Category Past Events

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…

“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…

“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…

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…

Thomas Nail (University of Denver)

‘Chaos and the Birth of Form’  4pm, 23 April   Dalhousie Building 2F14 University of Dundee Or online Form has occupied the very top of the great chain of being throughout nearly all ancient and modern thought. In much of this…

Yuk Hui, ‘After Organic Form’

4pm, Dalhousie 2F15 Or online here. In the 18th century, criticism of mechanism led to a new discourse on the organic form, largely inspired by research in the natural sciences. The most significant exploration of this concept can be found…