by Elisabetta Rizzo | May 18, 2021 | Featured in Slider, Featured on Website, Featured text, Text
The Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy is delighted to host the essay Horrible Creatures by Cally Nurse, an MFA student in Dundee. Encounters with the Velvet Swimming Crab: What do our feelings of disgust towardsanimals reveal about our attitude to the living...
by Elisabetta Rizzo | May 4, 2021 | Featured in Slider, Featured on Website, Featured text, Text
The Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy is delighted to host a short essay on ‘Seeking Truth’ by our colleague Dr Luca Siliquini-Cinelli (Law, University of Dundee). Luca specialises in comparative contract law, comparative legal traditions, and...
by Elisabetta Rizzo | Jun 2, 2020 | Text
https://theconversation.com/why-lockdown-life-is-a-lot-like-insomnia-a-philosopher-of-sleep-explains-139156
by Elisabetta Rizzo | May 1, 2020 | Text
by Dominic Smith Two transitional moments in Spielberg’s Jaws demand special attention. The first is when Richard Dreyfuss turns up as oceanographer Matt Hooper. In a film full of strong performances, he steals the show (opinion will be split on whether Robert...
by Elisabetta Rizzo | Apr 23, 2020 | Text
by Ashley Woodward Popular culture has already had more than its fair share of misrepresentations of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and his ideas, from the comic book superhero Superman to the‘Nietzscheans’ – a malevolent alien race...
by Elisabetta Rizzo | Apr 1, 2020 | Text
by Dominic Smith I wasn’t in the habit of noticing it at all: a small rectangular fridge magnet bearing a likeness of the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume, gifted to me by an eccentric member of the Hume Society many years ago…. It is...
