With responses from Jodie Williamson (Dundee) and Ole Thijs (Wageningen, The Netherlands) 3-4.30pm, Monday 18 May Dalhousie Building, Room 2F14 University of Dundee And online on Teams: SCCP Book Launch: Dominic Smith, Bridging Benjamin | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams In Bridging Benjamin, Dominic Smith engages…
Robert Lucas Scott (University of Cambridge) 3-5pm, 25March Dalhousie Building, Room 2F13 University of Dundee Online on Teams: SCCP Seminar – Robert Lucas Scott | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams Abstract Thinking and acting, for Gillian Rose, are matters…
With a response by Oisín Keohane: “Acclimatising oneself to nothing?” 3-5pm, 11 March Dalhousie Building, Room 2F15 University of Dundee And online on Teams: SCCP Seminar – Phillippe Lynes book launch | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams The first of two volumes exploring…
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…
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…
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…
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…
of Non-Linear Modelling Sara Franceschelli (École Normale Supérieure, Lyon) 3-5pm, Wednesday 12 November Room 3G05 (Lecture Theatre 2), Dalhousie Building University of Dundee City Campus And online via Teams: Philosophy Research Seminar Sara Franceschelli | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams Abstract…
Oisin Keohane (Dundee) 3-5pm, Wednesday 15 Oct Dalhousie 2F14 Or online via Teams: Philosophy Seminar Oisin Keohane | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams Abstract My talk aims to be the first to create a dialogue between Hadot’s work on the idea…
Ole Thijs (Wageningen University & Research) 3-5pm, Wednesday 1 October Dalhousie Building, Room 2F14 University of Dundee, City Campus And online via Teams: Abstract: With the advent of geo-engineering and ‘sustainable’ technologies (GESTs), technology is taking a uniquely reflexive…
‘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…
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…
Textural Sensemaking 4.30 – 6 pm Wed 29 January 2025 Dalhousie LT2, University of Dundee Or online here. A seminar for the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy. Sponsored by the Royal Institute of Philosophy and the AHRC project Energy: A…
Talk: Thinking the earth. Geophilosophy from Deleuze and Guattari to Latour. Wednesday 22nd of January Dalhousie 2F15 – 16.00-17.30 Sponsored by the Royal Institute of Philosophy Streamed live on Teams here. In their latest work, Deleuze and Guattari invent “geophilosophy”. With…
Unless otherwise indicated, seminars are held 4:40 – 6:00pm Wednesdays, both in person (Room 2F15, Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee) and online (links will be posted below). 25 Sept Gregory Cajete (U of New Mexico), ‘Native Science and the Laws…
Nicholas Davey (Professor Emeritus, University of Dundee) 4:30pm, Wednesday 4 December Dalhousie Building, Room 2F15, University of Dundee A seminar for the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy. Funded by the Royal Institute of Philosophy. All welcome. Link for online streaming…
Ashley Woodward (University of Dundee) 4:30-6:00pm, Wednesday October 30 Dalhousie 2F15 All welcome! The notion of information has had an uncomfortable place in the reception of Gilbert Simondon’s work. While clearly being central to his thought, many interpreters have largely…
Programme without Transmission: On the Translatability of Benjamin’s Radio Work Dominic Smith (University of Dundee) 5-6:30pm, Wednesday October 9 Dalhousie 2F15 This presentation argues for the strong contemporary relevance of Walter Benjamin’s radio work (1927-1933), despite 1.) his low opinion…
GREGORY CAJETE Interdependence and the Creative Process: An Indigenous Perspective Wed 25 Sep, 4.30 – 6pm, all welcome Dalhousie Building, 3G02 Lecture Theatre 1 The Indigenous worldview is rooted in a pan-species epistemology. It cultivates axiological relationships of humans to…
Parrhesia is open access and may be read freely online: The editors of parrhesia: a journal of critical philosophy are pleased to announce the publication of issue 39, featuring new translations of Michel Foucault and Raymond Ruyer, a chapter from Bill Ross’…
Dear all, the University of Dundee Philosophy Speaker Series supported by the Royal Institute of Philosophy will continue in May with a final major events of the year: Prof Mladen Dolar will give a lecture on “On Hontology” on the…
Dear all, the University of Dundee Philosophy Speaker Series supported by the Royal Institute of Philosophy will continue at the end of April with two major events and there are still places you can register for: — Prof Etienne Balibar…
