Pragmatism in Paris

The Second European Pragmatism Conference was organized in Paris in September 9-11 2015. Our Centre of Excellence was represented by Sami Pihlström and myself. The participants included also other Finnish philosophers involved in the study of pragmatism. This second conference was considerably larger than the first one in Rome three years ago, so it would seem that pragmatism is a growing trend. The next conference in the series will be organized in Helsinki in 2018.

The opening of the conference

The CoE's research themes of recognition resonated quite nicely with the programme and with the participants of the conference. There was, for example, an interesting session on democracy, and a presentation dealing with Axel Honneth's work. I got to give my talk titled "Mediated Recognition and Brandom's Analysis" in a Nordic Pragmatism Network Invited Panel on normativity. The Finns Henrik Rydenfelt and Mats Bergman also gave their presentations in the same session.

The Eiffel Tower

During the days in Paris, I enjoyed having many good discussions as well as meeting old friends and making new ones. Here is a link to the conference's official pages. Below are a couple more photos.

Notre Dame

Jardin du Luxembourg