailout soon, probably on a Sunday. First let me give you a tip on the nuances of the English language. Given that English is your second language, you may think that the words 'bailout' and 'aid' imply that you will be getting help from our European brethren to get you out of your current difficulties. English is our first language and that's what we thought bailout and aid meant. Allow me to warn you, not only will this bailout, when it is inevit-ably forced on you, not get you out of your current troubles, it will actually prolong your troubles for generations to come.

For this you will be expected to be grateful. If you want to look up the proper Portuguese for bailout, I would suggest you get your English-Portuguese dictionary and look up words like: moneylending, usury, subprime mortgage, rip-off. This will give you a more accurate translation of what will be happening you.

I see also that you are going to change your government in the next couple of months. You will forgive me that I allowed myself a little smile about that. By all means do put a fresh coat of paint over the subsidence cracks in your economy. And by all means enjoy the smell of fresh paint for a while.

We got ourselves a new Government too and it is a nice diversion for a few weeks. What you will find is that the new government will come in amidst a slight euphoria from the people. The new government will have made all kinds of promises during the election campaign about burning bondholders and whatnot and the EU will smile benignly on while all that loose talk goes on.

Then, when your government gets in, they will initially go out to Europe and throw some shapes. You might even win a few sports games against your old enemy, whoever that is, and you may attract visits from foreign dignitaries like the Pope and that. There will be a real feel-good vibe in the air as everyone takes refuge in a bit of delusion for a while.

And enjoy all that while you can, Portugal. Because reality will be waiting to intrude again when all the fun dies down. The upside of it all is that the price of a game of golf has become very competitive here. Hopefully the same happens down there and we look forward to seeing you then.
Love, Ireland.

terça-feira, 29 de março de 2011

Resumo - 2º Período

Resumo de Psicologia - 2º Período

Bolsa de Investigação

EDITAL N.º 8/2011

BOLSA DE INVESTIGAÇÃO

Aceitam-se candidaturas a uma Bolsa de Investigação (BI), a atribuir no âmbito do projecto de investigação Entre a escola e a família: conhecimentos e práticas alimentares das crianças em idade escolar (Referência PTDC/CS-SOC/111214/2009), financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) e em curso no Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, sob a coordenação da Doutora Mónica Truninger.

1 – Legislação aplicável: Lei n.º 40/2004, de 18 de Agosto, e Regulamento de Bolsas do Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa.

2 – Coordenação do Projecto: Doutora Mónica Truninger.

3 – Duração da Bolsa: 6 meses (renovável por mais 6 meses, e depois por períodos de 12 meses até o máximo de 36 meses).

4 – Montante da bolsa e modo de pagamento: 745€, com pagamento mensal, de acordo com a tabela de valores das Bolsas de Investigação atribuídas pela FCT (http://alfa.fct.mctes.pt/apoios/bolsas/valores.phtml.pt), estando também previsto o pagamento de seguro de acidentes pessoais e seguro social voluntário.

5 – Instituição de acolhimento: Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa.

6 – Orientação e actividades a desenvolver: A orientação caberá à coordenadora do projecto e o bolseiro colaborará nas respectivas actividades de pesquisa, designadamente pesquisa bibliográfica, condução de grupos de foco e entrevistas em Lisboa, Trás-os-Montes e Madeira, transcrição de entrevistas, tratamento de dados, apoio a conferências e edições do projecto, participação na redacção de relatórios e de artigos científicos.

7 – Requisitos de admissão: Licenciatura em Sociologia, Antropologia ou Geografia Humana ou noutra área similar dentro das Ciências Sociais. São ainda requisitos preferenciais:

a) Experiência em projectos de investigação ou com investigação que verse sobre os temas teóricos do projecto;

b) Competências em análise de dados qualitativa e/ou análise de entrevistas;

c) Familiaridade ou interesse pelos temas envolvidos no projecto;

d) Interesse em obter formação superior (mestrado) na área temática do projecto;

e) Domínio da língua inglesa

f) Disponibilidade imediata

8 – Publicitação e prazo de apresentação de candidaturas: O presente Edital é publicitado, em versão integral, no site do ICS e no Portal Eracareers. Nos termos das Normas da FCT, a recepção de candidaturas inicia-se 10 dias após a publicitação do presente Edital no Portal Eracareers, decorrendo o prazo de candidaturas de 6 a 19 de Abril.

9 – Formalização das Candidaturas: As candidaturas deverão ser acompanhadas de Curriculum Vitae pormenorizado, cópias de certificado/s de habilitações e do bilhete de identidade ou passaporte e uma cópia de um texto relevante escrito pelo próprio(a) (um artigo científico, a tese de licenciatura ou outro) e uma Carta de Intenções, com indicação sintética das razões pelas quais se pretende candidatar e das capacidades com que pensa poder contribuir para o projecto (máximo: 1 página).

10 – Selecção: A selecção dos candidatos será efectuada por um júri constituído pela coordenadora do projecto e por dois outros investigadores do ICS, com base na avaliação curricular, eventualmente complementada por entrevista.

11 – Morada de envio das candidaturas: As candidaturas podem ser entregues pessoalmente ou enviadas pelo correio ou e-mail para o Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (com a referência “Concurso de Bolsas de Investigação n.º 8/2011”) para a Avenida Professor Aníbal de Bettencourt, 9 – 1600-189 LISBOA ou para o e-mail instituto.ciencias.sociais@ics.ul.pt devendo ser recebidas dentro do prazo acima referido. Caso as candidaturas sejam enviadas por e-mail, os documentos supra indicados devem ser digitalizados para anexar ao processo.

Lisboa, 21 de Março de 2011

O Director

Doutor Jorge Vala