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2023
March
February
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Karyn Lai, UNSW?
TBA For more information, please contact Gerry Hough (g.hough@abdn.ac.uk)
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Sarah Flavel, Bath Spa University 'Daoism and Strategic Thinking'
In person. For more information, please contact Gerry Hough (g.hough@abdn.ac.uk).
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Ken Waters, Calgary "Scientific Metaphysics of Biological Hierarchy"
Teams: 4 PM start time For more information, please contact Gerry Hough (g.hough@abdn.ac.uk).
2022
May
2021
December
November
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Marischal College in its Global & International Context, c. 1600-1860
-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.
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CEKAS Seminar: Tom Carson
-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...
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'Women's' and 'Men's' Sports Categories: Are They Ethically Justified?
-In this talk Dr Federico Luzzi will examine some of the moral issues arising from sex segregation in athletic competitions. Open to students and offer holders. Online Event.
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Philosophy Visiting Speaker Seminar: Maria Rosa Antognazza
-Prof Maria Rosa Antognazza (King’s College, London) ‘The Distinction in Kind Between Knowledge and Belief’ Abstract Drawing inspiration from a well-attested historical tradition, I propose an account of cognition according to which knowledge is not only prior to belief; it is also, and crucially, not a kind of belief. Believing, in turn, is...
October
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CEKAS Seminar: Dominic Smith
-Dr Dominic Smith (Dundee) ‘Disastrous Communication: Walter Benjamin's “The Railway Disaster at the Firth of Forth”’ Abstract - February 1932, Berlin/ March 1932, Frankfurt: Walter Benjamin presents a live broadcast of a twenty-minute radio piece, ‘The Railway Disaster at the Firth of Tay’ (Die Eisenbahnkatastrophe vom Firth of Tay). - May 2018, Dundee: A...
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CEKAS Seminar: Sandra Leonie Field
-Dr Sandra Leonie Field (Yale-NUS) ‘Marx, Spinoza and True Democracy’ Abstract It is common to assimilate Marx's and Spinoza's conceptions of democracy. Indeed, Marx appears to have drawn his ideas of the naturalness of democracy and of the people's concrete power fairly directly from his study of Spinoza. In this paper, to the...
May
March
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Philosophy Visiting Speaker Series
-Karim Thebault (Bristol) ‘Universal Reasoning’ Abstract: The general form of inference whereby we justify a novel mode of inductive reasoning by appeal to coherence with one or more distinct modes of inductive reasoning might reasonably be described as inductive triangulation. Consider, for example, the following inference: the properties of observed spatially distant electrons resemble...
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Centre for Knowledge and Society Seminar
-Heather Widdows (Birmingham) ‘My Body, My Self?' Abstract: That our bodies have become our very selves in a visual and virtual culture is one of the main arguments of Perfect Me. This is so widely believed that we often don’t recognise either that it is true (until it is pointed...
February
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Centre for Knowledge and Society Seminar
-Åsa Wikforss, (Stockholm) 'Democracy in the Post Truth Era' Abstract: We are said to live in an era of Post Truth, defined as a time when objective facts are less important in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief. We also live in a time where democracy...
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Philosophy Visiting Speaker Series
-Wednesday Feb 10th, 3-4.30pm. Mahrad Almotahari (Edinburgh) and Aidan Gray (Illinois) ‘Coordination, De Se Thought, and Russellian Exceptionalism’ Abstract: Russellians, Relationists, and Fregeans disagree about the nature of propositional-attitude content and the role of coordination and de se thought in the explanation of rational behavior. We articulate a framework about the form such...
January
2020
May
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Philosophy Colloquium: Tommaso Piazza (Pavia)
-This event was cancelled
Speaker: Tommaso Piazza (Pavia)
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Workshop on Social Media and Public Pedagogy
-This event was cancelled
Due to travel restrictions in place to tackle the outbreak of Coronavirus and safety reasons, we have cancelled this event. We will be probably reschedule it for next year and will announce the new dates in due time. Public pedagogy investigates learning that happens beyond formal schooling and through disparate means, like public events,...
April
March
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Philosophy Reading Party
-This event was cancelled
Booking for the Philosophy Reading Party is now open! The Reading Party is a 3-day staff/student field trip in Ballater, Aberdeenshire, involving hillwalking during the day and informal Philosophy in the evening. The event is strongly subsidised by the Department. It is open to all Aberdeen undergraduate students on single-Honours...
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Philosophy Colloquium: Michael Beaney (Humboldt University)
-This event was cancelled
Speaker: Michael Beaney (Humboldt University)
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Philosophy Colloquium: Kerstin Andermann (Technical University Dresden/Luneburg University)
-This event was cancelled
Speaker: Kerstin Andermann (Technical University Dresden/Luneburg University)
February
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Philosophy Colloquium: Bradford Bow (Aberdeen)
-Speaker: Bradford Bow (Aberdeen)
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School information session on work placement or volunteering
Calling all Divinity, History, History of Art and Philosophy students at Level 3... Have you already secured, or are you planning to secure an internship, work placement or volunteering position over the summer? Would you like to receive academic credit for completing your summer opportunity? There is a short session on...