Author: Ashley Woodward Recently it seems that everyone has been jumping on the AI bandwagon. The French philosopher Raymond Ruyer (1902-1987) made a pretty good head start when, in 1954, he published his book Cybernetics and the Origin of Information.…
The editors of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy are pleased to announce the publication of issue 37. Parrhesia is part of Open Humanities Press, and can be freely accessed online. Full issue here. Contents Features Mary Graham The Law…
Dear all, We will continue the Dundee philosophy speaker series this Wednesday, the 8th of March, with an online event with Prof David Wills (Brown University). David will give a talk entitled “Spoonful: The Dorsal Deconstruction of Eroticism” (scroll down…
If you are one of those people who browse Tik Tok at every lunch break, enjoying the ‘sped up’ versions of forgotten hits and trying to reproduce some dance moves when nobody is watching, you may have heard about the…
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…
We continue our philosophy speaker series next Thursday, 19.01.2023 at 6pm with a talk by Prof Stella Sandford (Kingston University) on “Immanuel Kant’s Natural Taxonomy of ‘Race’”. The talk will take place in the Dalhousie building, room: Dalhousie 1F18 Immanuel…
This semester, we are pleased to announce the new Philosophy Speaker series.Events will take place on campus and will be regularly advertised on our Facebook Page or Twitter. Stay tuned! *Abstracts and title to be announced in due course on…
This semester, we are pleased to announce the new Philosophy Speaker series.Events will take place on campus and will be regularly advertised on our Facebook Page or Twitter. Stay tuned! 19.10.2022, 4pm Rebecca Carson (London) “Immanent Externalities: The Reproduction of Life in…
Forget the big hits like Stranger Things, Squid Game or Bridgerton. You know, these shows that break records, generate trends on Tik Tok, and are responsible each year for a tons of new Halloween costumes. Severance, directed by Ben Stiller…
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.…
We are pleased to annonce that the Special Issue of Parrhesia on Bergson and vitalism(s) is now out and available : In this volume, you will find : Mathilde Tahar, “Bergson’s Vitalisms”Charles Wolfe, “The Discreet Charm of Hippocratism: Archaic…
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…
Dom Smith from Philosophy at Dundee recently had the pleasure of contributing to the World Ethical Data Forum, 26-28th Oct, 2022 (). The WEDF is an international event bringing together hundreds of scholars, programmers and practitioners to discuss issues surrounding data acces and…
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 –…
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: Michael’s PhD project synthesises and critiques…
Last week saw completion of phase two of this year’s Localising Philosophy project on ‘Transitions’. Phase one (24th May – 1st June) saw us conduct on-site workshops with P7s at four local primary schools, exploring two big questions: ‘why…
We are delighted to share the good news that the Localising Philosophy project co-led by Dr Dominic Smith and Dr Anna Robb has secured two small research grants for work to be carried out in primary and secondary schools in the…
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…
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…
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…
Next Wednesday, on the 13th of April (04:00 PM London), The Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy is hosting a book launch for Dynamic Realism: Uncovering the Reality of Becoming Through Process Phenomenology and Process Philosophy, the new book of Tina…
On Friday 8 April, Dominic Smith and Ashley Woodward, from the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy, will be speaking on a panel at the conference Law, Technology, and the Human (University of Kent). This event and others at the conference…
The Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought of the EGS ( European Graduate School ) is very pleased to announce that the “Leading Thinkers” series will continue with a course on Karl Marx led by Professor Frank Ruda from the…
June 6-17 Barzakh, Beirut The Beirut Institute for Critical Analysis and Research (BICAR) will host its first summer school in Lebanon this June. The summer school is open to international and local students. It is intended as a pedagogical intervention…
Ashley Woodward from the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy is interviewed on themes related to his book ‘Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition’ on the Hermitix podcast.
