Event Archive

2016

November

• Public Roundtable "Still Home Abroad? Polish Migration to Scotland after Brexit"

  07 November 2016, 19:00 - 20:30

  How does the EU referendum result affect the Polish community in Scotland, and what are people’s responses?  Integration of Poles has been a success story, and Scotland’s economy has benefited from migration. People born in Poland have overtaken all other foreign nationalities in the UK for the first time. Academics...

April

• Wise Club Philosophy Colloquium

  27 April 2016, 15:00 - 17:00

  Talk by Benjamin Neeser (PhD student - University of Neuchâtel) Title: "Through Worlds and Times Alike: A Counterpart-Theoretic Account of Persistence" This talk is sponsored and organized by the Wise Club at the University of Aberdeen

March

• Philosophy Colloquium

  30 March 2016, 15:00 - 16:30

  Talk by Pauline Phemister (Edinburgh) Title: Why It Matters What We Think Abstract: In this presentation, I tease out some implications of Leibniz's claims (i) that there is a structurally isomorphic relationship between the mind or soul and its organic body and (ii) that the mind or soul perceives the external world indirectly...

• Philosophy Colloquium

  23 March 2016, 15:00 - 16:30

  Talk by Adam Carter (Edinburgh) Title: "Knowledge-How and Anti-Intellectualism” Abstract: Reductive intellectualists (e.g., Stanley & Williamson 2001; Stanley 2011a; 2011b) hold that knowledge-how is a kind of knowledge-that. Anti-intellectualists (e.g., Ryle 1949; 1945) reject this reduction and identify knowledge-how with ability possession. In this talk, I want to challenge reductive intellectualism on two...

• History of Art Research Seminar

  16 March 2016, 16:15 - 18:00

  "Aesthetics, authenticity and a sense of place: conserving carved stone artworks in situ": Dr Shannon Fraser, National Trust for Scotland

• Philosophy Postgraduate Talk

  16 March 2016, 15:00 - 16:30

  Christopher Thomas,"From Complex Bodies to a Theory of Art: Melancholy, Bodies, and Art in the Philosophy of Spinoza"

• Philosophy Post-graduate Talk

  02 March 2016, 15:00 - 16:30

  Davide Monaco,"Parallelism and Identity in Spinoza's Ethics. IIP7 and IIP7S"

February

• Back on Campus - Divinity, History & Philosophy

  17 February 2016, 13:00 - 15:40

  The Alumni Relations team, Careers Service and AUSA are delighted to host a new Back on Campus event in 2016. Although primarily organised for students of the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, all students interested in finding out more about a career in HR or media are welcome to...

2015

December

• Philosophy: Work-in-Progress Meeting

  09 December 2015, 15:00 - 16:00

  Federico Luzzi: 'Gender-Restricted Sports Competitions'

November

• Philosophy Postgraduate Talk

  25 November 2015, 15:00 - 16:30

  Peter Hartl "Philosophical Theism and Scepticism: Cleanthes and Philo on the Cosmological Argument in Hume`s Dialogues"