January
2019
November
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Philosophy Colloquium: James Miller (Nottingham)
-Speaker: James Miller (Nottingham)
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The British Society for the History of Philosophy Annual Lecture 2019
-"Taking time to talk: Plato's Euthydemus on the metaphysics of conversation" with Professor MM McCabe
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Philosophy Colloquium: Mogens Lareke (CNRS, Lyon)
-Speaker: Mogens Lareke (CNRS, Lyon) "Spinoza and Hobbes on the Social Contract" Critics contemporary with Spinoza very quickly seized on the similarity of the contract theory outlined in chapter XVI of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (1670) with the doctrines of Hobbes in De Cive (1642) and in the Leviathan (1650). But were Spinoza’s contemporary...
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Internships: Sourcing Your Placement for 2020
-What are you doing next summer? Would you like to gain work experience, network with potential future employers and develop transferable skills? The School of Divinity, History and Philosophy is hosting a workshop this semester on sourcing and securing internships. Pursue internship opportunities: learn about strategies for successful internship applications and effective...
October
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Philosophy Colloquium: Franz Berto (St Andrews)
-Speaker: Franz Berto (University of St Andrews)
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Philosophy Colloquium: Aidan McGlynn (Edinburgh)
-Speaker: Aidan McGlynn (Edinburgh) Pornography and Objectification Reconsidered A familiar feminist criticism of so-called “mainstream” pornography is that it objectifies women, but it’s not clear how we should interpret this claim. This makes it hard to know whether we should endorse the criticism, or what kind of response it calls for. In this...
September
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Philosophy Colloquium: Gregg Caruso (SUNY Corning)
-Speaker: Gregg Caruso (SUNY Corning)
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Conference Announcement: Decolonising Political Concepts, 19-20 September
-This conference is hosted by the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law. For more information, please visit the conference website.
June
May
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The Silence of Others
-Due to unforeseen circumstances, our speaker for the Philosophy Public Lecture ‘Confederates, Rhodes and Honour: Obligations to Remove Cultural Artefacts’, Prof Helen Frowe, will be unable to travel to Aberdeen today. This event will now consist of a free screening of the film ‘The Silence of Others’ starting at 6pm. The...
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Philosophy and Education: Exploring their Interaction and Dynamic Relationship
Call for abstracts
March
February
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Philosophy Graduate Student Seminar
-Speaker: Alessio Persichetti (University of Aberdeen), How to Disentangle from Kripkenstein
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Knowledge and Society Seminar
-Speaker: Fergus Anderson (Crossfields Institute), Phenomenology of occurrent thinking
January
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Philosophy Colloquium/Knowledge and Society Seminar
-Speaker: Pawel Hanczewski (Nicolaus Copernicus University)
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Philosophy Colloquium
-Speaker: Mihnea Capraru (Nazarbayev University), Making sense of 'genetic programs'
2018
December
November
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The Centre for Knowledge and Society Launch Party
-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...
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Knowledge and Society Seminar
-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...
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Knowledge and Society Seminar
-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...
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Centre for Science in Society (CEKAS) new speaker series
-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!
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Philosophy Colloquium
-Speaker: Anna Bortolan, Phenomenology of Self-Esteem
October
June
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Symposium on Intuitive Understanding: Spinoza, Kant, Goethe
-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,...
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Segregation and Inclusion in Sports Workshop
-University of Aberdeen, Scotland
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7th Annual Philosophy Public Lecture
-Centre for Knowledge and Society University of Aberdeen, Scotland
May
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Philosophy Talks 2017-18
-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...
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Doing Science with Metaphors
-Surely science should avoid metaphors?! Not so, according to new historical and philosophical research. As part of the May Festival, Dr Ulrich Stegmann will discuss how the ‘genetic code’ metaphor helped scientists like Francis Crick to think about a biological mechanism that nobody had encountered before. Learn how interdisciplinary humanities...
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Hay of Seaton Memorial Talk
-As part of the May Festival, Dr Beth Lord will deliver an illustrated talk on ‘Spinoza’ with a focus on the ideas that derive from the Jewish tradition of thought. She will introduce Spinoza’s life and work, and discuss how his concept of economic equality derives from the Hebrew concept...
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Robots Who Know Themselves
-The robot ‘hosts’ in the television series Westworld start a revolution when they become self-aware. As part of the May Festival, join Mark Sprevak to question, 'What is self-awareness, and how likely is a computer to acquire it'? Recent work in philosophy and artificial intelligence give clues about what artificial...
