Event Archive

2019

March

• Philosophy Graduate Student Seminar

  27 March 2019, 15:00 - 17:00

  Speaker: Chris Georgakakis (University of Aberdeen)

February

• Philosophy Graduate Student Seminar

  20 February 2019, 15:00 - 17:00

  Speaker: Alessio Persichetti (University of Aberdeen), How to Disentangle from Kripkenstein

• Knowledge and Society Seminar

  13 February 2019, 15:00 - 17:00

  Speaker: Fergus Anderson (Crossfields Institute), Phenomenology of occurrent thinking

January

• Philosophy Colloquium/Knowledge and Society Seminar

  30 January 2019, 15:00 - 17:00

  Speaker: Pawel Hanczewski (Nicolaus Copernicus University)

• Philosophy Colloquium

  23 January 2019, 15:00 - 17:00

  Speaker: Mihnea Capraru (Nazarbayev University), Making sense of 'genetic programs'

2018

December

• Annual General Meeting of the Scots Philosophical Society

  06 - 07 December 2018

  The Philosophy department hosts this year’s Annual General Meeting of the Scots Philosophical Society. This event is open to the public. Postgraduate and undergraduate students are most welcome to attend the talks! Programme of talks Information for participants

November

• The Centre for Knowledge and Society Launch Party

  28 November 2018, 17:30 - 19:30

  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...

• Knowledge and Society Seminar

  28 November 2018, 15:00 - 17:00

  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...

• Knowledge and Society Seminar

  14 November 2018, 15:00 - 17:00

  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...

• Centre for Science in Society (CEKAS) new speaker series

  14 November 2018, 15:00 - 17:00

  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!