Dear colleagues!

We invite you to take part in the XIXth International Conference for Young Researchers “Actual Problems of Human and Social Studies”. The conference is organized by the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Novosibirsk State University. This year’s conference partner is The University of Texas at Austin. The conference will be attended by scientists and philosophers from different cities of Russia and foreign countries.

The conference topic areas:

- History of Western philosophy;

- Analytical philosophy;

- Philosophy of science and artificial intelligence;

- Social philosophy; philosophy of education;

- Philosophy of law;

- Bioethics.

The Conference theme of this year is

«Tradition and Neo-Tradition under uncertainty»

The modern world is developing through large-scale transformations, which entails the need for comprehension and theoretical generalization of socio-cultural experience, namely, the tradition, its potential in a situation of choice. Comprehension of tradition as a complex and multifaceted social phenomenon acquires special significance for the analysis of a number of theoretical issues and practical tasks. Both tradition and neo-tradition can be examined both at the epistemological and ontological levels. The approaches to solving the problems of choosing a tradition, reinterpreting traditions, updating or preventing breaks in socio-cultural continuity determine the prospects for social development.

The following issues are proposed for discussion:

• The concept of tradition in science and philosophy;

• Subject, object, and functions of tradition;

• Ethical problems of the reproduction of traditions;

• Political, social, family and other types of traditions;

• Ethnocultural traditions and identity;

• The problem of the relationship between the traditional and the modern. The phenomenon of neo-tradition;

• Myth and logos of neo-tradition. New meanings, functions, and content of traditions in a situation of uncertainty.

We invite students, postgraduate students, and postdocs to take part in the conference.

There are two types of participation: plenary reports (up to 40 minutes) and section reports (up to 15 minutes). After each presentation, there will be time for questions and discussion. Possible full-time, as well as online report. The organizing committee has the right to select the abstracts of the talks, as well as the distribution of talks in sections. Preference will be given to the application of the full-time participant.

We accept the results of original studies, which should be presented in the form of abstracts with a clear author contribution (the originality of the texts must be at least 70%.). The compilation works are not accepted. The languages of publication are Russian and English (at the choice of the author). The conference proceeding will be published and indexed in the RSCI (Russian Science Citation Index).

The abstracts of the talks must be 5000–6000 characters with spaces long, Times New Roman, font size 10 with single line spacing. Footnotes must be inside the text in square brackets. Automatic formatting of footnotes is not allowed. Materials are published in the author version.

Dates:

August 1 – abstract submission deadline

September 10 – notification of acceptance

October 10–11 – arrival of participants

October 11 – conference work (plenary reports)

October 12–13 – conference work (section reports)

October 14 – departure of participants

Contacts: please send your questions to e-mail: Phil.Conf.Nsk@gmail.com or zaykova.a.s@gmail.com (conference secretary Alina Zaykova).

• First Information Letter