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Why lockdown life is a lot like insomnia – a philosopher of sleep explains
https://theconversation.com/why-lockdown-life-is-a-lot-like-insomnia-a-philosopher-of-sleep-explains-139156
Seeing the Shark
by Dominic Smith Two transitional moments in Spielberg's Jaws demand special attention. The first is when Richard Dreyfuss turns up as oceanographer Matt Hooper. In a film full of strong performances, he steals the show (opinion will be split on whether Robert Shaw...
Selling Nietzsche Short (Again)
by Ashley Woodward Popular culture has already had more than its fair share of misrepresentations of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and his ideas, from the comic book superhero Superman to the‘Nietzscheans’ – a malevolent alien race...
Ugly David
by Dominic Smith I wasn't in the habit of noticing it at all: a small rectangular fridge magnet bearing a likeness of the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume, gifted to me by an eccentric member of the Hume Society many years ago.... It is frankly...
Why Philosophy Deserves Its Day
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...
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...
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...
Hermeneutics and its History: A Personal View
by Prof Nicholas Davey It is an interesting question. Why do we read? Why do we read texts, signs, situations and each other? The ever changing contingencies of existence and the precariousness of our enterprises mean that getting a judgement “right” about a problem,...
Introducing Groundworks Series edited by Arne De Boever, Jon Roffe, Bill Ross and Ashley Woodward
Rowman & Littlefield introduced Groundworks, a new series of publications edited by Arne De Boever, Jon Roffe, Bill Ross and Ashley Woodward. The series starts with Gaston Bachelard's The Dialectic of Duration, translated by Mary McAllester Jones. ...
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...
NEWS
Dr Dominic Smith – Citizens’ Panel on Covid-19 Strategy
Dr Dominic Smith from the Centre recently had the pleasure of taking part in an expert witness panel for the Scottish Parliament, that fed into the work of a Citizens' Panel on Covid-19 Strategy. The panel responded to the question: “What priorities should shape the...
Philosophy Speaker Series!
We are pleased to announce two online events that are going to take place in this term's philosophy speaker series: “More Real Than Real: Truth and Authenticity in Psychoanalysis” by Patricia Gherovici, from the University of Philadelphia, is taking place on the 13th...
Talks
Slavoj Žižek: Samuel Beckett's Art of Abstraction In 2018 we invited Slavoj Žižek from the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities to speak as part of the Evening Lecture Series, hosted by the The Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy at the University of Dundee....
Philosophy Speaker Series!
We are pleased to announce three online events that are going to take place in this term's philosophy speaker series. We will have Andrew Cutrofello from Loyola University, Chicago as our first speaker, giving a lecture on the 28th of October on "Was it for this?"...
In Memoriam Bernard Stiegler – a special issue of Parrhesia
To mark the passing of French philosopher of technology Bernard Stiegler, Parrhesia journal has released a special issue collecting relevant previously published articles, introduced with a personal reflection by Arne de Boever: https://www.parrhesiajournal.org