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2021
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,...