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Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
-SSEMP IX is the 9th edition of a yearly event that brings together established scholars, young researchers and advanced graduate students working in the field of Early Modern Philosophy. The aim is to foster scholarly exchange among the different generations of academics in the UK and to strengthen international collaboration. PROGRAMME Thursday...
March
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Philosophy Talks 2017-18
-All talks will take place on Wednesdays in 50-52 College Bounds CB203 and will end no later than 4:45pm.
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Philosophy Talks 2017-18
-All talks will take place on Wednesdays in 50-52 College Bounds CB203 and will end no later than 4:45pm.
February
January
2017
December
November
October
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Philosophy Talks 2017-18
-All talks will take place on Wednesdays in 50-52 College Bounds CB203 and will end no later than 4:45pm.
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The World Knew - Jan Karski's Mission for Humanity
-Exhibition at the Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen 16th October - 5th November 2017
September
May
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Public Lecture by Prof. Philip Goodchild, "What is True Wealth?"
-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...
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Lecture series delivered by Professor William E. Connolly
-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...
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Philosophy Colloquium
-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...
April
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Thomas Reid's 307th Birthday Party!
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...
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Gifford Lecture Series with Professor David Novak
-Athens and Jerusalem: God, Humans, and Nature.
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Philosophy Colloquium
-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...
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Philosophy Colloquium
-Marcin Milkowski (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences) Title: Multiple Realization Is Dead
March
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Philosophy Colloquium
-Albert Casullo (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)Title: Modal Empiricism: What Is the Problem?Abstract: In his introduction to the Critique, Kant contends that necessity is a criterion of the a priori—that is, that all knowledge of necessary propositions is a priori. This contention, together with two others that Kant took to be evident—we...
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Philosophy Colloquium
-Philosophy Colloquium w/ Stephan Leuenberger (Glasgow)Title: Scrutability and the Problem of Cross-Family QuantificationAbstract: In Constructing the World, David Chalmers aims to defend strong reductionist claims he calls "scrutability theses". One such thesis says, roughly speaking, that every truth about the world could, in principle, be "read off" a complete list...
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Postgraduate Research Talk
-Mr Davide Monaco (Aberdeen) Title: "A new account of the objective-formal distinction in Spinoza’s parallelism theory"
February
2016
November
April
March
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Philosophy Colloquium
-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...
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Philosophy Colloquium
-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...
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Philosophy Postgraduate Talk
-Christopher Thomas,"From Complex Bodies to a Theory of Art: Melancholy, Bodies, and Art in the Philosophy of Spinoza"
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Philosophy Post-graduate Talk
-Davide Monaco,"Parallelism and Identity in Spinoza's Ethics. IIP7 and IIP7S"
2015
December
November
October
September
May
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Cafe Philosophique 4th Annual Philosophy Public Lecture: 'Philosophy, Mountaineering and Risk'
-Speakers: Dr Philip Ebert (Senior Lecturer, Stirling University), Mr Guy Robertson (Environmental Consultant, Synergie Environ), Dr Simon Robertson (Lecturer, Cardiff University). We’ll consider questions arising directly from the film Touching the Void concerning the ethics of decision-making in risk-situations: Can cutting your companion’s rope ever be the right thing to do? Do different moral...
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Spinoza and Proportion Conference
-This conference will explore themes of proportion, ratio, equality, and harmony in Spinoza’s philosophy. On Day 2 there is a special emphasis on Spinoza in relation to architecture and housing (papers by Frichot, Rawes, Kodalak, and White). This conference is part of the AHRC Equalities of Wellbeing in Philosophy and Architecture...
2014
November
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Philosophy PhD Work in Progress Seminar
-Balint Kekedi will give a talk entitled “The linguistic model of perceptual cognition in Cartesian Natural automatons” as part of the Philosophy PhD Work in Progress seminar series.
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Philosophy Colloquium Seminar
-Knox Peden will give a talk entitled “The History of Spinozism as a Philosophical Problem” as part of the Philosophy Colloquium seminar series.
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Philosophy PhD Work in Progress Seminar
-Current PhD student Andreas Fjellstad will give a talk entitled "How to harmonize disharmonious terms" as part of the Philosophy department's 'PhD Work in Progress' Seminar series. All welcome.
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Philosophy PostDoc Work in Progress Seminar
-Casper Hansen will give a talk entitled “The Two Envelopes Paradox” as part of the Philosophy Work in Progress seminar series.
June
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Café Philosophique - Is Equality Good for Us?
-Discover, discuss and question the big ideas in contemporary philosophy in a relaxed, informal environment in this year's Cafe' Philosophique public engagement series. All events are free. All welcome!
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Café Philosophique - The Metaphysics of Love
-Discover, discuss and question the big ideas in contemporary philosophy in a relaxed, informal environment in this year's Cafe' Philosophique public engagement series. All events are free. All welcome!