Event Archive

2024

June

• Centre for Knowledge and Society (CEKAS) Workshop - 'Ambition, Social Recognition and Prestige'

  27 June 2024, 09:00 - 17:00

  This workshop explores ethical and epistemic problems connected to ambition and related ideas, such as social recognition, prestige, target-setting, achievement and the meaningfulness of life.  Ambition is an underexplored philosophical topic: yet arguably, the most significant achievements of humanity (e.g. space exploration, the elimination of smallpox) were strongly driven by...

May

• Why and how should we respect the dead?

  03 May 2024, 14:00 - 16:00

  Discussion event at Aberdeen Art Gallery, Friday 3 May 2024, 2-4pm

2023

March

• Mona Simion, Glasgow

  01 March 2023

  In person.   For more information, please contact Gerry Hough (g.hough@abdn.ac.uk)

February

• Karyn Lai, UNSW?

  15 February 2023

  TBA   For more information, please contact Gerry Hough (g.hough@abdn.ac.uk)

• Sarah Flavel, Bath Spa University 'Daoism and Strategic Thinking'

  08 February 2023

  In person.   For more information, please contact Gerry Hough (g.hough@abdn.ac.uk).

• Ken Waters, Calgary "Scientific Metaphysics of Biological Hierarchy"

  01 February 2023

  Teams: 4 PM start time   For more information, please contact Gerry Hough (g.hough@abdn.ac.uk).

2022

May

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  Royal Institute of Philosophy - 9th Annual Philosophy Public Lecture

  19 May 2022, 20:00 - 21:30

  Dr John Danaher (NUI Galway) will deliver the Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Public Lecture, entitled 'Will the Rise of Artificial Intelligence Change Our Moral Culture?'

2021

December

• Philosophy Visiting Speaker Seminar: Samir Okasha

  15 December 2021, 15:00 - 16:30

  Prof Samir Okasha (Bristol) ‘Scepticism, Evidential Holism and the Logic of Demonic Deception’ Abstract Sceptical arguments in epistemology typically employ sceptical hypotheses, which are rivals to our everyday beliefs so constructed that they fit exactly the evidence on which those beliefs are based. There are two ways of using a sceptical hypothesis to undermine...

November

• Marischal College in its Global & International Context, c. 1600-1860

  26 November 2021, 12:00 - 13:00

  Professor William Naphy will discuss the global and institutional history of Marischal College from its founding to the union of 1860. Open to students and offer holders. Online Event.

• CEKAS Seminar: Tom Carson

  17 November 2021, 15:00 - 16:30

  Prof Tom Carson (Loyola) ‘How Misplaced Trust and Distrust Create Misinformation and Enable Lying and Deception in Politics and Public Policy’ Abstract "A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or perhaps both"  (James Madison) “Everyone is entitled to his...