Seminar – Bodies of the Law: Between Technologies Corporate and Rotten

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 – 3.30 pm, Monday 12th September. Who: Dr Thom Giddens (Event Chair, Dundee Law School); Dr …

Student Publication Success!

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: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2091467  Michael’s PhD project synthesises and critiques the work of various contemporary philosophers of technology (Stiegler, Ihde, Verbeek, Hui, Floridi), and examines …

A Good News Story: Localising Philosophy

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 do things change?’ and ‘how do we connect today?’    Phase two took place last …

Localising Philosophy Project – philosophical work in primary and secondary schools in the Dundee area

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 Dundee area.  From 24th – 31st May we will be taking a team of student colleagues into …

Undine Sellbach, ‘‘Why should our bodies end with our skin?’: Intergenerational longings, dislocations and waiting in BXBY’

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Postgraduate symposium and exhibition – “Dwelling in Extremis”

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 run 13-16th May, Main Foyer, Dalhousie Building.  Please see below for full programme and theme details.  …

Friday Tour | Tina Röck

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 in the context of Meet me at the threshold events that ”brings together the first …

CFP – Reimagining AI: Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology – 2022 Special Issue

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 of the 1980s and 1990. These include metaphysical, epistemological and ethical concerns such as personhood, …

Book Launch – “Dynamic Realism: Uncovering the Reality of Becoming Through Process Phenomenology and Process Philosophy”

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 Röck! There will be a short general presentation and discussion of the book by both …

Conference – ‘Law, Technology, and the Human’

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 (6-8 April) can be freely accessed on line. Register for details: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/law-technology-and-the-human-conference-ahrc-law-and-the-human-network-tickets-309724182367  2:30 – 4pm, …