©Ruedi Baur
Poster for the Celebration of World Philosophy Day 2011 at UNESCO

The objective of the round table, organized in cooperation with the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation, is to discuss the role of philosophy in the public space.

The following questions will be addressed: What does society expect from philosophy as a discipline today? What do, in turn, philosophy and philosophers expect from society? What can philosophy say of and communicate to our contemporary societies? These questions will be addressed, inter alia, through a discussion on the role of World Philosophy Day, proclaimed and celebrated by UNESCO since 2002, to promote philosophical knowledge and dialogue. In this framework, speakers will in particular present the experience of the annual celebration of the Day in 2008 in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, which focused on the interaction between philosophy and the dialogue of cultures.