The Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy is pleased to announce its research seminar series for semester 1, 2026-27.
Unless otherwise indicated closer to the date, all seminars will take place in the Dalhousie Building at the City Campus of the University of Dundee, on a Wednesday, 3-5pm. All welcome, and no need to book.
Wed October 21st Andrew Haas, 3.00-5.00pm
Presence—Event—Implication
The question of the meaning of being, has been asked and answered. The Greeks think being qua presence: ‘to be’ means ‘to be present.’ For Heidegger, however, presence cannot be being—for absence is not nothing; rather, both presence and absence are equiprimordial modes of being, and the unity of being must be sought elsewhere, namely, in being qua event: ‘to be’ means ‘to happen.’ And yet, both happening and unhappening, Ereignis and Enteignis, are equiprimordial modes of being—and again, the unity of being must be sought elsewhere. Fortunately, however, the Greeks provide a clue: in Greek, being is implied. For example, Heraclitus says: ἦθος ἀνθρώπῳ δαίμων—that is, not ‘human character is divine’; but rather, ‘human character divine.’ The ‘is’, being, is neither ‘there’ nor ‘not there’; it neither happens nor unhappens—for it is just implied, which is why it can be called an implication. The task then, is to think being qua implication and all that implies.
This event is online only.
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Thursday November 12th, Anupama Ranawana (Durham University) – 3.30-5.00pm
“Buddhist feminist riposte to muscular nationalism”
Dalhousie –
And online: SCCP Philosophy Seminar | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams