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 …
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. …
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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 …
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This week, we have the pleasure of welcoming Laura Cull from the University of Surrey! She will be giving a talk on “Opening the Circle, Toward a Radical Equality: Performance, Philosophy & Animals” DATE AND LOCATION 29.11. 4-6 pm: Dalhousie Building, Room 2G13 Abstract: Today, I would like to consider the relationships between performance, …
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 …
DESCRIPTION Philosophy Seminar Series – presented by the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy ‘Samuel Beckett’s Art of Abstraction’ by Slavoj Žižek (The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities). All are welcome, but please book tickets in advance. The first 350 tickets will be for the main room. Any extra will be seated in the overspill theatre, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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“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 …