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2017
May
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Joy & Prosperity Interdisciplinary Workshop
-Contemporary marketing narratives tell us that we need more in order to be happy while the prosperity gospel tells us that God will reward us with wealth for our faithfulness. On the other extreme, overly spiritualized theological treatments of joy may minimize the role played by material provision in human...
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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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Special Research and Postgraduate Seminar in Theology and Theological Ethics
-Professor David Novak University of Toronto 2017 Gifford Lecturer A discussion of two essays ‘Karl Barth on Divine Command: a Jewish Response’ & ‘Are Philosophical Proofs of the Existence of God Theologically Meaningful?’ from his volume Talking with Christians: Musings of a Jewish Theologian (London: SCM Press, 2006). Texts to be circulated and prepared in advance.
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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...
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Conference: 'Luther and the Political'
-Tuesday, May 2nd Session 113:30--‐15:00 “Sovereignty and Submission: The Violence of Christian Metaphysics”Prof Marius Mjaaland (University of Oslo)Session 215:30--‐17:00 “The End of the Two Realms? Christian--‐Muslim Dialogue from a Lutheran Perspective”Dr. Eva Harasta (Evangelische Akademie zu Berlin)Wednesday, May 3rdSession 39:30--‐11:00 “Mystical Foundations of Politics? Luther on God’s Presence and the Place...
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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Seminar with J. Richard Middleton
-J. Richard Middleton is currently visiting the UK and has kindly agreed to visit Aberdeen to give a paper next Monday (24th April). The seminar will take place at 11am in the Humanities Manse, and the title of his paper is:"Voices from the Ragged Edge: The Gritty Spirituality of the...
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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