About the book: Philosophy has traditionally considered reality as a set of static objects. Tina Röck transcends this understanding to explore the realistic potential of relational and dynamic ontology. These explorations are both complex and problematic as we attempt to…
We are pleased to announce that the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy is affiliated with the research project “The Politics of Reason”, which has received a prestigious 4 year Spanish government grant (Convocatoria 2020—Proyectos de I+D+I, Ministry of Science and Innovation).…
Frank Ruda from the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy is one of the authors of the book Reading Hegel! About the book A spirit is haunting contemporary thought – the spirit of Hegel. All the powers of academia have entered…
We are pleased to announce the new Philosophy Speaker series. The online events are the following: 26.01., 5-7pm: Monique David-Ménard (Paris): “Animism of the owners, animism of the poor. How are we today to read Marx’s texts on Property, 1842“ 23.2., 4-6pm: Slavoj Žižek, Agon…
Founded in 1900 as the Scots Philosophical Club, the Scots Philosophical Association (SPA) is the professional association of philosophers in Scotland. Its primary purpose is to promote the study and teaching of philosophy in Scotland. This is achieved through the…
In these times of climate emergency, it is the great pleasure of the Philosophy Programme at Dundee to share details of how one of our graduates is having an impact in rethinking environmental change. Next week, Waco Yokoyama, who graduated…
Dr Tina Röck , Dr Oisín Keohane Monday, February 28, 2022 Self-Funded PhD Students Only University of Dundee School of Humanities About the Project We are currently experiencing a resurgence of interest in metaphysical concepts that often remain stuck in Western…
About the book: Philosophy has traditionally considered reality as a set of static objects. Tina Röck transcends this understanding to explore the realistic potential of relational and dynamic ontology. These explorations are both complex and problematic as we attempt to…
We are pleased to announce that the the line-up for the Hsgb Annual Conference 2021: “Hegel Today” has now been finalised as follows: Monday, 11 Oct. 2021, 5.30-7.00 pm UK time: Robert Pippin (University of Chicago) — “The Phenomenology and…
We are pleased to announce The Royal Institute of Philosophy University of Dundee Speaker series. The online events are the following: 06.10., 4-6pm: Geoffrey Bennington (Emory): “Kicking and Screaming” 20.10., 6-8pm: Alberto Toscano (Goldsmith / Simon Fraser University): “Fascism and…
We are delighted to announce the SEPtember 2021 online events by the Society for European Philosophy. Have a look at the program here:
We are delighted to announce the online workshop “The Phenomenon of Temporality” organised by Tina Röck (University of Dundee) and Daniel Neumann (University of Klagenfurt). The event will take place on the 16th of September from 13:00 until 18:00 (CET).…
Cally Nurse is 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 world? Touch it, he says. There, in his blue,rubber-gloved hand, is a…
Dr Luca Siliquini-Cinelli (Law, University of Dundee) specialises in comparative contract law, comparative legal traditions, and continental philosophy and political theory. He is currently working with Dr. Thom Giddens (Law) and Dr Dominic Smith (Philosophy) towards realisation of the ‘Frankenlaw’…
This Wednesday, the 5th of May from 1pm to 3pm, we are glad to welcome Dr Michelle Bastian from the University of Edinburgh who will give a lecture entitled The time that ‘destroys humanity’: clocks and continental philosophy. The event…
In TICK TALKs: The Blind and Deaf Highway Woman, we hear from Dr Undine Sellbach from the University of Dundee about her research and writing on the biologist Jakob von Uexküll, including his writing on ticks in which he presents…
This Thursday, the 15th of April, from 5pm to 7pm we will welcome Jason E. Smith (Los Angeles) who will give a lecture entitled Aristotle’s Dream. The event will take place through Teams. If you are interested in participating, please…
What a year it has been… Almost exactly a year ago, Dr Dom Smith from the centre had a chance to sit down and do a podcast on two of his favourite things in life: Philosophy… and FOOTBALL!. Dom did…
We are pleased to announce the talk Freud’s Agnosticism? by Lorenzo Chiesa from Newcastle University. The talk will be an online event and it will take place the 8th of April at 4pm. Teams will be used. If you are…
We are pleased to announce the talk Freud’s Agnosticism? by Lorenzo Chiesa from Newcastle University. The talk will be an online event and it will take place the 8th of April at 4pm. Teams will be used. If you are…
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Dr Dominic Smith from the Centre recently had the pleasure of taking part in an expert witness panel for the Scottish Parliament, that fed into the work of a Citizens’ Panel on Covid-19 Strategy. The panel responded to the question:…
We are pleased to announce two online events that are going to take place in this term’s philosophy speaker series: “More Real Than Real: Truth and Authenticity in Psychoanalysis” by Patricia Gherovici, from the University of Philadelphia, is taking place on the 13th…
We are pleased to announce that the “Indeterminate Futures / The Future of Indeterminacy” online conference will take place on November 13-14-15. Click the following link for every detail, including day by day programme, speaking abstracts and instructions about registration:…
Slavoj Žižek: Samuel Beckett’s Art of Abstraction In 2018 we invited Slavoj Žižek from the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities to speak as part of the Evening Lecture Series, hosted by the The Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy at the…
We are pleased to announce three online events that are going to take place in this term’s philosophy speaker series. We will have Andrew Cutrofello from Loyola University, Chicago as our first speaker, giving a lecture on the 28th of October on “Was it for this?” Brandom, Hegel,…
To mark the passing of French philosopher of technology Bernard Stiegler, Parrhesia journal has released a special issue collecting relevant previously published articles, introduced with a personal reflection by Arne de Boever:
by Amélie Berger Soraruff There is nothing more banal for a philosopher than to be dead. Doing philosophy often means walking down the aisle of a cemetery with your bouquet of chrysanthemums pressed against your chest, ready to be deposited…
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We are pleased to announce the publication of Parrhesia 33. This time the issue features work by Jean-Luc Nancy, Elie During and Paul-Antoine Miquel and essays on Rancière, Deleuze, Agamben and more. The journal is freely available here:
Please see details of online events relating to the recent ’24/7′ Exhibition at Somerset House, to which Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy members Dominic Smith and Patrick Levy contributed work and expertise… Across the week of midsummer – which…
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…
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 who…
Dear All, in light of the current Covid-19 situation, we have made the decision to postpone the Critical Legal Conference that was due to be run between the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy and Law at the University of Dundee…
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…
We regret to inform you that, due to the recent news about the spread of Covid-19 in Scotland, the talk of Lorenzo Chiesa about “The Feature of an Illusion: a New Reading” is SUSPENDED. Our apologies.
