You are most warmly invited to join us to celebrate the launch of Contingency and Plasticity in Everyday Technologies. The book is the latest volume in Roman and Littlefield’s pathbreaking ‘Media Philosophy’ series, and is edited by Natasha Lushetich, Iain Campbell, and Dominic Smith. The launch will take place ONLINE ONLY, from 13.00-14.00 UK TIME, …
This is with great pleasure that we announce the release of a great and exciting book on Nietzsche and the Politics of Difference, published with De Gruyter. It has been edited by Dr. Ashley Woodward (University of Dundee) and Dr. Andrea Rehberg (University of Newcastle). https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110688436/html#overview About this book: The question of Nietzsche’s use of …
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We are pleased to annonce that the Special Issue of Parrhesia on Bergson and vitalism(s) is now out and available : https://parrhesiajournal.org/index.php/parr/issue/view/40 In this volume, you will find : Mathilde Tahar, “Bergson’s Vitalisms”Charles Wolfe, “The Discreet Charm of Hippocratism: Archaic Revival or Avant-Garde Vitalism?”Bruno Rates, “Bergson, Lovejoy and Radical Vitalism”Tano S. Posteraro, “Vitalism, Individuation, and …
The University of Dundee is delighted to host the Scots Philosophical Association Annual General Meeting. The Scots Philosophical Association is the professional association of philosophers in Scotland. Its primary purpose is to promote the study and teaching of philosophy in Scotland. It will take place on Thursday 8th and Friday 9th December at Dalhousie Building. …
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Dom Smith from Philosophy at Dundee recently had the pleasure of contributing to the World Ethical Data Forum, 26-28th Oct, 2022 (https://worldethicaldataforum.org/). The WEDF is an international event bringing together hundreds of scholars, programmers and practitioners to discuss issues surrounding data acces and the impacts of datafication in the contemporary Internet age. Dom spoke with his colleague Dr …
The Dundee Law School and Division of Humanities at the University of Dundee are delighted to welcome Dr Timothy D Peters from University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia, for a bespoke seminar. Where: Room 4.01, Scrymgeour Building. When: 2.00 – 3.30 pm, Monday 12th September. Who: Dr Thom Giddens (Event Chair, Dundee Law School); Dr …
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Michael Hegarty, a second year PhD candidate at the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy, has recently published a review in the high-quality journal Information, Communication and Society. You can read the full piece here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2091467 Michael’s PhD project synthesises and critiques the work of various contemporary philosophers of technology (Stiegler, Ihde, Verbeek, Hui, Floridi), and examines …
We are delighted to share details of the upcoming * IN PERSON * postgraduate symposium and exhibition, Dwelling in Extremis. The symposium will take place in Lecture Theatre 1, Dalhousie Building, 9.30 – 17.00, Friday 13th May. The exhibition will run 13-16th May, Main Foyer, Dalhousie Building. Please see below for full programme and theme details. …
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We are delighted to announce that at 12.30 pm on the 29th of April, the Talbot Rice Gallery (the public art gallery of the University of Edinburgh) will be joined by Tina Röck from the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy in the context of Meet me at the threshold events that ”brings together the first …
We are delighted to announce the call for papers for the 2022 Special Issue of the Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Routledge). CALL FOR PAPERS: Reimagining AI Many important philosophical conceptions have been drastically changed since the consumer computing revolution of the 1980s and 1990. These include metaphysical, epistemological and ethical concerns such as personhood, …
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