The Risk of Action

Robert Lucas Scott (University of Cambridge) 3-5pm, 25March                      Dalhousie Building, Room 2F13     University of Dundee                    Online on Teams: SCCP Seminar – Robert Lucas Scott | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams Abstract Thinking and acting, for Gillian Rose, are matters of risk. The outcomes of critical rationality, political action, even a love affair, cannot be …

Book launch: Philippe Lynes, Dearth. Deconstruction After Speculative Realism. Volume 1: The Nothing and Nothingness.

With a response by Oisín Keohane: “Acclimatising oneself to nothing?”  3-5pm, 11 March   Dalhousie Building, Room 2F15 University of Dundee And online on Teams: SCCP Seminar – Phillippe Lynes book launch | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams The first of two volumes exploring Jacques Derrida’s prefiguration of speculative realism, The Nothing and Nothingness examines the transcendental naturalism of Ray Brassier …

Bernard Stiegler Workshop

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to publicise a workshop dedicated on Bernard Stiegler’s publication: What is Called Caring? Vol. 1: The Immense Regression.  Convened by Amélie Berger-Soraruff (MFO/NOTCOM), the workshop will take place on 6 March, from 9:00 to 12:00 at the Maison Française d’Oxford. The event will be held in a hybrid format (in person …

“Why Existence Presentism?”

 Jonathan Tallant (University of Nottingham)  (Work developed with David Ingram) 3-5pm, 25th Feb  Dalhousie  2F15 University                       And online on Teams: SCCP Seminar – Jonathan Tallant on Presentism | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams Abstract: Our aims here are threefold. First, we will say something about presentism-the view in the philosophy of time that only present objects exist. There …

“Pragmatism, Naturalism, and Nihilism”

Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Edinburgh) 15.00-17.00, Wednesday 11th February Dalhousie 2F13 And on Teams: SCCP Philosophy Seminar | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams A complaint of pragmatists against scientific realism (of the non-pragmatist sort) is that it rests on “kryptotheological” assumptions about the pre-given structure of reality and human cognitive capacities to discover this structure (Chang 2022:217). …

Salvaging a Housing Fragment

Lucy Benjamin (University of Edinburgh) 4-6pm, Wednesday 26 November Room 2G12, Dalhousie Building And online via Teams: Philosophy Research Seminar Lucy Benjamin | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams All welcome, and no need to book. Abstract: Hannah Arendt offered a divisive account of political life, staging action, the product of spontaneous and collective action as political, …

The “Imaginary Organism” and Turing’s Delicate Art

of Non-Linear Modelling Sara Franceschelli (École Normale Supérieure, Lyon) 3-5pm, Wednesday 12 November Room 3G05 (Lecture Theatre 2), Dalhousie Building University of Dundee City Campus And online via Teams: Philosophy Research Seminar Sara Franceschelli | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams Abstract I will propose a reading and interpretation of Turing’s famous 1952 article “The Chemical Basis …

“Naked Nature and the Use of Naked Protest by Environmental Activists”

Oisin Keohane (Dundee) 3-5pm, Wednesday 15 Oct  Dalhousie 2F14 Or online via Teams: Philosophy Seminar Oisin Keohane | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams Abstract My talk aims to be the first to create a dialogue between Hadot’s work on the idea of naked nature and Agamben’s work on the relationship of grace to nature via nudity. …

HE SNAKE AND THE EARTH’S SIN: PLANETARY TECHNOLOGY, REPRESENTATION, AND THE GLOBE’S SEDUCTIVE CURVE

Ole Thijs (Wageningen University & Research) 3-5pm, Wednesday 1 October Dalhousie Building, Room 2F14 University of Dundee, City Campus And online via Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_Mzc1N2NkMTctYTdhNi00YTBmLWFhYTQtODNlNTE3ZWFiYWI3%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22ae323139-093a-4d2a-81a6-5d334bcd9019%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22dcf53963-b25a-46a1-ba80-04a103704cc5%22%7d Abstract: With the advent of geo-engineering and ‘sustainable’ technologies (GESTs), technology is taking a uniquely reflexive turn. In order to address the impacts that earlier, goal-oriented technologies have had on the …