Event Archive

Please join us to celebrate the launch of our new research centre, the Centre for Knowledge and Society(CEKAS). From its base in Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, CEKAS aims to address societal challenges by applying philosophical tools and concepts in collaboration with specialists from other disciplines and universities. We use...

Speaker: Paul Standish (Education, UCL) Title: Something animal? Wittgenstein, language, and instinct Abstract: Thinking about the world necessarily involves notions of causation. Norman Malcolm has argued that such notions are embedded in instinctive reactions and that it is from such natural behaviour that language emerges. This insight is a powerful and important...

The Centre for Science in Society (CEKAS) will launch its new speaker series, the Knowledge and Society Seminar.  Our first speaker will be: Andrea Teti (Politics & IR, University of Aberdeen): Rethinking the Confessing Animal: Avowal and Confession in Foucault NK15 3-5pm All welcome!    

Speaker: Andrea Teti (Politics & IR, University of Aberdeen) Title: Rethinking the Confessing Animal: Avowal and Confession in Foucault Abstract: One of Foucault’s best-known claims is that ‘Western man has become a confessing animal’ (bête d’aveu). It is also one of his most misunderstood. ‘Confession’ has for decades been used to translate...

Speaker: Anna Bortolan, Phenomenology of Self-Esteem

Speaker: Maria Elaina Gauthier-Mamaril (University of Aberdeen)

Intuitive Understanding: Spinoza, Kant, Goethe Symposium at the University of Aberdeen, 22 June 2018. Venue: New King's, NK14 There is a renewed interest in the notions of intuitive understanding and intellectual intuition, especially as conceived by Spinoza, Kant, and the German Idealists. This symposium explores the similarities and differences between Spinoza’s, Kant’s,...

University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Centre for Knowledge and Society University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Matthew McGrath (Missouri) Title: “Explaining Epistemic Differences in Paradigm Perceptual Cases: Three Accounts Compared” Abstract: Two people with normal eyesight and cognitive abilities might both see avocados in a market. Both might be able to distinguish them from other different-looking fruits and vegetables. Yet, one might know they are avocados while the...