Event Archive

2016

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...

• 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"

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"

October

• Postgraduate Research Induction

  07 October 2015, 10:00 - 11:30

  All new Postgraduate Research students within DHP are invited to this informative induction event. There will be a tea and coffee reception in the Divinity Library following the main session.

September

• Postgraduate Taught Induction

  16 September 2015, 10:00 - 11:15

  All new Postgraduate Research students within DHP are invited to this informative induction event.

May

• Cafe Philosophique 4th Annual Philosophy Public Lecture: 'Philosophy, Mountaineering and Risk'

  08 May 2015, 18:00 - 20:00

  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...

• Spinoza and Proportion Conference

  05 - 06 May 2015

  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...