Part of the Scottish Heroes and Villains Month, Dr Dominic Smith will be talking at the Dundee University Culture Day on David Hume. The talk takes place on Wednesday 1st October, 3.30pm, Baxter Suite, Room 1.36, Tower Building. More information: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/exhibitions/caf/
The Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy and The Forum for European Philosophy present a Philosophy Public Engagement Talk
The Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy and The Royal Institute of Philosophy present a series of invited speakers on the theme of Gender Different & Ontological Difference.
The Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy presents a workshop on ‘A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy’. Taking place at the University of Dundee on 12th September 2014, the workshop aims to provide a forum for the reconsideration of Deleuze and Guattari’s work, and to develop connections between established scholars and students working in this area. See …
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Professor James Williams writes: I have been asked recently by students in Dundee and while travelling to conferences abroad how support for Scottish independence can be politically progressive, in the sense of a search for a better society for all on an egalitarian basis. The background to the query stems from my claim that Deleuze …
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Dr Ashley Woodward is presenting a lecture course on “Lyotard’s Aesthetics” at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy in July. You can read about his contribution to their Winter School at http://mscp.org.au/courses/winter-school-2014
One should not think slightingly of the paradoxical; for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without the paradox is like a lover without a feeling. Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments, p 46
Paradox: a composite of the Greek ‘para’ (against or beyond) and ‘doxa’ (common belief or opinion); a paradox, informally, is a statement that goes against or beyond common sense; ‘this statement is a lie’ is a famous example of a paradox.
Professor James Williams gave a talk at Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) on 17th April 2014 to accompany the exhibition of work by Navid Nuur. The transcript of his talk is available to download here.
Professor James Williams will be one of the keynote speakers at a conference in Hong Kong next month – ‘Deleuze’s Cultural Encounters with the New Humanities’. Running from 9th to 12th June 2014, the conference has been organised by the Department of English Language & Literature, Technoscience Culture Research and Development Centre, at the Hong Kong …
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