XIII International Academic Conference “Philosophy: the New Generation”

Abstract

This article presents the general overview of the 13th edition of the international academic conference “Philosophy: The New Generation” that took place at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (NaUKMA) in 2018. The conference was founded in 2006 as an initiative of NaUKMA’s philosophy students supported by the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. For the following years, it has become an important annual event for the Ukrainian philosophical community. In 2018, the topic of the conference was “History of Philosophy and histories of philosophies”. The conference included the following sections: “The Approaches to the History of Philosophy”; “History of Ideas, Notions, Concepts”; “Epistemological Issues in the History of Philosophy”; “Receptions of the History of Philosophy”; “History of Philosophy and Gender Studies”; and “Oriental Studies”. In addition, two lectures were delivered during the conference: “Subjective Notes from the Recent History of Ukrainian Academic Philosophy of Science” (lecturer: Prof. Dr. Volodymyr Kuznetsov) and “The Vicious Circle of Sexual Politics’ Triumphalism” (lecturer: Dr. Kateryna Honcharenko). Also, two panel discussions took place at the conference: “What to Do with the Philosophical Education” and “The Problems of Philosophical Research in the East”. Although the participants of the conference have covered a large number of topics in their reports, several tendencies can be identified as prevailing. The biggest percentage of reports was connected with a methodology called History of ideas, notions, and concepts, while the discussions related to oriental and gender studies unfolded in the light of critique of Eurocentrism and Androcentrism respectively.

Keywords

• philosophy
• the new generation
• national university of kyiv-mohyla academy
• international conference
• philosophy
• history of philosophy
• student initiative