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• 31 jan 2016

  Geneva

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  Philosophy and its History– a Contemporary Debate

  2016 Symposium of the Swiss Philosophical Society (SPS)

  Since the end of the 1980s, the relation of philosophy to its own history features prominently in the discussions concerning the nature and method of philosophy. What can philosophy do with its history? as Gianni Vattimo asked in 1989 in his book bearing the same title. Influenced by continental philosophers like Foucault or Collingwood, a so-called “relativist” position emerged from the works of Alain de Libera and Kurt Flasch, in opposition to a ‘continuist’ position (Claude Panaccio, Pascal Engel) having its source in great figures from the analytic tradition like Peter Strawson, Donald Davidson, or Michael Dummett. These debates stimulated and renewed the interest of the philosophical community for metaphilosophical and methodological questions. The 2016Symposium of the Swiss Philosophical Society will go further in this direction, bringing history back to the forefront of the philosophical scene.

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