New issue of Parrhesia published

The editors of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy are pleased to announce the publication of issue 37. Parrhesia is part of Open Humanities Press, and can be freely accessed online. Full issue here. Contents Features Mary Graham The Law of Obligation, Aboriginal Ethics: Australia Becoming, Australia Dreaming PDF Marcel Gauchet; trans. Natalie J. Doyle …

Prof Stella Sandford on “Immanuel Kant’s Natural Taxonomy of ‘Race’”

We continue our philosophy speaker series next Thursday, 19.01.2023 at 6pm with a talk by Prof Stella Sandford (Kingston University) on “Immanuel Kant’s Natural Taxonomy of ‘Race’”. The talk will take place in the Dalhousie building, room: Dalhousie 1F18 Immanuel Kant’s natural taxonomy of ‘race’ – Abstract: This lecture will discuss Immanuel Kant’s writings on …

Philosophy Speaker Series Spring 2023

This semester, we are pleased to announce the new Philosophy Speaker series.Events will take place on campus and will be regularly advertised on our Facebook Page or Twitter. Stay tuned! *Abstracts and title to be announced in due course on social media. 19.01., 4pm: Stella Sandford (Kingston University) 25.1., 4pm 30.11., 4pm: Havi Carel (Bristol University) 15.03., 4pm Michael Heinrich (Berlin) 10.04., …

Philosophy Speaker series Fall 2022

This semester, we are pleased to announce the new Philosophy Speaker series.Events will take place on campus and will be regularly advertised on our Facebook Page or Twitter. Stay tuned! 19.10.2022, 4pm Rebecca Carson (London) “Immanent Externalities: The Reproduction of Life in Capital” (in Dalhousie 1F09) 26.10., 4pm: Roberto Nigro (Luneburg) – Discomfort in Contemporary Philosophy: The Italian Operaism and …

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 …

Research Grant: Philosophy International Research Collaboration

We are pleased to announce that the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy is affiliated with the research project “The Politics of Reason”, which has received a prestigious 4 year Spanish government grant (Convocatoria 2020—Proyectos de I+D+I, Ministry of Science and Innovation). Gavin Rae (University of Madrid), an Associate Member of the SCCP, is Principal Investigator, and Ashley Woodward …

‘Reading Hegel’ by Slavoj Zizek, Frank Ruda and Agon Hamza

Frank Ruda from the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy is one of the authors of the book Reading Hegel! About the book A spirit is haunting contemporary thought – the spirit of Hegel. All the powers of academia have entered into a holy alliance to exorcize this spirit: Vitalists and Eschatologists, Transcendental Pragmatists and Speculative …

Jason E. Smith – Aristotle’s Dream

This Thursday, the 15th of April, from 5pm to 7pm we will welcome Jason E. Smith (Los Angeles) who will give a lecture entitled Aristotle’s Dream. The event will take place through Teams. If you are interested in participating, please contact Dr Frank Ruda to register. Jason E. Smith lives in Los Angeles and writes …