Dear all, it is our pleasure to invite you to a collaborative ‘Widdershins’ urban walking event, organised by one of our PhD students, Gareth Jones (please note: this event is open to all, but there are a restricted number of places; please contact: g.h.m.jones@dundee.ac.uk regarding availability) Widdershins walks aim to disrupt our habituated encounters with everyday places and …
David Webb is Professor of Philosophy at Staffordshire University. His research is centred on recent and contemporary European philosophy, and he has a particular interest in French epistemology and philosophy of science. He is the author of Foucault’s Archaeology: Science and Transformation (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and Heidegger, Ethics and the Practice of Ontology …
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SCCP:CP+IT 9:15am-5:30pm, 1st December 2017 Dalhousie Building, Room 2S16, University of Dundee This open workshop will bring together scholars engaging with information technologies within the continental philosophical tradition, with the aim of sharing ideas and fostering this emerging area of research. All welcome. Dull details: https://scot-cont-phil.org/continental-philosophy-and-information-technology-workshop/
Date: Friday 27 October 2017 Venue: Dalhousie 2S12 (10-1PM) & 2F14 (1-4PM) The Hermeneutics of Practise is an Art and Philosophy symposium hosted by the School of Humanities. The themes it will investigate will be in honour of Professor Nicholas Davey, who retired from the University of Dundee in 2017. The speakers we have invited, …
First Philosophy Seminar of the semester – All welcome! The seminar will take place on Wednesday 20 September, from 4 – 6pm in Dalhousie 2F11. Dr Constantinos Athanasopoulos ‘Hesychia vs. Quietude: St Gregory Palamas and L. Wittgenstein on the escapist and futile misconceptions of ontological salvation and metaphysical hinges’. Abstract Hesychasm is a monastic …
“Gillian Howie’s Situated Philosophy: Theorizing Living and Dying ‘In Situation’” Christine Battersby (University of Warrick) Wednesday 22nd March, 4-6pm Room 2F13, Dalhousie Building The seminar will be followed by a wine reception in the foyer of the Dalhousie Building. This presentation will examine living with a life-limiting illness, through an engagement with the work of …