Lorenzo Chiesa (Genoa School of Humanities, Italy / Kent, UK): Anthrophie: The Human Animal between Discourse, Entropy, and Knowledge

UPDATE: Event cancelled. Our sincere apologies.     This week, we have the pleasure to welcome Lorenzo Chiesa (Genoa School of Humanities, Italy / Kent, UK) who will be speaking about “Anthrophie: The Human Animal between Discourse, Entropy, and Knowledge”. Date and Time January 23th, 4-6pm Location: 1G05 Dalhousie building   Abstract: In what is arguably …

Mladen Dolar on Gossip’s Feast : Politics in the time of rumours

This Wednesday, we have the pleasure of welcoming Mladen Dolar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) who will be giving a talk on “Gossip’s Feast: Politics in the time of rumours”. Don’t hesitate to come along ! Date and time: January 16th from 4 to 6pm. Room 1G05 Dalhousie Building.   Abstract: Rumours, gossip, yellow press, ‘fake news’ etc. …

Charlotte Alderwick: An Alternative Virtue Ethics

This Wednesday, we have the pleasure of welcoming Dr Charlotte Alderwick from the University of West England (Bristol) who will be talking about virtue ethics. Room 2G13 Dalhousie Building Wednesday 5 of December, 4-6pm Abstract: In this paper I want to present an alternative account of virtue ethics to dominant views, using a metaphysical picture …

New issue : Parrhesia 29

We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, which is freely available to read online: http://www.parrhesiajournal.org/index.html This issue contains the first publication in English of Bernard Stiegler’s first philosophical work, ‘Technologies of Memory and Imagination,’ translated by Ashley Woodward and Amélie Berger Soraruff, along with …

Hynek Janousek on Hume and transcendental empiricism

This Tuesday, we have the pleasure to welcome Hynek Janousek (Charles University, Prague) for a seminar on Hume. Date and time: Tuesday 30/11, 4-6pm Location: Dalhousie Building, room 2F14     Abstract: The influence and the reception of David Hume’s philosophical ideas by thinkers of the so called continental tradition is rarely discussed in literature and stands …

Dr Lynn Turner : In Lieu of Conclusion: Derrida’s Cardio-pedagogy and / in White God

Hi everyone ! The Scottish center for Continental Philosophy is pleased to welcome Dr Lynn Turner who will be giving a talk on Derrida’s Cardio-pedagogy this Wednesday. Location: 2F11 Dalhousie Building Time: 4-6pm Abstract: This paper will bring attention to the investments of White God (dir. Kornel Mundruczo, Hungary, 2015) in either shielding us from …

Dominic Smith on Exceptional Technologies: new book issue

The Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy is excited to announce that Dominic Smith has recently published a monograph drawing on his long-term research into philosophy of technology. The book is called Exceptional Technologies: A Continental Philosophy, and was officially published on 23rd August. “Philosophy of technology regularly draws on key thinkers in the Continental tradition, …

Andrea Rehberg on Kant and Heidegger

“From ‘Ding an sich’ to ‘Ansichhalten’ – The Hermeneutics of Constitutive Absentiality in Kant and Heidegger” Andrea Rehberg (Newcastle University) (*Please note the change from the previously advertised date of Wednesday 6 June) All welcome! WHEN ? Friday, the 8th of June, 4-6 pm. WHERE ? Room 2F14, Dalhousie Building. Abstract: The initial idea motivating …

Alexander R. Galloway on the digital and the analog: pictures and audio

  The university of Dundee had the pleasure to welcome Alexander Galloway, major media theorist based in New York,  who ran a series of seminars on the concept of the digital and the analog. If you missed it, here is your chance to catch up!   First Masterclass: the concept of the Digital Second Masterclass: the …

From Mystique to Politique: Péguy and Deleuze on Repetition and the Event

      Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018 Dalhousie 1S05    Abstract:  Although not widely known outside of France, Charles Péguy is an important social critic, essayist and poet from the early 20th century. European intellectuals who have been influenced by his work include T. S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and …