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2025 Gifford Lectures

Nietzsche's Universal Affirmation and Limited Love

Art History Research Seminar: Giulia Champion

Guilia Champion (University of Southampton) "Visualising the deep"

2025 Gifford Lectures

Odium Mundi: Schopenhauer on Suffering and the Will to Nothingness

2025 Gifford Lectures

"Unchained from its Sun": Amor Mundi between Atheism and Theism

RIISS Book Launch

Gordon Graham’s David Hume and the Aberdeen Philosophers (Edinburgh University Press, 2025)Print_flyer.pdf

RIISS Workshop on the Philosophy of James Beattie

9.15 am Welcome and Introductions  9.30 -10 Bradford Bow Beattie and the Aberdeen Philosophical Society  10-10.30 Tamas Demeter Beattie and Common Sense  10.30-11 Douglas McDermid Beattie and Scepticism  Coffee  11.15-11.45 Gordon Graham Beattie and Memory  11. 45- 12.15 Botond Csuka Beattie and Belle-Lettres  12.15-1.15 Lunch  1.30 – 2 Michael Brown Beattie and Politics  2-2.30 Fred Ablondi Beattie and Religion  2.30-3...

RIISS Beattie Lecture

RIISS Beattie Lecture (8 May, 4-5.30pm) ‘Humean Chemistry’   James Beattie advised against extending the language of natural philosophy to the study of mind. For Beattie, such extension makes us prone to “mistake verbal analogies for real ones” and tempts us “to apply the laws of matter to the operations of mind”. By...

Cafe Sci - The Female Category in Sport

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Join researchers for a panel event discussing the complex issues surrounding the female category in sport

New Insights into Scottish Deathways

This multi-disciplinary conference aims to connect academics and practitioners to share insights and ideas across a range of topics, periods and perspectives relating to death and Scotland.

Baptism and Scriptural Hermeneutics in the Early Church

Biblical Studies Research Seminar Baptism and Scriptural Hermeneutics in the Early Church