We have the pleasure to welcome Dr. Lorenzo Chiesa from Newcastle University who will be speaking about “The Feature of an Illusion: a New Reading”. As usual, do not hesitate to join us for this exciting discussion that will take…
We have to inform you that the talk of Alberto Toscano (Goldsmith University) on “Late Fascism” and the talk of Dr. Luis De Miranda (Orbrero University) on “What is Philosophical Health and How Can we Reach it?” have been cancelled…
On Wednesday the 19th of February 2020 we have the pleasure of welcoming Prof. Joanna Hodge from the Manchester Metropolitan University. Joanna Hodge will be giving a talk on “Ecotechnics as Political Ontology – The Contemporaneity of Jean-Luc Nancy” in room 2F13 of the…
Within the context of Cooper Gallery’s current exhibition “Ambiguous Becoming: Artists’ Moving Image from Canada”, we are delighted to host a talk by Professor Dany Nobus on “Arresting Masculinity: Anger, Hybridity and the Persistence of Patriarchy in the 21st Century”.…
We are delighted to announce the publication of Parrhesia 32, a special issue on Spinoza, guest-edited by Dimitris Vardoulakis and Daniela Voss. Freely available online:
Co-presented by Philosophy & the School of Life Sciences University of Dundee 17th December 2019, 3pm in the Sir Kenneth and Lady Noreen Murray Seminar Room, CTIR Alfred North Whitehead gives us some metaphysical insight into the organic interconnectedness of…
This week, the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy has the pleasure of welcoming Dr Wahida Khandker from the University of Manchester. Wahida Khandker will be giving a talk on “Prehensive Unification and Symbiogenesis: From Whitehead to Margulis”. Date and Location:…
TALK CANCELLED Within the context of Cooper Gallery’s current exhibition The Pleasure of Expense by Jasmina Cibic, we are delighted to host a talk by Professor Dany Nobus on “Arresting Masculinity: Anger, Hybridity and the Persistence of Patriarchy in…
This week we have the pleasure of welcoming Michael Lewis who will be discussing on “Helmuth Plessner and the Contemporary Relevance of Philosophical Anthropology”. As usual, do not hesitate to join us for this exciting discussion. The event will take…
This week we have the pleasure of welcoming Jeffrey Bell who will be giving a talk on “Making Sense of Capital: Towards a Deleuzo-Humean Political Theory”. As usual, do not hesitate to join us for this exciting discussion. The event…
This week, we welcome Dr Julia Ng (Goldsmith) who will be talking about “Ancient Mexico and Natural-History: Walter Benjamin’s Transition Problem”. The talk will take place at Dalhousie Building (room 1G05), Wednesday 6th November, from for 4 to 6…
This Wednesday, we have the pleasure of welcoming Dr Gregor Moder from the University of Ljubljana who will be talking about “Lubitsch, Shakespeare and the Power of Theater”. Location: The talk will be held in room 2G12, Dalhousie Building…
Co-presented by Philosophy & the School of Life Sciences University of Dundee Wednesday 5 June 2019, 3pm in the Sir Kenneth and Lady Noreen Murray Seminar Room, CTIR How have views about females shifted in the international research community of…
Co-presented by Philosophy & the School of Life Sciences University of Dundee Wednesday 22 May 2019 3pm in the Sir Kenneth and Lady Noreen Murray Seminar Room, CTIR Day by day, month by month, we are losing species at rates…
Dear everyone, We are pleased to invite you to a workshop on “Materialist Pedagogies”. The core aim of the workshop is to reflect on what can count as a ‘stimulus’ or ‘object of thought’ in the Arts and Humanities today, in…
What is it about? What better way to endure the Brexit confusion than have a conversation about a famous philosophical outsider figure who took an informed and insightful interest in the corner of the British Isles where you’re based….. This is…