The Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy is pleased to present our first Philosophy Seminar for 2018. Alison Stone (University of Lancaster) will speak on the topic ‘Hegel and Colonialism’ 4-6pm, Wednesday 17 January, Dalhousie Building, Room 2F13. All Welcome!
SCCP:CP+IT 9:15am-5:30pm, 1st December 2017 Dalhousie Building, Room 2S16, University of Dundee This open workshop will bring together scholars engaging with information technologies within the continental philosophical tradition, with the aim of sharing ideas and fostering this emerging area of research. All welcome. Dull details: https://scot-cont-phil.org/continental-philosophy-and-information-technology-workshop/
In conjunction with the Centre for Poetic Innovation (Universities of Dundee and St Andrews), the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy is pleased to present a seminar by visiting guest speaker Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei (Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University) ‘On Poetry and Truth’ The nature of poetry’s relation to truth has divided philosophers from Plato to the …
Date: Friday 27 October 2017 Venue: Dalhousie 2S12 (10-1PM) & 2F14 (1-4PM) The Hermeneutics of Practise is an Art and Philosophy symposium hosted by the School of Humanities. The themes it will investigate will be in honour of Professor Nicholas Davey, who retired from the University of Dundee in 2017. The speakers we have invited, …
Wednesday 11 October, 3-5pm Dalhousie 2F13 All welcome. ‘Lesson of Darkness: Phenomenology and Lyotard’s Aesthetics’ Ashley Woodward (Dundee) This presentation will examine the relationship of Jean-François Lyotard’s aesthetics to phenomenology, especially the works of Mikel Dufrenne and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It will argue that this comparison allows a greater understanding of Lyotard’s late aesthetic writings, which …
From Thing to Being – From a reductionist approach (as seen in classical genetics and biochemical studies) to a more networked and holistic approach (as seen in, for instance, genomic and metabolomic studies) in understanding life.
First Philosophy Seminar of the semester – All welcome! The seminar will take place on Wednesday 20 September, from 4 – 6pm in Dalhousie 2F11. Dr Constantinos Athanasopoulos ‘Hesychia vs. Quietude: St Gregory Palamas and L. Wittgenstein on the escapist and futile misconceptions of ontological salvation and metaphysical hinges’. Abstract Hesychasm is a monastic …
“Gillian Howie’s Situated Philosophy: Theorizing Living and Dying ‘In Situation’” Christine Battersby (University of Warrick) Wednesday 22nd March, 4-6pm Room 2F13, Dalhousie Building The seminar will be followed by a wine reception in the foyer of the Dalhousie Building. This presentation will examine living with a life-limiting illness, through an engagement with the work of …
by Dr Dominic Smith Originally published in The Conversation magazine (March 2, 2017) A colleague recently asked me how I would define “Trumpism”. Where do you start? Is it a new political ideology, or a revival of dangerous old populisms? A flash in the pan, or a draining of the swamp? Are we seeing the …
Read more “Never mind truth and lies – ‘Trumpism’ rejects the very idea of making sense”
The editors of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy are pleased to announce the publication of Issue 25. FEATURES ‘(Neuro)plasticity, Epigenesis and the Void’ by Ian James ‘From “L’inexistance divine”‘ by Quentin Meillassoux (transl. Nathan Brown) ‘What is a Diagram (for a Sign)?’ by James Williams ESSAYS ‘Polemic as Logic in the Work of Alain Badiou’ by Justin Clemens and …