© Sergiu Spatan

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Name

Mr Sergiu Spatan

Forschungsprojekt “The Disruptivity of the Others"

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Professur für Theoretische Philosophie (Prof. Dr. Moritz Schulz)

Professur für Theoretische Philosophie (Prof. Dr. Moritz Schulz)

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2021 until present
Research Associate at TUDiSC

2020-2021
Research Fellow at Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies in Jewish Scepticism at the University of Hamburg

2017-2020
Research associate with teaching duties at the Philosophy Department of the University of Hamburg

2014-2016
Philosophy high-school teacher in Reșița, Romania

2012-2014
M.A. Philosophie at the Central European University Budapest, Ungarn

2008-2011
B.A. Philosophie at the West University of Timișoara, Rumänien

Research interest

Theoretical Epistemology:

• skepticism
• knowledge ascriptions
• metacognitive emotions
• formation and revision of beliefs.

Social Epistemology:

• epistemic networks
• polarization
• dogmatism
• development of epistemic virtues
• belief change and its influence on social change

Publications

I. Books / handbooks

Caiet de educație media: Ghidul profesorului pentru discipline socio-umane (Media Education Handbook: the Teacher’s Guide for Socio-Humanistic Disciplines), co-author Nicoleta Fotiade, Timișoara: Contrasens Cultural Association, 2021.

II. Papers

“Accommodating the Skeptic: A Fresh Reading of Contextualism” – 2014, MA thesis; URL www.etd.ceu.hu/2014/spatan_sergiu.pdf).

“A World of Powerful Qualities: In Defense of Property Identity Theory” – 2013, Annals of the West University of Timișoara, Series: Philosophy and Communication Sciences, vol. VIII (XXV) (https://www.academia.edu/10843450/A_World_of_Powerful_Qualities_In_Defense_of_Property_Identity_Theory);

“The Criterion of Demarcation between Realism and Nominalism” – 2011, Annals of the West University of Timișoara, Series: Philosophy and Communication Sciences, vol. VI (XXIII) (https://www.academia.edu/2007528/THE_CRITERION_OF_DEMARCATION_BETWEEN_REALISM_AND_NOMINALISM);

“O analiză lingvistică a criteriului angajamentului ontologic al lui Quine” (A Linguistic Analysis of Quine’s Criterion of Ontological Commitment) – 2011, BA thesis.

III. Translations

Texts by Boris Stojkovski and Svetozar Boskob, translated from English to Romanian, in Viața și opera sfântului Gerard de Cenad. Studii (“The Life and Work of Saint Gerard of Cenad. Studies”), Timișoara: Editura Universitatii de Vest, 2016, ISBN: 978-973-125-504-0.

IV. Talks

“Turning Things Outside-in: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Co-Constitution of Outsiders and Disruptions in Sustainability Transitions” – November 21-25, 2022, the presentation of our group’s at TUDiSC (DOUbT - the Disruptivity of Outsiders in Urban Transformations) paper with the same name at the 13th International Sustainability Transitions Conference (IST), digital.

“On the Feeling of Uncertainty: Why a Metacognitive Account Is Better than a Probability Account” – September 12-15, 2022, 11. Kongress der Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie, Berlin, Germany.

“A Metacognitive Strategy for Dealing with Political Dogmatism” – 25.01.2022, Societal Change Forum at Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

„Certainty-Based Invariantism and the Lottery” – September 25-26, 2020, Second ALEF Workshop in Analytic Philosophy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

„Epistemically Anxious Ascribers” – August 24-28, 2020, ECAP10: 10^th European Congress for Analytic Philosophy, Ultrecht, the Netherlands.

“Stakes and Anxious Ascribers” – September 18-20, 2019, 10^th Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy (SOPhiA), University of Salzburg, Austria.

“On Certainty, Doubt and Confidence” – September 12-14, 2018, 9^th Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy (SOPhiA), University of Salzburg, Austria.

“Mindreading and Knowledge Ascriptions” – March 29-30, 2018, Topics in Analytic Philosophy 2, University of Belgrade, Serbia.

“Worries, doubts and knowledge ascriptions” – July 28-29, 2017, Masterclass in Theoretical Philosophy with Jonathan Schaffer, University of Tübingen, Germany.

”Worries, doubts and knowledge ascriptions” – April 6-7, 2017, Topics in Analytic Philosophy, West University of Timisoara, Romania.

“Certitudinile scepticismului” (”The certainties of skepticism”) – December 12, 2016, Centrul de cercetare în istoriografia filosofică și filosofia imaginarului (Centre for Research in Philosophical Historiography and Philosophy of Imaginary), Timișoara, Romania;

“Despre cunoaștere și context” (“About knowledge and context”) – June 26, 2014, Centrul de cercetare în istoriografia filosofică și filosofia imaginarului (Centre for Research in Philosophical Historiography and Philosophy of Imaginary), Timișoara, Romania;

”A New Fallibilit Response to the Skeptic” – October 11, 2013, 6th In-house Graduate Philosophy Conference, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary;

“Despre propriătățile dispoziționale sau cum este cu putință schimbarea” (About Dispositional Properties, or How to Explain Change) – May 24, 2013, Simpozionul național Constantin Noica (National Symposium Constantin Noica), Timișoara, Romania.

“Istoriografie filosofică în opera profesorului Viorel Colțescu” (Philosophical Historiography in the Work of Professor Viorel Colțescu) – May 27, 2011, Simpozion. 20 de ani de învățământ filosofic la Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara (Symposium on 20 Years of Philosophical Education at the West University of Timisoara), Timișoara, Romania.