“The Body Eclectic: Mimesis and Play in Contemporary V.R.” Darshana Jayemanne (Abertay University) 4 – 6pm, Wednesday 24 January Dalhousie Building, Room 1S05, University of Dundee All welcome! This talk extends Walter Benjamin’s concept of mimesis in order to challenge discourses of ‘immersion’ that are often used to understand contemporary virtual reality technologies. …
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!
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″] [et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] by Dominic Smith Originally published on the University of Dundee blog, Nov 15. Today is UNESCO ‘World Philosophy Day.’ But does philosophy deserve this celebration? According to a famous assessment from Stephen Hawking, the answer is emphatically ‘no’: ‘How can we understand the world in which we …
David Sorfa (University of Edinburgh) Philosophy Seminar this Wednesday 22nd November, 3-5pm (NOTE the earlier start) Dalhousie Building, Room 2F11, University of Dundee All welcome! In his most developed discussion of film, the interview “Cinema and Its Ghosts” in 2001, Jacques Derrida says that, “There is an altogether singular mode of believing in cinema: a century ago, …
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 …
Professor Paul Davies (University of Sussex) “On Being Patient (with Kant, Kierkegaard, and Levinas)” Wednesday 25 October 4-6pm, Dalhousie 2F13 All welcome! Patience has generally been regarded as a good thing, perhaps even a virtue, but it has proved very difficult to say why this should be so. A phenomenology of patience quickly turns …
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.