Event Archive

All talks will take place on Wednesdays in 50-52 College Bounds CB203 and will end no later than 4:45pm.

Exhibition at the Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen 16th October - 5th November 2017

A two-day workshop funded by CISRUL New materialist philosophies emerged towards the end of the 20th century as an interdisciplinary intellectual movement advancing new conceptualisations of materiality, ontology and agency. Their distinctive understanding of matter as dynamic and self-generative force has been taken up across the natural sciences, social sciences and...

You are warmly invited to a public lecture by Prof. Philip Goodchild on Wednesday, May 10th at 5:00pm. Prof. Goodchild is the Professor of Religion and Philosophy at The University of Nottingham and is an expert on the relationship between continental philosophy and theology. His lecture is entitled “What is...

Presented by the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society & the Rule of Law (CISRUL)  Mon, 8 May Tues, 9 May Wed, 10 May Thur, 11 May 1-3pm 1-3pm 6-8pm 1-3 pm New Kings 14   New Kings 14 New Kings 10  Taylor C11 Sophocles, Spirituality and the Planetary Seminar: Facing the Planetary: Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming PUBLIC LECTURE: Postcolonial Ecologies, Extinction Events, and Entangled...

Dr Phillip Meadows (United Arab Emirate University) Title: Absences, Many Absences, and Causation. Abstract: In this paper I offer a partial defence of absence causation in response to two related issues: (i) the problem of many absences, and (ii) Beebee’s claim that there is no metaphysically respectable, principled...

26 April, 7th Floor of the Sir Duncan Rice Library - Thomas Reid's 307th Birthday Party! Schedule for the day: 10:30 - 11:30 "Reid on Identity: Nazis, Memory, and Personhood" by Tom Flint and James McHardy, The Wise Club (Aberdeen) 11:30 - 11:45 Tea and Coffee break 11:45 - 12:45...

Athens and Jerusalem: God, Humans, and Nature.

Dr Neiladri SINHABABU (National University Singapore) Title: Epistemic Akrasia for the Rational Pragmatist Abstract: It's possible to rationally believe that p while also judging that it's irrational to believe that p. Such cases of rational epistemic akrasia are elusive among those who accept evidentialist norms for belief. But it's possible if...

Marcin Milkowski (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences) Title: Multiple Realization Is Dead