The lecture will return to a concept which seems fairly out of fashion today: courage. It will start revisiting this concept from the analysis of a simple problem: There seems to be almost no reference made or value assigned to courage today in most of contemporary philosophy, yet, as a quick glance through the …
Dear all, it is our pleasure to invite you to a collaborative ‘Widdershins’ urban walking event, organised by one of our PhD students, Gareth Jones (please note: this event is open to all, but there are a restricted number of places; please contact: g.h.m.jones@dundee.ac.uk regarding availability) Widdershins walks aim to disrupt our habituated encounters with everyday places and …
The Scottish Center For Continental Philosophy is pleased to announce the publication of Dr Oisin Keohane’s new book, titled Cosmo-nationalism: American, French and German Philosophy. The book interrogates the rise of national philosophies and their impact on cosmopolitanism and nationalism. The idea of national philosophy carries in it a strange contradiction. We talk …
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David Webb is Professor of Philosophy at Staffordshire University. His research is centred on recent and contemporary European philosophy, and he has a particular interest in French epistemology and philosophy of science. He is the author of Foucault’s Archaeology: Science and Transformation (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and Heidegger, Ethics and the Practice of Ontology …
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Wed 31 January, 4-6pm Dalhousie Building, Room 1S05 University of Dundee All welcome. “Of a Universal No Longer Indifferent to Difference: Badiou (and Irigaray) on Woman, Truths and Philosophy” In a startling inflexion of his core tenet of truths’ trans-positionality, or the neutrality of the universal, Badiou’s 2011 paper ‘Figures of Femininity in …
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“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/