Next Philosophy Seminar

“Gillian Howie’s Situated Philosophy: Theorizing Living and Dying ‘In Situation’” Christine Battersby (University of Warrick) Wednesday 22nd March, 4-6pm Room 2F13, Dalhousie Building The seminar will be followed by a wine reception in the foyer of the Dalhousie Building. This presentation will examine living with a life-limiting illness, through an engagement with the work of …

Never mind truth and lies – ‘Trumpism’ rejects the very idea of making sense

by Dr Dominic Smith Originally published in The Conversation magazine (March 2, 2017) A colleague recently asked me how I would define “Trumpism”. Where do you start? Is it a new political ideology, or a revival of dangerous old populisms? A flash in the pan, or a draining of the swamp? Are we seeing the …

Issue 25 of Parrhesia Journal

The editors of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy are pleased to announce the publication of Issue 25. FEATURES ‘(Neuro)plasticity, Epigenesis and the Void’ by Ian James ‘From “L’inexistance divine”‘ by Quentin Meillassoux (transl. Nathan Brown) ‘What is a Diagram (for a Sign)?’ by James Williams  ESSAYS ‘Polemic as Logic in the Work of Alain Badiou’ by Justin Clemens and …

Hermeneutics and its History: A Personal View

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Introducing Groundworks Series edited by Arne De Boever, Jon Roffe, Bill Ross and Ashley Woodward

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Don Ihde: ‘Letting Things Speak: Material Hermeneutics’

We are very pleased to be hosting Don Ihde from Stony Brook University, an internationally renowned philosopher of science and technology and pioneer of ‘postphenomenology.’ All most welcome! Wednesday, 5th October, 4pm – 6pm  Venue: Dalhousie 2F13 Don Ihde (Stony Brook University) “Letting Things Speak: Material Hermeneutics” I contend that there is a current Second Scientific Revolution from …

New Articles on Art and the Internet in the Context of the Philosophy of Technology

Dr Dominic Smith, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee, has had two new journal articles published recently, one looking at the art of Torsten Lauschmann in the context of the philosophy of technology, and the other looking at the Internet as Idea. ‘On Technological Ground: The Art of Torsten Lauschmann‘, published in the journal Evental Aesthetics, considers …

Rewriting the Constitution: A Critique of ‘Postphenomenology’

Dr Dominic Smith, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee, is to have his latest article published in the ‘Philosophy & Technology’ journal’s December 2015 issue. Rewriting the Constitution: A Critique of ‘Postphenomenology’ builds a three-part argument in favour of a more transcendentally focused form of ‘postphenomenology’ than is currently practiced in philosophy of …